This year we have 10 grants / bursary awards to choose from.

New bursaries this year are:
• Youth Arts Residency Bursary Award
• Artist in Schools Residency Bursary Award
• Recording Bursary @ Leixlip Library
• Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award.

These awards are in response to commitments made in Making Inroads: An Arts Development Plan for Kildare County Council 2006 – 2011 and the recently published Youth Arts Strategy: 2009 – 2011. This illustrates Kildare County Council Arts Service’s commitment to supporting artists in Kildare and to assist in developing Art Forms throughout the County.

Submissions must be made in HARD COPY (X3). Emailed / Faxed applications will not be accepted

The closing date for each grants / bursaries is:
FRIDAY 19TH MARCH AT 5PM SHARP. LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Applications forms and guidelines can be downloaded below.

Arts Act Grants Scheme
Download the Application form here

Youth Arts Residency Bursary Award
Download the Application form here

Artist in Schools Residency Bursary Award
Download the Application form here

Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award
Download the Application form here

Recording Bursary @ Leixlip Library
Download the Application form here

Laban Guild Dance Leaders Course Bursary
Download the Application form here

Film Bursary Award
Download the Application form here
 
Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award
Download the Application form here

Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Award
Download the Application form here
 
Drama League of Ireland Summer School Bursary Award
Download the Application form here

Arts Grants Guidelines
Download the guidelines here

MAYNOOTH FILM FOR ALL: FILM CLUB 2009 / 2010

Screening: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
When: Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Where: JHL2 John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Time: 7.45pm

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club screens the stylish classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Wednesday 3rd February at 7.45pm in JHL2 NUI Maynooth.
The movie's bittersweet romance, and its great sense of hip and heartless New York society in the late 1950s make Breakfast at Tiffany's a film that's still well worth watching.

Blake Edwards's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly. Capote had always envisioned Marilyn Monroe in the part, and felt betrayed by the studio when Hepburn was cast. Yet the choice was inspired.

Hepburn holds the movie together in the role that defined her career. She brings a disarming artlessness to Holly and looks fabulous in her sophisticated clothes. Waving a long black cigarette holder around, and spouting odd little bits of French (calling one aggressive suitor "quel beast"). Yet she seems to float untouched above the seamier aspects of her life, only occasionally letting us see her vulnerability and loneliness. And despite all the glamorous party clothes, she's just as charming wearing a pair of jeans and a simple shirt when she sings the movie's hit song,” Moon River."

The movie is almost, but not quite, ruined by Mickey Rooney's hideously stereotyped performance as Hepburn's Japanese neighbour. Intended to provide broad comedy at the time, the scenes provoke intense discomfort today.

Movies are screened in JHL2 lecture hall in the John Hume building, North Campus, NUIM. The programme starts at 7.45pm with an introduction from Dr Denis Condon NUIM. The featured film then begins at 8.00pm.

Membership to Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is open to all over 18yrs. and costs €15.00 for the rest of the season. There is no joining fee for students just pay per view of €2.00 per night. Membership and subscriptions available on the night or drop into Maynooth Community Library, Tel: 01 6285530. For full programme, joining and membership details for Maynooth Film for all Film Club log onto http://www.kildare.ie/film 

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is supported by Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service and The School of English, Media and Theatre Studies NUIM.

MAYNOOTH FILM FOR ALL: FILM CLUB 2009 / 2010

Screening: The Class – Entre Les Murs
When: Wednesday 13th January 2010
Where: JHL2 John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Time: 7.45pm

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club will screen the Oscar nominated French film The Class (Entre Les Murs) on Wednesday 13th January at 7.45pm in JHL2 NUI Maynooth.
The idealistic young teacher reaching out to a troubled class of underprivileged kids - it should be the dullest movie cliche imaginable. Yet French director Laurent Cantet does something miraculous with it in this fresh piece of humanist, realist, optimist cinema, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2008.
The Class is based on an autobiographical novel by author and former teacher François Bégaudeau, about working at a tough multi-ethnic school in a Parisian suburb. Remarkably, Bégaudeau plays himself, or a version of himself; he does it very well, although as teaching is all about putting on a performance commanding enough to subdue the toughest audiences, maybe that shouldn't surprise us. His class of 14 to 15 year old kids in the film is made up of non-professionals, and their unobtrusively superb and authentic classroom scenes have evidently been devised through improvisation.
This all gives The Class a near-documentary feel, making it a unique interweaving of fiction and reality, as when some real-life parents of the kids are also brought into the story.
Bégaudeau is François Marin, a slim, boyish thirty something teacher of French language and literature. We encounter him in the classroom, the staff-room and in the schoolyard, but never at home. We never find out about his home life or his personal life, though one pupil offers a cheeky speculation, which is to be subtly important. His sole moment of privacy is glimpsed at the very beginning of the film: having a coffee before gearing himself up for the fray.
It’s a complex picture, and although the film puts the spotlight on a disciplinary appeals procedure unduly weighted towards the punitive, there are certainly no easy answers on display — just burning compassion, mercurial humour and a fundamental recognition that these kids are our future.
Movies are screened in JHL2 lecture hall in the John Hume building, North Campus, NUIM. The programme starts at 7.45pm with an introduction from Dr Denis Condon NUIM. The featured film then begins at 8.00pm.

Membership to Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is open to all over 18yrs. and costs €20.00 for the rest of the season. There is no joining fee for students just pay per view of €2.00 per night. Membership and subscriptions available on the night or drop into Maynooth Community Library, Tel: 01 6285530. For full programme, joining and membership details for Maynooth Film for all Film Club log onto http://www.kildare.ie/artsservice/.

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is supported by Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service and The School of English, Media and Theatre Studies NUIM.

Have you experienced Arts in healthcare as a staff member, patient, family member or visitor?

Or do you organise or facilitate arts activities in healthcare or community settings?

If so, Kildare Arts in Health Steering Group would like to hear from you!

Kildare Arts in Health Steering Group is developing a map of arts activities taking place in health and care settings in County Kildare.  The aim of this project is get an overview of the scale, range and diversity of arts in health activity in the county. We welcome submissions from individuals and organisations and would be delighted to receive details of current or past arts projects or programmes.  All submissions will then be considered for inclusion in a future exhibition or publication of this work.

The range of potential activities could include exhibitions, classes, performances, workshops, or commissions in any art form, for example, visual art, theatre, music, dance, literature, film and opera.

Deadline for receipt of submissions: 5 pm, 11 February 2010.

The submission form can be downloaded in word format here.

For further information contact Nicola Dunne, Arts in Health Specialist, Kildare County Council Arts Service, Tel: 045 448312 or email: nmdunne@kildarecoco.ie or

Kildare Arts in Health Steering Group was established in Autumn 2008 and includes artists and representatives from a variety of agencies in the health, disability, and community sectors. The Kildare Arts in Health Steering Group seeks to promote and support a diversity of quality arts initiatives within varied healthcare and community settings to enhance the health, quality of life, social wellbeing and inclusion of all citizens within County Kildare.

Applications are now being taken for the Kildare entry for Horse Mania 2010.

Horse Mania 2010 will take place in Lexington, Kentucky and will have representatives from all over the world. The decorated horses will be displayed for several months in Lexington as part of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Kentucky U.S.A.

If you are interested in applying to be the Kildare representative you should contact Kildare Arts Office immediatley to indicate your interest.

Click here to download the application form.

Click here to view examples of previous entrants.

Screening: Encounters at the end of the World
When: Wednesday 9th December 2009
Where: JHL2 John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Time: 7.45pm

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club will screen “Encounters at the End of the World” on Wednesday 9th December at 8.00pm in JHL2 NUI Maynooth. The McMurdo Research Station in inhospitable Antarctica seems a magnet for the dreamers and eccentrics who are director Werner Herzog’s kind of people. In this witty, wise documentary he does double duty as director and quizzical on–screen guide.
Herzog travels to Antarctica accompanied only by his cameraman and is given unprecedented access to the hidden society of one thousand men and women living there and risking their lives and sanity to conduct cutting-edge scientific research.
Starting from McMurdo Station which reminds him of “an ugly mining town”, Herzog travels between the main scientific bases narrating his thoughts in a dry sarcastic style. The documentary displays Antarctica’s stark beauty on land as well as the mysterious creatures and ice structures underwater. But, equally, tries to examine the people working there, their dreams and why they’re currently working at the ultimate destination for wanderers seeking solitude far from the madding crowd.
Herzog interviews several people including the driver of ‘Ivan the Terra Bus’ - a former banker/US Peace Corp volunteer and a bobcat driver who was previously a philosopher. These people are professional dreamers who have found their ideal place to live amongst a workforce of PhD’s who wash dishes and linguists on a continent without an indigenous language
Movies are screened in JHL2 lecture hall in the John Hume building, North Campus, NUIM. The programme starts at 7.45pm with an introduction from Dr Denis Condon NUIM. The featured film then begins at 8.00pm.

Membership to Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is open to all over 18yrs. and costs €25.00 for the rest of the season. There is no joining fee for students just pay per view of €2.00 per night. Membership and subscriptions available on the night or drop into Maynooth Community Library, Tel: 01 6285530. For full programme, joining and membership details for Maynooth Film for all Film Club log onto http://www.kildare.ie/artsservice/.

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is supported by Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service and The School of English, Media and Theatre Studies NUIM.

The Mayor of County Kildare, Councillor Colm Purcell with special guest Luka Bloom launched the 'Hidden Wonders of Kildare' - a new publication documenting a Kildare County Council 'Critical Debate and Public Art Project' in the Nás na Ríogh community centre in Naas on Friday 4th December.

The launch was attended by many of the nominators and their families, local historians, Kildare County Council staff and other interested parties.

The Mayor acknowledged the Nás na Ríogh development as one of the ‘Hidden Wonders’ and Kildare County Councils’ commitment to the development such that the local authority used its own capital fund to enable the project to progress in 2009.

The ‘Hidden Wonders of Kildare ’ project invited nominations of ‘Hidden Wonders’ from inhabitants, workers and visitors of Kildare in an aim to find, acknowledge and raise the profile of their hidden wonders that are particularly unique to Kildare.

Initiated by Public Art Co-ordinator, Rina Whyte and facilitated by artist Rowena Keaveny, ‘Hidden Wonders of Kildare’ attracted 60 nominations from approximately 40 people.  Nominations varied from places of tranquillity such as the Curragh Plains, to pubs such as ‘Roches’ of Donadea (the sinking pub!), Nepalese and Traveller culture in Kildare, many historic buildings and the story of the Wren Women on The Curragh.  Nominators included artists, local historians, school children, voluntary organisations and other interested parties.

The project has now been documented in photography, personalised quotations and portraits in the publication 'Hidden Wonders of Kildare' which is available from  Rina Whyte rwhyte@kildarecoco.ie 045 448316

The Laban Guild Dance Leaders Course

May 2010 – September 2011, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare

In response to a call for accredited training, Kildare County Council Arts Service and the Laban Guild have provided professional development opportunities in community dance since 2002.  The Laban Guild is internationally renowned for its expertise in community dance training. 

Due to continuing demand, Kildare County Council Arts Service is delighted to announce that the fourth course will commence in May 2010 at NUI Maynooth.

This 150 hour part time course is designed to help you adapt your professional skills to teaching dance and will teach you how to lead creative dance sessions in a variety of contexts.

It will give you a practical grounding in three modules comprising of:

• Laban Fundamentals of Movement
• Teaching Skills, Anatomy and the preparation of Creative Dance Sessions
• Ideas for Dance and Dance Making

The course will:

• Offer you a framework for leading creative dance sessions
• Provide a practical understanding of Laban’s Analysis of Movement on which you can found your work
• Help you develop practical dance skills and improve your personal performance
• Provide experience of various teaching styles and strategies
• Promote a commitment to inclusitivity- Dance is For Everyone

The Laban Guild Dance Leaders Course is suitable for a range of people and will enhance the work of school teachers, freelance dance and drama teachers, social or care workers, community arts workers and physiotherapists.

Practical Information Day: 20 March 2010
You’ll have an opportunity to sample the practical work and decide whether this is the course for you.  We shall be able to explain the format and demands of the course and answer all your questions.

Quick Answers to Your Questions: Click here to download some quick answers to commonly asked questions about the course.

Further Information
For further information on this course please contact:
Nicola Dunne, Kildare County Council Arts Service, Tel: 045 448312 or Email: nmdunne@kildarecoco.ie

Screening: Lemon Tree
When: Wednesday 4th November 2009
Where: JHL2 John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Time: 7.45pm

An Israeli film, The Lemon Tree set on the border between Israel and the West Bank, is Maynooth Film For All, Film Clubs’ next screening on Wednesday next 4th November.
The film tells the story of Salma, a Palestinian widow, who enters into a dispute with her new neighbour - the Israeli Defense Minister! His new house is situated opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that the lemon trees pose a threat to the Minister's safety and issue orders to uproot them.
 Together with her young Palestinian lawyer, Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try to save her trees. Her struggle raises the interest of Mira Navon, the Defense minister's wife, who is trapped in her new home and in an unhappy life. Despite their differences and the borders between them the two women develop an invisible bond. Salma's legal and personal journey leads her deep into the complex, dark, and sometimes funny chaos of the ongoing struggle in the Middle East, in which all players find themselves alone in their struggle to survive.
The rare ability to make intelligent, entertaining cinema from hot-button current issues is beautifully illustrated by Lemon Tree, and its director Eran Riklis. This is an effective film about how war can affect ordinary people. Aside from the odd false note, it’s a gentle and bittersweet film, subtle and even-handed, with no preachiness or sentimentality.
The film won the respected Audience Award at the influential Berlin Film Festival in 2008. Read actress Hiam Abbass (who plays Salma) interview with the Irish Time’s Donald Clarke
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2008/1128/1227739045484.html

Movies are screened in JHL2 lecture hall in the John Hume building, North Campus, NUIM. The programme starts at 7.45pm with an introduction from Dr Denis Condon. The featured film then begins at 8.00pm.

Membership is open to all over 18yrs. and costs €30.00 for the rest of the season. There is no joining fee for students just pay per view of €2.00 per night. Membership and subscriptions available on the night or drop into Maynooth Community Library, Tel: 01 6285530. For full programme, joining and membership details for Maynooth Film for all Film Club log onto http://www.kildare.ie/artsservice/.

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club is supported by Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service and The School of English, Media and Theatre Studies NUIM.

Kildare County Council, Fishamble: The New Play Company and Riverbank Arts Centre present.
Mentoring for Young Writers and Directors.

Kildare County Council and Riverbank Arts Centre are looking for emerging writers and directors (up to age 25) from anywhere in Ireland, to take part in a new mentoring programme, run in association with Fishamble: The New Play Company.

The programme will take place over a period of ten months, with meetings taking place once a month, and will have two strands.

Strand 1: Writers
Participants will work with Gavin Kostick, Literary Manager with Fishamble: The New Play Company, to look at different writing styles and techniques to assist their creative development.
The mentor will also offer constructive criticism and feedback on work created in that time.

Click here to download the writers application form 

Strand 2: Directors
Participants will work with professional directors to look at directing processes and techniques. Part of the mentoring programme will include directing master classes with Jim Culleton, Artistic Director with Fishamble: The New Play Company.  Artists will also be encouraged to direct throughout the programme in order for their mentors to offer personal feedback on their directing process and to assist their creative development.

Click here to download the directors application form

Closing date for receipt of applications has been extended until Friday 6th November at 5pm.

This programme will commence in November 2009.

For further information or an application form please contact:

Eoghan Doyle,
Assistant County Arts Officer,
Kildare County Council,
Riverbank,
Main Street,
Newbridge,
Co. Kildare.

Tel: 045-448328
Email: ekdoyle@kildarecoco.ie
Web: www.kildare.ie/artsservice

Download the brochure here

**CREDIT CARD BOOKING NOW AVAILABLE** Click here to download the form

MAYNOOTH FILM FOR ALL: FILM CLUB 2009 / 2010
‘Horror for All’ – Film Festival
JHL2 NUI Maynooth
30th & 31st October 2009

Maynooth Film for All: Film Club in association with Kildare County Council Library & Art Service and the School of English, Media & Theatre Studies NUIM are playing host this Halloween to the inaugural ‘Horror for All’ film festival! Brave movie goers can expect a relentless weekend of shocks, suspense and sheer psychological terror. This two day bijou festival offers film choices ranging from classic Hollywood to early pioneering European cinema.

For better or worse … believe it or not, horror films can be great fun! If you’re a non believer our panel of invited guests featuring Ed Wood (founder of IFI’s ‘Horrorthon’) will be promoting this most maligned of movie genres and hoping to generate a few converts along the way!

The hugely influential 1922 classic, Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horrors kicks off the festival at 8.00pm on Friday 30th October. Some of the creepiest images ever committed to celluloid will be accompanied by the live music of Peter Leavy.

Peter holds a Masters in Performance and Musicology and a first-class honours degree, specialising in piano performance, from NUI Maynooth. As well as tutoring at NUIM and piano-teaching, Peter composes, arranges and is a very keen jazz enthusiast

'I'm delighted to be involved in this fascinating project and sincerely hope that you enjoy the show.'
Peter Leavy

Conversation with our invited aficionado’s starts at 11.00 am on Saturday 31st October, leading nicely into the midday screening of Neil Marshall's horrifically terrific The Descent. A group of close female friends on a yearly adventure holiday find themselves trapped and hunted in a series of caves by an unknown force that lurks in the sinister shadows.

Following lunch there’s a choice of screenings from 2.45pm with Jack Nicholson in the The Shining. Stanley Kubrick's intense, epic and gothic, horror film masterpiece.  A beautiful, stylish work which distanced itself from the blood-letting and gore, of most modern films in the horror genre.

Or watch the haunting secrets of the past resurface when a child mysteriously disappears in the Spanish supernatural thriller The Orphanage. A spinetingler with a jaw-dropping twist that will take your very last breath away! Produced by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth).
*Full film synopsis below*
PRICES
Full Weekend Package:
• €20.00 (only €15.00 if you join Maynooth Film For All: Film Club at the same time
• This includes first night wine reception, Live music, Q&A with invited guests, Lunch, Choice of four screenings
Student Festival Pass: €4.00 for two days
Pay Per Screening: €5.00
BOOKING
To book tickets please contact the FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE:

• Maynooth Community Library, Main St, Maynooth, Co Kildare
• Tel: 01 6285530 Email: maynoothlib@kildarecoco.ie
Opening Hours: Mon & Thurs: 1.00pm – 8.00pm
Tues, Wed, Fri: 9.30am – 1.00pm. 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Closed Saturdays

*PLEASE NOTE*
Limited tickets will be available on festival days - please purchase your tickets ASAP to minimise delays to other patrons and to enable us gauge numbers for catering requirements i.e. First Night reception, teas & coffees, lunch.

FILM SYNOPSIS
Nosferatu                                                   Nosferatu - eine Symphonie des Grauens
Dir: FW  Murnau         Germany             1922                89mins                            Murnau’s classic vampire movie remains one of the most poetic of all horror films.  Its power derives partly from Schreck's almost literally sub-human portrayal of the Count, resplendent with long ears and fingers and a wizened , skeletal face, partly from the sexual undercurrrents coursing through the movie which suggest that the vampire is a threat not only to bourgeois society and its emphasis upon scientific rationality, but also to the very marriage of the Harker couple.  A film that survives repeated viewings.

- Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT Film Guide

The Descent__________________________________________________________
Dir: Neil Marshall  UK 2005  99mins               Cert: 18
Starring: Shauna McDonald,Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone
Language: English

In a remote mountain range six girlfriends meet for caving trip into the unchartered arteries of the earth, deep inside the cave their escape route is blocked where they are terrorised by a race of sub-human creatures.

The Shining________________________________________________________
Dir: Stanley Kubrick       USA /UK  1980 119mins  Cert: 15
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lioyd
Language: English

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

The Orphanage                                     Orfanato, El                                                  
Dir: Juan Antonio Bayona    Spain  2007 105mins        Cert : 15A
Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin and Roger Princep
Language: Spanish

This chilling first feature by Juan Antonio Bayona plays with Victorian ideas of fantasy and moral punishment, while stitching in contemporary concerns: child abuse, feminist guilt and the impact of surveillance technology figure prominently. The result is not for the faint of heart. The Orphanage is frequently quite scary – a feeling that lingers long after its haunting, luminous final shot.

The story concerns the goings-on at an abandoned orphanage that saw some evildoings during the Franco regime. One of the former residents, the lovely Laura (Belén Rueda), returns to the abandoned estate with her husband and sensitive son. But the youngster quickly begins seeing – and then playing with – a group of malicious children, who may or may not be in his imagination. When he disappears one day, Laura comes to suspect that these children were part of her life too, once upon a time.

Intelligent genre filmmaking requires perfect execution from all quarters. The Orphanage manages that, with a particular emphasis on performance. Rueda is incredible; her creepy obsessiveness gradually overcomes us. We begin to believe the impossible through her sheer force of will. - Diana Sanchez / Toronto Film Festival Programme

 Kildare County Council Arts Service, Youth Arts training programme 2009.

Kildare County Councils Youth Arts Strategy 2009 – 2011 outlines the commitment to the training of youth leaders, young people and emerging artists throughout County Kildare.  A series of training and mentoring programmes has been designed to fulfil this commitment and also stimulate artistic development in the field.

Kildare County Council Arts Service present.
How to… Make a film with young people.
Tuesday, November 3rd 10am – 5pm.

This one day training, facilitated by Peter Kelly filmmaker and Youth Theatre Officer with Carlow County Council, will offer leaders working with young people practical advice and techniques on film making.

This training is aimed at:
Youth leaders and volunteers who would like to make a film with their group. Youth leaders and volunteers who are already making films with their groups and want to pick up some new skills in this area.

Part 1: Training 10am – 12.30pm

The training will focus on:
Basic filmmaking techniques
Different approaches to filmmaking
How to storyboard a film
How to put together a production plan

Part 2: Practical application 2pm –5pm

This training will be followed by a practical workshop on film making. Participants will take part in a workshop that will put the skills learned earlier in the day into practice.

Fees:
€20 (including lunch)
€10 for youth leaders from Kildare.

Booking:

For booking and further information contact Kildare County Council Arts Service:

Eoghan Doyle, Assistant County Arts Officer,  Tel: 045- 448328
Email: ekdoyle@kildarecoco.ie
Web: www.kildare.ie/artsservice

Early booking is advised as space is limited.

**This training has been postponed until further notice** 

Kildare County Council Arts Service, Youth Arts training programme 2009.
Kildare County Councils Youth Arts Strategy 2009 – 2011 outlines the commitment to the training of youth leaders, young people and emerging artists throughout County Kildare.  A series of training and mentoring programmes has been designed to fulfil this commitment and also stimulate artistic development in the field.

Kildare County Council Arts Service and Riverbank Arts Centre present.
How to… Direct a play with young people.
Tuesday, October 27th 10am – 5pm.

This one day training, facilitated by the National Association for Youth Drama (NAYD), will offer leaders working with young people practical advice and techniques for directing a play.

This training is aimed at:
Youth leaders and volunteers who would like to direct a play with their group. Youth leaders and volunteers who are already directing shows / performances with their groups and want to pick up some new skills in this area.

Part 1: Training 10am – 12.30pm

The training will focus on:
Basic acting techniques
Different approaches to directing
How to pick a suitable play for young people
How to design set / costumes on a budget.
How to put together a production plan

Part 2: Practical application 2pm – 5pm

This training will be followed by a practical workshop with a trained youth drama facilitator. Participants will take part in a workshop that will put the skills learned earlier in the day into practice.

Fees:
€20 (including lunch)
€10 for youth leaders from Kildare.

Booking:

For booking and further information contact

Eoghan Doyle, Assistant County Arts Officer
Tel :045 448328; Email: ekdoyle@kildarecoco.ie;
Web: www.kildare.ie/artsservice
Early booking is advised as space is limited.

Download the 2009 / 2010 brochure here

Kildare County Council Library & Arts Service in partnership with The School of  English, Media & Theatre Studies NUI Maynooth presents the 09 /10 season of Maynooth Film For All: Film Club (MFFA)

The Club returns on Wednesday 7thOctober with an exciting, diverse and challenging programme of world cinema. Waveriders, the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon is our first screening. Movies are screened on the first Wednesday of the month in JHL2 lecture hall in the John Hume building, North Campus, NUIM. The programme starts at 7.45pm with an introduction from Dr Denis Condon. The featured film then begins at 8.00pm. Membership is open to all over 18yrs. and costs €35.00 for a full season of eight films. There is no joining fee for students just pay per view of €2.00 per night.

For joining and full membership details for Maynooth Film for all Film Club log onto http://www.kildare.ie/artsservice/.