Posted on April 25, 2014 by Rose Rushe
Arts Collective
TAKE a punt on Limerick Arts Collective Forum by joining their information night this Thursday April 24 in Cobblestone Joe’s, Little Ellen Street at 8pm.
“This information evening is to thank the performers who took part in Creative Expo [March 29 over 14 streets]. It will also announce Creative Expo2 which will be held on Saturday May 17 from 12noon to 3pm. Again it will cover the main streets in Limerick City Centre and will promise another blaze of colour, activity and entertainment,” reports John O’Regan, on the committee.
Central to the forum’s credo are: arts initiatives to vitalise the city and business community; an inclusive platform for the artistic community; a central public information point to serve Limerick; advocacy for local professional and community arts.
See page 10 current Limerick Post.
Cassidy club
THE LA based Irish composer Patrick Cassidy and his manager/ brother Frank were invited to Áras an Uachtaráin for a private presidential lunch last week.
Cassidy was in Ireland, in town and the news this month for his Irish Film and Television Awards nomination for the John-Michael McDonagh film ‘Calvary’, which won three.
President Michael D Higgins, home from tea with the Queen, made time to honour his longstanding friends made through his espousal of the film and music industry.
Patrick Cassidy, Mayo born but a Master of Applied Maths via University of Limerick, has plenty of family rooted here in Limerick; his nephew Ronan Cassidy works in film making.
Subject of a BBC documentary for [Patrick’s] work, film scores to his name include ‘Layer Cake’, ‘Kingdom of Heaven’, ‘Veronica Guerin’ and ‘Hannibal’. His aria ‘Vide Cor Meum’, which became Hannibal’s leitmotif in the movie, is the only piece by a living composer on the Warner Classics 2006 compilation of ’40 Most Beautiful Arias’:
Url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Wv5AvqzfE&feature=kp
MOYROSS
Grace Dyas – THEATREclub, Louise Donlon – Lime Tree Theatre, Mike Fitzpatrick – City of Culture 2014,Sheila Deegan – Limerick Arts Officer, Lauren Larkin, Shane Byrne and Louise Lewis – THEATREclub pictured at Dalgaish Park
Photo: Brian Gavin Press 22
LIME Tree Theatre is the venue for this community devised and professionally led [by Dublin’s THEATREclub] production titled ‘MOYROSS’. It opens Wednesday April 30 at 8pm and runs until Saturday May 3. Come along to see promise fulfilled on all sorts of levels, including that “MOYROSS will show you the difference between the people’s lives and the headlines”.
Music City Generation Limerick is the ideal reference point for soundtrack and integration; note co-ordinator Boris Hunka’s column in our entertainments pages this week on 78 for his input.
THEATREclub is the award-winning social justice performance collective with a record of outreach, community workshops and drama firing its stage productions.
On the Nail
POST Riverfest we attend to literary matters again with May’s ‘On the Nail’ resuming at Loft Venue on Tuesday 6 at 8pm. This month’s guests are the Kerry based poet Paddy Bushe and short story writer David Murphy. Expect the usual open-mic offer to supporters and creatives, and of course, the sales table for CDs, books and other matter recorded by the gathering.
Cork born, Dublin based David Murphy is the author of novel ‘Longevity City – USA 2005′, novellas ‘Arkon Chronicles’ (2003) and ‘Bird of Prey’ (2011), and several volumes of award-winning short stories (most recently ‘Lost Notes – Ireland 2004′, re-issued 2013). This work won the Maurice Walsh Award for short stories.
Paddy Bushe is a Dubliner who won the 2006 Michael Hartnett Award and has a couple of decades of writing poetry and publishing, to acclaim. He is a member of Aosdána.
