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DL5-8 is a series of free cultural events in dĂşn laoghaire from 5pm every thursday may 20 - june 17, 2010 For further information see www.creativepolicies.com or call 01 6461181 | DL5-8

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contents day by day...................................................................................................02 introduction................................................................................................03 creative policies. .....................................................................................04 artist temporal residencies. ...........................................................06 screenings & performances. .........................................................08 artists’ talks................................................................................................. 12 jazz at weirs................................................................................................. 16 live bands at the purty kitchen...................................................20 creative policies in practice: conference. ...........................23 project team. .............................................................................................34 acknowledgments.................................................................................38 venues map................................................................................................40 | DL5-8

DL5-8 | 2 Donald Taylor Black Documentary Screening ‘David Farrell Elusive Moments’ Alexander Zobec (Italy) ‘I want to live with my creativity but how about the bills?’

Georgia Cusack (vocals) Yoon So-Young (piano) Damian Evans (bass) Kevin Brady (drums) Sale of Work Naomi Sex 56 Lr George’s St. The Potential of Vacancy Sinead McCann No 4 St Helen’s Passer Bem with Aoife Doyle, Ritchie Buckley, Shane O’Donvan & Damian Evans and DJ Emile

The Five Tails (Street Theatre IADT Performance Troupe)

John Carney (Ireland) ‘The Factory’

Izumi Kimura (piano) Damian Evans (bass) Kevin Brady (drums)

Sale of Work Naomi Sex 56 Lr George’s St. The Potential of Vacancy Sinead McCann No 4 St Helen’s Koshka with Oleg Ponomarev, Nigel Clark & Drazen Derek

DL5 Screening & Performances Pavilion Theatre, Marine Rd.

DL6 Artists’ Talks Sunshine Café, 107 Lr George’s St.

DL7 Jazz at Weirs Weirs Pub, 88 Lr George’s St.

DL5-8 Artists Temporal Residencies Lower George’s Street

Live Bands at The Purty Kitchen Old Dunleary Rd.

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May 20

Venues

Sale of Work Naomi Sex 56 Lr George’s St. The Potential of Vacancy Sinead McCann No 4 St Helen’s Café Orchestra with Pat Collins, Oleg Ponomarev, Drazen Derek & Damian Evans

Chris Guilfoyle (guitar) Damian Evans (bass) Kevin Brady (drums)

Kristiina Ilmonen (Finland) ‘Laitumella - In pasture’ Folk flutes, percussion and vocals

Denis Johnston’s silent 1935 Irish fi lm ‘Guests of the Nation’ with live accompaniment

by Josh Johnston

June 3

Gary Coyle (artist) Screening & Presentation ‘Reflections On The Sea’

June 17

Sale of Work Naomi Sex 56 Lr George’s St. The Potential of Vacancy Sinead McCann No 4 St Helen’s North Strand Kontra Band

Sale of Work Naomi Sex 56 Lr George’s St. The Potential of Vacancy Sinead McCann No 4 St Helen’s Tradfutures Collective @ Purty Sessions with Ciaran Tourish, Martin Tourish, Pat Collins, Drazen Derek, Paul Rodden & Ciaran Swift

Eoin Grace (trumpet) Lauren Kinsella (vocals) Julian Colarossi (guitar) Leopoldo Osio (piano) Damian Evans (bass) Damian Evans (bass) Kevin Brady (drums) Kevin Brady (drums)

Erling T.V. Klingenberg Paul Collard (Iceland) (UK) ‘Kling & Bang Gallery ‘Creativity and Culture and Klink & Bank, the intrinsic Artists Collective’ and instrumental’

Martin Tourish & Vedran Zagorac Present ‘Imagined Communities’

June 10

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DL5-8 introduction

We are delighted to welcome you to DL5-8, a suite of events including film screenings with live performances, temporary art works, traditional & improvised music gigs, featuring local and international artists, and a public talks series with artists and creative thinkers; all taking place in Dún Laoghaire, every Thursday evening from 5pm - 8pm with a late events programme of live bands from 10 pm to late. The programme runs for over a month from May 20 - June 17, 2010 and blends improvised spontaneity with curated eventing. Each Thursday evening we begin our artists’ route with film screenings and live performances at 5pm in the Pavilion Gallery followed by an ‘artists’ talks’ series on high-profile artist projects and collectives from Reykjavik, Helsinki, Bologna, Newcastle & Dublin at 6 pm at the Sunshine Café. Damien Evans’ Mixed-Ground Jazz Series profiling jazz artists, local and international, takes place at 7pm at Weirs Pub. Our late evening events at the Purty Kitchen, Dún Laoghaire begin at 10pm and showcases a series of live, world music bands featuring Koshka, Passer Bem, Cafe Orchestra, the North Strand Kontra Band and the tradfutures collective with invited guests. Meanwhile, art projects and performances by Naomi Sex and Sinéad McCann will be underway throughout each Thursday evening (and at times throughout the week) at the temporal artists’ studios on Lower George’s St. On June 17th, the pilot series will culminate with an international conference ‘Creative Policies in Practice’ to take place at Dún Laoghaire Council Chambers profiling selected speakers and artists active in the academy and in public culture. This event will consider how artist-researchers, while evolving high–level engagement in art practice, are also evolving new relationships, new alliances and performance communities within and without the academy. The conference highlights the ideas of ‘making things happen’, ‘uncovering new alliances’ and ‘interdisciplinary investigations’ to guide the focus and direction in our investigations in evolving experimental performance-led models & communities.

The DL5-8 events programme and June 17 conference will be of interest to anyone interested in artistic and performance events and it will be of special interest to those of you concerned with artist actions, artist collectives and how we may devise new methods and new practices to engage a culturally diverse public and together, animate our civic space. Enjoy!

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DL5-8 creative policies The DL5-8 events programme and June 17 conference ‘Creative Policies in Practice’ are part of a programme of events, taking place across three primary sites in Europe, namely: Newcastle (UK), Cuenca (Spain) and Dún Laoghaire (Ireland) under the network ‘Creative Policies for Creative Cities’. Our team is actively engaged with local authorities to evolve and curate artist-led interventions in the public domain and will be of special interest to anyone concerned with the relationship between the development of creative practice, testing new ideas and indeed questions as to what ‘public(s)’ and ‘practices’ might now be possible in our contemporary world. At the heart of this timely exchange of perspectives, both local and international, are the questions: ‘how may artist-led policies and practices engage a culturally diverse public in the regeneration of our civic space?’.

The Creative Policies team are a network of musicians, artists, cultural operators, educators and directors of local government proposing to re-examine the established thinking and practice of how musicians and artists work in regeneration and in public culture. While others speak of an instrumental use of art, we start from within the working lives, knowledge and experience of artists and performers to set the agenda for thinking how public culture can work to create shared civic space and how we may animate our civic and creative culture with meaningful and dynamic inter-cultural exchange? In so doing, we pilot test ideas and identify policies that may provide for sustainable development.

In the context of the pilot project DL5-8, taking place in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, in May-June 2010, a number of artist-led policies have been designed to underpin the actions under way. ‘artist collective agreements’ is a series of agreements between artists, the academy, businesses and the local authority that has been implemented whereby investment from each has generated a sustainable events program and site-based exhibition budget.

Initially, the academy invests 30% of programming fees under an ‘artist honorarium’ with the business and local authority financing 30% respectively and the artists offering a 10% input.

This has resulted in the establishment of artist studios in previously vacant retail spaces with contracts formed between the landlords, the local authority and the artist. It has resulted in a series of events, programmed and directed by a lead artist of high-level professional standard, with a diverse range of visiting artists profiled each week. The offer has involved a choice of events, ensembles, interdisciplinary collaborations with a range of performance

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groups of traditional, world, jazz and improvised musics. The policy of a 30 / 30 / 30 financing rule between the academy, authority and local business offers a unique, sustainable model for eventing in the public space. The policy titled ‘musicians & artist honorarium’ underpins the planning and eventing of the DL5-8 programme. The lead artists in question are financed by an honorarium and undertake to prepare, plan, programme and implement a series of events in the public space. This relationship may become a sustainable one with agreement from an appropriate government agency, whereby artists with an active record of annual performances and exhibitions would acquire state recognition as a professional ‘honoured’ artist. By doing so, artists are awarded an ‘honorarium’ with standard health and pension benefits for which they are contracted to programme and deliver a range of performance events to non-commercial venues and to those commercial venues that are working to the co-financing rule. Depending on the scale of event, the engagement will be co-financed under the 30/30/30 rule by interested parties, businesses, and or publicprivate agencies and facilitated through the local authority. In so doing, the honorarium system may apply to both commercial and non-commercial venues. The artist may then earn above the honorarium without penalty. This policy has the potential effect of offering artists a reliable opportunity to work as a professional, honoured artist with standard levels of personal security experienced and expected by society today. It provides local and small scale communities and businesses access to artists of a high level, while also animating our community lives and public space with international and local based cultural eventing.

The DL5-8 is a pilot project testing both policy and practice of how we might advance new models and alliances in evolving experimental performance-led communities. We adopt and test an artist-led approach in generating new policy and practice; we believe that artist-led policies - that are actively and practically creative, not just abstract talk about creativity - can yield new opportunities for our shared public space. Our work engages a wide range of local agencies in developing artistic responses and solutions to issues affecting our environment today. If you wish to contribute and to engage in our actions, do follow our trail on www.creativepolicies.com and www.gradcam.ie and in the meantime, enjoy your experiences in Dún Laoghaire.

Nollaig Ó Fiongháile DL5-8 Director & Coordinator of Creative Policies Network

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DL5-8 artist temporal residencies Each Thursday 5pm - 8pm, May 20 - June 17, 2010 Open to Public Tara Byrne presents an artists temporal residency programme which opens up previously empty and shuttered shop front spaces for creative use by dynamic visual artists. From May 20th to June 17th, two Dún Laoghaire shop fronts will be activated and brought to life through a series of challenging and engaging performances, exhibitions and a unique art retail experience. Studios will be opened to the public each Thursday from 5pm to 8pm and at other designated times during the week.

Naomi Sex artist studio presents

sale of work

56 Lr George’s St, Dún Laoghaire Sale of Work explores the premise of the artist as a retailer, and the acquisition, placement and dissemination of the artwork as a ‘product’. Occupying the empty retail unit as a shop, which will be open to the general public, the artist will act as a retailer and utilise the artists’ honorarium as business capital to purchase unwanted artworks in bulk from sourced artists. The artist will then attempt to sell the artworks in the shop through engagement and negotiation with potential buyers from the general public. The focus and aim of the project is to study the monetary value of the actual artworks as inanimate objects or products, by a non-art specific public. To that end, the artists’ names will remain completely anonymous and any profits made will be donated to a local arts related organisation.

Naomi Sex is a Dublin based visual artist. She graduated from NCAD in 1999 specialising in fine art print. She joined the Black Church Print Studio in 2000, and since then has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. In 2001 she was funded by the Arts Council to travel to New York, where she worked at the Bob Blackburn Print Studio in the Lower East Side.

In 2002, she was awarded a residency by the Newfoundland-Ireland artist program, she was awarded a commission by the Office of Public Works to produce a series of work documenting the restoration of the Great Palm House in the National Botanical Gardens (2003 ‘percent for arts scheme’). Her work is part of numerous collections including the Office of Public Works, AXA insurance and The Aviation Board Of Ireland. She is a Ph.D researcher in Media at NCAD and GradCAM.

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Sinead McCann artist studio presents

the potential of vacancy

No 4 St. Helen’s Court, Lr. George’s St, Dún Laoghaire The artist will use the shop front as an experimental studio and performance space to test out ideas around social engagement, as well as ideas relating to the ‘public’ and ‘private’ space of the street and shop. Over the period of the residency, the artist will carry out a series of performative actions including: a screening of video works in the shop window, a live performance event inside the shop, and urban intervention works in proximity of the shop. Through these actions the artist will look at ways to mobilise agency on the part of artist and audience. She will make visible and re-imagine the specific site of the vacant shop and the audience who encounters it. The normative codes of the shop, the street and passer-by will be reinterpreted through these actions.

Sinead McCann (b. Dublin 1982) is an artist and researcher based in Dublin. She is a PhD researcher at the National College of Art and Design and GradCAM. Sinead has been working in the Community Links Programme in Dublin Institute of Technology and presently works with the Access Services and Mature Student Access Course. Her practice investigates urban living in Dublin and often presents the voices of marginal cultures. She is interested in responding to and interrupting dominant codes existing in urban, social and institutional contexts. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 2007, she was selected to train in Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago funded by the Arts Council of Ireland; she received the Artist in Community Award from the Arts Council of Ireland managed by CREATE the national agency for collaborative arts in Ireland and ‘The Participation Award’ from the Community Links programme in DIT (2008). Her recent selected shows in include ‘In 12 Acts’, Trongate, Glasgow ’10; The Pre-History of the Crisis part 2 at The Festival of Creativity, Florence ’09; The Pre-History of the Crisis part 2 at Belfast Exposed, Belfast & Project Arts Centre, Dublin. ’09; The International Guerrilla Arts Festival, London ’09; Boxid, Original Print Gallery Dublin ’09; What Hiver? Temple Bar Studios, Dublin ’09; Earplug Music Festival 08; The LAB, Dublin ’08.

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DL5 screenings & performances Pavilion Gallery, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire Each Thursday 5pm, May 20 - June 17, 2010 Elaine Sisson curates a series of performances and film screenings profiling artists with a geographic, historic or symbolic link to Dún Laoghaire. Some, like Gary Coyle and Josh Johnston, were born and live here, while David Farrell, Donald Taylor Black and the creative team behind The Five Tails work and study in the Institute of Art Design and Technology (IADT) in Kill Avenue. Although neither Martin Tourish or Vedran Zagaroc can convincingly claim native Dún Laoghaire status, their evocative and poetic collaboration encapsulates the rich cultural symbolism of Dún Laoghaire’s continuing importance as a site of embarkation, immigration, return, and memory.

May 20 On Street Performance

the five tails Street Theatre/Puppet Live Performance The Five Tails is a street theatre live performance with 15 full scale street theatre/ puppet models based on the collection of the Natural History Museum, Dublin. The 45 minute scripted performance (of five short tales) is influenced by myths and legends based around the histories of different creatures (including Irish Elk, Eagles, and Owls). Five Tails is a work in progress made by IADT model makers. The performance has been developed through a series of stages including visits to the Natural History Museum, producing still life drawings and models, and evolving a series of performance and movement based workshops. The ideas from these workshops are developed into narratives, scripts and costumes; stories, based on myths and legends that are simple parables with witty, charming and visually fabulous characters. The creative team includes Ger Clancy - Creative Director; Monika Bieniek - movement director and choreographer; Sherra Murphy - researcher advisor and script analysis; Creative and fabrication & performance team - students of IADT model making design.

May 27 Donald Taylor Black Documentary Screening

david farrell - elusive moments Dublin-born David Farrell is the only Irish photographer to have won the European Publishers’ Award for Photography, which he achieved for his ‘Innocent Landscapes’ project, which deals with searches for the so-called “Disappeared” from the conflict in the north of Ireland. Donald Taylor Black’s documentary on Farrell was first seen at the international photography festival at Arles, and has since toured the world from Italy to the USA and from Brazil to China. Farrell is not interested in making a record of events as they are, or in drawing clear conclusions; he believes strongly in photography’s ability

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to bear witness and his quest for what he calls “elusive moments”. We see him “making” photographs in various locations and landscapes, working with collaborators, supervising the printing of his photographs and the hanging of exhibitions, talking to curators and colleagues, and, with some reluctance, engaging with the business and marketing of his work. This documentary was filmed in Dublin, Wicklow, Cork, Paris, and northern Italy, with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland and Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, under the Documenting the Arts scheme. Interviewees include Enrique Juncosa, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art; photographer, Tony O’Shea; and Tanya Kiang, Director of the Gallery of Photography. It was produced and directed by Donald Taylor Black, the Creative Director of the National Film School at IADT, Dún Laoghaire (‘The Joy’, ‘Hearts And Souls’), edited by IFTA winner, J. Patrick Duffner (‘Kisses’, ‘My Left Foot’), with Sean Corcoran (‘A Child’s Voice’, ‘December Bride’) as cinematographer.

June 3 Screening of Denis Johnston’s

guests of the nation (1935)

Silent with live accompaniment by Josh Johnston In association with the IFI Irish Film Archive Denis Johnston (1901-1984) was a playwright, literary critic, theatre director, war correspondent, broadcaster, and filmmaker. Born in Dublin, he studied law at Cambridge University before becoming a full-time writer. His first play ‘The Old Lady Says No!’ staged in 1929, secured the reputation of Dublin’s Gate Theatre. He wrote a number of plays including ‘The Moon in the Yellow River’, ‘A Bride for the Unicorn’, and ‘Storm Song’.

He was a pioneer in the field of broadcasting, working for BBC radio in the 1930s and later for BBC television as a writer and producer. During the second World War, Johnston worked for the BBC as a war correspondent reporting initially from North Africa but also from Buchenwald; his memoir ‘Nine Rivers from Jordan’ (1953) records his experiences as a war journalist. Johnston later moved to the United States and taught theatre studies at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College. His extensive diaries and personal archive of his remarkable life are now in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. In 1935, he directed a silent 16mm version of Frank O’Connor’s short story ‘Guests of the Nation’. O’Connor’s “guests of the nation” are British soldiers, held as hostages by the IRA during the War of Independence. Adapted by Mary Manning, the film features Barry Fitzgerald, Shelah Richards, and Cyril Cusack as well as cameo appearances by Hilton Edwards and Frank O’Connor. ‘Guests of the Nation’ employs Soviet-style montage in detailing the slow buildup to the execution of the two British soldiers by the IRA. The film was shot in a number of different locations around Dublin. | DL5-8

Josh Johnston, the grandson of Denis Johnston, is a pianist, arranger and composer from Dún Laoghaire. Since releasing ‘Three Friends’ in 2001 (which he recorded in Dublin with singer Jane Dalton and Zrazy saxophonist Carole Nelson and which featured songs

by Johnston, Bob Dylan, Hoagy Carmichael and others), he has been seen in a variety of different musical environments. He is currently recording a second solo CD with guitarist Eoin O’Brien and his live band. His other current baby is a jazz duo with Dublin violinist David MacKenzie (www.davidandjosh.com) which takes the swing jazz of Stephan Grappelli as a starting point but also mixes elements of latin jazz, blues and classical music to create an excellently refreshing mix of standards and original compositions. They released their CD ‘Notes Home’ in June 2008. He also writes and performs with Birr singer / songwriter Roesy (www.roesy.net), he has played live and recorded with Kila, SJ McArdle, Breda Mayock, Noelie McDonnell, Hank Wiedel, and Ronan Swift, among others. He also directs the Phoenix Chamber Choir (Dún Laoghaire, Ireland) and is the organist at the Unitarian Church in Dublin.

June 10 Martin Tourish & Vedran Zagorac present

imagined communities This presentation involving visuals and live music imagines a new reality where tunebased music is not identified with cultural brand or agenda. Resulting from a collaboration between accordianist Martin Tourish and emerging film director/ producer, Vedran Zagorac, both will host a 50 minute event which premieres a screening of their new short film entitled, ‘Imagined Communities’ with a live audio visual performance by Martin’s Exegesis Ensemble featuring projections mixed by Vedran. It is proposed to evolve new meanings and associations to form avisual performance by Martin’s Exegesis Ensemble featuring projections mixed by Vedran. It is proposed to evolve new meanings and associations to form an identity that is subjective, people centred than it being politically or institutionally oriented. ‘Imagined Communities’ conveys the exploration of a tunebased artist into how new meanings in traditional musics are constructed in Ireland, 2010.n identity that is subjective, people centred than it being politically or institutionally oriented. ‘Imagined Communities’ conveys the exploration of a tune-based artist into how new meanings in traditional musics are constructed in Ireland, 2010 Martin Tourish, from Co. Donegal, began engaging with music from an early age; music was learned by ear and included everything that could be grasped from pop music to local songs, marches and Irish tunes. From an encounter with Altan during his mid teens, he first became acquainted with the notion of Irish traditional music and through a move to Dublin and his studies at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, he was introduced to western art music and various ethnic styles of performance. He majored in DL5-8 | 10

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Classical performance and received the Anna Leahy award for his final dissertation on a series of manuscripts belonging to the Tourish family dating from 1896. In 2008, Martin won TG4’s Young Musician of the Year award and the DIT ABBEST scholarship to pursue his doctoral research with the DIT Conservatory of Music and GradCAM. He has toured internationally and is active as a performer, composer and academic. Vedran Zagorac, from Zagreb, Croatia is a graduate of Law from University of Zagreb and in 1978 was coproducer, co-author, director and presenter of the TV programme ‘Spica’ in Croatia. He received the “Best Film of the Year” and “Best Director of the Year” awards for a short film “Night Flight” from film production studies with Colaiste Dhulaigh, Dublin and graduated with the BA (Hons) in Film and Video Production at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK. He is currently completing the MA in Creative Digital Media in DIT, Dublin and is undertaking collaborations with visual artist, designers and musicians.

June 17 Gary Coyle (Ireland), Screening & Presentation

reflections on the sea Artist Gary Coyle has been a regular at the 40 foot in Sandycove for the past decade and his work explores, through different media, the ritual daily pilgrimage of swimming, recording his experiences in diaries and filming and photographing the ever changing light of the sky and water. Coyle’s photographs, many taken while he is in the water, offer a unique vantage point to observe the mesmeric quality of the sea. “From brooding, shape-shifting skies to angry, crashing waves and - just occasionally - a turquoise expanse of calm water, the images capture something of the area’s attraction and mutability.” (Metro 2009) Gary’s reflections on the sea will bring together his thoughts as an artist, his rituals of swimming and photographs and film footage from his recent body of work.

Gary Coyle was born in Dún Laoghaire where he now lives and works having spent nearly a decade living in New York and London. He works in a variety of media, drawing, film, photography and, more recently, performance. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad; his work has been included in Shows at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, The Sainsbury Gallery, Norwich and The Tate Liverpool.

He has received many awards including The Henry Moore Fellowship from the RCA & The Henry Moore Foundation 1995, RHA Drawing Prize 1999, Projects Award 2006 & a Visual Arts Bursary 2008 & 2009 from the Arts Council of Ireland. His most recent show ‘At Sea’, a spoken word performance based on his daily swimming ritual jointly commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Project was staged in the Project in February 2009. He is currently working on a major exhibition which will be held in the RHA Gallery Dublin in March 2010.

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DL6 artists talks Sunshine Café, 107 Lower George’s St, Dún Laoghaire Each Thursday 6pm, May 20 - June 17, 2010 Nollaig Ó Fiongháile curates a series of talks with artists, performers, creatives on artistled actions and collectives. This series is designed to consider questions of how the speakers have evolved their practices, their conceptual frame and their day to day model in bringing their art or works into the public arena. The trials, both those successful with some perhaps not-so, bring an insight to the workings behind the scenes and the internal values and value systems of the speakers; whilst also reflecting the external challenges of bringing one’s work to the public. The series is intentionally positioned in a cafe environment and takes place in the form of part presentation, part performance, part interview and dialogue with the audience to bring forth the concepts, challenges and aesthetics underpinning one’s work whether it be a performance, an art work, or an event.

May 20 John Carney (Ireland)

the factory The Factory is born out of the wants and needs of Irish filmmakers to belong to a community where creative energy thrives, to share ideas, to challenge and learn from one another in a space entirely dedicated to this endeavour.

The Factory is a space for film makers to exchange ideas.

We believe that the next wave of Irish films should arise out of collaboration, where film makers support each other in the realisation of their vision. From script development right through to casting, shooting, test screenings, cutting, scoring and grading, the Factory will provide a home for Irish film makers to see their pictures through from start to finish, all under the one roof. The Factory is born out of the conviction that Irish Film could afford to be a little bit more rock ‘n’ roll. Like a band, success is a process of trial and error, of practice, of organized rebellion and a search for a unique, new voice.

John Carney was born in Dublin in 1972, and began his film career writing, producing and directing two award winning short films (Shining Star and Hotel) and directing videos for Irish Band ‘The Frames’, with whom he also played bass guitar from 1991 to 1994. His first feature film, ‘November Afternoon’ – a self-financed black and white production – was voted Best Feature of 1997 by the Irish Times. His next film was an hour-long TV film ‘Just in Time’, starring Frances Barber and Gerard McSorley. The Irish Times voted it Best TV Film of 1998. He subsequently co-wrote and directed ‘On the Edge’, starring Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea, for Universal Studios. It won the Silver Hitch-cock Award for best film at the 2001 Dinard Film Festival. He then co-created, wrote/directed three series of the hit RTÉ television series ‘Bachelors Walk’, which is the most successful independently produced drama in the history of Irish television. In 2007, he wrote and directed the musical feature film ‘Once’, which won the Sundance Audience Award, an Independent Spirit award for best film, a National Board Of Review award, an Oscar for Best Song.

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May 27 A lexander Zobec (Italy) Owner, TAKE artists & creatives

i want to live with my creativity but how about the bills?

Aleksander Zobec started a film production company ‘Media Mutant/Terminal’, producing tv commercials and pop promos for some of the most succesfull Italian pop and rock bands and producing content that frequently received the most airplay on Italian mtv. He founded the film production company ‘Blondie Production’ and produced the awarded ‘Punk Love’ movie; he has coproduced for the Slovene singer/band ‘Magnifico’, and now directs a photographers agency ‘TAKE’ representing photographers working in fashion and advertising campaigns. Aleks discusses the boundary between the romantic idea of being an artist and the compromises that a musician has to accept to sell a record - from the recording studio with a master in the hands to the what now? A view from the inside, on the production and the marketing tools ìn the music industry, from the cover to the videoclips.

June 3 Kristiina Ilmonen (Finland) Sibelius Academy

laitumella - in pasture

folk flutes, percussion & vocals Flautist and multi-instrumentalist Kristiina Ilmonen has been making contemporary folk music, free improvisation and new music in various ensembles and other musical projects for over twenty years. She specializes in ethnic woodwind instruments such as archaic Nordic flutes and whistles. Kristiina has composed and performed music for contemporary dance, theatre and film and played on over 20 CD recordings. Formerly head of the Sibelius Academy Folk Music Department, she is currently preparing her artistic Doctor of Music degree focusing on folk flutes, performance and improvisation at the Sibelius Academy where she also works as a teacher. She will present her work ‘Laitumella - In pasture’, a solo performance on folk flutes, percussion and vocals and speak about the challenges of undertaking performance- research and inter-facing the academy and public realm.

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June 10 Erling T.V. Klingenberg (Iceland) Klink Og Bank Artists & Designers Collective

kling & bang gallery & klink & bank, artists collective Erling Klingenberg´s art is about the professional and existential questions of his chosen occupation.

Klingenberg’s mainstay is the myth of the male artist of the mid-twentieth century, based on the Marxist idea of the artist-as-worker, whose creation is directly linked to him physically producing it. It also relates to a notion that can be traced further back in art history, that of the male genius. He plays with these anachronistic clichés and merges them with the stereotype of the modern rock star. With his satirical manifestations of the attempt to create art, where all that comes across is the echo of their creator, Klingenberg continues to unsettle the location of origin and creativity. Erling (born 1970) lives and works in Reykjavik and is co-founder of Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. Klingenberg has recently shown at Reykjavik Artmuseum / Asmundarsafn, Reykjavík, Frieze Projects, London, and Model & Nilland gallery, Sligo, Ireland, 2005.

The Kling & Bang gallery was founded by a group of artists at the beginning of 2003.

Coming from a variety of different backgrounds, the group’s common goal was to challenge the context and content of creative thinking. And throughout the six years of Kling & Bang’s existence this enthusiasm has been responsible for countless projects, exhibitions and collaborations. Since 2003, they have been presenting work by carefully-chosen, emerging and established artists, both Icelandic and international. Over their first six years, they have participated in shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, at the Berliner Liste in Berlin and at Frieze Project-Frieze Art Fair in London and collaborated with such distinguished international figures as Christoph Schlingensief, Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades, John Bock, David Askevold, Gelitin, as well as working with a number of influential Icelandic artists. From 2004 and 2005, they ran the 5,000-square-meter KlinK & BanK studio space, where some 137 artists, designers, filmmakers and musicians worked on a day-to-day basis; producing exhibitions, lectures, theatre performances and a wide variety of other projects, presenting on average three events per week. As the artist-run element of the organization is vital to the group’s identity, all eight of Kling & Bang’s permanent members are artists themselves — indeed, the gallery seeks to participate in the creation of art works with the artists they invite and exhibit. Kling and Bang puts up close to a dozen exhibitions every year and they are down-and-dirty, they’re hands-on and above all “can-do”.

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June 17 Paul Collard (UK) Director of Creativity, Culture, Education

creativity and culture - the intrinsic & instrumental Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture & Education (CCE) in the UK, Paul Collard directs the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the creative skills of young people across England; acknowledged as a world leading programme, CCE is transforming teaching and learning across the curriculum; it operates a £40 million a year schools programme, and it is managing, monitoring and evaluating the £25 million “Find your Talent” pilots which are exploring how to offer every young person 5 hours of quality arts and culture a week. Paul joined CCE from Culture10 where he had been creative director; he has a particular interest in the role of culture in urban regeneration and in 1987, he wrote a seminal report on the subject for the UK Government, which argued in favour of many of the strategies that are now commonplace in cultural-led, urban regeneration projects. He was able to implement many of his ideas between 1993-7 in the North East of England where he developed programmes, which led to the creation of the Angel of the North and The Sage Gateshead. He was also successful in implementing this approach in New Haven Connecticut through the creation of major international arts festival in partnership with Yale University. Other positions held include General Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Deputy Controller of the British Film Institute in London.

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DL7 jazz at weirs Weirs Pub, 88 Lower George’s St, Dún Laoghaire Each Thursday 7pm, May 20 - June 17, 2010 The Jazz at Weirs Programme ’The Mixing Ground’ involves high level performers from Newpark Music Centre’s Jazz Programme to collaborate with industry professionals in a series of performances of original and traditional material. Each performer brings to the collaboration an unique background, making for innovative original material combining strong tradition and individual flair. The collaborations explores the development of ensemble playing in an spirit of equality, where every member of the ensemble can bring their own ideas and concepts to the table. The collaborations will be an exploration of new compositions and historically informed contemporary performances, searching for vitality, communication and joy!

Damian Evans has been a professional bassist for 15 years in Australia and in Ireland, he has become one of the most in-demand bassists in the country. He leads his own trio, plays with Isotope, the Boylan/Buckley/Evans trio and is a member of Honor Heffernan’s working group. He regularly accompanies visiting international artists including Terell Stafford, Tim Warfield and Jonathon Kriesburg. www.myspace.com/damianevansbass Kevin Brady is one of the leading drummers in Ireland today and works at the very top of the field in his own trio featuring pianist Bill Carrothers. In addition to being a member of award winning Irish ensemble, the Organic, drummer in the Phil Ware Trio and Honor Heffernan group, Kevin is involved in a multitude of different creative projects and teaches drums at the Newpark Music Centre. www.kevinbrady.ie

May 20 Izumi Kimura (piano)

with Damian Evans (bass) Kevin Brady (drums) J apanese born pianist Izumi Kimura has performed extensively as a solo, orchestral and chamber musician, and broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM and RTÉ 2 television. Drawing from classical and improvised music fields, she has performed with leading performers and ensembles including the RTÉ NSO, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble, Music 21, Michael D’arcy and Ronan Guilfoyle. Izumi is a specialist in the performance of contemporary music with premiere performances including pieces especially written for her. www.myspace.com/kimuraizumi DL5-8 | 16

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Georgia Cusack (vocals) & Yoon So-Young (piano) with Damian Evans (bass), Kevin Brady (drums) ocalist Georgia Cusack of Newpark Music Centre spent last V year in Boston where she participated in music programmes at both Boston College and Berklee College of Music. Georgia’s choice of repertoire ranges from contemporary pieces, arrangements of classical pieces and pop songs and songs by some of her favourite Brazilian composers. Her current interests in writing involve the use of the voice as an instrument in counterpoint with other instruments and vocalese melodies to create different textures within the ensemble. www.myspace.com/amparogroup o-Young Yoon was classically trained from the age of five and S won several local and national competitions in her native country, South Korea. She studied jazz piano in South Korea and Canada.

She acquired a First in the BA in Jazz Performance degree course at Newpark Music Centre. So-Young performs regularly with leading jazz musicians in Ireland and leads many projects. She is currently teaching in the Waltons School of Music and Newpark Music Centre. So-Young has a love of communication in music and of the power of music to challenge and provoke thought. www.myspace.com/soyoungyoon

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hris Guilfoyle (guitar) C with Damian Evans (bass) Kevin Brady (drums) hris Guilfoyle is starting to garner a reputation not only C as a guitarist but as a composer as well. As a player, he has a very personal concept of contemporary jazz guitar. Never letting technique mask true musicality, Guilfoyle uses instinct and interaction at the forefront of his playing. Having played along side luminaries such as Dave Liebman as well as Michael Buckley and Justin Carroll, Chris is definitely one to watch in the next few years. www.myspace.com/chrisguilfoyle

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oin Grace (trumpet) & Julian Colarossi (guitar) E with Damian Evans (bass), Kevin Brady (drums) oin Grace started playing trumpet at the age of ten in E the Mullingar town band. Since then he has found success performing with acts such as The Blizzards, David Geraghty and Joan As Police Woman. Eoin is influenced by many styles from Soul and Funk to Klezmer and eastern European music, and his compositions are heavily influeced by Hard Bop in their feel and arrangement. Eoin is an eclectic trumpeter, who is developing an unique voice on the instrument.

Italian born Julien Colarossi spent most of his early days transcribing the greatest rock guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Steve Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, David Gilmore and Eric Clapton and for the last 3 years has been studying jazz. He has a particular interest in advanced rhythmic and harmonic concepts.

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auren Kinsella (vocals) & Leopoldo Osio (piano) L with Damian Evans (bass), Kevin Brady (drums) auren Kinsella is a vibrant young vocalist whose lucid singing L style, strong vocal technique and improvising abilities mark her out as a future voice on the Irish jazz scene. She has performed in the UK, Switzerland, Hungary and India with groups including the Irish RTE Philharmonic Choir and the Choir of the International Kodály Seminar. Lauren studied South Indian vocal technique in Bangalore and the Kodály method in Hungary.

She has represented Ireland at the Annual IASJ Jazz Meeting, under the direction of saxophonist Dave Liebman. Lauren writes and performs original music that exploits the voice’s expressive, supportive and improvisatory possibilities, involving text, poetry and non-syllabic language. www.myspace.com/weidetrio eopoldo Osío was born in Venezuela. He has been a professional L musician since he was 16 years old and has studied Venezuela and in Brazil. He has performed throughout Venezuela at festivals and concerts, and brings a strong rhythmic sense to his performances.

Leopoldo has worked with some of the finest international and Venezuelan artists already, including Nicolas Folmer and Pierre Bertrand (France), Alejandro Aviles, Aquiles Baez. He has worked with Venezuelan Symphonic orchestras including Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho and Bolivar Jazz Big Band. He is beginning to make an impact on the Irish jazz scene and this pairing with Kinsella, Evans and Brady is sure to be something special. www.myspace.com/osioleopoldo

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DL10+ live bands at the purty kitchen Purty Kitchen, Old Dunleary Road, Dún Laoghaire Each Thursday 10pm-Late, May 20 - June 17, 2010 Drazen Derek and Oleg Ponomarev bring a collective of high performing artists from local and international bands spanning an extensive back catalogue and range of styles including jazz, classical, avant-garde, gypsy, Balkan and Latin sounds.

Drazen Derek has performed and toured across Europe, the US and S. America; with international artists such as Niels Pedersen, Carlos Nunez, Harry Allen, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Celtic Connections Festival Orchestra and in Ireland with The Chieftains, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Louis Stewart, Ritchie Buckley, Camille O’Sullivan, Myles Drennan and Dave Fleming. Oleg Ponmarev co-founded and performed extensively with legendary Russian-Gypsy trio ‘Loyko’ and World Music trio ‘KOSHKA’ and performs today with ‘Yurodny’ among others. He has collaborated with numerous artists including Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Dr. Sumbramaniam, Ally Bain, Ezma Redzhepova, Kalman Balogh, Gidon Kremer & ‘Kremerata’, Gilles Apap, Andre Heller’s ‘Magneten’, ‘Bratch’, “Mullarit”, Bill Lovelady, and Ronnie Wood from the Rolling stones. Oleg has written or arranged several scores for film & video, including ‘Onegin’ (featuring Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler); he has recorded and produced 25 albums under his own name or as a guest and is currently signed to ARC Records UK, Circular Records Scotland and ADASTRA UK.

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koshka Koshka with Oleg Ponomarev, Nigel Clark, Drazen Derek oshka’s version of world music and jazz sends a huge K emotional surge that never lets up with leaders in the world music circuit Oleg Ponomarev (violin), Nigel Clarke (guitar) and Drazen Derek (guitar) to open the late night sessions sessions in Purty Kitchen. The current line-up brings a new set of Balkan, Gypsy and Jazz tunes written and arranged by Oleg Ponomarev.

With past collaborators including the Celtic Connection Symphony Orchestra, The Chieftains, Hue and Cry, Loyko and Ronnie Wood; this collective bring ‘sweeping rhythms, twinned with masterly musicianship and an extraordinary range of tones and timbres.

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May 27

passer bem New Latin jazz project featuring the fearless vocal adventurer Aoife Doyle with Ritchie Buckley, Shane O’Donvan & Damian Evans and DJ Emile.

Exploring the depths of the Brazilian rain forest with her is Desiderio on guitar and caipirinha, Damien Evans on bass and surprise guests including latin percussionist and DJ. Tonight, they will air a new repertoire including their new composition ‘Primal Scream meets Hermeito Pasqual by the Waters of March’. Aoife Doyle is a vocalist of an astonishing ability to inhibit the singing traditions as diverse as jazz, folk, country or classical.

June 3

café orchestra Café Orchestra - TRIO “Music from the cafes of the world” Pat Collins, Oleg Ponomarev, Drazen Derek If you enjoyed that famous collaboration between classical violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin and jazz violinist Stephene Grappelli on that wonderful first album ‘Jealousy’ you will savour violinists Patrick Collins from Café Orchestra and the Russian gypsy violinist Oleg Ponomarev of Loyko with driving rhythm from lead guitar Drazen Derek, an exponent of the music of Django Reinhardt, and Damien Evans on double bass; each with distinctively different styles of improvisation complement each other for a performance, vibrant and exciting, and brings a whole new take to the genre of Gypsy jazz which promises an exciting evening of tango and hot club gypsy swing, from the cafes and movies of the world.

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June 10

north strand kontra band The North Strand Kontra Band, since forming in 2005 has exploded onto the live music scene and enjoyed a huge wave of success performing to critical acclaim in many of the leading venues and festivals at home and abroad. The 7 piece features Clarinet, Saxophone, Trombone, Accordion, Guitar, Tuba and Drums with music that blends the high energy, hypnotic sounds of the Balkans with everything from funk to drum and bass.

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tradfutures collective @ purty sessions The tradfutures collective presents an exciting collaboration by some of Ireland’s best performers. Altan fiddler Ciaran Tourish and accordionist Martin Tourish bring a series of powerful Donegal reels and blend with Pat Collins and Drazen Derek from the Cafe Orchestra who provide an ecclectic mix of swing jazz from the era of Grappelli onwards and Balkan rhythms from Drazen’s native musical heritage. The fourth ingredient is led by the banjo player and composer Paul Rodden who brings wild Appalachian and bluegrass flavours into the mix. This blend is complemented by local multi instrumentalist and arranger Ciaran Swift. This exciting event offers the chance to hear a most unique collaboration and promises many surprise guests on the night!

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GradCAM, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media & Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, IADT

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‘creative policies in practice’ an international conference June 17, 2010 Dún Laoghaire Council Chambers, County Hall, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire.

Thie is a Creative Policies for Creative Cities Network event.

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introduction We are delighted to welcome you to the ‘Creative Policies in Practice’ Conference which has been made possible by collaborations with key European and US based networks promoting arts research and cultural experimentation internationally. We welcome this opportunity to achieve a lively exchange as we try to evolve our practices and dialogues on artist-research. ‘Creative Policies in Practice’ seeks to demonstrate and to consider the concepts, the challenges and the influence of artists and musicians active in the academy and in the public space and to broadly consider how ‘artist-researchers’, while evolving high– level engagement in art practice, are also evolving new relationships and new alliances and performance communities. Underpinning our endeavours lie the ideals of ‘making things happen’, ‘uncovering new alliances’ and ‘interdisciplinary investigations’ to guide the focus and direction of our conversations. The conference will be of interest to artists, educators, policy makers and cultural practitioners.

The morning events present current models of practice from Ireland, Vienna and the US in the fields of creative arts, cultural policy and traditional & improvised musics, whilst the afternoon programme will profile the EU research project ‘Creative Policies for Creative Cities’ addressing the question of how culture-led policies and practices may engage a cultural diverse public in the regeneration of our civic space? At the heart of this timely exchange of perspectives we are asking colleagues to consider the questions: what are the practices and models for artists active in the public domain and how may we lead with policies that are actively and practically creative, and that can yield new opportunities for our shared public space. This event focus on the notion of ‘how we can do what we do with different effect’ and takes up the conversations and challenges negotiated at the GradCAM 2010 Conference ‘Arts Research: Publics & Purposes’, Dublin.

The ‘Creative Policies in Practice’ conference is organised in collaboration with the Creative Policies for Creative Cities Research Network including Paul Collard, Director of Creativity, Culture and Education; Oscar Watson, Director of Intercultural Arts; David Faulkner, Deputy Director of Newcastle City Council; Angeles Diaz Vieco, Director of Simetrías Fundación Internacional; Juan Avila, President of the County Council of Cuenca; Jim Devine, Director of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire; Richard Shakespear, Director of Department of Environment, Culture and Community, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, Development Manager of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM).

The main conference venue is the Dún Laoghaire Council Chamber, other venues hosting events of the DL5-8 programme are the Pavilion Gallery, Sunshine Cafe, Weirs Pub and the Purty Kitchen. We are especially grateful to all our colleagues, both locally and internationally based, for their generosity, encouragement and support in realizing the conference and programme of DL5-8 events and we wish you robust conversations, challenging engagements and an eventful visit to Dún Laoghaire.

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conference schedule 9.30am

Registration & Introduction

Welcome from Jim Devine, Director IADT

Introduction with Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, GradCAM

10am - 1pm ‘Creative Policies in Practice’ - Processes & Publics

Panel Speakers Dr Michael Wimmer, Director of Educult

‘Culture. For Vienna. For tomorrow. For almost all And what EDUCULT is going to contribute’ 10.45-11pm Teas/ Coffees Dr Mick Wilson, Dean of GradCAM

‘It’s still more than the economy, stupid!‘ how do questions of the arts, research through the arts & public culture come together?’

Professor Ed Sarath, ISIM ‘Improvisation, Creativity & Consciousness: Jazz as a Vehicle for Individual & Collective Development’ 1pm - 2pm Lunch 2pm - 4pm Creative Policies for Creative Cities

Chair Dr Michael Wimmer, Educult

Panel Speakers

Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, GradCAM Paul Collard, Director of Creativity, Culture, & Education &

Oscar Watson, Director of Intercultural Arts.

Angeles Diaz Vieco, Director of Semetrías Fundación Internacionale

Plenary, Respondents, Q & A

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conference speakers biographies Michael Wimmer Brief “Culture. For Vienna. For tomorrow. For almost all – And what EDUCULT is going to contribute”. During the last months, the city of Vienna brought together a number of experts from cultural institutions to discuss the future of cultural policy in the city. The participants of this public debate discovered a number of hot issues to make Vienna, in its traditional shape as a world wide acknowledged centre of cultural heritage, into a dynamic, modern, advanced and vibrant cultural metropolis. In the heart of this transformation process, the circumstances under which artistic production and reception takes place, are going to change considerably. Michael Wimmer will present EDUCULT in this context as a research institution at the interface between culture and education trying to analyse the status of cultural policy development in general and the mediation of cultural competences “for almost all” in particular. iography Michael Wimmer, Director of Educult, Austria, was B trained as an organist, music educator and political scientist. From 1987 - 2003 he was director of the Austrian Culture Service. He is lecturer at the Institute for Political Sciences at the University of Vienna, Expert for UNESCO and the Council of Europe in the field of cultural policy, Author of the Austrian National Report “Cultural Policy in Austria” and of the report “Cultural Policy in Slovenia”, and expert of the European Commission on educational and cultural policy issues. He is founding member and since 2003 head of EDUCULT – Institute for Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, which is engaged in research in the field of creative, cultural and artistic education. In 2008, he carried out qualitative and quantitative surveys on cultural education “Diversity and Cooperation” and “Cultural Education Counts!” and acts as a consultant for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009. He is personal adviser to the present Austrian Minister for Education, Culture and the Arts and he is member of the advisory committee preparing the UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education 2010 in Seoul/Korea.

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Dr Mick Wilson Brief ‘It’s still more than the economy, stupid!’; How do questions of the arts, research through the arts and public culture come together? Drawing on the experience of work with the European Art Research Network and extensive work with doctoral researchers in contemporary art and curating, this presentation will introduce the competing ways in which intellectual and cultural work by creative practitioners attempts to re-activate the spaces and possibilities of public encounter, critical debate and cultural renewal. This talk will provide an outline account of how can the world of live culture, the academic world and the world of engaged critical debate may be brought together to enhance civic life. iography Dr Mick Wilson is an artist, writer and educator. He B is Head of Fine Art at DIT, currently on secondment as Dean of GradCAM, having previously been Head of Research and Postgraduate Development at NCAD (2005-2007). Formerly, director of MaVIS and the BA visual arts practice programmes at IADT (1998-2004) and an associate lecturer at NCAD, CCAD, IADT and TCD. He is a graduate of the NCAD and Trinity College Dublin. Mick’s research and professional interests are eclectic, ranging from the interrogation of art institutional practices and the reputational economy of contemporary art to the rhetorical construction of knowledge conflict and the contested reconstruction of the contemporary university, and the general arena of critical cultural pedagogies. His teaching practice has been primarily focused in recent years on the critical re-construction of creative arts education in a way that is informed - but not prescribed - by trends and tendencies within international contemporary cultural practice. The question of artistic research represents for him an opportunity to thoroughly rethink critical and creative education at all levels of state education and also within the arena of popular and informal cultural pedagogies. He has taught on a range of programmes including masters programmes in computer science, theatre studies, design research and cultural studies. He recently initiated a new lecture and seminar series as part of developing a new research strand at GradCAM provisionally entitled: ‘debate to death: on public culture, political imagination and mortal agency’.

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Ed Sarath Brief ‘Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as a Vehicle for Individual and Collective Development’. Recent years have seen increasing interest in jazz as a model for creativity across wide-ranging disciplines. Commonly citing the improvisatory core of the genre, practitioners in fields as diverse as business, education, law, medicine, and sociology have looked to jazz for insights into the spontaneous inventive and interactive underpinnings of their work. In this talk, I take this thinking a step farther and explore the foundations of improvisatory creativity in the innermost dimensions of consciousness. Jazz musicians provide some of the most vivid testimonies of transcendent experience and also commonly gravitate toward the use of meditation and contemplative disciplines in order to further cultivate this experience in their lives and work. Appropriating insights from an emergent worldview called Integral Theory, I illuminate how improvisation and meditation work in tandem to promote creativity and consciousness development, and how this epistemological interplay can be applied to other fields. Drawing upon my work as educational reformer, I reflect on the ramifications of this model for future horizons in education, and by extension, public policy. I discuss several projects that I have spearheaded with these aims in mind.

Biography Ed Sarath is Flugelhornist, composer and Professor of Music in the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan. He is Founder and President of the International Society for Improvised Music and also head of Michigan’s Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies. His forthcoming book, Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as an Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society explores the application of principles from musical improvisation to wide-ranging fields. His recent book Music Theory Through Improvisation: A New Approach to Musicianship Training is published by Routledge. He is a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, National Center for Institutional Diversity, and National Endowment for the Arts. www.edsarath.com

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creative policies for creative cities panel The Creative Policies for Creative Cities is a multi agency, interdisciplinary, policy and practice led team that attempts to uncover cultural-led solutions for hard sociocultural issues affecting our urban centres in the European Union. The network has engaged in a process of bringing together a suite of competencies drawing from academia, cultural practice, policy and politics to developing policy-led cultural solutions to issues affecting our regions that have a localised specificity, but with a broader appeal to the partnership on a whole. The task has been to address ‘a multi-cultural civic life for the historical centre of Cuenca in Castilla-La Mancha’; ‘the engagement of marginalised and disadvantaged groups in society in formulating urban solutions in Newcastle (UK)’ and ‘a suburban centre’s civic life outside of office hours’ in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Over a period of one year, the partnership has evolved a process by which we research, test and evolve models and practices that can address the specific scenarios identified and evolve policies that have the capacity to build a model and legacy from our investigation.

The panel will present their findings and consider how may we transfer this small pilot test project to real-world solutions that may be utilised by cultural leaders in a variety of centres to include academic, practitioner and municipal authority.

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Nollaig Ó Fiongháile GradCAM Brief ‘’Creative Policies in Practice’’; Evolving new relationships, new alliances and artist-led communities. The DL5-8 is a pilot project testing both policy and practice of how we might advance new models, new alliances in evolving experimental performanceled communities. We have adopted and tested an artist-led approach as we believe that artist-led policies - that are actively and practically creative, not just abstract talk about creativity - can yield new opportunities for our shared public space. In the context of the pilot project DL5-8, taking place in Dún Laoghaire, in May-June 2010, a number of artistled policies have been designed to underpin the actions underway. ‘artist-direct’ is a series of agreements between artists, the academy, businesses and the local authority that have been implemented whereby investment from each has generated a sustainable events program and site-based exhibition budget. The policy titled ‘musicians & artist honarium’ underpins the planning and eventing of the DL5-8 programme, whereby lead artists in question are financed by an honorarium and undertake to prepare, plan, programme and implement a series of events in the public space. A next step scenario is now required to consider how to effect a transfer of knowledge to academic, practitioner and municipal authorities and how to take a pilot project experience to the level of policy and sustainable implementation.

Biography Nollaig Ó Fiongháile is a musician, researcher and lecturer and is Development Manager at the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media (GradCAM, Dublin). She holds a masters in Ethnomusicology, (Goldsmiths, University of London), B. Music (NUI Cork); has lectured at the University of Ulster’ Music Department; the Galway, Mayo Institute of Technology’ Heritage Department, and has presented papers at EU wide conferences and fora being a frequent contributor on themes such as Traditional Musics, Cultural Regeneration, and Creative Industries. She plays low whistles and flutes and has managed a wide range of music productions & festivals; formerly Educational Coordinator for ‘Northern Rhythms’, Údarás na Gaeltachta (2000-02), established and directed ‘Whiden Toie’ festival of Traveller & Gypsy Culture (2001-02); developed radio series ‘The Bards Chair’ on Clare FM, and ‘Veiled Voices’ a world music series on RTE (1995). Formerly founder, executive member and later elected President of the European Network of Traditional Music & Dance (1997-2005); Expert to the European Commission and Council of Europe for the campaign ‘Europe, A Common Heritage’ 2000-02; Culture Regeneration Programme Specialist with the University of Ulster’ Northern Ireland Centre of European Cooperation (2003-06).

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Paul Collard Creativity, Culture & Education (UK) Oscar Watson Intercultural Arts Brief The engagement of marginalised and disadvantaged groups in cultural led regeneration in Newcastle, UK. Many cities across Europe and US have successfully regenerated core elements in the urban/suburban infrastructure through creative and cultural interventions. However, concern has often been expressed at the extent to which these interventions serve all sectors of society and there are particular concerns about the engagement of the poorer members of the community, certain racial and ethnic groups and young people.

This study would identify the mix of events and facilities that would attract these groups and explore the extent to which they are compatible with the needs. We aim to build on relationships developed with local authority officers, councillors and university to identify opportunities for creative professionals to participate in the planning for and delivery of regeneration projects and to capture the views and ideas of local people in culture regeneration cycles. It is intended that the research undertaken will inform creative professionals on work opportunities available in cultural regeneration projects and how to pursue those opportunities to advance their art practice.

Biography Paul Collard is Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture & Education (CCE) in the UK, Paul Collard directs the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the creative skills of young people across England; acknowledged as a world leading programme, CCE is transforming teaching and learning across the curriculum; it operates a £40 million a year schools programme, and it is managing, monitoring and evaluating the £25 million “Find your Talent” pilots which are exploring how to offer every young person 5 hours of quality arts and culture a week. Paul joined CCE from Culture10 where he had been creative director; he has a particular interest in the role of culture in urban regeneration and in 1987, he wrote a seminal report on the subject for the UK Government, which argued in favor of many of the strategies that are now commonplace in culturally led urban regeneration projects. He was able to implement many of his ideas between 1993-7 in the North East of England where he developed programmes, which led to the creation of the Angel of the North and The Sage Gateshead. He was also successful in implementing this approach in New Haven Connecticut through the creation of major international arts festival in partnership with Yale University. Other positions held include General Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Deputy Controller of the British Film Institute in London.

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Biography Oscar Watson is currently Director of Intercultural Arts, providing practical support to creative professionals from other countries and cultural backgrounds who live and work in North East England. He is a graduate of drama and english literature at the University of East Anglia, and trained as a director at Bristol Old Vic Theatre school.

He implemented the Albany Empire’ youth arts project in Deptford, SE London, was CEO of the Actors Centre in London; and artistic director of the Bird’s Nest theatre in Deptford. He has run two nightclubs, the London Lesbian and Gay Centre and has implemented a range of arts and community development programmes.

Mª Ángeles Díaz Vieco Simetrías International Foundation Brief Simetrias Foundation International in collaboration with the County Council of Cuenca focus their search on innovative artistic and cultural tools suitable for engaging the whole population in the regeneration of historic centers. To achieve this goal, Simetrias Foundation International have led a case study entitled Cuenca 2010/2020 toward an intercultural society, resulting from a double process of citizen participation and internationalization of its creative economy. Its outcomes leading to a policy guide making recommendations for future policies led by the local government. On July the 1st will be organized a technical assistance workshop in Cuenca aimed to share the case study results with the different partners, the decision makers and the main cultural operators of the region.

Biography Mª Ángeles Díaz Vieco is Director Manager of Simetrías International Foundation Toledo- Spain; addressing Public Policies Research and Cooperation.

Formerly Director Manager of “Fundación Cultura y Deporte de Castilla-La Mancha” 2005-2007; Manager Fundación International O´Belem Management of the team and projects of the foundation in the area of youth social inclusion (2003); General Director of Social Action Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha Direction of the Social Welfare at the Castilla-La Mancha government (2000-2001): General Director Of Culture Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (1995-1999); Director of cultural policy at the Castilla-La Mancha government. Head of Cabinet of the Social Welfare Councilor (1993-1995). Government of Castilla-La Mancha Management and technique direction of law projects done by the Social Welfare Council

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DL5-8 Events Thursday June 17 Accompanying the programme of the conference there are a series of screenings, exhibitions, performances, and receptions. These include:

DL5 Gary Coyle (Ireland) ‘reflections on the sea’ flim screenings are hosted at the ‘Pavilion Gallery’ Marine Road.

DL6 Paul Collard, Director of Creativity, Culture, Education (UK) ‘Creativity and Culture - the intrinsic & instrumental’ Artist Talks Series are hosted at the Sunshine Cafe, 107 Lr Georges St.

DL7 Lauren Kinsella, Leopoldo Osio, Damian Evans & Kevin Brady Jazz Mixed Ground at Weirs’ is hosted updstairs at Weirs, 88 Lr George’s St.

DL10 - Late Tradfutures Collective Purty Kitchen at 6A Old Dunleary Rd.

Venues Conference Venue is at Dún Laoghaire Council Chambers.

The venue is located in the County Hall, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Pedestrian Access is from Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire.

Conference Accommodation is available at the Royal Marine Hotel www.royalmarine.ie Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire 01 230 0030 For further information contact: www.gradcam.ie n.ofionghaile@gradcam.ie 01 6461181

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DL5-8 project team Tara Byrne

Curator of DL5-8 artist temporal residencies programme Tara Byrne is an arts consultant and researcher, based in Dublin.

She is currently pursing a PhD in ‘Creative Cities’ theories concerning the growth and transformation of cities, specifically researching the relationship between the Creative City paradigm and Cultural Policy. She is currently the Irish representative of the EU working group on ‘Maximising the Potential of the Cultural and Creative Industries’ (Priority 4, Culture Plan 2008 – 2010) where she is contributing to the green paper on supports for the sector as well as an advisor on the ‘Brand Dublin: Dublin’s Identity Project’ with Dublin City Council. Most recently she was Director of the National Sculpture Factory (2002-08), where, she developed a new range of artists’ services, networks and international opportunities, pioneering targeted business supports for artists, as well as commissioning national and international projects, conferences and publications. As Artists’ Support Executive in the Arts Council (1996 – 2002) she was responsible for setting up new interdisciplinary support systems for artists, as well as developing artists’ support policies and contributing to national and EU culture think-tanks, leading to policies as they related to the individual artist (in particular Ireland’s contribution to the Copyright and Related Rights Act).

Dr. Elaine Sisson Curator of the DL5 screenings & performances programme Elaine Sisson is a writer and lecturer and is currently the IADT Fellow at the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media (GradCAM, Dublin). She holds a PhD from the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. She has lectured at Trinity College, Dublin, the National College of Art and Design and from 20002008 was the Academic Co-Ordinator for the School of Creative Arts at IADT. She has published widely in the area of Irish visual culture and cultural history; Cork University Press published her book on Patrick Pearse entitled Pearse’s Patriots in 2004 (reprint, 2005) With Linda King she has edited a major new collection of essays Ireland Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity DL5-8 | 34

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Nollaig Ó Fiongháile Curator of DL6 artist talks series Nollaig Ó Fiongháile is a musician, researcher and lecturer and is development manager at the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media (GradCAM, Dublin). She holds a masters in Ethnomusicology, (Goldsmiths, University of London), B. Music (NUI Cork); has lectured at the University of Ulster’ Music Department; the Galway, Mayo Institute of Technology’ Heritage Department, and has presented papers at EU wide conferences and fora being a frequent contributor on themes such as Traditional Musics, Cultural Regeneration, and Creative Industries. She plays low whistles and flutes and has managed a wide range of music productions & festivals; formerly Educational Coordinator for ‘Northern Rhythms’, Údarás na Gaeltachta (2000-02), established and directed ‘Whiden Toie’ festival of Traveller & Gypsy Culture (2001-02); developed radio series ‘The Bards Chair’ on Clare FM, and ‘Veiled Voices’ a world music series on RTE (1995). Formerly founder, executive member and later elected President of the European Network of Traditional Music & Dance (1997-2005); Expert to the European Commission and Council of Europe for the campaign ‘Europe, A Common Heritage’ 2000-02; and Culture Regeneration Specialist with the University of Ulster’ Northern Ireland Centre of European Cooperation (2003-06).

She is the coordinator of Project DL5-8 and of the EU funded Creative Policies for Creative Cities Research Network.

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Damian Evans Curator of DL7 jazz at weirs programme Damian Evans has been a professional bassist for 15 years in Australia and in Ireland, he has become one of the most indemand bassists in the country. He leads his own trio, plays with Isotope, the Boylan/Buckley/Evans trio and is a member of Honor Heffernan’s working group. He regularly accompanies visiting international artists including Terell Stafford, Tim Warfield and Jonathon Kriesburg. He is an associate researcher at GradCAM, Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media traditional and improvised music research team.

Drazen Derek Curator of DL10- Late live bands ‘afterparty programme Drazen Derek has performed and toured across Europe, the US and S. America; with international artists such as Niels Pedersen, Carlos Nunez, Harry Allen, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Celtic Connections Festival Orchestra and in Ireland with The Chieftains, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Louis Stewart, Ritchie Buckley, Camille O’Sullivan, Myles Drennan, Dave Fleming & Oleg Ponomarev. In 2009, Drazen received an Abbest award from the Dublin Institute of Technology, D.I.T to pursue his doctoral studies with the DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama and GradCAM, Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media.

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Alexis Nealon DL5-8 Sound & Recording Coordinator Alexis Nealon is a musician, sound engineer, sound designer and software developer; using music and engineering technology and techniques and a knowledge of psycho-acoustic principles. He has developed his own studio facility which includes a sophisticated hardware and software network of human interfaces, computers and multichannel audio tools with self-designed unique music software tools to augment standard methods. He works with leading proponents of creative art in Ireland such as Crash Ensemble and CoisCeim dance theatre company, Dublin’s Temple Bar Cultural Trust, Project Arts Centre and the Improvised Music Company. He has composed for three modern dance ensembles and performs as a guitarist. Central to his expertise is the retention of sonic integrity of acoustic instruments in amplified concerts and the organic interaction of gestural control with computer based music synthesis, with the use of appropriate knowledge, tools and techniques. Alexis holds a Masters in Music + Media technologies from TCD, Dublin,and is currently associate researcher with GradCAM’ traditional and improvised music research team.

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acknowledgements DL5-8 is a pilot project undertaken by an artist-research collective from the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media GradCAM developing new ideas in public culture.

We acknowledge the facilitation of the Department of Environment, Culture and Community of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and in particular director Richard Shakespear and the investment and input of local buisnesess to include Weirs Public House, the Sunshine Cafe, the Purty Kitchen and landlords of the retail premises, in carrying out this project in Dún Laoghaire Town Centre.

DL5-8 is a project of the Creative Policies for Creative Cities Network, which is actively engaged with the local authorities of Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council (IE), Chief Executive of Newcastle City Council (UK) and the Diputación de Cuenca (ES). The team include Paul Collard, Director of Creativity, Culture and Education; Oscar Watson, Director of Intercultural Arts; David Faulkner, Deputy Director of Newcastle City Council; Angeles Diaz Vieco, Director of Simetrías Fundación Internacional; Juan Avila. President of the County Council of Cuenca; Jim Devine, Director of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire; Richard Shakespear, Director of Department of Environment, Culture and Community, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and Nollaig Ó Fiongháile, Development Manager of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM).

The team would like to thank our many generous colleagues for their participation, support and encouragement – too numerous to mention, but gratefully acknowledged. We would like to express especial gratitude to colleagues from the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology and Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council in realising this research project and our activities within the wider Creative Policies for Creative Cities Network. And to the businesses and cultural institutions in Dún Laoghaire who provided energy and enthusiasm, as well as practical support, resources and advice in realising the programme: Martin Murphy (Director of Pavilion Theatre), Faycal + Siobhan Chebli (Sunshine Cafe) Jimmy Smith (Weirs of Dún Laoghaire) Conor Martin (The Purty Kitchen Group), Dom Mc Manus (Dún Laoghaire Business Association) and to Willie Donnelly, (Venue No 4 St. Helen’s Court, Lr. George’s St and Ros and Pamela Ivers (Venue No. 56 Lr Georges St).

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The conference is an initiative of Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media (DIT, NCAD, IADT, & ULSTER) and the Creative Policies for Creative Cities Network.

Programmers, Technical Expertise & Project Developers include Tara Byrne, Drazen Derek, Damian Evans and Alexis Nealon (GradCAM) and Dr. Elaine Sisson (IADT: GradCAM Fellow); Aidan McElwaine (GradCAM) Conor Logan (IADT) (Project Finances); Nollaig Ó Fiongháile (Programme & Conference Director); and Richard Shakespear (Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council).

Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media Board Prof. Declan McGonigal, Director, NCAD.(Chairperson); Brid Grant, Director & Dean of the College of Arts and Tourism Dublin Institute of Technology. (Chairperson 2008-2009); Dr. Will Bridge, Head of London College of Communication, UAL; Dr. Brian O’Neill, Head of Research, Faculty of Applied Arts, DIT; Ken Langan, Registrar, NCAD; Jim Devine, Director, IADT; Catherine McGarvey, Research Finance, DIT; Dr. Siun Hanrahan, Head of Research & Postgraduate Development, NCAD; Prof. Ian Montgomery, Dean of Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment, University of Ulster; and Dr. Mick Wilson, Dean, Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication and associated events reflect the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

This project has been realized with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. GradCAM is funded through the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle IV.

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5pm music and films_pavilion theatre 5-8pm temporary artworks_george’s st 6pm artists talks_sunshine café 10pm-Late live bands_purty kitchen 7pm jazz sessions_weirs pub June 17 conference_dlr county hall DL5-8 is a series of free cultural events taking place in dún laoghaire from 5pm every thursday, may 20 - june 17, 2010

For further information see www.creativepolicies.com or call 01 6461181