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Lunchtime Series Part 1 – Ria & Maurice Czerniak
Wonderful afternoon at CFCP yesterday. Our Lunchtime Series kicked off with a concert by the amazingly talented Ria & Maurice Czerniak.
Beautiful vocals accompanied by bittersweet melodies, Ria’s songs have been described as “earthy, whimsical tales of woe and mystery that leave audiences inspired to find black cats among buttons in the twilight where missing persons play chess against the hands of time…”
We couldn’t have put it better ourselves! It was the perfect way to spend one of the first summer afternoons in Dublin. And the yummy organic lunch was fab too!
Ria has been composing songs since her early teens. Initial influences included Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell, and since then a little jazz and music hall has crept in. In recent years she has formed a song-writing partnership with guitarist Maurice Czerniak. Together they have produced the four-track EP Cherry On My Sundae. Check it out at: www.riaczerniak.com
Looking forward to the next in our Lunchtime Series – author Patricia O’Reilly reading from her new novel A Type of Beauty, the story of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882), a fact-led story of the mistress and muse of French painter Jacques Tissot. Sounds like it’s going to be a fascinating read! Get a sneak preview this Friday between 12pm and 2pm at CFCP.
Getting Published Seminar – 29 May 2010
Seminar: Getting Published
Speakers include:
Patricia O’Reilly, Author and Creative Writing Tutor, UCD
Mia Gallagher, Author, Tutor and Writer-in-residence at IADT
Paula Campbell, Publisher at Poolbeg
The Getting Published seminar gives new writers and people interested in publishing an opportunity to meet with leading industry professionals and to gather information on the current publishing options and procedures.
The panel will include a number of speakers, from authors, editors, agents and publishers who are only too happy to share their information and experience with you.
This one-day seminar is a mixture of presentations, talks, workshops and question/answer sessions with literary agents, publishers, tutors and authors. Opportunities for networking, discussions and asking your questions are an important aspect of this interactive event.
The seminar will be followed up by a One-to-One Manuscript Assessment Workshop which will take place in the Centre for Creative Practices before the end of the year.
Details and feeds from the seminar will be available online on our website to all participants after the event. The online section will also give speakers and participants a chance to interact on topics that arise.
For more details and to book your place on this highly anticipated seminar please fill out the online registration form here >>
Read about Getting Published on the CFCP Blog here >>
Join in the discussion on Facebook here >>
Tell the World – Art Events promotion and networking evening – 10 May 2010
TELL THE WORLD!
10 May 2010
7pm
Events Promotion and networking Evening for all interested and involved in the arts.
Get a chance to pitch your event/programme or to meet artistic people from Dublin
Every last Monday of the month CFCP invites people from the arts to meet each other, to pitch their events but also to make friends and professional contacts with other arts professionals in Dublin and wide audiences in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
Organisations will get a chance to become faces, ideas can be discussed and collaborations agreed.
All this in the centre of Dublin from 7pm till 10.30.
No booking needed, just join us and bring your flyers with you.
Admission €5
PROMOTION SPOT:
Two 10 minutes promotion spots will take place during the evening. You will get 1 minute to tell who you are, to give brief details on your event/project (title, venue, dates and times). No screen. Please pitch one show and have a flyer with the rest of your programme to give away.
EVENT PROCEEDINGS WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:
- Pitchers register with us when they arrive (Just come up to the desk)
- First come first served, we will have no more than 20 pitchers per evening
- Pitchers will be given 1 minute
- 1 winner of each round will be chosen based on applause from crowd
- Finalists will re-present key points and open up to questions for 5 minutes
NETWORKS CREATED, STORIES TOLD, EVENT AND IDEAS…!!!
Catch up on Culture – Culture Week 15 – 22 May 2010
Catch up on Culture Week 2010 as the name suggests, gives you the chance to catch up with some of the great cultural events available throughout Ireland, north and south of the border, this spring.
The event runs from: 15-22 May.
The Irish Museums Association and Temple Bar Cultural Trust have provided a full event listing in conjunction with a useful ‘Event Finder’ search feature to the right.
To find out more about Catch up on Culture Week click here.
CFCP have numerous events going on that week including:-
15.05.10
How to Prepare your Photographic Portfolio – Seminar
An introduction to compiling a portfolio for a number of outlets. This seminar is for photographers who wish to prepare and organise an individual body of work to be used to pitch for commercial purposes and applications to galleries etc. More details from http://www.cfcp.ie/courses10/photogrpahy/photography10.htm
Members €80
Non-Members €100
11am – 4pm
15 May 2010
Centre for Creative Practices
15 Pembroke Street Lower
Dublin 2
01 7995416
www.cfcp.ie
info@cfcp.ie
19.05.10
Ria & Maurice Czerniak in Concert
Songs by fine lyricist and melody writer, accompanied by guitar. Ria is a Dublin singer/songwriter whose earthly, whimsical tales of woe and mystery leave the audiences inspired to find black cats among buttons in the twilight where missing persons play chess against the hands of time…
To have a taste please visit: http://www.riaczerniak.com/page2.html
Members €7.50
Non-Members €10
ticket price includes a light lunch
Drop in anytime between 12- 2pm
19 May 2010
Centre for Creative Practices
15 Pembroke Street Lower
Dublin 2
01 7995416
www.cfcp.ie
info@cfcp.ie
19.05.10
Jazz Jam Session
The session is open to everyone, including those who like to listen. Please keep in mind this is an informal playing event with no preset program or tune list.
If you are just learning, you are welcome to hang out, listen, follow along, ask
questions, and/or observe those who have been at it a little while longer.
Do not forget to bring your own “refreshments”!!!
More details from http://www.cfcp.ie/events/jamsession0410.html
Members €5
Non-Members €7.50
Drop in anytime between 8.30 – 11pm
19 May 2010
Centre for Creative Practices
15 Pembroke Street Lower
Dublin 2
01 7995416
www.cfcp.ie
info@cfcp.ie
20.05.10
Film Night – Buster’s Bedroom by Rebecca Horn
At one time, even the great Buster Keaton was a regular visitor of the mental health, alcoholic rehabilitation-centre system. Since main-character Micha is obsessed with Keaton and everything that has to do with him, it is appropriate that after trying to pull a stunt on the public highways in imitation of the master (driving blindfolded), he winds up there as a result of the inevitable accident. The genial residents of the asylum have taken it over, following the death of the real doctor, and are having a grand old time there. They have elected O’Connor (Donald Sutherland) to run the place, perhaps because of his basement snake collection. One person after another dies in unintended mishaps, and the gardener (also an inmate) cheerfully disposes of the corpses. This odd international production features cinematography by the famed Sven Nykvist (who shot so many of Ingmar Bergman’s films) and is the product of the stunning visual imagination of the esteemed art-house director Rebecca Horn. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
More details from http://www.cfcp.ie/events/jamsession0410.html
Members €5
Non-Members €7.50
7pm
20 May 2010
Centre for Creative Practices
15 Pembroke Street Lower
Dublin 2
01 7995416
www.cfcp.ie
info@cfcp.ie
22 & 23.05.10
Words & Music – An interactive workshop
Writers, musicians and performers in one room with the idea that at the end of the second day there will be a performance they have put together…
Does it sound challenging? Not at all!
More details from http://www.cfcp.ie/events/jamsession0410.html
Members €40
Non-Members €50
11am – 4pm
22 & 23 May 2010
Centre for Creative Practices
15 Pembroke Street Lower
Dublin 2
01 7995416
www.cfcp.ie
info@cfcp.ie
22.05.10
Alexander Technique Workshop with Aingeala De Burca
Presented by the Irish Composer’s Collective
Allows musicians to have access to the concept of the internationally renowned practice which is rarely discussed in Irish performance technique.
More details from http://www.cfcp.ie/events/icc2205.html
€25
5 – 7pm
22 May 2010
Centre for Creative Practices
15 Pembroke Street Lower
Dublin 2
01 7995416
www.cfcp.ie
info@cfcp.ie
Call for Artists
CFCP would like to invite all artists to submit their projects to be realised in our venue. We are happy to showcase your works and support your ideas. We are especially interested in installations and happenings of all forms which interact with our neighbourhood and the audiences.
For the agreed projects we offer the available space and some support to cover material costs.
Please send your proposal with a short bio to monika@cfcp.ie.
Hello and a Happy May to all of you!
Everybody is probably wondering what May will be about after the shaky, shocking and full-of-interruptions April. At least we are back to our day to day programme and sending you this Newsletter to let you know what is on at CFCP throughout the whole month.
A’propos May – we googled “What May 2010 is about” and found out that there are over 82 Special Days in May!!!!! All over the world and including Blueberry Cheesecake Day, Tap Dance Day, Penny Day, Buy-A-Musical-Instrument Day, Socks Day and so on… If you are interested check: http://familycrafts.about.com/library/spdays/blmaydayslong.htm.
With this in mind we do not have much choice but to try to make all the Special Days in May even more special with our programme of events at CFCP. We wish that among our concerts, screenings, readings, exhibitions and artistic workshops there will be an attractive offer for all of you to join us again!.))
Highlights of the Month
| Rebecca Horn “Busters’ Bedroom” Experimental Film Screening Thursday 20th May 7pm Rebecca Horn – one of the most illustrious contemporary German artists. “Busters’ Bedroom” – a motion-picture homage to Buster Keaton (starring Geraldine Chaplin and Donald Sutherland) Deprived of a linear narrative, objects or characters conceived by the artist play a double role, illustrating and interpreting presented topics in a form of motion images. Ria & Maurice Czerniak Tell the world Dayfall Duo Jazz Concert EVERY WEEK: Jazz Jam Session |
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| MEMBERSHIP @ CFCP: Our email subscribers also gain a 25% discount on our membership scheme for one year if they book on one of our courses. You pay €15 instead of €20 to receive numerous benefits which you can check on our website: www.cfcp.ie |
Trimpin – the sound of Invention
Trimpin – the Sound of Invention
We saw this documentary as part of the JDIFF and it was excellent, the guy is amazing.
Trimpin: the sound of invention from Peter Esmonde on Vimeo.
Congratulations to Peter Esmonde for his work. If we could get something along these lines in CFCP then that would be amazing.
Components Series for New Irish Composers and Performers at the Centre for Creative Practices
The Centre for Creaitve Practices along along with Irish composer, Dylan Rynhart, are pleased to announce a new project for New Irish Composers and performers called the Components Series.
The components series is a performance series with a rare difference, “Components” features a series of new works by Irish composers developed over six concerts. Each week a collection of new Irish music will be written and performed. Each piece will be recorded, developed and used to accompany a musician at another performance in the series. This process will be repeated
so that you can follow the development of the composers work through the series like a serial or a soap-opera.
Concerts will take place each Sunday evening in March and April from 6pm in the Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin 2.
(beside Fitzwilliam Square, see www.cfcp.ie)
Sunday 14th March – Paul Roe [Clarinets]
Sunday 21st March – Colm O’Hara [Trombone]
Sunday 28th March – Dan Bodwell [Double Bass]
Sunday 4th April – Easter [Break]
Sunday 11th April – Kate Ellis [Cello]
Sunday 18th April – David Bremner [Fender Rhodes Piano]
Sunday 25th April – Cathal Roche [Saxophones]
Each week the project will be documented on the components website: components.ie
So you can follow the development of your favourite works. You can listen to the whole concert or follow a particular composer through the series.
The Aim of this unprecedented concept, is to establish a greater understanding of the compositional process and to make creative Irish music more accessible through a healthy
dialogue between the audience the composers and the performers.
Ticket prices for the concerts is €12 per concert or people can purchase a Season Ticket for all 6 concerts for €50.
Details are on the Components Series website www.components.ie or www.cfcp.ie
This project it being curated by composer Dylan Rynhart:
please see www.dylanrynhart.com/biography.html
This project features work by a broad range of Irish composers, here are the names of some
of the composers involved and information about them:
David Bremner >> www.cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=203
Justin Carroll >> www.myspace.com/justincarrollmusic
Roy Carroll >> www.sites.google.com/site/royelylyonscarroll/
Francis Heery >> www.myspace.com/francisheery
Dylan Rynhart >> www.dylanrynhart.com
Ian Mc Donnell >> www.myspace.com/ianmcdonnellmusic
About the Centre for Creative Practices
The Centre for Creative Practices is a new arts space in Dublin city centre
The Centre for Creative Practices (CFCP) aims to develop, sustain, promote and present new arts and creative practices through its workshops, seminars, courses, exhibitions, screenings, concerts, talks and all other kind of events. We aim to provide a space where new works and thoughts are growing, where works are shown and commented, where exchanged and professional support leads to both the recognition of the participants and a fulfilling experience for the audiences.
The current climate might seem to be against us. We dare to believe the opposite. We believe that culture is a fundamental value for every society, that the arts are an indispensable system of reference for personal and collective values, an example of diversity and tolerance and a vital tool to neutralise the stagnation.
WHAT WE DO:
• Workshops, seminars, courses
• Exhibitions, screenings, concerts, talks and other artistic events
• Promotion of new works by organising exhibitions, publications and readings
• Provide space for artistic projects and creative exchange for individual artists, organisations and audiences and support innovative, interdisciplinary and intercultural approach in artistic expression
• Support the innovative, interdisciplinary and intercultural approach in artistic expression
• Creative exchange and development for individual artists, organisations and audiences
• Provide Virtual office space for Artists and Arts Organisations
• Space to rent for exhibitions, conferences, meetings and events
The Centre for Creative Practices wants to contribute to the social and artistic realm a space where looking for the meaning and the innovative but also challenging forms of expression are always welcome and supported.
Centre for Creative Practices
15 Pembroke Street Lower
Dublin 2
Ireland
telephone: +353 (0)1 254 2100
email: info@cfcp.ie
web: www.cfcp.ie
Blog: cfcpie.wordpress.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cfcpie
About Dylan Rynhart
Dylan Rynhart is a composer of many genres. He founded award winning jazz orchestra Fuzzy Logic Ensemble and has made two albums of his music with them. Dylan has scored music for theatre, an award winning short film and became involved in electro-acoustic composition and surround sound through his masters in music technology from Trinity college. He has also received commissions to write for contemporary classical ensembles, including sax and string quartets. Dylan is represented by both the Contemporary music centre and the Improvised music centre, and is currently working on his PhD in music composition with composer John Godfrey, in U.C.C. where he also lectures in music technology, jazz history and improvisation.
CFCP
Centre for Creative Practices – established in 2009, is a new cultural venue in the city centre of Dublin. We stand for a multicultural and multidisciplinary approach.
We believe that CULTURE is a fundamental value for every society, that the arts are an indispensable system of reference for personal and collective values that can set an example of diversity and tolerance.
Promoting the arts we aim to neutralise the economical stagnation
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