Signal Arts Centre Programme of Events
Culture Night Bray,
Friday 24th September 2010
Culture night takes place every year across Ireland welcoming people of all ages for a taste of free culture for one night. Wicklow County has been invited to take part this year. Signal Arts Centre plans to make the Bray contribution a big event which involves the community as a whole. Signal Arts Centre is planning a few events to coincide with the evening. As part of our ethos of engaging the community we would like to invite schools and organisations to participate with us in the 'Fleet of Dreams' ceremony. This will entail hundreds of floating lanterns being placed in the Dargle to float down the river. The ceremony will take place at dusk and should be a visually beautiful event.
Art in Context – 15 Artists are invited to create temporary works of art around Bray
Signal Arts Centre has invited 15 artists to create one-off works in response to the physical, social and historical context of Bray. Each artist will create a site specific work in various locations around Bray Town. The participating artists are: Aoife Fitzgerald, Aoife Woods, George Mahon, Stephen Taylor, Denis Dunne, Joanne Boyle, Greg Murray, Brigid O'Brien, Linda O'Neill, Cathy Doyle, Noel Cleary, Eleanor Phillips, Nadine McDonagh, John Jones, Sharon Maher-Bordello and Helen Morgan. Art in Context is curated by Noel Cleary.
Time: All Evening
Location: Various locations around the town
A Whimsical Art Tour – Part I
Eleanor Phillips will lead a whimsical tour of the arts and art installations in Bray town. The tour will begin at 6pm from Mermaid Arts Centre, wander through the town taking in the Installations from Art in Context and other sites of artistic interest, past and present, eventually ending up at Signal Arts Centre. The tour will take about half an hour, the audience is advised to wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to bring humour and a willingness to participate and contribute their own knowledge along the way.
Time: 6.30pm
Location: Meet at Mermaid Arts Centre
Artist Talk by Róisín Verdon
Róisín Verdon will give a talk about her work 'Through the Looking Glass' which will be on exhibition in Signal Arts Centre. Verdon graduated from I.A.D.T in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts Practice. She uses movies as her source material and is concerned with the law of reflection and in particular Specular Reflection. Specular reflection is where the angle at which the wave is incident on the surface equals the angle at which it is reflected. Mirrors are exhibitors of specular reflections, basically, what you see is what you get! Yet the surface is only partially representational. The actor is playing a character yet the person behind the character is present also. At that one moment where the actor is looking in the mirror all are contemporary to the moment. This reminds her of the Ego, the false self which we present to the world as a statement of who we are, versus the true self and the actual being within.
Time: 7pm
Location: Signal Arts Centre, 1 Albert Avenue, Bray
A Whimsical Art Tour – Part II
Eleanor Phillips will lead a whimsical tour of the arts and art installations in Bray town. Part II will begin at 7.45pm from Signal Arts Centre, wander through the town taking in the Installations from Art in Context and other sites of artistic interest, past and present, eventually ending up at the Dargle River for the Fleet of Dreams Event. The tour will take about half an hour, the audience is advised to wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to bring humour and a willingness to participate and contribute their own knowledge along the way.
Time: 7.45pm
Location: Meet at Signal Arts Centre
Fleet of Dreams
In acknowledgement of the participatory ethic of Signal Arts Centre, and its 20 years of involvement with the community of Bray and North Wicklow, schools, youth groups and community organisations have been invited to decorate a thousand floating lanterns, provided by Signal, with their dreams and hopes. The floating lanterns will be launched on the Dargle River at 8.30pm. The launch will be accompanied by music provided by local musicians. Project Leader is Michelle Fullam.
Time: 8.30pm
Location: Dargle River, Peoples Park, Bray
Open Studios & 'Sessions'
Signal Arts Centre will open its studios and workrooms to the public for the duration of Culture Night. As well as being able to talk and meet with artists in their place of work, there will also be short films about the work Signal does both within the centre and as part of its outreach programme. There will also be 'Sessions' – an evening of impromptu music and entertainment by musicians and entertainers who have worked with Signal during its 20 year history.
Time: All Evening
Location: Signal Arts Centre, 1 Albert Avenue, Bray