Archive for July 2019
Event
OFFSET: intergenerational printmaking exhibition at University Hospital Galway
Date posted: 31 July 2019
Offset, an intergenerational printmaking exhibition at University Hospital Galway, will be officially launched on 6 August 2019 by Mrs Sabina Higgins. Celebrating exchange between the ages and wards of Galway University Hospitals, the project was developed through participatory workshops with patients. Read More
Event
The Trial: Touring art installation on healthcare and human rights in the Irish prison system
Date posted: 27 July 2019
The Trial is a visual art installation on healthcare and human rights in the Irish criminal justice system, created by Sinead McCann and made in collaboration with men from the Bridge Project Dublin who have lived prison experiences, with research by UCD historians, Catherine Cox and Fiachra Byrne. Read More
Opportunity
Call for papers: WHO/Europe Public Health Panorama special issue on arts and health
Date posted: 26 July 2019
Public Health Panorama, the journal of the World Health Organisation Europe, will dedicate a special issue to arts and health in the WHO European Region in early 2020. A call for papers has been announced, underlining WHO/Europe’s growing engagement with the positive associations between the arts, health and wellbeing. Read More
News
Work from the Arts Council collection on loan to St. Vincent’s University Hospital
Date posted: 26 July 2019
The Arts Council, the state agency responsible for developing the arts, has loaned 30 pieces of visual art from its collection to St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. The works were selected by members of staff, and will be installed throughout the hospital in public areas including corridors, foyers and patient areas. Read More
Event
Create Networking Day 2019
Date posted: 24 July 2019
Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, will host its annual Networking Day on 26 September 2019 at Millennium Hall, Cork City in partnership with Crawford Art Gallery (Cork), Counterpoints Arts (London), Cork City Arts Office and Heart of Glass (St Helens). The Networking Day opens up a space to ask a shared and urgent question: how can collaborative forms of arts practice – engaging with the embodied experiences and knowledge of citizens – initiate and implement real civic agency and significant momentum for social change? Read More