‘We are more – Act for Culture in Europe’ – Europe-wide arts advocacy campaign

2012 is a key decision-making year during which the EU budget 2014-2020 will be voted upon by Members of the European Parliament and Ministers from the Member States. EU support to culture over the next seven years is at stake and the negotiations over the first four months of 2012 will be crucial. The campaign ‘we are more – act for culture in Europe’ calls for vital support for culture in the next EU budget and wants to collect 100.000 signatures and present them to the Culture Ministers of all EU Member States when they gather in Brussels for the EU Council of Culture Ministers the 10th of May 2012.

 

Act for culture in Europe and sign the manifesto now: www.wearemore.eu

 

‘we are more’ is a Europe-wide arts advocacy campaign launched by Culture Action Europe in strategic partnership with the European Cultural Foundation

 

www.wearemore.eu
www.cultureactioneurope.org

 

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Serious about Acting? The Gaiety School of Acting has over 25 years experience in the training of actors. Why not audition for our Two-Year Full Time Intensive Training programme and follow the footsteps of our many successful alumni. Auditions are taking place on Friday 13 April, Friday 11 May, Friday 15 June and Friday 13 July. Applications will be accepted until 30 June 2012. Call us on 01 6799277 or check out our website http://www.gaietyschool.com/courses/full_time/ for more information.

ABSOLUT Fringe & Show in a Bag 2012 – Applications Closing Soon!

Show in a Bag 2012  

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 6pm on Wednesday 7th March

Following the success of Show in a Bag over the past two years, Dublin Fringe Festival, Fishamble: The New Play Company and Irish Theatre Institute are joining forces again in 2012 to provide actors with their own tourable production. You must be based in Ireland to take part in the project. Suitable applicants will be invited to discuss their ideas on Wednesday 21st March 2012.

How to Apply:

Please click here to read the call for applications and for more details on what the Show in a Bag project involves.

If you are interested in applying to be part of this project, you need to fill out this application form and then email a CV and headshot to programming@fringefest.com (nothing bigger than 2MB please).

Please be specific about your ideas when filling out the form! The show will be made to suit you and your ideas and not the other way around.

Show in a Bag is an artist development initiative of Dublin Fringe Festival, Irish Theatre Institute and Fishamble: The New Play Company to resource theatre makers and actors.

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Serious about Acting? The Gaiety School of Acting has over 25 years experience in the training of actors. Why not audition for our Two-Year Full Time Intensive Training programme and follow the footsteps of our many successful alumni. Auditions are taking place on Friday 16 March, Friday 13 April, Friday 11 May, Friday 15 June and Friday 13 July. Applications will be accepted until 30 June 2012. Call us on 01 6799277 or check out our website http://www.gaietyschool.com/courses/full_time/ for more information.

Apply now for our IES Irish Theatre Summer School Scholarships!!

The Gaiety School of Acting has long been providing the Irish Theatre Summer School for overseas students, and we are proud to have Olivia Wilde as just one of our former students of the course!

In recent years we have been working too with IES Abroad who are one of the most successful study abroad organisations in the USA, with a track history of over 60 years of sending students to locations all around the world for semesters and specific programmes. The Gaiety School of Acting have been working with IES on a number of programmes for several years, and we are now delighted to be running a summer programme with them for the 4th year running.

The Gaiety School of Acting in collaboration with IES are offering Irish adult drama students the opportunity to work with these students who are from a range of prestigious US drama schools and universities, with our school’s director Patrick Sutton and fellow tutor Martin Maguire who has taught on the programme for many years as well as being a playwright, actor and director in his own right. The course includes weekly theatre and cultural visits.

Students will cover key works of Irish playwrights Beckett, Friel, Synge and O’Casey over a 4-week period from 25 June 2012 – 20 July 2012. For more information, please contact Karen Lee at coordinator@gaietyschool.com

We’re delighted to offer 3 full scholarships for this prestigious course.

To apply for a scholarship please send an application statement to Karen Lee coordinator@gaietyschool.com . You will be required to prepare an audition piece by an Irish playwright of 2-3 mins in duration.

Auditions will be held at the Gaiety School of Acting from March 2012 onwards.

 

 

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Serious about Acting? The Gaiety School of Acting has over 25 years experience in the training of actors. Why not audition for our Two-Year Full Time Intensive Training programme and follow the footsteps of our many successful alumni. Auditions are taking place on Friday 16 March, Friday 13 April, Friday 11 May, Friday 15 June and Friday 13 July. Applications will be accepted until 30 June 2012. Call us on 01 6799277 or check out our website http://www.gaietyschool.com/courses/full_time/ for more information.

Absolute Fringe – Show in a Bag 2012: Call for Applications

Show in a Bag 2012 – Call for Applications

Following the success of Show in a Bag over the past two years, Dublin Fringe Festival, Fishamble: The New Play Company and Irish Theatre Institute are joining forces again in 2012 to provide actors with their own tourable production.

Are you an actor who would like to work with leading theatre professionals in creating your very own new work? Want to take control of your career and perform in a play especially made for you by a leading Irish playwright? Have you a great idea for a show tucked away at the back of a drawer, waiting for the right moment? This is it!

Created with playwright Gavin Kostick to your specifications and performed by YOU, this is a chance to have your very own tourable show. Selected actors, or pairs of actors, will perform their own production in Bewley’s Café Theatre as part of ABSOLUT Fringe 2012. Irish Theatre Institute will be working to make sure the national venue and festival presenters most suited to presenting your show will see it and meet you at the annual Irish Theatre Institute Information Toolbox networking event.

The project is aimed at actors, either solo or in pairs, who want to engage with new writing and have the energy and drive to put together and promote a production that will then be theirs to perform and tour. You will be in control – this is YOUR show. Selected applicants will need to commit to producing their own work and promoting the event with support, advice and resources from the three partner organisations. A box office split of 75:25% (in favour of the actors) with Dublin Fringe Festival will apply. The total in-kind support the partner organisations bring to the Show in a Bag initiative is valued at over €20,000.

Previous Show in a Bag productions include Anthony Morris & Róisín Morris’ It’s Your Turn To Change Daddy, Niamh Shaw’s That’s About The Size of It, Donncha O’Dea & Camille Ross’ Pocket Music (Winner Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award at ABSOLUT Fringe 2011), Maeve McGrath’s Last Year, Sonya Kelly’s The Wheelchair on my Face: A Look Back at a Myopic Childhood (Nominated for Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award at ABSOLUT Fringe 2011, 13 venue Irish tour and performances in Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris scheduled for 2012),  Aonghus Óg McAnally’s Fight Night (Nominated for Best New Play at The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2011, Winner Best Male Performer & Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award at ABSOLUT Fringe 2010; subsequent 6 week Irish tour), Karl Quinn & Will Irvine’sConnected (Nominated for Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award at ABSOLUT Fringe 2010; subsequent tour to Limerick Unfringed and successful run at Project Arts Centre and Òran Mór in Glasgow) and John Cronin & Caitríona Ní Mhurchú’s The Sit(Nominated for Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award & Best Male Performer at ABSOLUT Fringe 2010; subsequent hit run at Bewley’s Café Theatre).

Selected applicants will be invited to work closely with Gavin Kostick through May and June to develop a new play especially written/devised for them. Leading up to the presentation, Dublin Fringe Festival and Irish Theatre Institute will provide support in direction, budgeting and production plus advice on how to promote the work to presenters and negotiate contracts for future performances of the actors’ Show in a Bag production.

If you are interested in applying to be part of this project, you need to fill out this form: http://bit.ly/2012showinabagapplicationform and then email a CV and headshot to programming@fringefest.com (nothing bigger than 2MB please).

The deadline for applications is 6pm on Wednesday 7 March 2012. Suitable applicants will be short listed and invited to discuss their proposal on Wednesday 21 March 2012.

If you are interested in finding out more, there will be an Information Session onWednesday 15 February from 7:30pm – 8:30pm in the Fringe office on Sackville Place, Dublin 1. To attend, please RSVP with your name & phone number toprogramming@fringefest.com

Show in a Bag is an artist development initiative of Dublin Fringe Festival,

Gaiety School of Acting announces new Audition dates!

The Success of Graduates spurs on new demand for limited places on two year Full-Time Intensive Actor Training course

Due to unprecedented demand brought on by host of successful alumni, The Gaiety School of Acting-The National Theatre School of Ireland has announced a series of new audition dates for our Two –Year Full Times Intensive Actor Training Programme.

This month has seen Gaiety School graduates, Eva Birthistle and Aisling O’Sullivan both nominated for the prestigious IFTA awards due to be broadcast from Dublin this weekend. Other graduates Paul Reid, Charlie Murphy, Rory Nolan and Aisling O‘Sullivan have all been nominated for Irish Times Theatre Awards to be presented in The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on Sunday 26 February.

These awards celebrate the very best in Irish talent and speak volumes as to the success rate of the school’s acting programme. All Actors have attended the Two–Year Full time Intensive Actor Training Programme in the past. The high quality of training is what makes the Gaiety School of Acting market leaders in this field.

The Gaiety School of Acting has been training actors for over 25 years. The Two -Year Full Time Professional Actor Training course takes place from October each year. This course is tailored to those who are serious about pursuing acting as a career option. The intensive programme prepares participants for the extraordinarily challenging and rewarding journey to becoming a professional actor.

Full time auditions take place on the follow dates for this year’s applications; Friday 17 February, Friday 16 March, Friday 13 April, Friday 11 May, Friday 15 June, Friday 13 July. Applications will be accepted until 30 June 2012.

Irish Times Theatre Awards nominee Paul Reid recalls what he loved most about his intensive training was ‘The Discipline; in the craft and in the time keeping! Both of which you need in the real world. Big time!’

Funding Opportunities: Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund – round two

Sky Arts is offering five young artists £30,000 each to fund their work for a full year as part of the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund – in association with IdeasTap. We’ve just announced the two winners of round one, and now we’re on the lookout for three more talented artists to fund.

Sky Arts recognises that there’s an incredible amount of young talent in the arts today, but finding a way to get your work made is an ever-present challenge. The Futures Fund is designed to help bridge the gap between formal education and becoming a working artist.

Whether you want to direct a piece of theatre, choreograph a new dance piece, write a novel, record an album, create a sculpture or produce a live art performance, Sky Arts will give you the time and money to make it happen. We’ll also pair you with a mentor from Sky to help you develop your networks, skills and knowledge in the arts and the commercial sector.

The Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund is open to individual artists working in visual art, theatre, performance art, film, music, dance or literature.

To apply, you must be an IdeasTap member aged 18-30 by the closing date, 24 February 2012, and either be a citizen of the UK or Ireland or have been resident in the UK or Ireland for the last five years. Either way, you must currently be living in the UK or Ireland to apply. It’s free to become an IdeasTap member and just takes a few minutes – sign up here.

Tell us how the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund bursary can help take your work to the next level and you could be in with the chance of receiving one of three £30,000 bursaries, as well as an opportunity to showcase your work on Sky Arts – be it on TV, online or on demand.

Three winners will be selected during this round of funding.

The Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund is part of the Sky Arts Ignition Series, which seeks to collaborate with six arts organisations over the next three years in the creation of brand new works, and further expanding Sky’s support of the arts in the UK and Ireland.

For advice on how to create a successful application, visit the Sky Arts judging: Top tips article.

About Sky Arts

Sky is the only broadcaster in the UK and Ireland with channels dedicated solely to the arts, with 48 hours of the best arts content from around the world across Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2 daily.

Sky Arts also seeks to connect with culture on the ground, creating and collaborating with the best of the arts in the UK and Ireland to bring new experiences to life. For more information on Sky Arts, please visit www.sky.com/arts.

Download the terms and conditions and the application form.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 24 February 2012. Please do not leave it to the last day to apply – we are expecting a very high volume of applications, so if you experience technical difficulties or have any questions we may not be able to help you at that late stage. The deadline is final and we will not accept applications by any other means.

To find out how to apply, click on How to respond above. This opportunity is open to people in the Republic of Ireland as well as the United Kingdom.

http://www.ideastap.com/Opportunities/Brief/6305b58b-81f6-4598-87b0-9fa400dc118e#Overview

Anseo wins award as Ireland’s Best Comedy Club at the 2011 ERICS Award

The Gaiety School of Acting would like to congratulate Aiden Killian and all the team at the Anseo comedy venue on their success as winners of  Ireland’s Best Comedy Club at the Entertainment.ie 2011 Erics Awards.

Full time comedian Aiden Killian, who hosts the Comedy nights at the venue, is the ‘Stand up Comedy’ tutor here at the Gaiety School. Term 2 starts back on Monday 5 March and every Monday for 5 weeks until the 2^nd April. We are looking for people who want to make the world smile! There are still spaces available, So hurry up and get your funny boots on!! Call 01 6799277 or check out our webpage for more infomation.

Young Gaiety actor, Stephen Gillic, to star in ‘Moone boy’

Congratulations to our Young Gaiety actor,  Stephen Gillic, from Navan who is due to star alongside Chris O’Dowd in the TV program ‘Moone Boy’! In the program, Stephen will play the part of Declan Mannion, the cool guy, who befriends the 11 year old Martin Moone. Stephen is currently filming in Wicklow but we look forward to seeing him back in our Young Theatre Workshops in Navan very soon! We wish him all the best in the meantime!

Eva Birthistle has been nominated in the 9th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards

Gaiety School Graduate, Eva Birthistle has been nominated for the BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE TELEVISION in The 9th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards. The awards ceremony will take place at Dublin’s CCD on Saturday 11th of February 2012, broadcasting on RTÉ One at 9.30pm.  The team at the GSA wish Eva the best of luck in her nomination!

Aisling O’Sullivan nominated for IFTA award

Gaiety School Graduate, Aisling O’Sullivan, has been nominated for the BEST ACTRESS IN A LEAD TV ROLE, for her part in this years RTE TV Series ‘RAW’. In the series she plays the role of restaurant manager, Fiona Kelly. The show is currently being aired on RTÉ One on Sunday nights at 9.30pm. Aisling has been extremely busy as of late, also recently starting in the stage hit ‘Big Maggie’ shown at the Gaiety Theatre and the Town Hall, Galway. She has won a lot of acclaim for her powerful performance as the formidable Maggie Polpin and due to popular demand the show returns to the Gaiety Theatre for a second season at the end of this month. In the meantime, we wish Aisling the best of luck with her second IFTA nomination!!