Cork Midsummer Festival

Cork Midsummer Festival is currently seeking an
Administrative Assistant (CE scheme)

Contract Type: Temporary/Part-time
Hours per week: 19.5
Start Date: ASAP
Experience Required: 2 years experience
Salary: C.E. Rates
Location: Cork City

Duties: General administrative duties in one of Ireland’s fastest growing arts festival’s. Applicants should be computer literate along with good interpersonal skills. Applicants for all CE vacancies must meet specific eligibility criteria. To confirm eligibility, you must enquire at your local FAS office. Please forward all CV’s to Mary Rose Murphy, Triskel Arts Centre, 9-14 Tobin St, Cork.

Closing date for applications: Friday 19th March at 5pm

Cork Midsummer Festival is teaming up with one of our partners The Bodega @ St. Peter’s Market, Cornmarket Street, to keep you entertained until the Festival kicks off in June. Just print off the voucher here and present it at the door on Friday March 26th from 11.30pm and entry to the Bodega’s Afterdark Nightclub is just €5. Taking charge of the decks on Friday nights will be DJ Kevin Fadd Jnr. With your help we can make this a regular event.

www.bodegacork.ie

A Cork Midsummer Festival fundraising event! Come and support your favorite summer arts event!

Civic Trust House has just announced its free public programme for the 2010 Cork Lifelong Learning Festival. This year’s festival offers a range of free events throughout the week of March 22nd – 26th that give a taste of the enthusiasm for the arts in Cork and opportunities for everyone to take part in some creative activities. Cork Midsummer Festival’s offering:

So you want to be…an Arts Producer? Programmer? Director?

Interested in a career behind the scenes rather than centre stage? Put your questions to a panel of arts managers from Cork Midsummer Festival. Find out how they got to where they are now and what the highs and lows are. Whether you are starting out or are having a mid career re-think or are just interested in finding out more, join us on Monday 22nd March from 5.30pm – 7.00pm @ Civic Trust House, 50 Popes Quay, Cork.

Places are limited due to space – advance booking recommended.

For bookings and enquiries please contact Nicki ffrench Davis on 021 4215100 or info@civictrusthouse.ie.

The purpose of the information clinics is to invite those interested to meet with Arts Council staff to discuss the purpose and priorities of the Theatre Project Award and to offer technical information on the application process.

There will be four clinics held in total. One each in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, on the following dates:

Dublin March 8 14.30 – 16.30 Abbey Bar
Cork March 10 11.00 – 13.00 Civic Trust House, 50 Pope’s Quay
Galway March 15 11.00 – 13.00 Nun’s Island Theatre
Limerick March 16 11.00 – 13.00 Belltable offsite at 36, Cecil St

Each clinic will last between ninety minutes and two hours.

The clinic will cover the following topics:

• overview of the purpose and priorities of the award
• the three strands within the Theatre Project Award: Development, Presentation and Production
• information on making an application, including the new online system
• supporting materials
• common mistakes to avoid
• the assessment and decision making process
• questions and answers

Please note that while Arts Council staff will be happy to answer general questions, it will not be possible to enter into detailed conversations about specific projects.

For further information, please contact Christine O’Neill: christine.oneill@artscouncil.ie
No need to book in advance. Just turn up on the day!

In 2009 Cork Midsummer Festival and Granary Theatre Cork commissioned the Belgian director Pol Heyvaert of CAMPO to undertake a workshop in Cork with 20 teenagers with no acting experience and during the two weeks of the 2009 festival Pol, his dramaturge Bart Capelle, 20 teenage performers and a teenage creative team explored the theme of being a member of the new Irish generation. The result of this was Out of Order, a powerful, darkly humorous and innovative performance piece.

The good news is that Out of Order is back for a full production for the 2010 festival, reinvented as FML (Fuck my Life). We don’t want to give too much away just yet but here’s a little sneak peek of what the group have been up to over the winter holidays …

Cork Midsummer Festival, with the support of Culture Ireland, is delighted to bring Mimic to New York running at Performance Space 122 from Friday January 8th to Sunday January 17th as part of COIL 2010. First performed at Cork Midsummer Festival in June 2007, Mimic then played at the Galway and Kilkenny Arts Festivals, and the Dublin Fringe Festival. It was revived at Cork Midsummer Festival 2009 as part of the festival’s first International Showcase.

Written, composed and performed by Raymond Scannell (awarded Best Male Performer at Dublin Fringe Festival) Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. Mimic is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get out of the grip of the culture and family life of 1980’s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that leaves its heritage behind. Director Tom Creed was recently hailed as “one of the most accomplished and productive Irish theatre-makers of the decade” by the Irish Times.

If you happen to be in the neighbourhood make sure to catch a performance of this remarkable production!

Good luck to all the cast and crew from Ireland.

Read more on the Performance Space 122 website

Wednesday 9th December 2009,
Crane Lane Theatre, Phoenix St. Doors 7:30pm

The Dude is back!

Cork Midsummer Festival is delighted to present the Big Lebowski Experience in the Crane Lane Theatre where ‘the Dude’ abides!!

Join us for the whole Lebowski experience – enter the best dressed Dude & Dudette competition, win a weekend for two in the 4 star Clarion Hotel Limerick in our fundraiser raffle, and many more amazing prizes! All this before the screening of your favourite Coen Brothers cult movie! Come and join ‘the Dude’, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, and his friend Walter as they get caught up in a case of mistaken identity, multi-millionaires and criminal conspiracies.

Wednesday 9th December, Crane Lane Theatre, Phoenix St

Doors are 7.30pm. Join us for fun & games before the screening. Film starts at 9pm sharp.

Tickets €10 (includes a White Russian)

Book your tickets on 021 4215131/email info@corkmidsummer.com

Also available on the door on the night.

For more information contact: Cork Midsummer Festival 021 4215131

A Cork Midsummer Festival ‘midwinter’ event! Come and support your favorite summer arts event.

Cork Culture Vouchers are gift vouchers that can be used with all of the companies at Civic Trust House – a single voucher can buy tickets at any of the festivals, workshops, training courses – vouchers can also be used for equipment hire and publications.