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Dublin Culture night, Ranelagh Arts Centre, 23rd Sept 2011

Dublin Culture Night again !
So much to do and see in the city..and to try and do it all in just a few hours. It would be much easier to ease it out over a whole day. In Ranelagh Arts , there was lots happening..
One thing I really enjoyed was a documentary film , directed by Conor Horgan, - where he interviewed three Irish portrait painters, over a period of a few months. Namely , they were Mick O Dea, James Hanly and Brian Maguire. All with distinctly and uniquely different approaches to their methods of paintings .

We primed a big ,stretched canvas, for the night , put it on an easel  and invited visitors to the centre to take part. it worked well , generating lots of chat and interaction.


Having a go..

Also in the centre, we had " Emerging Artists" expo , which had opened the night before,
a talk by playwright , Jimmy Murphy, about his play "Hen Night Epiphany", which was to be in the school hall the following night ( not to take from the professionalism of the play),
a talk on Irish copyright tradition by writer , Ronan Sheehan,
a display of beautifully restored, vintage radios by Gerry Farrell,
and at 9pm , all went to Humphreys pub, to play away the night with Ciaran Tourish ,( fiddle player) and guests, incuding the wonderful singer Alison Slater.


Sarah Bracken , artistic director and Alison Slater , - Dad's radios in the background.



Two of our resident artists, painter Jean Doyle and glass artist Roisin de Buitlear in Roisin's studio



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