South Tipp Arts Podcast

We were thrilled to be help Clonmel Theatre Guild to spread the festive cheer with their Christmas 2020 Radio Play, Dickens’ classic Christmas tale of redemption- ‘A Christmas Carol’ - It was originally broadcast on Pure Radio Tipperary and Tipperary Mid West Radio last Christmas, and you can hear this timeless Christmas classic again right here! Directed by Catherine McVicker.

To get us in the mood for Hallowe'en, if you missed the broadcast of 'The Woman' by Presentation Clonmel TY Class of 2021 on Pure Radio Tipperary, you can listen back here! The Woman - an Original Radio Play, written, performed, and produced by the TY students of the Presentation Secondary School in Clonmel.The story centres around Lucy, who has been having terrible dreams of a mysterious woman. Her friends think she's crazy... but is she? Sit back and take a journey into the nightmare world of 'The Woman'This project was facilitated by Catherine McVicker and Eimear King, with the support of #SouthTipperaryArtsCentre and was funded by the #CreativeIrelandProgramme, whom we thank for their assistance in the project. Well done to the students and teachers who worked so hard in producing this piece of work.The WomanWritten by Abbie Burke, Kori Barnes, Aedin McCormack, Aoife Askins Narrator: EmilyLucy: CaitlinRoisin: AdaMia: MollyKate: AoibinnPat: CaoimhePrincipal/Opening Commentator: AnnmaryTeacher: Cameo rol

This week we celebrate Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, celebrating it's 20th Anniversary this year. We at STAC are always delighted to work with our festival friends and this year we collaborate on 4 of the events. I was delighted to catch up with artists Claire Murphy, Sean Taylor, Rachel Rothwell and Jack Moroney (representing LIT), for a chat and to talk about their involvement with the festival this year. Claire Murphy - Here is where I am (exhibition at South Tipp Arts Centre)Sean Taylor - Clonmel Community Manifesto (various outdoor locations around Clonmel)Rachel Rothwell - Green Streets (Mick Delahunty Square)Jack Moroney - LIT Animated Films (Upstairs @STAC)Please visit www.junctionfestival.com for the full programme of events and show your support in any way you can . Visit www.southtippartscentre.ie for details of what's on at STAC#myjunction #CJAF21 #SouthTippArts Contact the podcast: southtippartspodcast@gmail.com

This week we focus on Cruinniú na nÓg 2021. Here at the Arts Centre we have a full day of online fun with our resident kids art tutor Mags Rudnicka, who will deliver 4 workshops (via Zoom) around the theme of 'The Dragon Inside Me' - allowing children to explore and express their emotions through creativity. I caught up with Mags earlier this week to hear about her plans for this years Cruinniú actiities.Cruinniú Tipperary Co-Ordinator Róisin O' Grady also joins me this week to give us a run down of all the Cruinniú Tipperary events that are planned for this year's celebration. You can see all the details of the events here at STAC by visiting:https://www.southtippartscentre.ie/whats-onYou can see the full Cruinniú 2021 Programme here:https://cruinniu.creativeireland.gov.ieIf you'd like to get in touch the email address is:southtippartspodcast@gmail.comWe would love to hear from you!

'Connect, Create, Inspire' - is our Spring series celebrating the importance of creativity to our health and wellbeing, especially in these challenging times. It sees us collaborate with some fantastic Arts & Health practitioners to bring you a month full of diverse and enriching creative activities to soothe your soul and reconnect with yourself.My guest this week is Maria Coleman of Comhcheol Arts & Wellness, who features in the programme with some workshops including the innovative 'Yoga Drawing Jam'. Maria has a varied educational and vocational background in fine art, music, multimedia,research, teaching, community development and writing. She believes in the healingbenefits of mind-body practices like Qigong and Yoga and her passion for mental healthand positive birth advocacy led her to train as a yoga teacher and sound healing practitioner. Maria’s keenest interests lie in the space where yoga, art, neuroscience, psychology, music, play, sound healing and wellbeing meet. She lives in Donega

From December 4th, STAC is delighted to present After The Fall, an exhibition of contemporary Irish woodturning, curated by Stephen O’Connell and kindly supported by DCCI and Tipperary County Council. This exhibition represents a survey of the very best practitioners of this craft form, with a strong emphasis on sculptural work. The selected artists/makers reflect a diverse range of methods and material approaches, as well as enviable skill and invention, showcasing what is possible within contemporary woodturning.In this Episode, I'm joined by curator Stephen O'Connell to discuss the exhibition, with contributions from some of the artists involved. Thanks to Matt Jones, Roger Bennett, Gintaras Malinauskas, and Liam O'Neill for sharing their thoughts on the exhibition, and their insights on what the craft of woodturning means to them.'After the Fall' continues at South Tipperary Arts Centre until mid January and features work by Roger Bennett, Liam Flynn, Liam O'Neill, Matt Jones, Gintaras Malinauskas, Emmet

This week we return to our Cuppa Culture format due to the level 5 restrictions across the country.I was delighted to chat with writer Fran O'Brien, part of the team that has brought this series of Spooky radio plays to the Source Arts Centre in Thurles this Hallowe'en. We are delighted to host this work in our podcast space and look forward to hearing more from them.Listen here: https://www.spreaker.com/show/samhain-the-source-radio-playsThese audioplays were created for Hallowe’en and are part of the Source Arts Centre in Thurles Actor’s Ensemble project where writers and actors come together in workshop sessions to create new works.  1. ‘Annabelle Lee’ was written by Joe HayesDirector was Martin Maguire The Actors were:Voice: Andy SpearpointMan: Andrew LummisWoman: Fiona McElroySecond Man: Martin Maguire 2. ‘The Darkness’ was written by Beverley PennDirector was Martin MaguireThe Actors were:Adam: Andrew LummisGweni: Fiona McElroy 3. ‘Hush Little Baby’ was written by Joe HayesDirector was Martin MaguireTh

New Work presents painting, installation and text made by three Tipperary-based artists selected as part of South Tipperary Arts Centre’s Curator-in-Residence programme 2020. Independent Curator Anne Mullee mentored the artists to produce new work, initiating a series of meetings and professional development workshops which began in February. The programme quickly had to adapt to the online world as the Covid-19 crisis emerged.Featuring Anne Mullee, Lorraine Cleary, Sheenagh Geoghegan and Nocht Studio (Philip Ryan and Martin McGloin).visit www.southtippartscentre.ie to learn more.We invite you to follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as we bring you content related to this show over the restriction period.Contact the podcast at southtippartspodcast@gmail.comThanks for listening!This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

Laurence O’Dwyer is a poet from Clonmel, Co Tipperary, whose second collection, The Lighthouse Journal (Templar, 2020), was launched on Culture Night 2020 in cooperation with the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival and supported by Tipperary County Council Arts Office.Stemming from time spent working on a lighthouse in Norway, The Lighthouse Journal explores the past, present and future of Litløy Fyr, a small island located six miles from the Norwegian coast and one hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. This work is a celebration of a remote environment, as well as an ode to the comradery of manual labour as the poems document the restoration of a lighthouse that was built in 1912.Working with the Swedish app developer and game-maker, Malte Olsson, The Lighthouse Journal has been adapted into an interactive book, featuring maps, photographs and videos, as well as narrated poems and original music. Donal Gallagher of Asylum Productions narrates the video and app.The Lighthouse Journal has received a number of a

In this episode we focus on the Source Arts Centre in Thurles, where we meet Brendan Maher, Artistic Director to talk about the challenges posed in recent months, as well as the first exhibition of the Source Autumn Programme - Hypercarbon - by Austin McQuinn, which opens this weekend, and their plans for Culture Night 2020, which falls on Friday 18th September this year. All the Tipperary events have their own website this year:https://www.culturenighttipperary.ie where you can browse the entire programme or alternatively you can see what's happening all over the country at www.culturenight.ieVisit www.thesourceartscentre.ie for further information about their Autumn programme.To listen back to the full interview with artist Austin McQuinn:https://www.spreaker.com/episode/40307213Gallery Opening Hours:10am to 5pm from Tuesday to Friday2pm to 5pm on SaturdaysFor further info:www.austinmcquinn.comContact the podcast: southtippartspodcast@gmail.comThis project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative

John Burke was one of Ireland's most innovative and influential sculptors of the 20th Century. This exhibition aims to reignite interest and awareness in his own home town; Clonmel.The exhibition will be composed of a number of maquettes of key projects, as well as a newly commissioned 6 x 8ft photograph of Red Cardinal in situ. Many of the pieces in this show will be on exhibit for the first time, offering audiences a unique opportunity to engage with the work of one of Ireland’s masters of modernist sculpture and public art.Artists Vivienne Roche, Maud Cotter, Eilis O' Connell, Danny McCarthy and Sean Lynch feature in this special episode, as well as well known art historian Vera Ryan, and we thank them for sharing their thoughts on the great man and his influence on them and on the landscape of Irish art.The exhibition runs at South Tipperary Arts Centre until Saturday 19th September.www.southtippartscentre.ie With thanks to Creative Ireland for their support in this project.You can contact the podcast at

In Hypercarbon, Austin McQuinn uses a range of carbon-based materials including Chinese Ink, bog oak, bog deal, packing paper, quartz, bees wax and his own body to make new work for this exhibition in Thurles. The intense energy in the work expresses a hypersensitivity to these materials, forging connections between the molecular and the cosmological. This is Austin’s first solo exhibition in Tipperary, where he lives and works, and was specially commissioned by The Source Arts Centre, Thurles.
Artist and writer Austin McQuinn has exhibited widely with solo shows at DCP, San Francisco; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, and three solo exhibitions at Project, Dublin. His work is held in public and private collections in Ireland, UK and USA. His upcoming book, titled ‘Becoming Audible: Sounding Animality in Performance’, will be published by Penn State University Press in Spring, 2021. He lives and works on Slievenamon, in South Tipperary.Exhibition commences Saturday 12 September and runs until Saturday 17 Octob

This will be the first in a new series of the SouthTipp Arts Podcast and fits in beautifully with the reopening of South tipp arts centre. This first episode focuses on our reopening exhibition, Protectorate by Photographer Denis Mortell. Using the phenomenon of Brexit as a starting point, the exhibition considers themes such as Britishness, cultural difference, and social and political history. It looks at how myth and myth making, memory and place form part of national identity and community.While some images reflect on borders, borderlands and territory; a puritan approach to food and the ironies of daily life are also commented on. The viewer is asked to consider what is really being protected and why. How much is real, how much is myth?In this episode i caught up with Denis during the installation of protectorate, and also managed to have a chat with curator and art historian Catherine MarshallAs it has not been possible to have a public opening, we have released a short film on our youtube channel feat

Clonmel Junction Arts Festival started almost 20 years ago as a celebration of touring theatre and live music. Over the years, it has grown into a week-long arts festival where national and international acts share a stage with some of the best local talent.Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, one of the key arts events of the summer in the South-East, is currently underway – but in a re-worked and re-imagined fashion. With a theme of 2020:Visionaries, the festival will bring its audience a host of events from 4th – 12th July that are taking place in a virtual context, as well as a series of visual arts events in the town itself.I had the opportunity to chat with some of the large team of people who are making it all happen, from the festival hub/studio in O’Connell St, who shared with me some of their personal highlights and the challenges of adapting to the new circumstances. A huge thanks to Elizabeth Bartley, James O'Donovan, Alan McCormack, Eoin Barry & Colin Everitt for sharing their valuable time. Pl

This week we were delighted to catch up with Fiona Kearney, Director of the Glucksman Gallery at UCC, who have been playing a blinder throughout the lockdown period, with initiatives like their 'Creativity at Home' project, 'Home from Home' - a reworking of a planned gallery exhibition, and their Billboard exhibition 'New Light' - presented in a series of exploratory walks around the city. http://www.glucksman.orgFiona Kearney is the founding Director of the Glucksman, a contemporary art museum that promotes ambitious art for all ages and abilities. In this position, she has curated numerous exhibitions of Irish and international art, with a particular emphasis on how contemporary art practice relates to research directions within University College Cork.You can get in touch via email: southtippartspodcast@gmail.com Thanks for listening :)@GlucksmanGalleryUCC @SouthTippArtsCentreThis project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

This week Helena and Eimear chat to Tom Creed, opera/theatre director about the National Campaign for the Arts #savethearts campaign. Through their years of hard work (NCFA was established in 2009) they have lobbied on behalf of the arts in Ireland and in recent weeks have secured an unprecedented commitment from government to help #savethearts. We can each play our part in amplifying the message by visiting http://ncfa.ie and informing ourselves about things we can do to help. “The National Campaign for the Arts is a volunteer-led, grassroots movement that makes the case for the arts in Ireland. We work to ensure that the arts are on local and national government agendas and are recognised as a vital part of contemporary Irish life.”NCFA website #savethearts #NCFA #southtipparts #cuppaculture #southtippartspodcast You can email the podcast at southtippartspodcast@gmail.com - we would be delighted to hear from you!Thanks for listeningThis project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Progr

Be Creative Clonmel is a project designed by Clonmel artists Niamh Curry and Kevin Power who have put together a series of short video tutorials suitable for budding creatives of all ages. The sessions will bring you through Abstract Art, Portrait Drawing and Video & Photography for mobile phones. They invite the people of Clonmel to participate and to share their masterpieces with us all in a pop up gallery in shop windows around the town, painting the town with colour for this years Clonmel Junction Arts Festival in July.Submissions can be sent to projects@junctionfestival.comWatch the tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0kpivq6BKQFcYO1li1pFA/featuredand for further information visit http://www.junctionfestival.comIf you'd like to get in touch, email us at southtippartspodcast@gmail.comThanks for listening:)This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people. This year, Cruinniú - now in it's 3rd year will be a completely digital festival with a myriad of online events taking place throughout the country on Saturday 13th June.This week Roisin O'Grady, Tipperary's Cruinniú na nÓg Co-Ordinator joined us for a cuppa culture to talk about the changes to the festival this year, and the many free events and ways to connect with them. It's fair to say that this year, more than ever, the arts need our support, and the projects here in Tipperary vary across a wide range of creative activities. There's sure to be something to suit every age and interest. Visit the Cruinniú website and start planning your day now! https://cruinniu.creativeireland.gov.ie/eventsYou can contact the

Welcome to the latest episode of the Cuppa Culture from South Tipp Arts Podcast! We were delighted this week to be joined by Sculptor James Horan, who some of you might remember from “Sticks and Stones” and exhibition at South Tipp Arts Centre in 2017, which saw James and fellow sculptor Denis Lynch share the space to great effect. You can have a look back at that exhibition here: https://youtu.be/3i-1fh7GpMgBut during the lockdown, James has begun to explore paint as a medium, and we caught up with him to see how he’s been getting on.If you’d like to follow see more of James’ paintings, head over to his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshoransculptureYou can also visit his website: http://www.jameshoransculpture.com or visit him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/jameshoransculptureIf you'd like to get in touch, email us at southtippartspodcast@gmail.comThis project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020

This week we take the opportunity to have a virtual cuppa with our friend Cliona Maher, Director of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival. This year the Junction team have taken the decision not to cancel the festival, but rather to adapt and adjust the festival programme to suit the current restrictions that we all find ourselves under. This years Junction festival promises again to showcase the best of local and international talent, albeit in different ways. We can't wait for it!Visit http://www.junctionfestival.com for details of what's coming up this year, and subscribe to their newsletter to keep up to date.If you'd like to contact the podcast, or would like to join us for a Cuppa Culture, drop us a line to southtippartspodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening :)This project has received funding under the Tipperary Creative Ireland Programme 2020