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Cork Kerry Tourism backs Reenascreena Festival PDF Print E-mail
Written by Calvin Jones   
Tuesday, 23 May 2006

Michael Manning in Reenascreena
Michael Manning (second from left) of Cork Kerry Tourism meets with RCAG members to discuss funding
Cork Kerry Tourism and Fáilte Ireland have approved financial support for this year's Reenascreena Crossroads Arts Festival. The funding, made available under the Festival & Cultural Events Initiative, will reimburse the community for up to 40% of the marketing and programming costs associated with the festival.

A big thank you to Cork Kerry Tourism for their generous offer of support. Here's to making this year's Crossroads Arts Festival the biggest and best yet!

We're putting the finishing touches to the festival programme this week, and will be posting details to the website as soon as they're finalised. We'll also be posting details around the local area and making announcements in local press and on local radio soon.

So remember these dates: Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th June.

Write them down, keep them free, and head for Reenascreena to experience West Cork's rich cultural heritage at its undiluted best!

 
Welcome to Declan and Fachtna PDF Print E-mail
Written by Calvin Jones   
Sunday, 21 May 2006

Men at work
(From Left) RCAG secretary Ted Coakley with Fachtna Shanahan, Declan Maguire and Rural Social Scheme supervisor Martin Coughlan outside the Reenascreena Community Hall
Reenascreena Community Action Group (RCAG) would like to extend a warm welcome to Declan Maguire and Fachtna Shannahan, who have both been assigned to work in the Reenascreena area under the West Cork Leader administered Rural Social Scheme. Declan and Fachtna will be working on a number of community initiatives under the guidance of the RCAG committee, and will keep Reenascreena's public areas spic and span.

Their immediate priority is to give the community hall and the village approaches a much-needed spring clean in preparation for this year's Reenascreena Crossroads Arts Festival, which will take place on the weekend of 24th and 25th June.

We're sure that Declan and Fachtna will prove to be a great asset to the community, and hope you'll all join us in wishing them all the best in their endeavours.

Reenascreena Community Action Group Committee

 
Community Art Project PDF Print E-mail
Written by Calvin Jones   
Friday, 19 May 2006

Marie Brett
Artist Marie Brett discusses the Wishing Tree project with RCAG secretary Ted Coakley
Have you ever wished you could unleash the artist within?

Well here's your chance. As part of the Reenascreena Crossroads Arts Festival 2006 visual artist Marie Brett is coming to Reenascreena to do some hands-on work with the local community. In a project sponsored by Cork County Council Marie will be holding workshops to encourage us all to look at Reenascreena's past, present and future through the medium of art, and asking us to record our wishes, hopes and prayers for the future.

You can find out more about the concept of the Wishing Tree Sculptures in a seperate article by the artist.

Meanwhile, here are some dates for your diary:

Wed. June 7th & Thur. 8th --  School workshops, all day-including all children

Thur. June 8th -- Community workshop: 3-5pm drop-by basis in community hall. Small flags on willow sticks (set up in hall from 2pm onwards) + younger children’s artwork

Tue. June 20th & Wed 21st -- Installation (artworks rigged by Marie & her husband Nic)

Wed. June 21st -- Community help put out flags in John Murray’s garden, 6-7pm

We are delighted to welcome Marie to Reenascreena, and look forward to working with her on the project. Please show your support by turning up to the workshop if you can, and making your artistic contribution to this exciting community project.


 
Wishing Tree Sculptures PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marie Brett   
Friday, 19 May 2006
Marie Brett is a West Cork based visual artist who works with local communities to explore their cultural heritage through the medium of visual art. She has been commissioned by Reenascreena Community Action Group, sponsored by Cork County Council, to work with local children and adults to produce a community art project that will coincide with this year's Crossroads Arts Festival [CJ]

Marie Brett with wishing tree
Wishing Tree at St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork with artist Marie Brett
Reenascreena’s community have an active interest in folklore and have invited a visual artist to work with them to explore the village’s folklore and make two distinctive environmental sculptures in collaboration with the community, during the village’s Crossroads Arts Festival 2006. The invited artist is Marie Brett from Kealkil near Bantry, who has extensive experience in the field of creating original and unusual artworks with community members.

The artworks will reference the practice of leaving ‘tokens’ at holy wells and will take the form of ‘wishing trees’. These sculptural artworks will look both back in time, through the history and folklore of the area as well as forward in time through the hopes and aspirations of the community for the future. The project will also celebrate the local natural landscape, individuals creativity and working as part of a collaborative team. The project will be open to all community members’ and it’s hoped that lots of people will get involved. It is hoped that once the artworks are created, and people pass by, they will take a moment in quiet personal contemplation to reflect on their own personal wish, hope or prayer for the future.

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Reenascreena Crossroads Arts Festival 2006 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Calvin Jones   
Friday, 21 April 2006

It's coming!

The biggest thing to hit Reenascreena since... well, since last year's extravaganza... is on its way.

 The Reenascreena Crossroads Arts Festival 2006 will finish on Sunday 25th June this year... what we don't know yet is when exactly it will be starting.

Got a suggestion for the festival programme or want to get involved? Let us know by posting to the festival topic in the Reenascreens Online Forum.

There'll be old favourites like "The Reenascreena Trail": a guided evening walk around the area with historian Fachtna O'Callaghan. There'll be traditional music and dancing, drama and recitation. There'll be contemporary music by an eclectic mix of local artists and visiting musicians. There'll be pig roasting, road bowling, and fascinating new twist to the annual Reenascreena Derby.

 In short, for a weekend full of all manner of  merriment make sure you block book your diary and head for Reenascreena on the last weekend in June.....

We'll see you there!


 

 
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