Video from Opening on May Day

We’ve had a beautiful little film made of the opening of Dorm on Sat 1st May that we want to share with you. It was filmed by Myles and Stephen of Arbutus Yarns and they’ve managed to capture the spirit of the evening perfectly. If you were there on May

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The Model filled with creatives and animation this weekend

Lightbox Animation Festival kicked off today at The Model. The rolling Darklight and Synth Eastwood programme are running in the Cinema Northwest Cinemobile, which is parked up right outside the centre, as well as on The Model’s new digital screen. This afternoon, despite the lovely sunshine, we had a great

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Join us for the launch of Lightbox

This weekend The Model hosts Lightbox Animation Festival, currently Ireland’s only dedicated animation fest. We’ve a pretty stellar line-up of animation films on the bill to suit all ages and all interests from myths and legends, to music and love stories. On Saturday(tomorrow), we’ll be launching Lightbox at 3.15pm in

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Visit by Stan Douglas to The Model

We are very excited to share the news that Canadian artist Stan Douglas is visiting The Model and Sligo this week, upon invitation by our Director Seamus Kealy. Douglas, based in Vancouver, Canada, has long been interested in the work of Samuel Beckett. In 1988 he curated Samuel Beckett: Teleplays,

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Blogging the Humanities?

There seem to be no shortage of digital marketing conferences and symposiums, or tweet ups/blog meets, for all sorts of social reasons, so it was great to get an invitation to a focused symposium looking at how blogging can/can’t be integrated into academic life and learning.  Held in the rather

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Animators Anonymous at Lightbox

As part of Lightbox Animation Festival this weekend at The Model, a number of animators will be participating in an ‘Animators Anonymous’ session where they will discuss their work from music videos to children’s tv series. Animators Anonymous will be hosted by Synth Eastwood and will feature Mike Ahern from

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