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The Model Cinema hosts the Guth Gafa International Documentary Roadshow

Friday, Nov 02, 6pm This November, the Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival hits the road and will screen award-winning documentaries in regional centres around the country and on Friday, 02, November their roadshow will be in Sligo for screenings in The Model CInema. Alongside the screening of two key films

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Deirdre Houston – Recollections of Locations and Dislocation

room @ The Model 3rd – 31st August 2012 Deirdre Houston ‘Blue Lake’ 2012 As both a recent Graduate in Fine Art and a returnee former emigrant, within the work I am referencing memories of location and dislocation, growing up hearing soft recitals of Yeats ‘Enwrought with golden and silver

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Sarah Stevens: Museum of Abandoned and Bereaved Objects

‘room’ @ The Model is a contemporary exhibition space designated to the resident studio artists and is independently programmed and curated, from July 3rd – 29th, artist Sarah Stevens will curate the space. Sarah Stevens’ solo show Museum of Abandoned and Bereaved Objects is a sculpture and photography exhibition that

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Saki Soto on recording in The Model’s recording studio

Saki Soto Interview with Yasmina Rahmoune Saki Soto are an upcoming band from Sligo, who have been recording their EP here in The Model’s own brand new recording studios. Our music intern Yasmina, got a chance to see how the lads were getting on. Here is what they had to

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From the studio: Carsten Fock

In the midst of preparations for the opening of Up The Walls, I spoke to Carsten Fock, our artist-in-residence for the month of June. I was invited to look around his studio as he discussed his artistic method, in relation to his installation that can now be viewed as part

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Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson is easily my favourite director. He is quirky, imaginative and funny all while staying totally grounded and emotional. His films always tell of slightly unattainable characters that are strange with each other and their surroundings yet are connectable as they are vulnerable and human. Even though they are

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