Photographs from the NCFA Meet & Greet

The Model was delighted to welcome Minister John Perry, Tony McLoughlin TD and Michael Colreavy TD to the National Campaign for the Arts Meet and Greet yesterday, along with a host of local artists, art workers and supporters of the arts. Director/Curator Seamus Kealy fielded what turned out to be

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Director’s Q&A with One Hundred Morning’s Conor Horgan

Don’t miss this week’s great film One Hundred Mornings by Irish Director Conor Horgan. Book tickets here Two couples are holed up in a cabin on the outskirts of a small village for two months now and tensions are starting to flare. They don’t have any power, food supplies are

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Conor Gallagher exhibition in the new Model Studio Artists’ Gallery

he Model is delighted to announce the first exhibition in our new Studio Artists’ Gallery. Conor Gallagher ‘s show Higher Ground opens on 19 May at 6.30pm and runs 20-28 May. View the exhibition invitation here In describing Higher Ground, Conor commented “I have been climbing the mountains surrounding Sligo,

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Special Jack B. Yeats talk this weekend with Dermot Healy and Sean Sweeny

Our programme of exciting talks for The Ruby Blue Social Club educational programme for over 55s and friends, continues this month with a feast of Yeats’ events. To celebrate Bealtaine; the month that celebrates creativity in older people, this Saturday 07 May at 1pm, writer Dermot Healy and artist Seán

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IT Sligo Theatre Design students exhibit in The Model

Students from IT Sligo’s BA (Hons) in Performing Arts, specialising in Theatre Design, have collaborated with The Model Education team and the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company to create a unique multimedia performance event based on a short extract from Marina Carr’s play Woman and Scarecrow. This one-off event, in The

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The Model, Sligo.

Venice Biennale

I just finished the Venice Biennale today after a few days of extensive walking, queuing, standing in dark mini-cinemas, and maneouvering through tight Venetian corridors or onto packed vaparettos in search of palazzos filled with art projects. The German pavilion picked up the grand prize with the late Christoph Schlingensief’s

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