Live Music Rocks The Model
Foot-stomping, hair-flying, fist-pumping, high-octane, hard-rocking! It has been just over a month since Rackhouse Pilfer’s now legendary album launch of “Back to the Country” at The Model. The free gig in the bluegrass Americana band’s hometown over Paddy’s weekend led to an electrifying atmosphere that was packed to the rafters
Clean Coasts Week – 10th of May to 17th of May
Thanks to the hard work from An Taisce and the Clean Coasts Officer for the North West, as a series of beach clean ups will be happening along our coasts from 10th May to 17th May for Clean Coasts Clean-up week. For anyone who would like to get involved in
Free screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive
During the month of May, there will be a series of free lunch-time screenings from the archival Collection of the Irish Film Institute and this is to celebrate Ireland’s Presidency of the EU (until June 2013). The IFI Archive presents a collection of short films exploring impressions of Ireland and
Another Jack B Yeats Work Returns to Sligo
In late 2011 a generous Danish collector gifted The Niland Collection an early Jack B Yeats watercolour. Political, 1898 was painted after Jack witnessed the centenary celebrations of the 1798 Rebellion here in Sligo. I was dispatched to his home in Denmark to meet with him and take possession of
Deputy Mayor of Sligo welcomes Estonian and Hungarian Artists to Sligo
Deputy Mayor Matt Lyons met with a unique group of Estonian, Hungarian and Irish artists last Thursday 4th April at the Model, Sligo as part of a special pilot initiative led by Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership, Sligo Arts Service and the Model. This exciting project sees the three Irish partners
‘Grow Happy’-Screening for Bealtaine
‘Grow Happy,’ couldn’t say it better myself. This is the theme for this year’s Bealtaine. The artist, John Butler Yeats, wrote that, ‘Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.’ Bealtaine is a reminder to us that,