Katie Kim and Valerie Francis bewitch the Pharmacy

Katie Kim’s Sligo set list. New Spaces for Music made its Autumn/Winter return on Saturday night (Oct 3rd) with performances from Katie Kim and Valerie Francis, accompanied by live visuals from Donal Dineen. Here’s what our Music Programmer Aoife Flynn felt about Saturday’s gig: Still basking from the glow of

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Young model interview with Mark Garry and Paul Butler Part.2

Watch Video Young model met Reverse Pedagogy artists Mark Garry and Paul Butler and spoke with them about their work and what it means to be part of Reverse Pedagogy. For Part one watch here>

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A building in progress

Site Visit, originally uploaded by modelniland. Model staff Aoife Flynn, Emer Marron and Denise Rushe paid a visit to The Model site with their camera in tow to report in on progress. The building has really taken shape with the roof now on the three-story extension and each of the

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Twin Jesus Christs unvelled

One of Sang-Kyoon Noh’s Twin Jesus Christs Following a delivery on Wednesday that took 5 men and 2 hours to complete, the Twin Jesus Christs, some 9-feet tall per statue, were placed in the Model Satellite on Castle Street in preparation for Medium Religion. I was curious to see inside

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Exhibition on Religion May Test Blasphemy Legislation

There has been a lot of dialogue in the press (see further reading links below) on the proposed Blasphemy Bill by Dermot Ahern, which is especially interesting for The Model as we are about to open an exhibition that tackles contemporary representations of religion and religiosity. Here’s a copy of

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The Model in May

We’ve lots going on at the minute so here is a copy of the newsletter we just sent out. The RSAG tickets have already been won but if you want to be on future monthly email outs just enter your email on the homepage www.modelart.ie Faith. Geopolitics. Art We’re currently

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