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Come to a Public Meeting

Fancy growing your own food!

Your help is needed for a local community

Allotment project at Highfield Nurseries

Wednesday 9^th June at 8pm

Christchurch Hall, Presbyterian Church

Highfield Road, Rathgar

Dear Resident,

I would like to invite you to a Public Meeting on Wednesday 9^th June at 8pm in the Hall of the Presbyterian Church on Highfield Road to discuss the possibility of starting a community project at Highfield Nurseries.

This former market garden is on a 1.6acre site at the end of Oakland’s Crescent.

Local residents co-ordinated by Erik van Lennep, a professional horticulturist, design educator, sustainability consultant, and co-founder of the Cultivate Centre for Sustainable Living, together with the owner and the City Council, are prepared to work together on a community initiative and we need your help!

This initiative also has the support of Grow It Yourself, a national organisation of home and allotment food growers.

It could become a garden allotment for the area.   Among the possibilities for the site are:

• Allotments both under glass and open air
• Horticulture training and mentoring
• Production of seedlings and plants for home gardens
• Youth development and activities with the possibility of enterprise training

Come along … ideas & energy needed.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to get involved or would simply like some more information then please feel free to get in touch or drop me an email to oisin@oisinquinn.ie

Cllr Oisín Quinn

(087) 2520011.

Eat your way to happiness and well being!

Where: Ranelagh Arts Festival office, 26 Ranelagh.
When: Tuesday 1st June 2010, starts at 20:00, come at 19:45 for tea
Free admission

Hosted by Francesco Polito

The labourers in the vineyard have grown weary and need to be helped with one last push that will finish the work at the Ranelagh Arts House in order to have it ready for our SALE and OPEN DAY on Saturday and Sunday 29 and 30th May, 11:00-17:00.

So if you can paint and powder, scrape or clean, please donate a couple of hours to the cause.

You will be rewarded with a very convivial atmosphere and beautiful coffee from Nick’s Coffee Bar and your names will be entered in THE BOOK OF RANELAGH presently being worked on by the most venerable scribe, Brother Maolsheaclain and his team of gifted monks. Contact the arts shop (number 26 Ranelagh) or Charles Crockatt.

We also need donations of books (art, history and literature in particular) and collectibles for our SALE.

Please be generous as this is the last opportunity for a fundraiser before we throw ourselves into the maelstrom that is the organisation of our festival
so…

ROLL UP AND HELP – PLEASE!

Start time: Twightlight… 9.30ish
Bring: What you need to sit on, the grass works the best with something for your bum or not!! Something warm. €5 minimum donation.
What: Its all below
Your Job: Share this too your profile and let everyone know about it and bring a bag for your waste. These events are about building community and acting responsibly.

BARRY’S TEA will provide free teas for people, all flavours to keep you warm, if needs be, yipeee!!

More updates will follow so fan the Fitzwilliam Square page on facebook!!

For the fair fee of €5 you can have a magical night under the stars watching a classic silent movie and listening to the wonderful 3epkano. Some of you may have had the pleasure of attending Sunrise or Nosferatu last summer in Dartmouth Square. Well Dartmouth cant be used for movies this year so this summer see the movies move to Fitzwilliam Square, and its a better venue for night activities.

There are 5 movies planned, one a month from May to September. The launch night is on May 13th and the movie is Faust with the amazing 3epkano playing the score. These are all fundraisers to pay for the upkeep of the space and €5 minimum donation is asked for, to cover costs and then get the jobs done that need to be done. There is no other funding and we want to keep it that way, its about community and people. Bring what you need to sit on and what you need to keep warm. We ask also that people look after there own waste. Alot goes into creating this and we ask for your cooperation and of course, all are very welcome!!

See more below about the movie and 3epkano.

3epkano are a Dublin based, seven piece collective who are dedicated to producing original soundtracks for silent and avant-garde cinema. Founded in early 2004, they are:

Richard McCullough: keyboards/organ
James Mackin: drums/percussion
Matthew Nolan: electric guitar
Laurence Mackin: bass guitar
Cameron Doyle: electric guitar
Lioba Petrie: cello
Karen Dervan: viola

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Faust

1926 / Black and White / 100mins / Germany

Directed by FW Murnau

Faust is a German legend and as with most legends, even those of a supernatural nature, it has some basis in fact. The real Doctor Faust seems to have been a wandering scholar and conjuror who went through Germany at the start of the sixteenth century claiming to cure the sick and practice magic. He must have been a pretty good conjuror because there were soon rumours that he was empowered by the devil. These rumours were circulated in so-called ‘Faust books’ and somewhere along the line the artful quack was transmuted into a noble old scientist who had sold his soul to the devil only because he believed it would enable him to alleviate the suffering of the plague victims, and also enjoy some of the pleasures of youth he had neglected the first time round. That interpretation of the story has been immortalised in various works of art, notably the tragedies of Christopher Marlowe, at the end of the sixteenth century, and Goethe, at the start of the eighteenth, and also a masterly opera by the French composer, Charles Gounod, in the nineteenth.

F.W. Murnau’s 1926 film draws on all of these but is a highly individual work. Its place as the definitive screen version of the Faust legend remains unchallenged after more than three-quarters of a century. Here is German folklore in its pristine state: a visual symphony of wind, flames, and smoke, conceived with the artistry that German film-makers had developed, quite remarkably, amid the chaos and uncertainty of the years immediately following their country’s defeat in World War One. A highly stylised vision certainly, but done with sufficient conviction to make the legend seem – well – almost believable. Today, Murnau’s Faust is an important legacy of a film-maker to whom the gods gave great gifts but took them back before he had done all that he could have done with them.

We need help finishing the work at 26 Ranelagh to get the studios ready for 27th May. Please call Charles on 0879883861 if you can lend a hand to finish the painting and decorating. Thank You.

World Premiere, May 2nd

UPSTATE LIVE
Presents

THE ONES WHO KILL SHOOTING STARS
A new play by Conall Quinn

Cast: John Currivan, Duncan Lacroix,
Aine NiLaoghaire, Karl Quinn, Conan Sweeny

Director: Paul Hayes
Set Design: Kieran McNulty
Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels
Composer: Trevor Knight
Costume Design: Sinead Roberts

Conall Quinn’s new play is a surreal tale of love and death set on a County Louth beach during World War II.

Henry is on the look out for German submarines but all he really wants to do is fire his flare gun, Alice has decided to run away from home again, and Edward’s wife is blowing kisses at him. There’s also the body of the American pilot to bury…

“Look out! Oh holy God, look out! That’s what all the shooting stars will say. They’ll say, There’s that coastwatcher Henry Neary, he’s the one who kills shooting stars with his unrequited love.”

This is an original and highly entertaining work by a writer currently generating a lot of interest in Ireland.

An Tain, Dundalk 30th April
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda 2nd and 3rd May
Roscommon Arts Centre 5th May
Riverbank, Newbridge 7th May
Ramor, Virginia 8th May

Commissioned by Louth Local Authorities for Drogheda Arts Festival 2010

SPONSORSHIP COORDINATOR

Ranelagh Arts Festival is seeking expressions of interest from experienced and imaginative Fundraisers to join the team as a volunteer, and work from our offices in Dublin and/or from home. The Fundraiser role includes:

• Developing and implementing a strategy for individual and corporate supporter recruitment and development at a local and national level
• Developing and coordinating new fundraising activities, web-based fundraising, online auctions and merchandise sales
• Be capable of raising awareness of the Festival and its work
• Increasing funds through researching and targeting trusts whose criteria match our projects and activities
• Building and maintaining profitable, long-term fundraising relationships with current donors and potential donors
• Preparing reports, monitoring income and expenditure against budgets and the targets
• Commitment and a friendly and positive attitude are a must

Application: To apply, please send us your CV in an email to finance@ranelagharts.org

Please include a short bio, your related experience, and why you are passionate about this role.

Deadline: Friday 30th April 2010