National Campaign for the Arts…workshop

The National Campaign for the Arts  is organising a ’National Day of Action’ in early September,  just before the Dáil resumes and in advance of Culture Night.

It will involve arts workers in every constituency meeting their local TDs on the same day around the country.

In preparation, there will be workshops held around the country on June 23rd in Dublin, 24th in Galway  and in 25th Cork.

Note - the Galway workshop has been changed to 4pm Thurs 24 June (not 5pm as previous advertised). It will take place in Town Hall Theatre, Courthouse Sq, Galway and you will need to RSVP to Antonella Villani antonella(at)aoifeonline.com.

By the way if anyone is attending who will be travelling via Carrick on Shannon/Roscommon/Castlerea/Tuam and wants to car pool leave a comment below or contact mdillon<at>leitrimcoco<dot>ie

And don’t forget for arts workers in the Roscommon-South Leitrim area you can join the facebook group, follow RSLArtsWorkers on twitter or check out the blog.

Meeting

Proposed date for first meeting of Roscommon-South Leitrim Arts Workers is Tuesday 27th October. If you are interested in attending then please get in touch – leave comment or email rslartsworkers@gmail.com

Do you work in the Arts and live in Roscommon-South Leitrim?

Then make your voice heard!

If you are on facebook then please join the Roscommon South Leitrim Arts Workers Group. If you are not on facebook, don’t worry, we will keep you up to date on this blog so do comment,  let us know who you are and most importantly get involved and post any ideas you have.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

The Roscommon South Leitrim Arts Workers Group

rslartsworkers@gmail.com

Update on RSL Arts Workers Facebook Group

Hi all,

Here’s an update on what we’re doing right now. We are trying to make a concerted effort to kick start the Roscommon South Leitrim Arts Workers Group into action.

The aim behind establishing these groups around the country is to gather arts worker from each constituency together, come up with some suggested actions to improve our current situation(s) and contact local politicians and councillors. We hope to have the chance to meet up, exchange ideas and put them together before budget season next December. Already, other groups around the country have had meetings and are putting together their manifestos.

Living in this region it’s going to prove a little difficult to get us all together so to start the ball rolling I’d like you to contact me with your email address if you would like to become more involved in making a change for us all. Contact : edonnelly@roscommoncoco.ie or call 090 6625824

Thanks,
Elaine Donnelly
Roscommon Arts Centre

Making the Public Case for the Arts

This aim of this group is to bring together people working in the arts and creative industries in the Roscommon South Leitrim constituency. This includes all people who make their living wholly or in part in any sector of the arts: if in doubt consider yourself in!

At a recent meeting of Theatre Forum the Director of the Arts Council, Mary Cloake, made it abundantly clear that now is a very serious time for arts funding in Ireland, and we need to use any means to make the case for the arts (subsidised or not), at council and government level, or we will be looking at further serious job losses and disintegrating communities.

Following on from this meeting numerous arts workers around the country have established different groups based on constituency. We hope that as many people as possible join whichever group is applicable to them and we will then seek to engage with our TDs and Councillors before this year’s vital budget. For now, lets get these groups up and running and then we can focus on what we hoep to achieve collectively from our local and national government and how we will go about approaching them. This group will hopefully act as a forum for all of us to come together and get things happening!

I’d like to acknowledge and thank Gavin Kostick from whom we have ‘borrowed’ a lot of the text above and who was the first to get the ball rolling on this.