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Culture Night 2024

Fri. 20 Sep. 2024
Free Admission

Culture Night 2024 at The Model promises to be another colourful night of creativity, art and music. This year we will start off with the opening of ‘Stigma Damages’ by Irish artist Michele Horrigan.  From Exhibitions, Family Activities, Tours & Open Studios to a special Late Night with Dónal Dineen – Culture Night at The Model will offer something for everyone. All events at Culture Night at The Model are free of charge.

11am - 5pm – Jack B. Yeats; The Wandering Gaze

The Wandering Gaze presents a collection of images relative to Travelling people in the work of Jack Butler Yeats. Highlighting Yeats’ keen observations of diversity amongst nomadic groups within Irish society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition includes sketchbook drawings, illustrated prints, watercolour and oil paintings spanning the breath of his career. The exhibition was developed with participants from the Sligo Traveller Support Group working with the writer and Traveller Culture Collections Development Officer in the National Museum, Oein DeBhairduin. View exhibition...

Presented in partnership with Cairde Sligo Arts Festival. Curated by Dr. Julie Brazil.

11am - 5pm – Bafushia (a physically bound process of forward movement)

Bafushia is a word from the Traveller Cant language that conveys a physically-bound term of forward movement. The exhibition title arose while exploring Jack Butler Yeats images of Travellers with Oein DeBhairduin and participants from the Sligo Traveller Support Group.

The exhibition consists of contemporary artists who share heritage within the Travelling community. What is important about this selection of artists however is the relevance and criticality of the work that they make. A criticality that is simultaneously rooted in personal experience, but also advocates for the sharing of diverse knowledge, experience and reflection. View exhibition...

Participating artists: Chloe McDonagh, Dave McDonagh, Francesca Hutchinson, Leanne McDonagh, Phien O’Phien, and and Tommy Rhattigan.

Presented in partnership with Cairde Sligo Arts Festival as part of the Hereditas Project.

4 - 4.45pm – Oíche Chultúir turas as Gaeilge

Don Oíche Chultúir, beidh turas saor in aisce den taispeántas atá le feiceáil faoi láthair i nGailearaí Niland trí Ghaeilge. Do dhuine ar bith ar spéis leo páirt a ghlacadh nó a bheith linn le héisteacht nó le comhrá a dhéanamh, tá fáilte romhat/romhaibh a bheith ag an deasc fáiltithe ag 4pm.

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4 - 6pm – Open Studios

Artists will be in attendance at The Model's Artist studios to greet visitors and talk them through their artistic process.

6 - 8pm – Exhibition Opening: Michele Horrigan; Stigma Damages

6pm | Galleries Opening
7pm | Drinks Reception

Stigma Damages is a solo exhibition by Michele Horrigan, known for her ongoing investigations into heavy industry in Ireland and the environmental impacts involved in the global production of aluminium. This is Horrigan’s most substantial presentation on the topic to date, with new video artworks, unearthed archival documents and found objects placed in five gallery spaces at The Model. View exhibition...

About the artist

Michele Horrigan lives and works in Askeaton, Limerick. She studied art at the Städelschule, Frankfurt. Recent exhibitions of her artworks include PUBLICS Helsinki; Schloss Britz, Berlin; Tenerife Espacio de las Artes; Lismore Castle Arts; EVA International, Limerick and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin. Since 2006 she is founder and curator of Askeaton Contemporary Arts, facilitating artist experimentation and residencies in rural County Limerick. Many artworks made in this context have subsequently been presented throughout the world in exhibitions, art biennials and film festivals. She is editor and publisher of A.C.A. PUBLIC, with over twenty titles exploring the many meanings between art and the public realm. In 2024, she is curator of the 22nd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts in Galway, opening in November and entitled The Salvage Agency, a citywide exhibition and public programme considering the agency and role of art in contemporary ecology and environmental study.

6 - 8pm – Earth Gallery: Recycle Art Lab – Family Activities

As part of Michele Horrigan’s Stigma Damages exhibition, the Earth Gallery will be open with a range of family activities.

In response to the issues raised in the exhibition Stigma Damages, regarding the environmental impact of heavy industry in Ireland, especially the global production of aluminium, The Model invites you to experiment with the materials we have left in the space. The majority of materials have been salvaged from our storage facilities, offices and workshop areas, as well as foraged from nature.

We invite you to use your imagination to create your own unique objects, inspired by the natural environment – either real or imagined. Please feel free to take your object home or display it in the gallery.

9pm - 1am – Dónal Dineen's Backstory

Dónal Dineen returns to The Model with Backstory. His sets are like alternative guides to the musical universe with no stone left unturned in his mission to unearth gems from every musical hotspot the world over.

This late night event is kindly sponsored by Sligo BID.

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