Model Curator/Director Seamus Kealy is currently at the 53rd Venice Biennale where he participated in the second stage of the Reverse Pedagogy Project – see their blog here and see if you can spot Seamus in the bottom picture – 3rd from right. The Third Phase of Reverse Pedagogy comes

The first Yeats Festival Season will be launched by Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor for RTE, on June 12th at the Glasshouse Hotel, overlooking the Garavogue River in Sligo town. The festival is supported by Filte Ireland and will take place from July 24th to August 15th 2009. The festival is

Musician Emer Mayock and Aoife Flynn (from The Model) were on last nights Arts Show on RTE Radio 1 talking about the New Spaces programme and Emer’s reasons for choosing a handball alley. Emer also played one of her own compositions in the handball alley for the piece. Click below

Tapped on the Shoulder by Buddha – pic: James Connolly Medium Religion opened last Saturday in Sligo at the Model Satellite on Castle Street and a great evening was had by all. We began proceedings with a curators talk from Boris Groys which was really well attended and extremely well

“Fundamentalism is a decision taken in favour of sameness over difference” – Boris Gorys Today’s Irish Times carries an in depth interview with Medium Religion co-curator Boris Gorys wrtitten by Belinda McKeon who interviewed him in New York in advance of his trip to Sligo. An excerpt is below or

We have what promises to be a truly unique concert taking place as part of our New Spaces for Musicprogramme on Sunday 31st May here in Sligo. A Sligo Handball Alley, at Summerhill College, is being used by traditional musician and composer Emer Mayock for a contemporary take on a