Over the bank holiday weekend The Modelprogrammed a very special New Spaces for Music gig for the Sligo Live festival. On Sunday October 25th, over three hundred people poured into Calry Church on The Mall for an evening with Josh Ritter and the Love Canon String Band. Our Marketing Assistant

Formal presentation of The James A. Healy Art Collection by Mr. Cormac H. O’Malley. L-R Alderman John Fallon, Chairman, Sligo County Council; Mr P.J. Doyle, Deputy County Manager Mr Oliver Dowling, Exhibitions Officer, The Arts Council; Mrs. Moira Kennedy O’Malley, New York; Miss Nora Niland, Librarian and Curator; Mr Cormac

October has been an exciting and busy month for The Model’s offsite New Spaces for Music programme, and it’s not over yet. Tonight the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival kicks off in Dublin, and the New Spaces programme has packed up and hit the N4 for the big smoke. Beautiful Unit

…so say The Irish Times in relation to Beautiful Unit and we have to agree. The unruly brainchild (the sort of child likely to scribble on the walls and pull out all the pots and pans to drum on them loudly) of musical magic man Brian Mooney, Beautiful Unit is

We were very lucky to have a wonderful piece of film shot at the recent Katie Kim/Valerie Francis gig. So far we just have clips of Katie’s set but they are a thing of beauty. Camera work by Ian Cudmore and Myles O’Reilly, Super8 footage and visuals by Donal Dineen,

A project which The Model has been involved with has been short listed for two prestigious national awards. The PACE project (Partnership for the Arts through Creative Engagement) has been shortlisted for a Multimedia Design Award in the Institute of Designer’s in Ireland Annual Awards, and also Best Arts Website