Niland Collection interviews

As we blogged about last month Young Model have been funded to carry out an exciting new digital project for The Niland Collection. Funded in part through the Arts Council Young Ensemble Scheme , the focus of this documentary project is to record the thoughts of the living Niland Collection

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The Model, Sligo.

Jack B.Yeats Summer Exhibition

As we announced on our blog a few weeks ago, we have an exhibition of Jack B. Yeats works drawn from The Niland Collection opening next week – on Friday evening in fact. The works are being exhibited as part of the Yeats Festival Season. The exhibition entitled Jack B

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The Model, Sligo.

Wayne O’Connor captivates a lunchtime audience

The Model continued their Live Lunch series today with a captivating performance from Sligo based singer-songwriter Wayne O’Connor. Accompanied on Double Bass by Jamie Carswell, the pair enthralled staff and children alike at Social Services Offices in Sligo. The pair played a short acoustic set of Wayne’s own tunes when

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Maebh Cheasty And David Murphy

Red Hand Soup

The Model has commissioned You’re Only Massive to create an audiodetour which launches next week. As we get ready to launch it we dug out an old blog they wrote for us in March as they were starting the project. An audiodetour is a piece of site responsive live and

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Cairde 2009 - haunt and soundtrack

The Model at Cardie – Haunt and Soundtrack for a Day

We’re delighted to have been invited by Cairde Festivalto present our arts and disability projects as part of the Catfish Club, a new addition to this year’s Cairde programme, hich runs from the 6th – 12th July. The Catfish Club, which will take place on Tuesday 7th July from 7

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Street Team needed for Yeats Festival Season this Summer

Yeats Festival Season looking for volunteers to take part in the Street Team Campaign Do you like talking to people? Are you proud of Sligo? Are you enthusiastic and positive? If so the Yeats Fest Street Team need your help. The Yeats Festival Season is presented by some of Sligo’s

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