The Project sought to premiere COSY by disability playwright and arts activist Kaite O’Reilly in Cork Midsummer Festival 2019, provide learning opportunities for students and staff of UCC and members of the wider Arts community, and open up dialogue around disability arts provisi
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Junk Ensemble is an award-winning Dublin-based dance company founded by joint Artistic Directors and identical twin sisters Megan Kennedy and Jessica Kennedy to create works of brave and imaginative dance theatre. Previous Artists in Residence at Tate Britain and currently Cork D
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Some of Ireland’s leading filmmakers, novelists and musicians gathered together for a public event at University College Cork (UCC) on Wednesday, September 11 2019. This was the first occasion that UCC brought together all of its current Artists in Residence for an evening of per
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In 2017 the Abbey Theatre commissioned Dr. Marie Kelly to develop an online research pack which coincided with the opening of its most recent production of Teresa Deevy’s Katie Roche (directed by UCC graduate, Caroline Byrne) year. The aim was to collect scholarly articles, inter
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STILLPOINT – UCC Creative and Cork Community Art Link as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2017. STILLPOINT was a four day intensive workshop / performance with John Fox & Sue Gill. Described as ‘English Visionaries’ and at the vanguard of radical arts practice for five decad
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The “Art, Activism, and the Environment” project culminated at UCC in June 2019 as part of the Dept. of Theatre research and collaboration across communities and continents. Beginning in 2016 with embodied arts based research into what it means to be a body (mostly) made of water
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A collaboration between the Department of Theatre and the Mental Health and Disability Research Cluster, Applied Social Studies/ISS21 in the Autumn of 2018. The project began with Dr. Marie Kelly’s Arts Council funding dramaturgical mentorship on the development of Passing as
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This was an edited collection published by Bloomsbury about Jools Gilson’s project The Knitting Map, launched by the Mayor of Cork & President of UCC in Cork City Hall. Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map Eds. Jools Gilson & Nicola Moffat / London & New Yo
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Drench is a trans-disciplinary Artistic Research project whose iterations include a creative radio feature and a public art installation. Writer and performer Jools Gilson and composer Sebastian Adams developed the experimental radio documentary The Rain Box (https://soundcloud.c
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DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE: A performative interdisciplinary workshop on Dance, Somatic Practices, Architecture & Engineering Principal Investigator: Professor Jools Gilson Funded by the Irish Research Council’s Creative Connections strand, Dancing About Architecture was
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Curious Replicas invites people to play with, and explore, the ways we all can invent, reinvent and play with our vocal identities. Designed to mimic the intimate world of the haircutting salon, the artwork captures the voice of the user and then invites them to style it in real
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Since 2016 UCC’s Department of Theatre has collaborated with Cork Community Art Link (CCAL) on their Dragon of Shandon project. Students of the MA in Theatre & Performative Practices and undergraduate students in Applied Theatre work closely with CCAL and multiple community group
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