May - West Cork Arts Centre
May - West Cork Arts Centre
May - West Cork Arts Centre
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This exhibition includes work produced<br />
this year through WCAC’s Programme<br />
for Older People. The five programmes<br />
featured are <strong>Arts</strong> for An Active Mind,<br />
Music for an Active Mind,Mise agus<br />
Oileán Chléire: Stitching Together, <strong>Arts</strong><br />
for Health and Talking Lips Carnival.<br />
On exhibition will the most recent<br />
explorative work by the participants<br />
on <strong>Arts</strong> for an Active Mind (AFAM)<br />
programme. The AFAM Evening group<br />
explored self portraiture inspired by<br />
the pop art movement. The AFAM<br />
Morning group painted a large scale<br />
collaborative still life which centres<br />
around objects of meaning to them as<br />
individuals.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> for Health artists’ team; Sarah<br />
Ruttle, Sharon Dipity and Sheila<br />
Kelleher worked with participants<br />
to develop individual artworks and<br />
collaborative projects. Residents of<br />
St. Joseph’s Ward, Bantry General<br />
Hospital sculpted Spring Bonnets with<br />
pupils from St. Goban’s Second Level<br />
school. Dunmanway Community<br />
Hospital worked on a commemorative<br />
banner for the ward and residents from<br />
Skibbereen, Castletownbere, Schull<br />
and Clonakilty Hospitals will exhibit<br />
a selection of their paintings produced<br />
through the <strong>Arts</strong> for Health Programme.<br />
The Active Retirement Association on<br />
Cape Clear Island spearheaded an<br />
exciting and challenging project, Mise<br />
agus Oileán Chléire: Stitching Together<br />
this Spring. They worked with artist<br />
Bernadette Cotter to explore individual<br />
relationships with the island to produce<br />
a conceptual quilt that reflects life<br />
on Cape Clear. All residents on the<br />
island were invited to participate and<br />
artists living and working on the Island,<br />
Catherine Ryan, Nell Kruger and Marie<br />
O’Neill worked closely with Bernadette<br />
to realise the ideas.<br />
Age and Opportunity co-ordinates<br />
Bealtaine, a nationwide celebration of<br />
creativity in older age held annually<br />
in <strong>May</strong>, in partnership with hundreds<br />
of groups across Ireland. As part of<br />
their role they organise a number of<br />
inspirational programmes, produce a<br />
brochure of events and maintain an<br />
informative web-site - www.bealtaine.<br />
com. <strong>West</strong> <strong>Cork</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> has been<br />
a partner in this event for many years<br />
and this exhibition forms part of this<br />
important national celebration.<br />
Image above: <strong>Arts</strong> For Health, Spring Bonnets, St. Joseph’s Ward, Bantry General Hospital and St. Gobans College;<br />
Below l-r:: <strong>Arts</strong> for an Active Mind, Special Items; Mise agus Oileán Chléire: Stitching Together. (detail), Bealtaine Project,<br />
2009