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Are you interested in the arts?
Do you want to learn new skills, meet new people, see great shows and have fun?
All while supporting your local arts centre?

Then you will be interested to know The Dock is inviting applications for its Volunteer Programme. We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated people to assist with ushering, marketing, invigilation & more.

Send completed application forms to info@thedock.ie or drop into The Dock. For application forms please click here (MS Word file) http://www.thedock.ie/downloads/DOCK_VOLUNTEERING_APPLIC_FORM.doc

We are inviting applications for a number of available studio spaces. If you are interested in having studio space either in The Dock or in one of the self contained studios we have in Ballinamore (25 min drive from Carrick on Shannon).
Please send an art cv, a statement telling us why you would like to work in Leitrim during this stage of your practice and some images that do not need to be returned, to

Claire Mc Aree
Visual Art Co-ordinator
The Dock
Carrick on Shannon
Co Leitrim

In conjunction with the Leitirm Arts Office The Dock can offer one studio space in Balinamore, available now. The space is suitable for painters, film-makers, or other professional arts practitioners, available for immediate rent at EUR25 per week. The studios are available for periods from six months to 12 months (with a possible 12-month extension at the discretion of Leitirm Arts Office ).

If you would like to rent the studio, please submit the following:

1. A CV / Resume / Biog / history of your work to date.

2. A description of the work / project / programme you propose to work on while renting the studio.

3. A letter of interest indicating any additional benefits / potential of your period of residency for The Dock.

4. Preferred start dates.

Claire Mc Aree,
Visual Arts Co-ordinator,
The Dock,
St. George's Terrace,
Carrick on Shannon,
Co. Leitrim.

T: 071 9650828
E: cmcaree@leitrimcoco.ie

The dance company Ponydance are doing a two week residency at The Dock from Monday 30th March. Leonie McDonagh, artistic director of Ponydance and an independent dance artist is a lover of clown and comedy
and brings these elements to her dance work. She trained at London Contemporary Dance School at “The Place” in London, Middlesex University and Sallynoggin College, Dublin.

Ponydance are committed to bringing humorous, heart warming, honest,
entertaining dance to lots of people everywhere and accessible dance theatre to new audiences. They are passionate about dance and they are happy to share this while they are at The Dock, by offering classes to the public in the afternoons (from 5pm) in various forms of dance from contemporary to jazz to hip hop or street dance.

Their company classes in the mornings from 10am are open to those with some experience of contemporary dance or yoga. Classes will be based on demand and incur a nominal charge, so if you or a group of people are interested in participating in a class with Ponydance please contact Sarah at The Dock on 071 9650828.

Taught by Pádraig Sweeney, classes in tin whistle and flute for 7 to 16 year olds continue every Wednesday during school term. For information and bookings contact Pádraig on 086 8112871.

Throughout 2007, artist Robin Whitmore will be showing his daily Dream Diary above the staircase in the Dock. Viewers are invited to sit on a settee at the foot of the stairs where they will be able to hear the artist's voice giving descriptions of the illustrated dreams that will be projected onto the wall above them. Fourteen dreams will be shown at a time and then updated every fortnight. The Dream Diary at the Dock will display Robin's dreams from 1st January to 31st December 2007.

Parallel to this installation Robin will be running dream-related drawing
workshops for the public at different stages of the year. Work based on these events will be displayed and will form another dimension to the exhibition.

Robin Whitmore has been drawing his dreams on and off for years now. The images are produced with the artist's eyes closed, enabling him to
focus more closely on the scene depicted. Last year, he
began publishing his dream drawings as a weblog that can be viewed at
http://www.robinwhitmoredreamdiary.blogspot.com.

Robin Whitmore's work is rooted in drawing. He has tended not to show in galleries, preferring to work in places that are unrelated to the art scene. Starting his career as a portrait artist on the streets in Berlin, he noticed how fascinated people are watching others draw. Much of Robin's work has looked at the potential that drawing has to stimulate and open up dialogue. He has worked in nightclubs or public gatherings where he has asked people to describe a memory or fantasy that he draws and simultaneously projects on a gigantic scale. In this way, the work becomes a kind of collaboration and the actual drawing is like a live performance. He lives in London.