Common Ground is seeking a motivated individual to support the organisation’s continuing development and growth through the implementation of its 2012 communications plan and continued artistic programme.  The intern will work closely with the executive staff team in coordinating and managing its social media accounts and website, public events and related publications and supporting the artistic programme team. It is an opportunity to experience the role and expertise of a dynamic locally based multi- disciplined arts organisation. 

How to apply.

Information on the intern role.

studio 468 - Grace Dyas will be resident in studio 468 from mid February and don’t forget to see The Family by THEATREclub at Project.  THE FAMILY | Project Arts Centre | Dublin

New Early Years Music Pilot – Common Ground is delighted to announce a new Early Years Music initiative in partnership with Early Childhood Ireland and The Base. For 16 weeks pre school children and child care practitioners will creatively explore and make music with musicians, Eamonn Sweeney and Thomas Johnston in Eala Og crèche, Inchicore and The Base, Ballyfermot. The Early Years Music Pilot will connect and underpin the Aistear early years curriculum themes of Communicating, Exploring and Thinking.

Congratulations to Nick Roth and Robbie Harris on Tarab’s Irish Time Theatre Awards nomination for Peer Gynt.  Both Nick and Robbie have worked for many years on our Music for Me programme.  The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards shortlist

2011 has been a busy year in Common Ground - here's a few highlights

Our Music for Me programme was delivered to 121 children in six local homework clubs and one primary school with ten professional musicians.  In February a group of children from Dolphin House Homework Club recorded their compositions in RTE's studio 1 with Elaine Agnew and Nick Roth while 26 children from the After Schools in St Michael's Estate recorded theirs in the Base with Robbie Harris, Pia Dunne and Ray Boyle.

studio 468 has just re-opened after an intense re-building and relocation period in St Andrew's Community Centre Rialto.  Welcome back Jamie and Jonathan from the What's the Story? Collective.

We have also been busy uploading more studio 468 documentation onto our vimeo channel.  You can see the most recent uploads on: http://vimeo.com/commongrounddublin

Log onto http://section8.ie/wordpress/ for more information on the What's the Story? Collective. 

Culture Night

Sadly for the first time since 2007 it isn't possible for studio 468 to participate in Culture Night due to studio 468's ongoing relocation and refurbishment in St Andrew's Community Centre Rialto. See our studio 468 facebook page for updates. In the meantime we have a new vimeo page hosting documentation of studio 468 artists as well as a number of research events that continue to inform studio 468's ongoing development.   

http://www.vimeo.com/commongrounddublin/videos

Dublin Theatre Festival

Music for Me musicans Nick Roth and Robbie Harris are performing as part of Tarab Ensemble in Rough Magic's production of Peer Gynt.  We wish them every success.

http://dublintheatrefestival.com/programme/display.asp?Eventid=597

Rialto Twirlers

We're delighted to announce that Anne Maree Barry's short film is currently being shown in Tampere Art Museum Finaland until November  11th and will also be shown in the Irish New York Film Festival.   http://www.irishfilmnyc.com/

Connect Mentoring Programme -  Common Ground and Create were invited to jointly present the Connect Mentoring Progrmme on July 6th as part of the Clonmel Junction Festival's collaboration symposium.

Public Art Commission St Michael's Estate Inchicore - the commissioning group met with a number of the selected artists on July 1st. They are: Bread and Circus- Gary Bermingham and Andrew Keogh, Jesse Jones - visual artist and Grace Dyas theatre writer and director. All shall be in residence in the Estate from July to the end of November. We also wish Jesse every success with her first solo show in RedCat Los Angeles. For more information on the selected artists please see: http://www.breadandcircus.ie
http://theatreclubbing.blogspot.com
http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/jesse-jones

Updating our website
By the end of the summer we aim to add new audio visual links to our website. These will include a new Common Ground vimeo channel featuring studio 468 and a Music for Me soundcloud channel. Keep checking in for updates.

studio 468 - Common Ground is delighted that Atelier David Smith was awarded a bronze medal from the Institute  of Creative Advertising and Design awards 2011 for the publication studio 468 - a working space. http://www.icad.ie/events/2553/other.html

Music for Me - call for musicians http://www.commonground.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98:call-for-music-for-me-musicians&catid=22:news&Itemid=28

Studio 468 is located in St Andrew's Community Centre, Rialto (home to a range of community and voluntary projects). A self-contained studio (non-residential) will be awarded to artists for residencies from February 2011. Artists (from any discipline) will be expected to work with community projects or groups in the Rialto area in exchange for the studio space. If you are interested in working in a community-based context, please contact us for further details and an application form. Deadline for receipt of hard copy applications is 26 November 2010.

Web: http://www.commonground.ie

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Common Ground are delighted to announce that the short films Rialto Twirlers by Anne Maree Barry and A Dolls House by Vinny Murphy are slected as part of the Corona Cork Film Festival from November 7th -14th November.  For more info see:  http://www.corkfilmfest.org/news-and-announcements/short-films-selected-as-of-october-12th

Common Ground an arts development organisation based in Dublin 8 and Create the national development agency for collaborative arts, undertook an action research project, the Connect Mentoring Programme, over an eighteen month period that examined mentoring for collaborative and participative arts.

The findings, accompanying DVD and brochure were launched at IMMA with a performance by artist Anna Berndtson  (current recipient of the Firestation Disability Artists award) and participant in the Connect Mentoring Programme.