Kevin Costner – he built it, and they actually did come
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Whoever said ‘if we build it, they will come‘, wasn’t a web designer.
He was, in fact, the ghost of a baseball player, speaking to a farmer from Iowa. However, ghostly apparitions aside, as anyone who has built a website (started a facebook page/ Twitter account/ Ning community, etc etc) will know, putting something up online is only half the battle, it takes work to get the word out, and to get traffic in.
So while the arts in Ireland is seeing an increasing amount of high quality work occurring online, these endeavours aren’t always getting the attention they deserve. We’re looking to provide a platform to showcase new work in this area, and with any luck to help bring this work to a wider arts public, nationally and internationally.
So, if you’re using the internet to present work in a new way, if you’re launching a dynamic new website, if you’ve a new and imaginative ways of engaging with new audiences online, drop an email to james.kelly(at)artsaudiences.ie. Looking forward to hearing from you!
This is exciting to see… in a new departure for the Children’s Book Festival, Children’s Books Ireland have joined forces with blogger David Maybury to set up the WRITE STUFF, a unique online meeting-place for budding young authors and poets as part of this year’s festival.
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blogger David Maybury, currently in Australia it seems
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Writers Celine Kiernan, David Donohue and Mary Melvin Geoghegan will be stationed in public libraries in Monaghan, Sligo and Longford, but will be connecting with school children across the country, in a ground-breaking online creative writing project over the course of the month.
We’ll be sure to check in with The Write Stuff when the festival is well underway, and will post on this again.
The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston runs a ‘Teen Night’ which combines art, socialising and a sense of shared ownership of the event.
It started out with one wild (alcohol free) party with music, dancing and general socialising. Gallery staff were on hand to answer questions about the art, but the primary goal seems to have been to get young people in the door.
It has evolved into a quarterly event that is conceived, promoted, and run by teens, employing short programs inspired by the collection. There have also been classes on video, weblogging, podcasting, digital photography, video boot camp, design graphics, t-shirt design, a DJ school, and an in-school writing program.
Started with a small group of teenagers in 2005, ICA is now drawing 300 to 450 young people per event and hitting its goal of engaging 2,500 teens annually, up from 700 in 2005.
More info from www.icateens.org
It would be great to hear if these is anything like this going on in Ireland – do let us know!
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