SEEKING REHEARSAL DIRECTORS FOR HALLELUJAH! A COMMUNITY CLOWN CHOIR
November 23, 2012
HALLELUJAH! is a community choir. The group will be developed and built in Draíocht Arts Centre over 2013 and aspires to reaching a membership of 100. The main performance programme will be innovative – The M50 Symphony, An Evening Rendition of 100 Green Bottles. There will also be elements of red nose performance in the programme. Hallelujah! is open to anyone regardless of ability. There is no audition process for Hallelujah! The ethos of Hallelujah! is accessibility and artistic excellence.
We are seeking to identify a panel of 4 rehearsal directors to share the responsibility of a weekly choir rehearsals for Hallelujah! for 2013. Rehearsal directors will be expected to work collaboratively with Debra Salem, the Musical Director to deliver creative and inspiring rehearsals. Suitable candidates should be able to read and write music and have good keyboard skills or the ability to play an accompanying instrument (such as guitar).
Duties and Responsibilities
- Take responsibility for agreed blocks of rehearsals with Hallelujah! A Community Choir to bring particular arrangements developed for the group to performance level.
- Lead the group in warm-ups and any other suitable arrangements to build vocal and choral ability.
- Broaden the group’s knowledge of music through participation in the group.
- Ensure a high quality of artistic engagement.
- Develop and lead an inspiring programme with the support of Debra Salem, Musical Director, Veronica Coburn, Artistic/Clown Director and the team in Draíocht.
Experience/Skills Required
Essential
- At least 2 years experience of innovative practice delivering high quality music projects.
- Experience of working with arts professionals, teachers & other workers in the education and cultural sector, in a music capacity.
- Taken a music group from an initial meeting through to a concert performance.
- Ability to work alone or as part of a team.
- Good written and oral communication skills & ability to engage with people from a wide range of backgrounds. Ability to communicate at all levels.
- Ability to read and write music.
- Music Degree or equivalent work experience.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Ability to motivate others
Rehearsals will take place once a week in Draíocht from February 2013.
If interested, please contact:
Emer McGowan, Director, Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
Tel: 00 353 1 8098027 / Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Closing Date: Monday 10th December, 2012, 5.30pm
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CAN YOU SING AND LAUGH AT THE SAME TIME?
October 24, 2012
CAN YOU SING AND LAUGH AT THE SAME TIME?
Hallelujah! Draiocht’s first Community Clown Choir is here!
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JOIN US IN DRAIOCHT ON SATURDAY 03 NOV 2012, 2-5PM, FOR A FREE INTRODUCTORY CLOWN CHOIR WORKSHOP WITH VERONICA COBURN!
Register your interest by filling in an application form, available from Draíocht’s Box Office or by email from .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Deadline for applications extended: WED 31 OCT 2012
Participants must be 16 years and over.
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Are you sociable? Do you like to sing? Do you like to laugh? Are you the type of person who is open to trying new things? THEN WE WANT YOU!
Hallelujah! will be a choir like no other – its ethos being accessibility, inclusivity and artistic excellence. A Clown Choir is a group of people who gather together to sing and laugh – to sing in celebration of what it is to be human and to laugh at the ridiculousness of the world we live in.
Weekly rehearsals will begin in 2013 but on November 3rd 2012 there is an opportunity for you to come along to see what it’s all about. The day will be good fun. You will be introduced to the basic concepts of clown theatre and you will learn Hallelujah!’s signature tune - Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”. Nobody will be asked to do anything that s/he is not comfortable with but for those who are interested in stepping into the spotlight then there will be ample opportunity for them to do so.
You don’t have to be a good singer to join Hallelujah!
You don’t have to be a performer to join Hallelujah!
You just have to be interested and willing.
Come along on November 3rd and see what it’s all about.
Hallelujah!’s first major work in 2013 will be The M50 Symphony – A Symphony For Human Voice & Car Horn!
Veronica Coburn, Draiocht’s Theatre Artist in Residence for 2012/2013 and Director of ‘Hallelujah’ is delighted to be working in Draiocht on this project from November and says
“I have a dream. It’s called Hallelujah! It is a city wide Community Clown Choir where people from all walks of life, all ages, all social strata, come together every week to play and to sing and build artistically exciting performances. No Handel’s Messiah. No programme of early Renaissance love poems. This is a clown choir. Human voice in place of instruments. An evening concert of One Hundred Green Bottles. A joyful place to be.
The clown has always represented everyman and everywoman. The function of early theatre clowns was to maintain the interest of the ordinary people with low comedy and plain speech. It is fitting then that interwoven through the choral programme of the clown choir will be the participants own stories – human stories.”
JOIN US IN DRAIOCHT ON SATURDAY 03 NOV 2012 // 2-5PM // FOR YOUR FREE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP.
To register your interest please fill in an application form, available from Draíocht’s Box Office or by email from .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or phone Teresa for a chat about the project on 01-8098028.
Veronica Coburn Biography:
Veronica Coburn s a founding member of the theatre company Barabbas. Veronica devised and performed in Barabbas inaugural season and in Out the Back Door in The Ark in 1997. She devised and directed Sick Dying Dead Buried Out with the company in 1995 and in 1996 directed the revival of Half Eight Mass of a Tuesday.
Over the years she has performed in The Abbey, the Peacock, with Rough Magic, Horizon, Copol, Pigsback, Theatre of Fire and in many television productions. She was assistant director to Gerard Stembridge on his play Lovechild in the Project and on Comedy of Errors in the Abbey. Veronica is chairperson of Dublin Youth Theatre and for them directed Mark O'Rowe's ‘Buzzin' to Bits in Project@the Mint. She has also acted as Artistic Director for the 1998 National Festival of Youth Theatres in Monaghan which resulted in a hundred-strong performance, Hey Pelops.
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Deadline for applications: WED 31 OCT 2012
Participants must be 16 years and over.
Download Application Form here ...
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This one year drama and music project is funded through The Arts Council and Fingal County Council.
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HALLELUJAH! DRAÍOCHT’S COMMUNITY CLOWN CHOIR
October 1, 2012
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WITH VERONICA COBURN - THEATRE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2012/2013
JOIN US ON SATURDAY 03 NOV 2012 // 2-5PM // FREE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
Draíocht is delighted to announce its Theatre Artist in Residence, Veronica Coburn, for 2012/2013. The position funded through The Arts Council and Fingal County Council will enable Draíocht offer a year long drama & music project for people age 16+.
A Clown Choir is a group of people who gather together to sing and laugh – to sing in celebration of what it is to be human and to laugh at the ridiculousness of the world we live in. If you are sociable, like to sing, like to laugh and are open to trying new things then WE WANT YOU! You don’t have to be a good singer to join Hallelujah! You don’t have to be a performer to join Hallelujah! You just have to be interested and willing. The ethos of Hallelujah! is accessibility, inclusivity and artistic excellence.
Hallelujah! will be a choir like no other. One part play to two parts song; one part concert to two parts clown theatre. Nobody will be asked to do anything that s/he is not comfortable with but for those who are interested in stepping into the spotlight then there will be ample opportunity for them to do so.
Hallelujah!’s weekly rehearsals will begin in 2013 but on 03 November 2012 there is an opportunity for you to come along to see what it’s all about. You will be introduced to the basic concepts of Clown Theatre and you will learn Hallelujah!’s signature tune - Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Smile’. Hallelujah!’s first major work in 2013 will be The M50 Symphony – A Symphony For Human Voice & Car Horn.
To register your interest please fill in an application form, available from Draíocht’s Box Office or by email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or download it here ...
Deadline for applications EXTENDED TO: WED 31 OCT 2012
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Culture Night at Draiocht - 21 September 2012
September 17, 2012
JUST 30 TICKETS REMAINING NOW FOR 'DUBLINERS BY JAMES JOYCE' FOR CULTURE NIGHT.
FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2012, 7.30PM
BOOK NOW: TEL 01-8852622 OR ONLINE
Stunning snippets from Dubliners by James Joyce ... LISTEN HERE ...
Read more HERE ...
“She was … a little vulgar … sometimes she said ‘I seen’ and ‘if I had’ve known’ … but what would grammar matter if you really loved her (The Boarding House) …
Previewing before Dublin Theatre Festival all this week at Draiocht, Wed 19-Sat 22 Sept, 7.30pm ... Tickets from 10e ... Booking tel 8852622 ...
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Theatre Artist in Residence Project 2011/2012 With Liam Halligan
August 3, 2012
Theatre Artist in Residence Project 2011/2012 With Liam Halligan
Final Performance Coming up in November
FRI 30 NOV - SAT 1 DEC 2012
8PM // Main Auditorium // Tickets: €10 / €8 conc // Dur: 60 mins (no interval)
We are all extraordinary! Despite an almost total lack of faith in our national institutions we manage to get on with our lives. The rituals of our seemingly everyday life keep us going. We sing, we dance and we pray in our own way.
This piece of community theatre, ‘You, Yes You!’, looks at how the very ordinary aspects of life can take on a beauty of their own. Draíocht’s Theatre Artist in Residence, Theatre Director Liam Halligan, has worked on and developed this piece throughout the last year with numerous members of the local community from Dublin 15, ranging in age from 18-84.
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