MAKE RESIDENTIAL LABORATORY

Calling all artists …applications now being taken for MAKE 2010.......

Following the success of last year’s initiative, Project Arts Centre is teaming up once again with Absolut Fringe, Theatre Forum and Cork Midsummer Festival to bring you MAKE, a residential laboratory open to Irish and international artists, established to assist in the creation and development of new performance work.

If you are an artist looking for time, space and mentorship then MAKE might just be the thing for you. For one week in March, 15 practitioners will come together at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annnaghmakerrig, and look at the generation of new theatre and performance projects.

Mentorship will be available from three international artists with a wealth of experience in creating new work. Far from promoting a particular method of making performance, they will offer advice and guidance from their experience, without agenda. MAKE is not a training workshop. Artists are free to pursue their own ideas, but the context MAKE offers is one of support and encouragement as well as challenge and critical rigour.

For more information on how you could be part of MAKE 2010 visit the Theatre Forum website or contact Tania or Irma on + 353 1 8746582. In the meantime time keep your eyes peeled for some of last year's participants appearing at theatres near you soon!

Una McKevitt - Director & Creator of Victor & Gord on her experience at MAKE 2009
(Victor & Gord returns to Project Arts Centre 15 – 27 Feb 2010)

“As an emerging artist I felt very comfortable there. I found the environment uncompetitive and encouraging. I responded very well to the loose schedule. I think the diversity of participants; individuals, pairs, international artists, established and emerging practitioners created this environment. There was a sense of everyone being on an equal playing ground as we were trying to work within our own creative abilities rather than within an established and familiar framework.

MAKE was very important to me.”