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 KEY AREA OF WORK No 3: Arts, Culture and Heritage

LONG TERM EXPECTED IMPACTS OF THIS AREA OF WORK FOR THE COMMUNITY:

To Promote the Arts, Culture and Heritage of the Island now and into the future.

The recording of local musical talent has become much more accessible since the opening of Connemara Community Radio’s studio on Inishbofin. Radio volunteers on the island have captured many fine traditional sessions for broadcast on Connemara Radio and in doing so are creating an archive of local musical talent that will be accessible to future generations
The Board through the CDP will be examining the possibility of professionally recording the varied range of local talent on the island from the modern musicians to the old traditional musical styles.

The Board through the CDP will continue to provide as much support as possible to the local studio.

Continue to encourage young Island musicians to use the Islands facilities and record their material and to promote the Islands traditional music scene, especially during the tourist season.

Continue to encourage young Island musicians to use the Islands facilities and record their material and to promote the Islands traditional music scene, especially during the tourist season. To try and establish a recording of all visiting musicians and Island musicians into a back catalogue for archival reasons.

The Board through the CDP have produced a Promotional DVD for the Island, which will show the history right up to modern times and with a view to the future. This will be of great interest to the visiting tourists, as it will give a visual feel of the Island and its people.

Promote the sale of the DVD and to collect archive material for future use.

Promote the sale of the DVD and to collect archive material for future use.

To date Inishbofin has had nine community based arts festivals, one in 1977, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. It is the intention of the Development Company, through the CDP, to promote an annual community arts festival.

Through discussions with various individuals and groups on the Island
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it was the general feeling that there is a lack of social activity for members of the community from October to May. The Development Company, through the CDP, addressed this by running activities such as card games, bingo, quilting workshops, weekend courses etc.
It is the Development Co. intention through the CDP, to host set dancing workshops, concerts, drama productions etc. in the community centre through out the year.
Traditional music workshops, including fiddle, flute, tin whistle and accordion, take place on the island every month or six weeks with some of the country’s best traditional musicians providing the tuition. These workshops will continue for the foreseeable future.

It is the Development Company’s wish, through the CDP, to provide a wide and varied programme of cultural and artistic events for the Island community.
The Development Company, through the CDP, in conjunction with Galway County Council’s Arts Officer will draw up a schedule of events that will take place throughout the year. These events will include dramatic productions, concerts and workshops in traditional and classical music and art workshops with the Island children.

To produce and promote an Arts Festival in may 07. To continue to run the activities requested and to promote visiting artists on the island.

To produce and promote an Arts Festival in may 08. To continue to run the activities requested and to promote visiting artists on the Island.

To produce and promote an Arts Festival in may 09. To continue to run the activities requested and to promote visiting artists on the Island.

The Development Company has through the CDP received funding from the Heritage Council to bring to completion one of our Heritage projects. The ‘Barking Pan’ project is the restoration of an area of the Island which was used by the fishermen to ‘bark’ their nets (soak them in a tar like substance to prolong there life at sea) and is a very important part of the Islands maritime history. This project when finished will be a major tourist attraction on the Island.

To finish the ‘add on’ work around the ‘Barking Pan’ project and officially open the site.

To promote the ‘Barking Pan’ as a tourist visiting site and look at the possibility of developing other heritage sites on the Island.