Opportunities for artists at Birr Vintage Week

Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival have put out a call for submissions for artists across various categories to have their work displayed at the popular festival which will run from 2 - 10 August. They have also announced lots of fun workshops for adults and children alike.

Open Submission Exhibition:

Our call for the Annual Open Submission ‘A Place is only a Place’ is live, curated by Rowena Keaveny. A sense of community is found in the connections people make to each and their environment, consisting of memories, experiences, attachments, cultures, and generations making a place more than a physical space.

Place is more than just a location, an Eircode or a spot on a map. A sense of place is a unique set of qualities and characteristics- visual, cultural, natural, and social- that provide a meaning to a location. In person hand in Saturday 13 July, online deadline Monday 8 July.

Carnival Making Workshops:

Would you like to learn a new skill, or do you have skills that would be useful to us? We are looking for people who would like to help create a float for Vintage Week. We will be working with carnival artist Caoimhe Dunn, using lantern making techniques, fabric, construction, and other craft skills to make a float and props celebrating the Camcor River.

This will be a fun opportunity to learn carnival making skills working as part of a small team and then see your fabulous creations paraded through our beautiful town on Vintage Sunday, August 4. You can come for the whole week or help out the days you are available July 1- 5, 2pm- 4pm, Old Cinema, Brendan Street. Suitable for children 12+, teens and adults. Free but registration required.

Carnival Making Workshops for Children:

Come join Caoimhe Dunn and make some amazing props as part of our Vintage Week Parade Making Workshop. Minimum age 6 years. 4 & 5 July, 2pm - 4pm, Old Cinema, Brendan Street. Free but registration required.

Community Luminaries, Going with the Flow

See your drawing projected to a huge scale as part of a community project!

We want you to think about the lovely River Camcor and make a drawing, painting or digital file of what lives in the river, swims along it, flies above it, or what you might see beside the river. Use a white sheet of paper and leave the background blank. Bright colours work best. Use markers, oil pastels or paint, collage or you can work digitally to make an image or a short animation, 10 seconds. Max.

The work will be projected on the Birr Technology Centre on August 8 after the Fireworks. Upload a good photo of your image or your digital file to Dropbox before June 28.

For more information on all these opportunities, visit www.birrvintageweek.com/visualarts or email birrvintageweekarts@gmail.com