Press Release Issued 3rd September 2009

Always wanted to be on TV?

South Dublin County Council is working with IT Tallaght to bring you an opportunity to showcase your art work, projects, and organisations during the year of 2010!

We are looking for artists, arts organisations, and arts groups (including amateur, voluntary, professional and those within youth services and schools) to put themselves forward to be interviewed on camera for a new television news magazine programme lead by students of IT Tallaght.

What do I have to do? Just show up, prepared to tell all

about yourself, your group and your work! The experts at

IT Tallaght will do the rest!

A number of groups, artists, and organisations may participate. Please complete the application below. Our Editorial Committee will meet and propose groups/individuals to participate. If you are selected, you will then be contacted by a student from IT Tallaght to arrange an interview and date for

filming.

The opportunity is open to individuals/groups/organisations working within South Dublin County.

Deadline to submit applications: September 10, 2009 at noon

Selection Criteria: We are looking for enthusiastic people interested in highlighting and promoting their work. Selection will be based on the innovative approaches your group/organisation/work takes in addressing arts in South Dublin County. Decisions will be made by the Editorial Committee, whose

decisions are final.

Requirements for entry:

All individuals/groups/organizations must be working within South

Dublin County Councils district

Please submit supporting photographic documentation about your

group/work/organisation.

Agreement to complete a location release form for permission to film on

location of your space/organisation, should this be required. Some

interviews will take place on location and some will take place in studio

Please indicate at least one time period in which you will be available for

interview, as indicated on the application.

Agreement to return permission forms for photography/film for anyone

that might appear in the location film shots.

Submission of entries:

To enter, please complete the attached forms and send them in along with your photographic documentation no later than 12 noon on September 10 to:

Colette Ryan, Arts Office, Community Department, County Hall, Tallaght,

Dublin 24

Tel: 01 414 9000 ext 3350

Email: cryan@sdublincoco.ie website: http://arts.southdublin.ie/