05/10/2010
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Press Release Issued: 5th October 2010
BOX STORIES is a project inviting people, from all ages, genders, cultures and backgrounds from South County Dublin to participate in the creative exploration of self expression and, ultimately, to celebrate the diversity of the South Dublin community.
BOX STORIES encourages participating groups around South County Dublin to ‘get up on their box’ and express what it is they want to say to the world and share this with others in their community, using the soapbox as a mode of communication.
Who are we? Where are we? What do we want to say?
Have you something you want to say to the world and share with the rest of your community?
Groups then use their soapbox to respond to the questions by decorating it, painting it, putting sound or a film in it or creating a performance to take place around the box.
Images of some of the boxes can be seen at www.tallaght-arts.ie/news
LAUNCH EVENT
Saturday 9th October 2010
2pm – 4pm
Tallaght Library
The completed boxes will be displayed as an installation in Tallaght County Library to mark the end of the project. The event will be opened by Mayor Cllr Eamonn Maloney and will give everyone the opportunity to share their soapbox with other Box Stories participants and the wider community and celebrate the achievement of participating in this extraordinary project.
The boxes will then be exhibited at Tallaght Library from 11th October to 23rd October. They will then tour to local libraries before returning to the groups.
This launch event also features as part Open House Dublin, presented by the Irish Architecture Foundation, is a free event which takes place every year and allows everyone to explore the architecture of Dublin, as buildings across the city open their doors to the public.
Tallaght Community Arts (TCA) - Producer
Box Stories project is produced by Tallaght Community Arts (TCA), a proactive organisation working with local community groups to activate arts programmes in line with the needs of the wider Tallaght community: geographically, culturally and socially.
Since 1996, TCA has worked with hundreds of residents and artists, encouraging people of all ages to be involved in the making of art.
TCA’s aim is to work in partnership with local and national agencies in a cross-sector approach to sustainable community development, which puts people and culture at the centre.
For information please contact:
Tony Fegan
Director
Tallaght Community Arts
Rua Red
South Dublin Arts Centre
Civic Square
Tallaght
Dublin 24
T: 4528180