Bealtaine 2012

‘Faces of Sligo Town’ Photographic Exhibition

By Photographer James Fraher,

Hawk’s Well Theatre, Temple St Sligo

‘Faces of Sligo Town’ is a commissioned photographic project by Sligo Arts Service, Sligo County Council for the Bealtaine Festival 2012. The work is based on Sligo town shops and the people who run them. The theme of the project celebrates the generational link in family run shops which, over the years, continue to give character and a face to our streets. Twenty premises from barber, jewellery, sweet to clothing shops took part in the project over a three month period. Running alongside the Exhibition in the Hawk’s Well Theatre is a photographic window exhibition; project shops will display a A2 photographic work .This is part of ‘Sligoe 400’, celebrating Four Hundred Years of the Borough of Sligo.

As you walk around town over the next month keep an eye out and see if you can spot all twenty premises. 

The Exhibition runs till May 31^st.

'Pop Up'

 Bealtaine Windows Exhibition

Creative Energy

A creative energy took over the old ESB shop in Sligo town this week, as their windows along Thomas Street became the stage for an installation exhibition of art works. For the past number of months local artists have collaborated with older participants in health centres and intergenerational groups to create art works that explored the theme of Sligo’s Town and County festivals. The groups involved in the project were Clasp & Rathcormac Intergenerational groups, Tuesday Afternoon Arts in Health group at the Avalon Centre, Cliffoney, Collooney, Carrigans and Easkey Health Centres. The groups were led by visual artists Brigitta Varadi, Laura Mahon, Karen Webster, Sherrie Scott, Heidi Wickham, Dorothee Kolle, Pia Lück, Joe Helder, Maura Gilligan and Catherine Fanning. The project forms part of the Sligo Arts Service, Sligo County Council and the HSE West Bealtaine Festival programme .The Exhibition runs until May 31^st so make sure to keep an eye out the next time your on Thomas Street.