Community: Create a Story (2009-10)
Theatre in Kilkenny; theatre history; children's theatre; performing arts; Barnstorm Outreach; schools outreach; writers in residence; writers in schools;
Barnstorm's objective of <em><strong>Create a Story</strong></em> was to engage with its children's audience and include their input in creating a piece of theatre, alongside Barnstorm’s creative team. <br /><br />The project is a partnership with <strong>Poetry Ireland</strong>’s <em>Writers-in-Schools Scheme</em>.<br /><br /> Writers Martina Murphy and Terry McDonagh explored the art of writing and developing pupils' writing skills, with 4th and 5th classes of four Kilkenny schools (St Canice's Co-Ed, Kilkenny; Marymount NS, The Rower; Scoil Naomh Bhríde, Ballyragget and Scoil Bhríde, Paulstown).<br /><br />The culmination of the writing and devising stages of this project was a <span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">dramatic presentation called </span><i>Lost in the Forest</i>. I<span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">t</span> was presented in The Barn in 2010.
Barnstorm Theatre Company
Kilkenny County Library, Local Studies Department
Nuala Roche
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Community: The Spooky Feast in the Scary Field (2010)
Barnstorm outreach; Kilkenny theatre; Kilkenny arts; performing arts; community theatre; community arts; schools outreach; heritage project; arts project;
Barnstorm's Outreach department was invited to collaborate with visual artist Alan Counihan, along with Johnswell National School, on the drama element of Alan Counihan's <b><i>The Townlands Project.</i></b><br /><br /><span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Barnstorm worked with pupils in the school to create a theatrical piece based on Alan's aim to connect local people to their local landscape. </span><br /><br /><strong><em>The Townlands Project</em></strong> is a community-based exploration of nine townlands in Rathcoole civil parish. It <span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">led to the development of the </span><a style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:underline;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;" href="https://kilkennyheritage.ie/2017/08/kilkenny-field-name-recording-project-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kilkenny Field Name Recording Project </a><br /><br />Read more about the drama project: <a href="https://barnstorm.ie/townlands-2010/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Spooky Feast in the Scary Field</a>
Barnstorm Theatre Company
Kilkenny County Library, Local Studies Department
2010
Nuala Roche
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BTC_2010_TSFITSF_Ph01
Kilkenny, Ireland - 2000s