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                    <text>Photo from a theatre devising session at The Barn theatre for the Create a Story project.</text>
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                  <text>&lt;em&gt;Barnstorm Mission Statement:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;To create inspirational and transformative theatre for children, young people, and adults to the benefit of the wider community.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This exhibit features a selection of promotional material from Barntsorm's work, since it was established in Kilkenny in 1991. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Barnstorm creates and presents quality theatre for, and with children, young people and adults. It engages the transformative potential of theatre for the benefit of its audiences and communities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland &amp;amp; Kilkenny County Council, Barnstorm tours nationally and internationally, including visits to the United Kingdom, United States &amp;amp; Canada, Australia, Spain and Japan.</text>
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                <text>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 &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Townlands Project.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;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;"&gt;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. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Townlands Project&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a community-based exploration of nine townlands in Rathcoole civil parish. It &lt;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;"&gt;led to the development of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;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"&gt;Kilkenny Field Name Recording Project &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more about the drama project: &lt;a href="https://barnstorm.ie/townlands-2010/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;The Spooky Feast in the Scary Field&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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