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Bellinter House Special Offers in conjunction with Solstice Arts Centre

The luxurious boutique hotel, Bellinter House has organised two great special offers for accommodation, pre- theatre meal for two and tickets to two Solstice events; The Celtic Tenors (2nd October) and The Harlem Gospel Choir (17 NOvember)

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Thursday, 4th June - Getting to the Hub of the Issue - Peter Crowley, The Irish Times 

“………………Currently, most theatres and companies are considering their alternatives. Beyond the hub, there are residencies, whereby a company receives a base, administrative support and funding from a venue for which they make work.Tall Tales, for example, is now the resident theatre company of Solstice Arts Centre in Co Meath, an arrangement that saw the company move location and even alter its artistic policy to suit its host.

“It’s a question of taking our artistic policy and making it work in the context of being resident in an arts centre,” artistic director Deirdre Kinahan told me. “There’s no point in performing in the dark.”

Tall Tales, once committed exclusively to new women’s writing, recently toured an Alan Bennett play to nursing homes and other venues………………”

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This week we announced Mr. Ciaran Hope as the successful composer in the ‘Solstice Music Commission’ competition. An innovative use of the Per Cent for Art Scheme, the music commission invited composers to submit proposals of pieces of music 3-4 minutes long. The successful piece will be the new signature tune for the centre.  In total, 18 submissions were received from prominent composers worldwide. Mr Hope, now based in LA but originally from Dunboyne, Co Meath is delighted that his piece was the winning composition. After arriving in Hollywood on a Fulbright Scholarship, Mr. Hope then set up his own all-in-one post production facility, Pangea Music, Inc. He orchestrated the Golden Globe nominated score for Michael Mann’s THE INSIDER as well as writing music for TV’s BUFFY THE VAMPAIRE SLAYER and IT’S A GUY THING and has worked with major entertainment companies including Disney and Trimark Pictures. The premiere performance of Mr. Hope’s piece will take place later this year in Solstice Arts Centre as part of a gala concert

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Read article from the Meath Chronicle (28 January 2009)

We are delighted to announce that we have been nominated for a prestigious ‘Zurich Lama Award 2009′.

The Local Government, City & Council awards were created to honour exemplary projects within the community. They seek to generate recognition of the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of the individuals, companies and local government authorities who make these happen.

Solstice Arts Centre has been named a finalist in the category of Best Arts Building. Other nominees in this category include Birr Theatre, Co, Offaly; Butt Hall, Co Derry; CIT Cork City School of Music, King House, Co Roscommon; Mullingar Arts Centre; and Wexford Opera House.

Winners will be revealed at a Gala ceremony on Saturday 24th January 2009 at the CityWest Hotel, Dublin and will be hosted by Primetime presenter - Miriam O’Callaghan.

Further information is available on www.lamaawards.org

Press Release

Irish Times Review, Thursday 11 December

We are delighted to announce that Solstice Arts Centre claimed a prestigous Meath Marketing Award on Thursday, 6th November in the Knightsbrook Hotel, Trim. We were awarded for The Most Effective Marketing Brochure on the night. For more information on the award, visit www.marketingideas.ie 

Recently playwright and Artistic Director of Tall Tales Theatre Company Deirdre Kinahan appeared on a segment of Nationwide. For those you you who missed this, here is a link to view the show  http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0713/nationwide_av.html.

Tall Tales will have a busy couple of months ahead of them.  In November the company are off on tour with their acclaimed play “Hue  and Cry”, performing in the Ruse International Theatre Festival in Sofia Bulgaria and also at the Bucharest International Theatre Festival in Romania. Solstice hopes to stage “Hue and Cry” in January 2009. More details of this to follow shortly.

Solstice will premiere Tall Tales first play for children, Maisy Daly’s Rainbow in December before it goes on tour to various venues in the country.

Also don’t miss Deirdre Kinahan’s radio play which will be aired on RTE Radio 1 on Sunday, 14th September at 8.00pm. “Bogboy” is a play set in Co. Meath.