Like Nothing Before
The Model for Culture Night Sligo
Friday 25th September, 6 pm until late

For Sligo’s inaugural Culture Night on Friday 25th September, The Model is organising several key events that will occupy the city centre. For one night in September, Cultural Organisations around Ireland will throw open their doors until 10pm at night, devising specific and free events for the public as new ways to engage with Culture and the Arts.

The Model’s focus is to ensure that Culture Night Sligo goes well beyond opening doors of art institutions, to spill out into the streets of Sligo and engage audiences directly. In this way, Culture Night Sligo is to be a unique art-weekend experience, not replicated anywhere else on the island. Art activities will commence again the day after Culture Night in the form of the art festival Gracelands on Saturday.

Above : BIG Art Project take a wee trip around Sligo en route to the hoarding project at The Model building at the Mall

EVENTS
Reverse Pedagogy - 6-10pm with launch at 7pm. Opening Night of the Model’s autumn exhibition.
On the night, artists and the public will be interacting together creatively. All are welcome.

Beautiful Unit - from 8.30pm, The Irish Times recommend that you “Don’t let this one pass you by.” Beautiful Unit will stage a surprise guerrilla gig on O'Connell Street in the centre of Sligo for Culture Night.

Young Model - Short Films 6pm-8.30pm – Youth from a new media collective screen their short films in Wolf on Arm, a temporary Model studio space, on Friday. All films were made in recent workshops with artists, musicians and filmmakers and give a snapshot of Young Sligo.

BIG Art Project – 7-10pm A precursor to The Model building re-opening in 2010, this outdoor art exhibition on the hoarding on The Mall engages children who consider the future of Sligo.

The Model acknowledges the support of the Arts Council, Sligo County Council, Sligo Borough Council, Sligo Arts Service/Culture Night, Sligo Leader, the Canadian Embassy in Dublin, and Resource House Project, Cranmore.