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A promoter, a gallery director, and other key people from the arts world offer their take on 2020
It was the year of living dangerously for many in the arts & culture sector. This is how some of them coped
Angela Dorgan, Mick Flannery, Mary McCarthy and Edel Curtin were among those on the arts/culture front line in 2020.
Thu, 31 Dec, 2020 - 09:13
Ellie O’Byrne
Shane Dunne, managing director, Indiependence. Picture Maura Hickey.
Promoter Shane Dunne is the MD of music festival Indiependence, which announced it was leaving its location of 15 years in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, following the cancellation of Indiependence 2020. Dunne acted as spokesperson for EPIC, the lobbying group formed to support the live events sector. In November, his management company received Live Performance Support Scheme funding of €76,000 to produce a series of musical performances in Mitchelstown Caves.
Students organise live crib for charity on Clare farm
A farm in the west of the country is taking on a yuletide twist this Christmas by playing host to a “live crib”, played by enterprising secondary school students in a festive fundraiser.
Organised by the transition year class from St. Michael’s Community College Kilmihil, the crib has been dubbed “An Beithilín Beo”, and has been established on a working farm in Kilmihil.
A number of farm animals have been drafted in as “star” attractions, with a sheep, a cow, two donkeys and a pony in the crib along with the students who are playing the part of Mary, Joseph and the three wise men.