Makeshift Ensemble

Makeshift Ensemble Makeshift Ensemble is a Cork-based company who develop collaborative theatre and produce festivals (Quarter/Quarter Block Party) & professional trainings.

We have to date produced, wrote, created three full length theatre productions ('Exit Strategy', 'Osteoporosis', 'No One Can Hear You In There') all of which premiered as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival as part of the WE LIVE HERE platform, Solstice 2012 and Solstice 2011 respectively. As well as two looser, experimental theatre events '...because the bus is always late' a site specific theatr

e happening at the 2010 Cork Culture Night and the 'Makeshift Christmas Flashmob' and MP3 experiment in December 2010. We also ran a theatre development programme entitled Let's Play! In 2011/2012 and established Quarter a pop-up arts resource centre in Cork over a three month period in 2012/13. In these two projects alone we organised 20 events including PARABOLA a two day mini-festival, various professional development workshops, visual arts exhibitions, music gigs, theatre nights and short residencies. In 2015, in association with Southern Hospitality Board, we produced Quarter Block Party, a new arts festival that took over North and South Main St in Cork city for a weekend in February. We look forward to the next instalment in 2016. Makeshift Ensemble is also founding member of the Firestarter Network. Makeshift Ensemble are: Eszter Nemethi, Caoilian Sherlock, Leah Hearne, Lydia Fischer-Dooley, Ciara Lenihan, Robert Gould, Charlie Crowley, Aoife LaRocque, Niall Hearne and Úna Hennessy.

A huge thank you to Quarter Block Party, the participants, Esther Rodríguez Barbero, North Main Street, the different sp...
07/02/2018

A huge thank you to Quarter Block Party, the participants, Esther Rodríguez Barbero, North Main Street, the different speakers and everyone who attended the Talking over a Common Ground at Quarter Block Party talks at St. Peter's Cork, Cork Community Art Link, National Sculpture Factory as well as our funders and partners for making the first meeting of the Common Ground project what it was.
Here are some photos of the week!

COMMON GROUND is a training and research project, bringing together artists and those active in the social fields to develop strategies, explore methodologies within the broader frame of socially engaged art. Over the course of a year, this project will allow the group to explore 'parachute strategies' - interventions, one off events or remote practices - in order to engage with local communities within the international and migratory contexts they often find themselves in.

The project, developed by six European partner organisations active on this field, will 'twin' North Main Street and Népszínház utca in Budapest, Hungary and will result in a publication of a book and a specific programme of events as part of QBP19.

Common Ground is funded by the European Commission through Erasmus+

photos: Nuno Escudeiro

Happy Christmas! Don't forget that the deadline for applications for Common Ground is midnight today. To apply: https://...
26/12/2017

Happy Christmas!
Don't forget that the deadline for applications for Common Ground is midnight today.

To apply: https://goo.gl/forms/toOY1bDNjRoiZ7OQ2

If you have questions email Eszter ([email protected]) and have a great Boxing Day!

(go for walks and have mold wine, ice skate, have beautiful warm conversations and catch up on films + remember to submit the application ;-))

25/12/2017

Wishing everyone a very very beautiful Christmas!

Look at all the line-up announcement for  Quarter Block Party today! Tickets are on sale, Christmas around the corner......
19/12/2017

Look at all the line-up announcement for Quarter Block Party today! Tickets are on sale, Christmas around the corner....

We are delighted to be adding TONS of more acts to the Quarter Block Party 2018 line up including -
Tandem Felix, Pillow Queens, The Sunshine Factory, Yenkee (Graham Cooney), Cal Folger Day, Lowlek, Anna Clock, HawkBastard, Rory Francis O'Brien, Davy Kehoe, r.kitt, Andy Wilson & The Toys, BAD BONES, Fuzzy Hell, Pale Rivers, Damsel, Elaine Malone, HEX, Postcard Versions, God Alone and PowPig.

Looking for that last minute Christmas present for your loved one? Tickets are on sale NOW from uTicket -
https://uticket.ie/event/quarter-block-party-18

A short video of IN SITU our trainingon site-specific theatre methodology we organised two years ago in collaboration wi...
16/12/2017

A short video of IN SITU our trainingon site-specific theatre methodology we organised two years ago in collaboration with Artemisszió Alapítvány.

Don't forget the deadline to apply to Common Ground - call for participants is the 26th December!

-video by Asia Dér

IN SITU was a ten day training programme in Budapest, Hungary exploring the use of site specific theatre in a social context. It was a project of the Firesta...

!!! CALL FOR APPLICATIONS !!!COMMON GROUND: TRAINING IN SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART TOOLSdeadline: 26th December 2017Common Gro...
12/12/2017

!!! CALL FOR APPLICATIONS !!!
COMMON GROUND:
TRAINING IN SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART TOOLS

deadline: 26th December 2017

Common Ground is a training and research project focusing on approaches to working and engaging meaningfully with local communities of place within the internationalised, migratory professional practices of both international youth work and the arts.

WHERE: Cork, Ireland & Budapest, Hungary & online
WHEN: part time between February 2018 - February 2019
WHO: artists and those working in the social field from Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Finland

Initiated by the Firestarter Network and developed by Makeshift Ensemble (IRL), Artemisszió Alapítvány (HUN) and Postmodernsquare (FIN) together with Motus Terrae (GRE), REDE (POR) and REACH - Regional Endeavour for Art, Culture and Health (SRB) and it is funded by the European Commission.

To apply and for more info:

Makeshift Ensemble is a Cork based theatre company making collaborative theatre and co-producing Quarter Block Party.

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