CCA Derry~Londonderry | Audio CCA Derry~Londonderry

Niamh Seana Meehan

Dreamers, 2024
Audio Recording, 8 mins 10 sec

Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 and National Drawing Day 2024.

This year CCA invites artist Niamh Seana Meehan to design an activity for NIMHAF 10–19 May 2024 and National Drawing Day 18 May 2024.

In Dreamers Niamh invites you to listen, float, and linger with an audio coastal walk. Walking along edges of liquid space this audio will explore moments to find stillness, to feel how our skin touches seawater and how we can reimagine the desire path. A desire path is a path created by animal traffic, or a path taken as a short-cut. For this coastal walk the desire path will present listeners with the space to reimagine what they desire to find on their own coastal path.

Listen to the audio, pausing to draw or write anything that comes to mind. Alternatively you can listen to the full audio, then begin to draw what you feel, think or imagined as you were listening. You are also welcome to listen to the audio and enjoy being taken to the coast. Niamh invites you to respond in your own way.

Suggested materials are pens, pencils, colouring pencils or whatever you have to hand or prefer to draw with.

You can download or listen online to this specially created audio with intentional pauses to give you space to reflect, draw or write. Headphones are preferred. You can tag your drawings with @CCADLD, @nimhaf, #NationalDrawingDay

Read more about the work at: ccadld.org/public-programme/dreamers-an-activity-for-nimhaf-and-national-drawing-day

And visit the artist's instagram at: @niamhseanameehan

This project was supported by:

CCA Derry~Londonderry

Arts Council England

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Derry City & Strabane District Council

Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival

CCA Introducing continues with a takeover by R Talitha Samuel, an independent cultural producer and editor based in New Delhi, India. R's takeover, entitled Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', takes place on CCA's Instagram and Spotify on Sunday 24 March 2024.

Below, you can find a description of the takeover:

'I had a totally different plan in mind for this visual and audio project when I initially started out. However, just before I was all set to hit record, my grandfather got very sick and passed away. This was during the month of December 2023, and it naturally changed the course of not only my life and understanding of myself but also of this work. I wanted to explore why I do what I do in terms of my approach to audio as a medium, mediated through the literal voices of members of my community and my family. Now, my takeover, Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', composed of audio recordings, old Tamil hymns and voice notes will dive into the warp and weft of grief, collective prayer, sound as infrastructure, recording as witness and what it means to be a man.'

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

Sound and Vision connects this episode's speakers: Peter Glasgow, Susan Hughes and Ryan Vail. Recorded during Susan Hughes' solo show, 'Stones From a Gentle Place' at CCA, each artists' practice spans music and visual art. Susan is a fiddle player using music to barter for stories, Peter experiments with slide guitar and participated in CCA's Digital Residency 'The Honkey Tonks and Me⁠' in Autumn 2023, and Ryan Vail won the NI Music Award for Best Album with Elma Orkestra in 2019 as well as working with Visual Spectrum Studios creating audio-visual installations.

You can find out more about CCA at ⁠⁠CCADLD.org⁠⁠.

Peter Glasgow peterglasgow.co.uk | @peterglasgow

Susan Hughes cargocollective.com/susanhughesartist | @susandorothyhughes

Ryan Vail @ryanvail | @visualspectrumstudio

With thanks to:

CCA Derry~Londonderry
Art Fund
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

Episode 9 welcomes SEAMS artist Laura Wilson who talks with writer Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh and weaver Claire Whelan about linen, family, history, motherhood, nature and the colour indigo amongst other topics.

You can find out more about SEAMS at ⁠CCADLD.org⁠.

Laura Wilson laurawilson.me | @wilsonlaurawilson

Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh @kerrinidochartaigh

Claire Whelan @whelansweaving

With thanks to:

CCA Derry~Londonderry
Art Fund
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

In  this episode artist Tom O'Dea and Frank Sweeney talk with Pirate.ie's John Walsh about the Irish Pirate Radio Archive, cross border broadcasts and country music.

You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Frank Sweeney and Tom O'Dea at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links:

Frank Sweeney
franksweeney.art | @frankbeee

Tom O'Dea
iamtomodea.com

John Walsh
Pirate.ie | @pirate_ie

With thanks to:

CCA Derry~Londonderry
Art Fund
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council

Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences.

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You can see documentation from the exhibition Ballads of Rhinestones & Newcomers, which featured work by Bojana Janković at CCADLD.org and you can read more about the artists at the following links:

Bojana Janković
bojanajankovic.com | @postmoderna 

Justin Kuoame
Interview 

Vukašin Nedeljković
asylumarchive.com | @asylum.archive

With thanks to:

CCA Derry~Londonderry
Art Fund
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Derry City & Strabane District Council