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You can also contact us by phone on +353 (0)41 9844227 or just pop by our office in Barlow House, West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth - we would be happy to see you.

A DVD of Ship Street Revisited is now on sale directly from Upstate Theatre Project. Copies are also for sale at the Droichead Arts Centre, Stockwell Street, Millmount Museum and Barlow House in Drogheda.

The DVD has been produced with kind support from the Heritage Council and contains the Ship Street Revisited performance, interviews with the director and performers and a slide show of images from the project.

Total running time: 89 minutes.

To purchase, contact Upstate Theatre Project on +353 (0)41 9844227, email admin@upstate.ie or call to us in Barlow House, West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth.

Cost: 10 Euro (plus the cost of postage and packaging if you would like us to post it to you - P & P within Ireland is €1.45, P & P outside Ireland is €2.05.) We can take cash, cheques (made payable to Upstate Theatre Project) or payments through PayPal (just email us and we will send you a PayPal invoice).

The Ship Street Revisited DVD will make a great present for anyone interested in Drogheda's heritage, oral history and community performance, or for friends and family living abroad. DVDs will be available for a limited period only.

Upstate Theatre Project presents

HOME

Drogheda Arts Festival 2013

Article 41.2 of the Irish Constitution says the state "recognises that by her life within the home, a woman gives to the state a support without which the common good cannot be achieved".

To know someone is to live with them. A snapshot of contemporary home life.

Home is a collection of three site-specific immersive events created by Upstate Theatre Project for the Drogheda Arts Festival. The performance is devised by a community cast of eighteen in collaboration with award-winning director Louise Lowe.

With kind support from Respond! Housing Association.


Limited audience capacity. Early booking is advised.

Friday 3rd May, 5.30pm, 6.30pm, 8pm, 9pm

Saturday 4th May, Sunday 5th May, Monday 6th May, 3pm, 4pm, 5.30pm, 6.30pm, 8pm, 9pm

Venue: Rowan Heights, Marley's Lane, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Booking: 041 9833946 Drogheda Arts Festival Box Office

Tickets: €10 / €8 Concession

*BOX OFFICE OPEN FROM WEDNESDAY 17th APRIL*


Photography Credit: Owen Boss

Upstate Theatre Project presents

THE FAR SIDE

Drogheda Arts Festival 2013

Using the oral history archive collected by Drogheda Local Voices, Upstate Theatre Project launched the Shared Heritage Programme in 2011 with Come Forward to Meet You, the first of three projects that set out to explore Drogheda's oral histories through contemporary storytelling. The trilogy continued earlier this year with Ship Street Revisited and now concludes with the third and final instalment, The Far Side.

Under the guidance of artist Feidlim Cannon, The Far Side eschews the original archives and sees seven proud Droghedeans develop a contemporary, living history. The video performance explores the social history of the town through personal recollections of growing up and living in the town.

The Far Side blends contemporary art-making with local, personal and popular heritage in a unique and unsentimental cocktail for the here and now. The global and the local collide through the prism of favourite TV shows, cinema and song celebrating a peoples' history of themselves.

The performance is a real, sometimes surreal, re-presentation of stories, memories and reminiscences this group has shared with each other over the last two years.

Kindly supported by Clarke's Bar, Drogheda.


Friday 3rd May, 8pm

Venue: Droichead Arts Centre, Stockwell Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Booking: 041 9833946 Drogheda Arts Festival Box Office

Tickets: €5

*BOX OFFICE OPEN FROM WEDNESDAY 17th APRIL*

The performance will be followed by a post-show discussion.


The project is supported by the European Union's PEACE III Programme as awarded by Louth Peace and Reconciliation Partnership. The Project is managed by Co. Louth VEC’s PEACE III funded Peace of Art Project.

Photography Credit: Kilian Waters

Upstate Theatre Project presents

ABACUS

Featuring a community cast of older citizens from Drogheda, ABACUS is a short film that explores the participants' dreams, hopes and fears for the future in a darkly comic way. The film was developed over several months through a process of writing workshops with the participants and artists Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan.

Organised in collaboration with Age & Opportunity as part of the nationwide Bealtaine festival - celebrating creativity as we age.

With kind support from Scotch Hall Shopping Centre.

Monday 27 May, 8pm

Venue: Droichead Arts Centre, Stockwell Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth

While this is a free event, booking is advised.

Booking: Droichead Arts Centre

Tickets: Free

Thursday 30 May, Friday 31 May, 12-9pm

Saturday 1 June, Sunday 2 June, 12-6pm

Showings every 30 minutes.

Venue: Scotch Hall Shopping Centre, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Booking: No booking required

Tickets: Free 

Photography Credit: Kilian Waters