Red Bird Youth Collective, Galway Arts Centre
Waking Playthings: A collaboration between Red Bird Youth Collective, performance artist Dominic Thorpe and sound artist Vicky Langan.
Red Bird Youth Collective’s experimental performance ‘Waking Playthings’ took place on the 7th of December 2013 in Nun’s Island Theatre. This live, improvised, experimental, durational performance was the end result of a collaboration between Red Bird, performance artist Dominic Thorpe and sound artist Vicky Langan. This project was supported by The Arts Council under The Youth Ensemble Scheme.
This collaboration began in September 2013 and took the form of weekly workshops in Galway Arts Centre where Thorpe and Langan shared ideas around performance and introduced various approaches to working with sound and live art. The workshops ranged from interaction with materials to vocal improvisation, with a strong emphasis on experimentation and exploration.
Red Bird Youth Collective is an arts organisation for youths by youths that encourages and supports the art practices of young people in Galway. Established in 2011 by the Galway Arts Centre, Red Bird is a collective created for people between the ages of 15-24 to experiment with the many facets of art. Programmed projects in collaboration with professional artists facilitate the concepts and the artistic ambitions of Red Bird members. Working with talented professional Irish and international artists, members have access to unrivalled artistic training and experience.