The Wonderful World of Joachim Beug: Project 94

“Take a photograph every day for one whole year”, that,in short is what “Project 94” was about.

Carrying out what started as a New Year resolution proved to be demanding, frustrating, enriching, complex and sometimes upsetting. The world around, near and far, was turning into motifs demanding to be framed. Contentions of seeing, laws of composition, artistic rules soon began to seem exhausted and confusing and demanded to be broken. Creative energies had to be found when these seemed to be none. On occasion I just grabbed the camera, turned my eyes away, pointed in some random direction and pushed the button. On other, inspired days half a roll of film was shot with great concentration.

The result: a considerable number of pictures. A selection of those was collected in scrap books which provide a record of the project.

On view here are a few images which should be strong enough to stand on their own and an impression of the range of motifs, intentions and realizations. Instead of titles the images are identified by their ‘date of birth’.

These limited edition photographs will be exhibited until November 7th.
For further information, contact Sheena on tel: 021 4833601

THE DATE BROTHERS

Saturday 4th November @ 7.30pm

Ian and Nigel Date are coming to Crosshaven for a special performance as part of their 2006 world tour that has seen them travel from Ireland to Australia. They have been a huge hit at international jazz festivals and concerts. They are also the top billing at the Manouche Gypsy Jazz Festival to be held in Brisbane on the weekend of the 18th and 19th November in Australia.

Ian Date has long been regarded as one of Australia’s great guitar players. Ian has played all over the world making numerous television, radio, festival and concert hall performances. He has shared the stage with many great musicians including Benny Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Martin Taylor, Don Burrows, Fapy Lafertin, Tom Baker and James Morrison.

Critics have described his playing as masterful, lyrical and always melodic.

Since 2002 he has lived in County Cork, Ireland. Ian produces and arranges music for film, records and performs regularly throughout the Emerald Isle and Europe. He has also been commissioned to write an opera for the 2007 season in Cork.

Younger brother Nigel is based in Sydney and works as a freelance guitarist. He has been involved in numerous jazz and other music ensembles throughout Australia in recent years. These include The Straight Back Fellows, Peppermint T, Glass, George Washingmachine and the String Band, The Jews Brothers, Neil Duncan’s The Ticklers and many more.

Together the brothers play the Gypsy Jazz style created by Django Reinhardt, the legendary Gypsy guitarist of France in the 1930’s. They also play a lot more besides. The music of New Orleans, classic jazz, blues, latin and Irish.

The Date Brothers will thrill with dazzling guitar and will take you on a musical journey.

€12 in @ 7.30pm, including a glass of nice wine. money well spent

For further information:
Art Haven Gallery, Lower Road,Crosshaven,Co. Cork
t: 00 353 21 4833601e: info@havenartists.comw: www.havenartists.comb: http://arthaven.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Niwel Tsumbu & Eamon Cagney who, true to what is said on the package, brought Thursdays' audience on a journey, rich and rewarding.

Thanks also to those who attended the event, and supported Arthaven by so doing.

Presenting work by

Margaret O' Sullivan

from Oct 19th, 2006

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In association with Niwel Tsumbu's album launch on Thursday 19th October, 2006 Arthaven is delighted to combine with it a selection of beautiful work from Margaret O' Sullivan.... read on...

It is easy to see from the work of Margaret O’Sullivan that she really has an affinity with the sea. She manages to capture its atmosphere so effectively that when looking at the work it is as if you can hear the waves and feel the tension of the swell under water. Even in some of her tiny paintings the pull of the tide is tangible. She is a regular exhibitor with the Paul Kane gallery in Dublin and at the Lavit gallery, Cork.

Margaret O’Sullivan attended the Crawford College of Art as a mature student and qualified with an honours degree in Fine Art in 1993. She also received a diploma in the History of Art at University College Cork in 2002.

Her work is informed by nature and the forces within nature. She works in situ in a variety of landscapes such as Allihies in West Cork, Cloghroe, Co. Cork, Achill Island, Co. Mayo. She also spends time working in Crete, Greece at regular intervals. She has recently returned to Cork, having spent a year working and living on Achill Island.

Arthaven Gallery
presents
Niwel Tsumbu Duo

Thursday 19th Oct @ 8pm

Niwel is from the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex Zaire) and has been living in Ireland since 2004. Growing up in Kinshasa he was a shy boy and devoted himself to school, until one day when he was sixteen, his brother Coco Ngoma brought a guitar home...school work went out the window and the guitar took over.

Niwel's love and passion for different kinds of music is evident in his explorations of Jazz fusion, influenced by the rhythmic beats of Congolese rumba and soukous, but Tsumbu is not one to be confined to any one genre, dipping comfortably in and out of jazz, classical guitar, blues, rock and reggae styles.

Since moving to Ireland, Niwel quickly made friends with the Irish music scene. He began playing with many local bands and formed the groups Sumu, Jazzmu and Motema.He has played on many stages- from diversity, cultural awareness and charity gigs- to both the Cork and Bray Jazz Festivals, the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire 2005, and the Spiegeltent for the last two years in Cork. Niwel has supported the likes of Kila, The Wailers, Horace Andy from Massive Attack, and Cameroon virtuoso bass player Richard Bono as part of the Bulmers World Music Festival in Cork. He is set to play the Ruby Session in August.

The Niwel Tsumbu Duo sees him working with Cork percussionist Eamonn Cagney, forming an extremely tight-knit unit and charismatic duo, with Cagney’s strong sensitivity to the subtleties of Tsumbu’s rhythmic patterns allowing for the creation of exciting rhythmic surprises and tensions in the music.

money well spent @ €12 incl. glass of nice wine

For further information, contact
Sheena @
Art Haven Gallery, Lower Road,Crosshaven,Co. Cork

t: 00 353 21 4833601e: info@havenartists.comb: http://arthaven.blogspot.com/

tongue & groove

Thanks to the performers and attendees who participated in what was a fullsome and totally entertaining night in R.C.Y.C on Friday last.

Katrina Emtage (flute) and Ilse de Ziah (cello) opened the night, setting the scene with the sound mosaic that looped flute to cello and back again. Featuring their own compositions and a sprinkling of music from comtemporary composers (Ian Clarke's The Great Train) and the Irish Tradition, this duo introduced sounds to a suitably wowed audience that are not often, if ever, heard in these parts.

Local guitarist and songster Dave Power pressed the night forward with a very fluent and poetic landscape of his own songs. Taken along with the travelling gypsy and the disappointing prophecies of her "Crystal Ball" to the fantasies of being "Someone Different", the eloquently delivered and rhythmically sound tales of song made for a thoughtful journey, at times heart felt, at times hilarious, altogether an extremely satisfying listen.

The Be Naturals pizzazz was not to be stopped! A flawless and energetic performance whose tonal centre was impressively and consistently strong. Their repetoire was richly rounded with fun, spice and chic and the audience couldn't get enough of them! Their generous encores were received by a standing ovation and uproarious applause- and proper order too.

Arthaven would like to sincerely thank RCYC for generously providing us with a wonderful venue at such short notice. Admiral Hugh Mockler joked that the Yacht Club had never seen such culture which we were happy to provide.