Support

Register your Support for an Arts Centre in Tullamore

There are currently 186 supporters registered.

Please add your voice. Individuals, companies, and community associations are all encouraged to indicate their support for an Arts Centre in Offaly by registering here.

• Ciara Kinnarney
  Tullamore should have a place of it's own to express creativity and welcome all forms of art.

• Brian O'Connor

• Bridge House Hotel, Spa and Leisure Club
  we fully support your cause and offer our facilities free for any need you have such as meetings or fund raising events. Colm

• StageCraft Ireland

• mark quinlan

• Tullamore Amateur Dramatic Society

• Mary Dwyer

• David Quinlan

• Carmel Smyth
  Good Luck with Finding a venue.
  Definitely need an Arts Centre.

• Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2007-2009

• Tullamore Musical Society
  After all the years of the "boom" we have idle business units and housing schemes unfinished and no Arts Centre! As the recession bites harder, its construction and use would bring jobs to the town and also give people an interest in local communty activities. Badly needed!

• macnas

• Ballycommon House
  Support for an ARTS CENTRE.

• K9 Ireland Security

• Michael Humphrey

• Loughnan Hooper

• paula mulvey
  best of luck with the festival

• jacqui downey
  Tullamore needs an arts centre it would be a complete shame to lose it now especially the way things are ,as for a venue i think characters building in market sq would be an ideal place for an arts centre as it is a beautiful building, it is historical, i think it would make a fabulous arts centre ,i dont think there is any other building that would have any of its features, i have been to a few plays in there and they were brilliant and thats as a pub ,and i often said to myself this would make a fine art centre

• Rosemary Feeney
  Tullamore should have an Arts Centre.It would provide a proper venue for TADS to perform etc,

• Brian McDonagh

• Renée Finlay
  The time has come to gather together and get this Art Centre for Artists, our voice must be heard

• Charleville Castle

• Maria Auletta

• tois
  grofu

• Aura Productions
  The Arts are the life blood of a vibrant community for present and future generations.

• Hilary O'Shea

• Timothy Green

• Claudia Meacle
  I really do hope the Govt. helps out here the town could really do with a boost right now!!

• Michael Wilder Vance
  Lets do this before all the artists originating from Tullamore get claimed by any other conceivable place that shows the slightest bit of interest in them!

• Francesca Marcon
  Happyness is good for us, happy-mess not that much...

• Pauline Dunne
  It is very important to Tullamore Town that a building should be dedicated to the arts and the Old Cinema Building (Now called Characters) is an ideal location apart from the characteristics of the building which reflect art itself. This building is a very important and old part of tullamore and the layout and beauty within it says it all. I really hope that this building willnot be bypassed for the Art Centre as it would be a shame. Please think long and hard about what your doing.

• heartworks
  it would be such a shame to see the funding not been used and tullamore in such need of an arts centre. It is not forward thinking, to see an arts centre as an ongoing expense rather than an inexhaustible outlet and showcase for the talent in county offaly

• Queen of the Land Festival

• The Rimmelines
  We wish to support all endeavours to secure an arts centre for our great town.

• Fionnuala Corrigan
  I cannot believe that this opportunity may be lost. 2million euro to invest in a capital project for the Arts in Tullamore, 2million to invest in the local economy,at a time when we are crying out for investment on so many levels, cultural, economic, social, educational....and we may lose it because we haven't a plan, haven't the vision, lack the imagination? Is it possible our council, officials and elected representatives, allow this to happen?....

• Maríosa Hume
  Looking for a custom built space to practice, rehearse and teach circus skills

• LORRAINE MURRAY

• Glasshammer

• Mark Cunningham

• David Horkan

• Niamh Finn

• Shane Tannian
  An arts centre in a town is essential to providing young people with opportunities to grow in many creative areas and to socialize in a non destructive way. A venue should be allocated to the arts groups in Tullamore for use to facilitate creative projects for the youth immediately.

• simone murray
  Hi there,I would like to support your campaign for Tullamore Arts centre,please let me know if you are having any meetings or anyway I can be of assistance,I teach curriculum visual art at teacher training college,and paint myself,and have been involved with alot of community arts projects and programmes,
  looking forward to hearing from you,
  all the best for now
  Simone

• cormac lally
  lets get a home for our artists

• Dotser Ltd.

• art student
  tullamore needs an art centre as visual arts are becoming increasingly important in a country so far behind. lets not let tullamore fall behind!
  as an art student i feel this is an important issue

• Recks Audio Theatre Sound Hire

• Tullamore Musical Society
  Great meeting last night well done to all involved

• Gerard Crotty
  An arts centre for Tullamore is a must

• Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
  It would be great to have an arts centre, but I cant understand why it cant be in a room in the library?

• Health Service Executive
  Tá géar gá le Ionad Ealaíona agus Dánlann ar an mbaile.

• Mirrorcob Films & Raptor GMC
  Would really love to give support and Volenteer work to Drama and Music Projects, have Experience in those Area's and also would like to Gain bennifit from the vacinity of the centre by Booking for gigs and premiers and the like, Bless!

• Paulo Barone

• Roseanna Tyrrell

• Naomi Draper

• Lorraine Cunningham

• Joanne Pender

• Black Powder Monkeys

• sound centre

• georgina touhey
  Tullamore like alot of other towns in ireland has accustomed itself to the many muliticultural challanges. There is however a very obviouse gap in future gelling of some very adverse culters and consequently communities. Saddly as a result its always the young and vulnerable who suffer, our future generations. The future generation of Tullamore. Despite such great work been performed on a daily baces, as seen with a lot of local voluntarily,none biest, none profitabale, free and confidential organisations as seen with tullamores womens group, Citizens information and st. Mary's youth centre and so on, there needs to be a forum made available to all age groups, genders and ethinic backgrounds that can freely display there artisic expression via the mode of music or dance, physical or emotive graphics. We need a common ground for all to feel ownership, a place where we can become subjeted to different types of art, cultures and intellegance. This will help develope and consolidate communities that may have been isolated by their own fear and insequrities and break down prejudices, the verty thing that keeps us a captive and at times a product of own envionment, a prisoner of social segragation. This is wrong and unnessary but very evident in our communities. Just open you eyes or listen to the child or adolesent on the street choking on every indecent word when referring to the Polish, the Lithuanian, the chinees or the afriacn community. We need to understand each others cultures, how and why they exist. With ignorance breeds fear and insolance. With our currrent climate of ecconomic depression further imposing upon our frustrations and anxieties we need more so now than ever a forum to happpily, freely and safly express and learn about other communities and please god with this we can move on as one consolidated community recognisng all other cultures, respecting them and growing with them as one, a community who strives for a chance to endulge in an erea of "equall oppertunity"

• Kevin & Mary Moriarty

• Charlene Delaney

• Graham Lucas

• Tullamore Musical Society

• Orlaith Treacy
  Good luck with it, I hope it gets set up.

• Lowri Bennett

• Roseanna Tyrrell,
  Wishing you the best of luck with
  the project to get new Arts Centre
  in Tullamore Save travelling all over the country to get some culture. !!!!!!

• Tullamore Amateur Dramatic Society
  TADS are 100% behind the ongoing iniative to develop a multi-cultural arts centre for the people of Tullamore and the surrounding environs, to help build capacity, capability and sustainability in the arts now and into the future.

• Tullamore Musical Society

• Trevor Commins

• DNG Cowen

• Stephanie A. Armitage
  I would definately support an Arts Centre in Tullamore. The town would benefit greatly from a central modern facility that can cater for drama, music, dance, comedy, art exhibitions and much much more. This exciting facility would integrate many groups of our society that operate in various locations and buildings on an ad hoc basis - far better to have one venue that sets a standard of excellence from the opening night, has well-trained staff to provide a warm and friendly welcome to locals and visitors alilke, and a wonderful showcase for all the artists in our midst. Let's take inspiration from the other centres around us and then create our very own 'home for Tullamore art'.

• marion andrews
  Please keep me posted on future events in 2010

• Alan Multaney
  We need an arts centre in Tullamore badly, too many talented people need a stage to perform, whether they are artists, playrights, actors, film makers or musicians...please support!!!!

• Myriam Hooper

• Katie Fuchs
  Having lived in Tullamore for 25yrs. I was involved in the Arts also in voluntary work. I feel lots of opportunities have been lost in the past. The importances of the arts is overlooked. Arts in any community is important but more so now in the difficult time we live in.
  
  Tullamore should have had it's Arts Centre in Market Square, many years ago. It is one of the only towns without one.
  Change that and do it now.

• Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
  It is an initiative I support fully, there is enough near empty buildings in town that could be used for it, indeed part of the library or new council offices also could be used, why not?

• Clara Musical Society
  Clara Musical Society would like to register their support for the Arts Centre which would not only benefit Tullamore but Clara town as well.

• Frances O' Connell
  Thanks for keeping this issue in the publin domain!!

• Catherine Gavigan

• Frances Berry

• maria gowing
  Its a disgrace that Tullamore has no arts centre.We should not have to travel to Portlaoise,Birr or Mullingar to Plays and Exibitions.Its high time we had our own.

• artist
  I fully support an Offaly Arts Centre in Tullamore. It vital to have a facility locally.

• Sirocco's Restaurant
  I am unable to attend the meeting on Wednesday 25th March but would like to register my support for this badly needed facility.
  Paula Tahraoui

• Brigid Walsh
  Let there be light.
  
  His mind so full of talent,
  HIs voice so seldom heard.
  a paint brush and a pencil may be his only words.
  He does not need to voice it, the beauty's in his hands.
  The clarity of vision so few can understand.
  
  His paintings tell story, a life time of regret, of trials and of heart ache so strong we cant forget .
  We take his vision with us, through darkness there is light,but in the darkness of recession he recedes just out of sight.
  
  someone knows my anger someone knows my pain ...
  i can see it in his pictures ,
  and it helps me through the strain.
  
  bw.
  
  I support this project
  
  we can say it all through the medium of art and now more than ever we need an art centre.

• Mary Roche
  Attended the meeting. Congrats on a very well presented meeting. Keep up the good work. Am a patron of the Arts and will continue to be with our without an Arts Centre.

• Christine Green

• Clare Murphy

• siobhain tolan
  i really think tullamore needs an art centre dont be foolish dont let time run out there is plenty of empty buildings at the moment personally i think characters building in the market sq would be an super place for the arts it is oozing with charm from the old stone walls outside right through the whole building there is such character to the building so dont let it go fight for our arts

• Jonathan Sammon

• Comhaltas-Trad Groups - Fleadhs
  Tullamore definitely needs an art centre. We are talking about moving on with times and providing the culutres and talented groups in our town with the best support and encouragement possible. But we are not.
  Where can we go to put on a professional show or concert or display. nearest theatre would be either Moate, Birr or Mullingar. People from Tullamore WONT travel to that.
  
  Tullamore is ooosing with talent of every format. On my own behalf coming from traditional music side and chairman of the offaly fleadh 3 years in a row now and also Musical Director of Mol an Oige Trad Group, we have no ready made facility for us to perform, reherse, display for local politicans, presidents, special guests. etc. the list is endless..
  
  We need to move with times and keep up to date with competing county towns around us. The fleadh cheoil All Ireland shows how popular tullamore is and we need to match that by upgrading to get a proper arts centre - theatre..
  
  Go n-eiri an t-adh libh

• Jack Dunne
  I am emailing you to express my support for the arts center to be located in Market Square, Tullamore. Parking, easy access, central and above all the property. The Property is going to make a fine backround for the Arts of Tullamore. Its apprearance and history attached is vital for such a committee. Thank you.

• Ishtar

• Patricia Hurl
  I want to add my voice to the forum in support of the new Art Centre. I am a visual artist and have recently come to live in Ballybritt. I was aware that a much needed Arts Centre was in the pipe line and was very disconcerted to hear that the funding has not been forthcoming. I believe that this is a very retrograde decision as an thriving arts programme feeds the soul of a town and lifts the spirit of its people. Patricia Hurl

• image people
  we need it.

• Patricia Grogan
  We Need an art centre

• Dominic and Fionnuala Doheny
  This essential piece of infra- structure is long overdue and much needed if Tullamore is to establish itself as a gateway town.

• Cherrycool Promotions

• Maura Cunningham

• Jennifer Comber Ceramics
  This is a very much needed resource for Offaly.

• CATHERINE LOUGHMAN
  VERY POSITIVE MEETING, THANK YOU FIONNUALA FOR ORGANINSING IT.

• AXIS:architecture

• Eilish Fogarty
  As an arist living in Tullamore I wish to register my support for an Arts Centre in Tullamore which is urgently required.

• Phoenix Festival

• thegoodhatchery

• Jennifer Dillon Design
  Badly needed!

• Ceol PR
  Love what ye do!:)and love the site!

• Aine Holden

• mary gallagher
  I would like to register my support for an arts centre. I have a lot of experience teaching arts/crafts .

• Darrell Hooper
  Keep up the good work

• Philip White

• mary Hensey
  An arts centre would be very benifical to Tullamore

• frances kawala
  Please keep me informed - and good luck!

• Bartels Consulting Engineers

• Tullamore Court Hotel

• rufina recks

• Seamus Dooley

• Midland Regional Authority

• Adrienne Hume
  As a practicing artist and art teacher who grew up in Tulamore, I have always been very strongly aware that the county town of Offaly, now a thriving commercial centre lacked a soul for the many artists, musicians, actors, photographers, film makers who also grew up there, and who both wanted and needed a centre - a focus, for their activities. It is a shame and a disgrace that a big town like Tullamore, with so many fine heritage buildings at it's disposal still has no Arts Centre. The benefits of such a centre in the town would be blatantly obvious after a very short period of time. Tullamore has no soul - It needs a soul! It's great to see the local artists, performers and writers now starting to come together to fulfill this gaping hole.

• pyschics.ie
  hi i am a pyschic medium i work for simon glod pyschics.ie
  and i would like to offer our support
  we would be interested in doing readings as a fund raiser an im sure a few of our pyschics would take part

• Ken Hume

• Ann Bates

• Brendan Kenny
  Guys there has been no update on the situation on your part since dec 09, Its now May 10,I wrote on the facebook page 4 weeks ago about this and still nothing, whats the story

• loughreys

• Graphic Index Ltd.
  Tullamore has a wealth of artistic and performance talent which needs a proper facility to flourish. Otherwise we will lose this talent to other locations or lose it altogether.
  The councillers need to realise that an Arts Centre will enhance the cultural fabric of the town and county in the long term which will lead to economic benefits if managed properly. It's not just about getting votes at the next election - which, I believe, is why we are where we are.

• Whatever jones
  Let's get our act together and gives us a place to strive and call our own.

• Diarmuid Guinan
  I fully support the efforts to bring a much needed Arts Centre incorporating a performance space to Tullamore.

• Kevin Dunne
  We have enough of these new age buildings in Tullamore but for the Arts, it should be located in a well known, easy access and a building which has been part of Tullamore for as long as I can remember, and that building should be Characters or Fergies Pub located in Market Square. This is an ideal location with great parking and the property can and will do wonders for the Arts. It (the Property) is full of history just to look at the stone/brick work of the olden times which is carried through to the inside and really should be appreciated and reflected in the Arts. I strongly recommend this building and please think about the long term and end result we are looking for and the Arts should be in a location for everyone. Thank you

• Natasha Troy

• The Capsula Project
  This is a positive initiative for Offaly arts, especially for programmes which foster an appreciation for allthe various arts, and their micro-cultures, in the Offaly youth community, which has already shown a strong representation in many modern youth cultures.

• stella kemp
  I support arts in Offaly .As important as sport .

• The Red Embers

• compuglobalhypermeganet

• Anam Beo

• Emma Barone

• Sean O' Brien
  As a local Councillor I fully support the need for an Arts Centre and I have raised this matter at Town Council. I am a candidate for Tullamore Town Council and Offaly County Council in June 2009 and have specifically included a committment to an Arts Centre as part of my campaign literature. See you at the meeting on 25 March. Sean

• O'KellySutton

• paddy buckley

• Johnny Keenan
  Barack Obama has accepted that he has Offaly roots.
  
  I think to name an Arts centre in his honour would be fitting to Obama and his Great grand father.
  
  In 1850 at just 18 years Fulmoth Kearney took his prayers hopes and dreams across the Atlantic and survived the hardest of times and this was before he reached the land of opportunities.
  
  The life altering changes he had to have made when he got to America defined his legacy.
  Four generations later we see the product of something he was genetically part of.
  
  It is a fitting tribute to both men that Offaly County Council follows through on their promise and start building this much needed theatre of dreams. A place where minds can be creative and original. A place where people dare and do. A place where Tullamore, Offaly the midlands, Ireland and the rest of the world can come together to appreciate the art of life.
  
  The knock on affect for local and regional businesses will obviously benefit.

• michael
  Good Luck. Great idea

• majella finlay

• Paul Clavin

• Tullamore Show

• Marco Burci
  we are one in art

• Spotlight Youth Theatre. Tullamore
  Running Spotlight Youth Theatre in Tullamore for the psst 12 years, one of the biggest problems is staging an end of year Production. Without the co-operation of St. Marys Youth centre over the years, this would not be possible.
  What a joy it would be for the Youth to perform in a "real" Theatre, without all the hastle of having to rig lights; cable for sound; build a stage etc...
  Tullamore you are behind the times..... but it is never to late.

• Frances

• Jackie Carroll

• Emma Louise

• Fionnuala Kavanagh
  An arts centre in a town as big as Tullamore is long overdue.

• AVAAZ ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL
  ARTS CENTRES CENTRALISE THE CREATIVE SPIRIT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES. IF TULLAMORE CANNOT DRAW DOWN THIS FUNDING IN 2009, IT'LL PROBABLY BE A LONG TIME BEFORE THEY SEE IT AGAIN, GIVEN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL SITUATION THE COUNTRY IS IN.

• Hey Pesto!
  Tullamore needs an arts centre to support existing local artists/arts and to enhance the quality of life in the town (and surrounding villages)

• Brightspark Events and PR

• Tullamore & District Chamber of Commerce

• clonmacnoise pottery

• Juan Pierre Art co.
  Its time to let the Art side in your hearts shine in your Town , to make it a more beautiful Town... Let art grow your town ...

• MCOH
  A missing piece of the jigsaw for a vibrant town and an integral part of social infrastructure. Local projects involving the arts, community education, exhibition spaces and facilities for the performing arts will undoubtedly be fundamental to community growth and development in future years. It is heartening to see support grow for the scheme.

• Tara Barone

• Seanie Morris

• Nancy Quinn
  I am an old age pensioneer and have been following the news about the arts centre in Tullamore. I do not have a computer but I feel so strongly about the arts been located in the Market square property I am getting a friend to email this. I remember that building when I had a small family and I used to bring them to that building to the cinema (now called Fergies). This building has a history in Tullamore and represents so much to so many people. It has great parking and right in the center of town.The inside also stats the old sytle building of long ago and it would be a pleasure to see the arts in there. PLease Please,,,,, Think Think ,,,,,, make it happen.

• Unique Gifts 4U
  Tullamore needs an art centre, it would be a good place for all types of artists to display their work, and a good place for vistors to come.

• Caoimhe McMullan

• Gaelforce
  Hello Dear People at the Rostrevor festival
  
  We have an extended hobby with Irish traditional music on cd and dvd.
  This year - during our holiday - we will visit Ireland again and we are allowed to set up a cd stand at the festivals
  in Drumshanbo and Ballyshannon as we did last year.
  
  Is it possible to do the same on one of the days during your festival ?
  
  We will donate 5% of our sales to the festival.
  
  Looking forward to hear from you.
  
  Kind regards,
  
  Barend van Straten
  Gaelforce - Oud Beijerland
  The Netherlands.
  
  please have a look at our website www.gaelforce.nl for pictures of last year

• visiting hopefully future resident
  I am someone who will be in the area for the summer and hopefully longer and I would like to volunteer any thing I can to help with this wonderful idea. I am an artist and I fully support the arts. Best of Luck with the future decision of the funding.

• Dave Peyton
  Keep the Arts ALIVE

• Colin Hughes

• Sharon Murray (Hanley)
  Cannot wait to visit beautiful Tullamore to explore my roots

• Siobhan Hooper

• Niamh White

• Jocy Walsh

• Tullamore Life & Community

• fergal quinn

• Raymond Daly

• KATHLEEN GORMLEY
  I WOULD LIKE TO REGISTER MY SUPPORT.

• Days Hotel
  Definitely a great idea! well needed

• Councillor Sinead Dooley
  As a Councillor for Tullamore Town, I too wish to pledge my continued support to this project. There is unanimous agreement in our Town that there is a need for an Arts Centre, but we now need to work together as a community to bring forward a proposal which is viable and which will enable us avail of capital monies which have been set aside. We cannot sit back and risk losing this money next December. The provision of an Arts Centre in our town is a priority, lets work together and see this happen.

• Clare McEnroe
  I support the opening of a much needed Arts Centre for Tullamore.

• Respite supports Project for people with learning
  Would love to see the Arts Centre come to fruition as for the past two years, the group I have been working with are involved with The Irish Performing Arts festival for people with a learning disability and we have had nowhere to practise. Also we love to attend all kinds of Arts and would thoroughly enjoy using a centre thats on our doorstep! Best of luck

• Dezynamite

• Mary Carroll

• Brendan Fox

• Ciaran Gilligan

• Finn Hooper
  the young Tullamore people of tomorrow deserve an active community arts centre.

• Claire Guinan

• Caitriona & John Hume
  Give our vibrant artistic community a permanent home.

• Keith L. Jenkins, Registered Patent Attorney, LLC
  Look forward to seeing you in July!

• tess kilroe joslin
  tullamore is an ever growing and diversifying town and an arts centre would be huge benefit to everyone from all social bachgrounds.