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Upstart Project Co-Ordinator Intern Wanted!

admin — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:08:54 +0000

Deadline 17 June 2013

About Upstart
Upstart is a non-profit collective that promotes arts and creative collaboration as tools for meaningful social change. Our mission is to highlight the importance of creativity and ingenuity when society is in need of direction and solutions, and to emphasise the value of arts to public life. In [...]

Upstart Collaborative to build new pop-up Park

UpStart Team — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:16:23 +0000

Dublin city centre will be transformed this summer 2013 by the work of a creative group called Upstart. Upstart are building an exciting new pop-up park, which will bring together a diverse range of community, voluntary and professional sector bodies. The Upstart collaborative aims to showcase the best in Irish design talent by temporarily converting [...]

Better Together Giving challenge, and the future

Kit Fryatt — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:24:50 +0000

We’re delighted to announce that Upstart won the Better Together Giving Challenge, receiving an amazing total of 1,051 unique donations. We’d like to thank all our supporters, who tirelessly petitioned friends and family to donate, who persisted when the online donation form refused to play with their web browsers, who shared and re-posted and [...]

Upstart Project #2 – Be a part of it!

UpStart Team — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:46:58 +0000

We at the Upstart collective are trying to win a prize fund of €10,000 for our next exciting project. We’re asking all our supporters, families & friends to donate a little something (between €1 & €5). The initiative with the most donations will win the Better Together prize fund.

Donate to Upstart here!

In [...]

DWF is looking for YOU!

LA Speedwing — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:19:03 +0000

DWF is coming to town and is looking for you.

What does DWF stand for?
DWF doesn’t stand for Dream Wrestling Forum although the idea would be similar but stands for Dublin Writing Forum.
DWF is an open group, organised by Anne Tannam and Liz McSkeane and they both welcome writers of all [...]

It’s A Wrap! Help us celebrate the UpStart Poster Project.

UpStart Team — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:27:00 +0000

14th Oct, Block T, 7 – 12pm, €7 in (free for contributors) BYOB. FB event

Little Green Cars, Chequerboard, Sleep Thieves, Simon Cullen & Danielle Harrison all performing on the night.

It’s Upstart’s big poster giveaway with DJ’s, Bands, Performances, Speakers and Poster exhibition… Get stuck in to Block T (Smithfield) on Friday [...]

Announcing…

Kit Fryatt — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:53:10 +0000

…the wind-up (for now) of the writing feature here. The Upstart blog has published a wide range of poetry, drama and prose by Upstart poster contributors and others, and we’d like to thank all of the contributors for their work. To close this phase of the feature (but who knows what might happen in the [...]

Poem: Donal Mahoney, Botanical Garden

Kit Fryatt — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:11:41 +0000

When she arrives
in sunlight,
orchid ribbons flowing
in her hair,
an orchid dress rising,
she finds the rest of us
are standing there,
simply unaware
that only she can hear
the applause
of a thousand orchids
break the air.

Donal Mahoney, whose parents [...]

Poem: Paul Perry, Lugh decides to clone himself

Kit Fryatt — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:30:45 +0000

Lugh decides to clone himself

in case the world is too much
or not enough
in case I am childless
but I am not
in case I need to know
where my doppleganger is
but I do
in case I want to interrogate myself
[...]

Call for Ideas: RTÉ ARTS 2012

LA Speedwing — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:18:32 +0000

Upstart is, as you know, all about promoting the Arts. So it makes sense to advertise this project.

If you are a producer, an amateur or a pro, and you’ve got great ideas in store, then the time has come to put those great ideas into motion. Here are the specifics for making a submission to [...]