Culture Night 2011 in Laois

Crop Marks – The Ratheniska Project exhibition opened in full for Culture Night 2011 and will remain on display until October 21st in Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, in the upstairs ‘Drawing Room’ gallery.

Thanks to the brilliant contributions by the Ratheniska National School children, we had a diverse and fun range of 15 themed pieces from each class, making it a really enjoyable interactive exhibition for children and adults alike.

The pieces included a film (from junior infants and 6th class) shown on the big screen; future portraits from senior infants; a collection of favourite things from 1st; 15 favourite movies from 2nd; random 15 inspired creations from 3rd; ‘Step Back in Time’ history project from 4th and a group illustrated ’15’ poem from 5th.

The ‘junior’ collection is a follow up to the original expo, organised earlier this year by Penhouse (and made special by the many creative contributions) marking our 15 years in the design business.

15 goes junior… creatively

This year (as you may know) Penhouse celebrates 15 years as a professional graphic design studio and we already ran an online exhibit earlier this year inviting entries from far and near, which was great fun. Thanks to all who took part, we really enjoyed your interactions and brilliant creations. Now we are expanding on this and talking to our younger fans…

We have enrolled the creative talents of the children from our local school here in Ratheniska to create a collection for Culture night 2011. The exhibition will feature a range of creative pieces developed by the full spectrum of students in Ratheniska N.S. in association with their teachers. The theme remains the same: “What does 15 mean to you?” but we think it will have a different feel when embraced creatively by these young artists.

The exhibition will run for a month on display in the children’s gallery (The Drawing Room) at Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise who have kindly come on board to help facilitate our project.

We’re getting excited now and looking forward to seeing the results! We’ll most likely post the creativity progress on our Facebook and Twitter feeds (without giving too much away before Culture night opening) so follow the story there to see how it develops…