For the third year running Tipperary Dance Residency presents TDP12 – an international Dance Festival for all the family. This three day event held at Tipperary Excel Arts Centre, Tipperary, includes dance performances, showcases, dance events and classes and a family day with the popular film Billy Elliot (12A).
This year again, TDP features stunning works by acclaimed companies from Ireland and abroad. TDP’12 is an opportunity for families and professionals to discover dance from different countries and cultures.
Performances on the 12th October at 7.30pm include Body Duet by John Scott’s leading company, Irish Modern Dance Theatre.The piece is an acclaimed, vibrant, world touring physical duet, “exuberant confidence, synchronicity and fluidity of movement” Irish Times. Also on the 12th October in a double bill with Body Duet is the dance piece Argentinita by Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company and choreographed by Mariana Bellotto (Buenos Aires, ARG). Argentinita stages Jazmin Chiodi and her live video-captured image, in a dense solo that evokes the 2001 societal crash in Argentina.
On October 13th at 7.30pm for the first time in Ireland, French company CUBe (Paris, F) presents their new solo WhiteSpace, a piece co-produced by Tipperary Dance Residency and the Tipperary Excel Arts Centre. WhiteSpace is featured as a world premiere and as part of a diptych including CUBe’s duet BlackSoul.
Dance Classes are also available for all ages, and include classes in Contemporary dance (6-10yrs and 16+), Latin Dance (16+), Tango (16+), Discovery Dance (3-5yrs), Jazz Dance (10-14yrs)
To book contact 062 80520 – Admission: €15 Platform Ticket; €10 per performance
Under 18yrs F.O.C. Group Concessions Available
Tipperary Excel Arts Centre – Mitchell St, Tipperary Town
For a detailed programme see www.tdp-danceplatform.ie
TDP’12 is organized as part of The Tipperary Dance Residency which was established in 2008 as an initiative of South Tipperary County Council’s Art Service and Tipperary Excel Arts and Cultural Centre. The Residency aims to develop contemporary dance in the County, both as a practice and as an art form. TDP12 wishes to acknowledge the funding support of The Arts Council Tipperary Excel Arts Centre, South Tipperary County Council Arts Service, South Tipperary Development Company, The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government and the EU under the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013. TDP’12 also acknowledges the support of the French Embassy in Ireland.
For further information about the residency see: www.southtipparts.ie, www.iselichiodi.com, www.tipperary-excel.com
South Tipperary County Council has been allocated grant funding by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport under the Active Travel Towns Programme for:
a) A Walking and Cycle Strategy for Towns: The development of a Strategy for the towns of Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Cashel and Cahir and possibly Clonmel subject to funding. A detailed Improvement Programme will be developed for walking and cycling facilitates. The key aim of the Strategy will be to maximise the role of cycling and walking as principle modes of transport and as leisure activities. Works identified in the Strategy will be rolled out over the lifetime of the Strategy, 2012 to 2020, as and when funding becomes available.
b) Walking and Cycling Facility at N24 Clonmel: Works on the N24 to provide a 2km off road cycle and pedestrian facility between Heywood Road Junction and the Cahir Road Roundabout. This facility will serve existing activities and attract new users and will form part of an important orbital link for an integrated cycle and pedestrian network to be established for the town.
Details of the proposed works are available here.
You are invited to make comments or suggestions in writing or by e-mail to inform the preparation of the Strategy and proposed works. Submissions should identify whether they refer to the Strategy or the Works at Clonmel. If referring to both then separate submissions should be made with respect to each.
All submissions received in writing (or via an e-mail) before 5pm on the 28th September 2012 will be taken into careful consideration. Such submissions or observations should be made to:
Mr. Peter Britton, Senior Engineer Roads Section, South Tipperary County Council, County Hall, Emmett Street, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Or by e-mail to walk-cycle@southtippcoco.ie
The following are links to the documentation:
Click here for Clonmel Cycling and Walking Strategy
Cycle Location and Typical Layout – click on picture to increase size
South Tipperary TD Seamus Healy called on all other councils to follow suit. Photograph: David Sleator/ The Irish Times
GENEVIEVE CARBERY
South Tipperary County council has reversed its decision to withhold payments from third-level grant applicants who have not paid the household charge.
It said the “following receipt of further advice” today in relation to the matter, grant payments will not be withheld from applicants who have not paid the household charge.
The council said it will process 450 grants in 2012, of which almost 70 per cent have been processed to date.
Independent South Tipperary TD Seamus Healy welcomed the move and called on “all other councils to follow suit” and for Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan to “instruct them to follow suit”.
Yesterday, eight local authorities were considering following the lead of South Tipperary County Council and Clare County Council..
As Clare County Council yesterday defended writing to some 800 college grant applicants, student groups staged a protest outside the council’s offices in Ennis. In a statement yesterday the council said it would “prioritise” payments from households which had paid the charge. However the council said it had not at any stage indicated that grant payments would be withheld from applicants that have not paid the household charge.
Only grant-renewal applications are being processed by county councils. All new grant applications for 2012-2013 are processed completely by the central grant authority, Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI).
“SUSI is not seeking proof of payment of the household charge from applicants,” it said in a statement.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0919/breaking24.html
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