The Allingham 2019 Fiction & Poetry Competitions are now open! You can enter via our Online Entry page, or send a postal/email entry. Prizes in both categories are €300. The deadline is September 26th. For more information, visit www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poetry-competitions. Best of luck everyone!
The Allingham Arts Festival presents the Donegal premiere of 'Prisoners of the Moon', a new documentary directed by Johnny Gogan, in the Abbey Arts Centre, July 18th, followed by a Q&A with the director.
Filmmaker Johnny Gogan’s drama/creative documentary brings to life the story of Arthur Rudolph, a scientist who played a key role in NASA’s historic 1969 moon landing.
He was one of a number of Nazi rocket scientists who assisted America as they tried to win the space race. The film examines Rudolph’s work and alleged involvement in war crimes, and screens as the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing approaches.
Johnny took part in Allingham 2018 when he presented a screening and discussion on his film 'Mapmaker'.
Abbey Arts Centre
July 18th
Fancy a taste of Ballyshannon? Join us for a cookery demonstration by Nirvana Restaurant and Shelly's Cakes & Bakes in Kilbarron House on June 18th at 7.30pm. Not only with the chefs be local, so will all of the produce. Last year's event was a great success so we expect a good crowd again this year! Admission €10. All proceeds go towards this year’s Allingham Arts Festival.
Congratulations to directors Garry Keane and Andrew Mc Connell and their team on ‘Gaza’ winning the top prize at this year’s Dublin Film Festival! The film won the Best Documentary prize, selected by the Dublin Film Critics’ Circle, and earlier in the day was awarded second prize in the ICCL Humarn Rights Film Award, which recognises the role of film in raising awareness of human rights.
This is fantastic news for Garry and all of the production team who spent years working on this film, and often placing themselves in dangerous situations to tell this story.
Garry has been involved in the Allingham Festival for many years, having presented a screening of his ‘Toughest Place…’ documentary a few years ago, and also donating the Jim Keane Award for fiction in honour of his father, one of the founders of the original festival. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we all get to see the film in Ballyshannon!!
After a long winter of silence, the Allingham Arts Festival Committee is delighted to announce that the festival will return in 2019, running from November 7th-10th. Once again, we invite submissions from individuals or groups who are interested in participating in this year’s festival.
Simply click on the button below to submit your proposal:
The Allingham Arts Festival takes place in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, each November. The aim of the festival is to bring a wide range of arts activities to the community, celebrating local, national and international artists of many disciplines. In recent years, we have hosted poetry and writing events, concerts, documentary film screenings and discussions, lectures in design, panel discussions on the creative economy, craft workshops, art and photography exhibitions, historical lectures and much more. Recent guests have included Anne Enright, Theo Dorgan, Afric Mc Glinchey, Garry Keane, Jamie D'Alton, Wes Sewell and Nishaw Ali amongst others.
We would like to hear from artists, writers, poets, musicians, digital media and creative media artists and producers, kids entertainers, educators, film-makers, producers, workshop facilitators, entrepreneurs, crafts people, theatre companies, and anyone else with a suitable event to propose!
Please fill in the form below, providing the following information:
clear description of the proposed event
target audience/demographic
technical requirements - type of space required, audio, projection, etc.
costs to the festival
if available, examples of previous work/performances, links to website/videos etc.
All proposals will be discussed by the Allingham Festival Committee in April. Decisions for inclusion will be based on the nature of the event, availability of funding, and programming requirements.
