The Programming Internship role description is available here.

For full details on how to apply, please click here.

If you have any queries, please email emma@fringefest.com

Closing date for applications is 6pm on Friday 17th February 2012.

The theme for the festival this year is Creative Disruption. Playful Protest. Joyful Abandon.

2012 will mark a very special 18th birthday celebration for the festival.  Far from taking on the responsibilities of adulthood with sobriety and meek submission, our 18th birthday will see us dreaming big, living large and losing the keys to this glorious city of Dublin. We want to play, we want to fight, we want to cry, we want to lose it all and find it again. We want to make dark and thrilling discoveries and think about a brighter future.  We want to define ourselves as something other than what has come before us. We want to experience the exquisite pain of growing up in a joyous celebration, with the city as our mise-en-scène.  While we look back at 18 years of ground-breaking theatre, dance, music, comedy, spectacle, visual, live and public art we will also look forward; as always, to the shock of the new and the thrill of the next, reinforcing our place as the enfant terrible of the Irish performing arts scene.  To do this we need you.

We invite proposals from artists working in all artforms who  are ambitious, innovative and rigorous,  invigorating the contemporary experience of people living and visiting Dublin, particularly those that engage with the themes outlined above.  ABSOLUT Fringe is a curated festival and proposals from artists wishing to be programmed should be made via our online application system.

Be brave. Be bold. Be with us.

HOW TO APPLY:

Download and read the ABSOLUT Fringe 2012 Bible before applying.

Click HERE to submit your application.

PLEASE NOTE – You must fill in and submit the form in one go. We advise you to read the entire form first, print it out if necessary, and compose your responses in advance of filling the form in. Once you have submitted your application you will see a Thank You message. This is the ONLY receipt you will get until you submit your supporting docs.

The deadline for applications is Friday 16th March 2012 at 6pm. You will also need to email supporting documents to emma@fringefest.com by Friday 23rd March 2012. Applications with no supporting documents are considered incomplete.

We will host a Pre-Application workshop on Wednesday 15th February 2012 at 6pm to answer all of your questions about the festival, how to apply, what we’re looking for and anything else we or you can think of.

SOME USEFUL DOCUMENTS:

ABSOLUT Fringe 2012 Bible

ABSOLUT Fringe 2012 Updated List of Sample Venues

Sample Production Budget 2012

Sample Self Present Contract 2012

The Marketing Manager is a key member of the overall administrative team of the festival. We’re a curated, multi-disciplinary festival and year-round organisation focusing on new and innovative approaches to the arts. We lead the sector with innovative, cost-effective marketing campaigns and a strong brand reaching enviable demographics. We reach and engage the audience everyone else wants and we are looking for a Marketing Manager who can match our previous successes and exceed future expectations.

We’re not just a festival: Dublin Fringe Festival is a year-round organisation supporting the development and presentation of new work by Irish and International artists of vision, nurturing artistic ambition and excellence across a range of art forms. An active curator, we provide an environment in which participating artists challenge, subvert and invigorate their disciplines and practice.

Dublin Fringe Festival provides context for new work and demands audience engagement and dialogue. The scale and environment of the festival broadens arts participation, playing a vital role in the fabric of Dublin and Irish cultural life.

Full outline of the role and terms of employment: Marketing Manager Job Description 2011
Salary: €30,000 – 35,000 per annum commensurate with experience

To apply for this position please send a CV listing three references (preferably with their email addresses) and a covering letter to wendy@fringefest.com. In the covering letter candidates should address the following screening questions. Candidates who do not specifically respond to these screening questions will not be included in the shortlisting process.

1. Give details of the last marketing campaign that you delivered, indicating the audience, scope and scale; your role in the campaign; its success and how you evaluated that success.
2. Provide us with a sample of copy that you have written that you are most proud of and explain why.
3. Detail a social media campaign that you have recently observed that you rate as an effective campaign and explain why.
4. Detail, briefly, two international arts organisations whose brands you consider to be visually strong and impactful and explain why.

Closing Date for applications is 6pm Friday 25th November 2011. Late applications will not be accepted

If you’re thinking about applying make sure to check back here in January, sign up for our newsletter or follow us on one of our social sites!

Fishamble New Writing Award
Winner: The Flamboyant Bird
Nominees:

You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something by Dan Colley, James Hickson, Louise Melinn & Mairin O’Grady
Luca & the Sunshine by Nick Lee
The Flamboyant Bird by Damian Kearney
The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil Watkins
In My Bed by Veronica Dyas

Bewley’s Café Theatre ‘Little Gem’ Award
Winner: Pocket Music
Nominees:

The Wheelchair On My Face: A look back at a myopic childhood (Sonya Kelly/Show in a Bag)
Luca & the Sunshine (donjuandemonaghan)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Then This Theatre)
Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About (Kalle Ryan, Stephen James Smith & Colm Keegan)
Pocket Music (Donncha O’Dea & Camille Ross/Show in a Bag)

Spirit of the Fringe Commissioning Award
Winner: FOLLOW
Nominees:

Eternal rising of the Sun (HotForTheatre)
FOLLOW (WillFredd Theatre)
You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something (Spilt Gin)
Criminal Queers (Maurice Joseph Kelliher)
Seekers (50% Male Experimental Theatre)

Best Female Performer
Winner: Amy Conroy
Nominees:

Amy Conroy (in HotForTheatre’s Eternal rising of the Sun)
Liv O’Donoghue (in junk ensemble’s Bird with boy)
Lauren Larkin (in THEATREclub’s Twenty Ten)
Stefanie Preissner (in With An ‘F’ Productions’ Our Father)

Best Male Performer
Winner: Tim Watts
Nominees:

Paul Reid (in The Corn Exchange’s Man of Valour)
Shane O’Reilly (in WillFredd Theatre’s FOLLOW)
Tim Watts (in Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon Productions’ The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer)
Neil Watkins (in THISISPOPBABY’s The Year of Magical Wanking)

Best Design
Winner: Man of Valour
Nominees:

Man of Valour (The Corn Exchange) – for set and lighting design by Aedín Cosgrove, music and sound design by Denis Clohessy and video design by Jack Phelan.
Autobiographer (Melanie Wilson) – for sound design by Melanie Wilson, lighting design by Ben Pacey and set design by Peter Arnold.
Jumping Off The Earth (Rough Magic SEEDS) – for set design by Aedín Cosgrove.
Bird with boy (junk ensemble) – for visual design by David Fagan and Valerie Reid, music and sound design by Tom Lane and Bryan O’Connell, and costume design by Emma Downey.
FOLLOW (WillFredd Theatre) – for lighting by Sarah Jane Shiels and music and sound design by Jack Cawley.

ABSOLUT Award for Best Off-Site Production
Winner: Fergal McCarthy, No Man’s Land
Nominees:

In My Bed (Veronica Dyas)
Body Electric (The Collective Theatre Company/Revolting Bodies Theatre Company)
No Man’s Land (Fergal McCarthy)
You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something (Spilt Gin)

Best Production
Winner: Bird With Boy
Nominees:

Bird with boy (junk ensemble)
FOLLOW (WillFredd Theatre)
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer (Tim Watts, presented by Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon Productions)
Man of Valour (The Corn Exchange)
Body Electric (The Collective Theatre Company/Revolting Bodies Theatre Company)

Now, here’s the list you’ve all been waiting for…

Fishamble New Writing Award

Nominees:

You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something by Dan Colley, James Hickson, Louise Melinn & Mairin O’Grady
Luca & the Sunshine by Nick Lee
The Flamboyant Bird by Damian Kearney
The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil Watkins
In My Bed by Veronica Dyas




Bewley’s Café Theatre ‘Little Gem’ Award

Nominees:

The Wheelchair On My Face: A look back at a myopic childhood (Sonya Kelly/Show in a Bag)
Luca & the Sunshine (donjuandemonaghan)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Then This Theatre)
Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About (Kalle Ryan, Stephen James Smith & Colm Keegan)
Pocket Music (Donncha O’Dea & Camille Ross/Show in a Bag)

Spirit of the Fringe Commissioning Award

Nominees:

Eternal rising of the Sun (HotForTheatre)
FOLLOW (WillFredd Theatre)
You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something (Spilt Gin)
Criminal Queers (Maurice Joseph Kelliher)
Seekers (50% Male Experimental Theatre)

Best Female Performer

Nominees:

Amy Conroy (in HotForTheatre’s Eternal rising of the Sun)
Liv O’Donoghue (in junk ensemble’s Bird with boy)
Lauren Larkin (in THEATREclub’s Twenty Ten)
Stefanie Preissner (in With An ‘F’ Productions’ Our Father)

Best Male Performer

Nominees:

Paul Reid (in The Corn Exchange’s Man of Valour)
Shane O’Reilly (in WillFredd Theatre’s FOLLOW)
Tim Watts (in Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon Productions’ The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer)
Neil Watkins (in THISISPOPBABY’s The Year of Magical Wanking)

Best Design

Nominees:

Man of Valour (The Corn Exchange) – for set and lighting design by Aedín Cosgrove, music and sound design by Denis Clohessy and video design by Jack Phelan.
Autobiographer (Melanie Wilson) – for sound design by Melanie Wilson, lighting design by Ben Pacey and set design by Peter Arnold.
Jumping Off The Earth (Rough Magic SEEDS) – for set design by Aedín Cosgrove.
Bird with boy (junk ensemble) – for visual design by David Fagan and Valerie Reid, music and sound design by Tom Lane and Bryan O’Connell, and costume design by Emma Downey.
FOLLOW (WillFredd Theatre) – for lighting by Sarah Jane Shiels and music and sound design by Jack Cawley.

ABSOLUT Award for Best Off-Site Production

Nominees:

In My Bed (Veronica Dyas)
Body Electric (The Collective Theatre Company/Revolting Bodies Theatre Company)
No Man’s Land (Fergal McCarthy)
You Can’t Just Leave – There’s Always Something (Spilt Gin)

Best Production

Nominees:

Bird with boy (junk ensemble)
FOLLOW (WillFredd Theatre)
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer (Tim Watts, presented by Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon Productions)
Man of Valour (The Corn Exchange)
Body Electric (The Collective Theatre Company/Revolting Bodies Theatre Company)

With one eye on art and the other on invention, Macnas will once close ABSOLUT Fringe in truly spectacular fashion. Set amidst the stunning, evocative environs of The National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin, On the Edge of Things is a Fierce Beauty conjures up a fantastical night-time experience. Be part of this epic and exhilarating visual feast, which involves over 100 performers and thousands of spectators.

Want to get involved?

Macnas rely on community participation for all their events; everyone from performers to stage managers is a volunteer.

ABSOLUT Fringe and Macnas are looking for experienced practitioners in the event arena to fill stage manager and performance roles. Commitment levels will vary depending on your availability and skill.

Dates and Times:

Sunday 25^th September / 2.00PM – 10.00PM

Who we need and the skills you’ll have:

Stage Managers and Stewards

Communication and team management skills, very good initiative

Performers

Very minimal performance or stage experience is required, but you must be able to follow directions and be enthusiastic in all weather conditions!

Float Operators

General interest in performance, eager to be involved

Please contact events@fringefest.com with MACNAS VOLUNTEERS as the title, by Wed 21^st Sept. Attach all relevant CV or experience details. Volunteers must be over 18 years of age.

That’s right! You can see both When Irish Hearts are Praying and The Yellow Wallpaper for only €20 (a saving of €7 on full ticket price) on Monday 19th and Wednesday 21st September.

The offer is only available with bookings in person at the ABSOLUT Fringe box-office (Filmbase, Curved Street Temple Bar) and you must quote ‘Smock Alley Deal’ to avail of the discount.

When Irish Hearts are Praying – CONVERSATION BOX
‘When Irish Hearts are Praying’ investigates faith in contemporary Ireland and we want you to have your say. A ‘Conversation Box’ will appear outside Smock Alley Theatre from 7:30pm-8:30pm on 20-24th Sep where you can voice your own expression of faith. The top 5 responses are then seeded on the MIRARI Twitter and Facebook site each evening . It’s a Brave New World – be part of it!

The community of photographers carefully picked and gathered around Blow Photo Magazine essentially became an official and exclusive photo partner of ABSOLUT Fringe.

The team of seventeen dublin’s most talented photographers will capture the magic, spectacle, drama and bravery of the festival events and their work will be published as a collection in six special editions of Blow Photo Magazine.

These special on-line magazines will be available to download from the Blow Photo Magazine website during the festival’s dates: 10-25th of September. The magazine will come out three times a week Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

At the end of the festival you will be able to download a collector’s edition of the best of all published work.

Two weeks, seven issues of this special edition of Blow Photo Magazine.

It is a Brave New World and Blow is a part of it.

Click here to download free ABSOLUT Fringe 2011 editions of Blow Photo Magazine.

Get Involved
Take the best shot picturing the spirit of ABSOLUT Fringe and you will get published in one of the six special editions of Blow Photo Magazine.
Send your favorite image in low res to info@blowphotomagazine.com