{"id":15212,"date":"2021-07-20T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/seek-urban-arts-festival-2\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:02:10","slug":"seek-urban-arts-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/seek-urban-arts-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEK Urban Arts Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span>Established in 2019, SEEK Urban Art Festival brings\u00a0visual art to the streets of Dundalk. This year t<\/span><span>he festival will run from 31 July to 7<strong> <\/strong>August with a launch event in Creative Spark on\u00a031 July featuring presentations by the artists on their practice, their inspirations and their plans for the festival walls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>2021 will see the celebration of\u00a0a\u00a0 selection\u00a0of\u00a0larger-than-life\u00a0individuals with connections to Dundalk such as St Oliver Plunkett,\u00a0Sir Francis Leopold McClintock AKA\u00a0the Arctic Fox and Lugh \/ L\u00fa the\u00a0mythological warrior god.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Each day there will\u00a0walking tours\u00a0of the mural sites.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>Free graffiti and cyanotype (blueprint) workshops for children and young adults will be provided on the two Saturdays during the festival in 2021. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>A<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>mentoring and training programme is available before and during the festival for TY \/ 5th\u00a0year students who are considering careers in the creative industries.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following this year, a\u00a0book<strong> <\/strong>commemorating the first three years of SEEK will be available, featuring photographs of the wall murals, interviews with the artists, and essays on the local historical individuals depicted in the murals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For more information and to book free walking tours visit our website:\u00a0<span><a href=\"https:\/\/seekdundalk.ie\/\"><span><span>https:\/\/seekdundalk.ie\/<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>For a map of mural sites click here:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/seekdundalk.ie\/map\"><span><span>https:\/\/seekdundalk.ie\/map<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15213,"template":"","class_list":["post-15212","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SEEK Urban Arts Festival - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Established in 2019, SEEK Urban Art Festival brings\u00a0visual art to the streets of Dundalk.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/seek-urban-arts-festival-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEEK Urban Arts Festival - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Established in 2019, SEEK Urban Art Festival brings\u00a0visual art to the streets of Dundalk. 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