Temple Bar Cultural Trust

Photo Competition

Capture the vibrant colour of Midsummer in Temple Bar and be in with a chance to win a newly commissioned painting by artist John O’Connor.


John O’Connor is one of 37 artists who trades each week at Designer Mart at Cow’s Lane in the Old City area of Temple Bar. He is a Fine Art graduate from the National College of Art and Design and a MSc graduate from Trinity College Dublin. John works with various media and computer illustration to produce original pieces of art. His artworks are in numerous private collections. More recently John was nominated for tow Adidas Originals Design Awards.
www.johnoconnor.ie


MIDSUMMER IN TEMPLE BAR
Date: June 20th-21st 2009
Venue: Meeting House Square and other locations in Temple Bar
Admission Free

The longest day of the year will be celebrated with fire, feasting, film and a fair to mark Midsummer in Temple Bar taking place 20th and 21st June. Bring your picnic blankets into Temple Bar as we recreate a green meadow for one day only to celebrate the magic of Midsummer!

Temple Bar Cultural Trust presents fire entertainment in Meeting House Square with 3 Brightspark Fire Performers creating an amazing visual display of fire dancing, fire juggling and fire on stilts.

Staying outdoors, wrap up and enjoy the screening of the Oscar winning film Dead Poets Society (1989) where William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream features as a theme throughout.

On Sunday, our Midsummer Fair features Temple Bar’s three outdoor markets including foods, handmade crafts, books and flowers. The Midsummer Fair will be the perfect spot for lunch on Father’s day with a roasting hog on spit, ice-cream, baked-potatoes, fruits, cheeses, oysters and more!

The Midsummer Fair will be bursting with Children’s Entertainment with a Punch & Judy and magic show, balloon-modeling, face-painting and walkabout characters on stilts. Music at the Fair includes ‘The Mad Hatters’ samba band and traditional musicians from ‘The Irish House Party’.

The Drumreilly Community Group, Co. Leitrim, are visiting Temple Bar especially to close the Midsummer Fair by giving a very special performance of their Maypole Dance - a popular custom at this high-point of Summer.

For further information and additional events taking place please visit: http://www.templebar.ie/home_nav_2_t_19_c_28.html


HOW TO ENTER

Photos for the competition are being stored on Flickr, a free photo storage and sharing site owned by Yahoo. You can submit your Dublin Handel Festival photos by following these steps:

1. Visit the TBCT Photo Competition Flickr Group page http://www.flickr.com/groups/templebarphotocompetition/ and sign up for a free Flickr account or login using your existing Yahoo account if you have one.

2. Once you are signed in, visit the TBCT Photo Competition Flickr page and join the TBCT Photo Competition group.

3. Upload photos to your account.

4. Go to the page of the photo(s) you want to submit to the competition.

5. Click the "Send to Group" button between the photo title and the photo.

6. Choose the “TBCT Photo Competition” group and you're done!

Once you’ve opened a Flickr account, you can add photos via your mobile www.flickr.com/help/mobile/#212 and share them on your blog www.flickr.com/help/blogging/#55

There’s a full FAQ here to help you - www.flickr.com/help/faq

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: MONDAY 29th JUNE

The winner will be notified via their Flickr account


TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Flickr’s normal Terms and Conditions and rules apply

Entry is free and open to all

Photographs must be relevant the Midsummer in Temple Bar Festival otherwise they are deemed ineligible

By entering you are granting permission to Temple Bar Cultural Trust to reproduce entries for promotional purposes

All entries must be the property of the entrant
Entrants must agree to be bound by the rules

The judges decision is final