Going Rogue - A Shared Vision

19/11/2024

20/12/2021

Going Rogue Campaign Checklist!

Campaign for a new building -✅
Find our new forever home - ✅
Be awarded contracts for said building -✅
Find National/EU Funding for maintenence - ✅
Update/Upgrade management skills to run Rogue 2.0- ✅
Move into 7 Thomas St - ❌

Just one more step to go! We just want to give a huge shout out to Waterford City and County Council, the National Arts Council, to all the Rogue team and volunteers, and to everyone that has gotten us to where we are today, we nearly celebrate the achievement of moving into our forever home in Waterfords Cultural Quarter. The Cultural Quater Arthouse brings us closer to achieving the dream of supporting more artists, designers, crafters, writers, comedians, print-makers and all the other amazing people out there. Our Ethos remains the same, to create an open and nurturing space for people, where they are able to develop their skills in a communal creative environment.

We're looking forward to a Happy New Year, and working with WCCC on the final stages of the new buildings development. Many big thanks once again to The National Arts Council, VAI and the WCCC and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!!! ☃️❄

Think big and work hard, and dreams can come true! 😀

17/09/2020

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Can't go Rogue without a plan!!!
It'll be all worth it once we are in our new building. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

20/07/2020

The Rogue is Going Home

Throughout Ireland many artistic spaces have a tenancy of short term leases, which is an issue that runs throughout the artistic communities nationwide.

At the beginning of last year the Rogue team called out to our followers, volunteers and artists for help, to spread the message that our beloved gallery was at risk and that the City we called home was about to lose another vital artistic hub. And our community responded!

After the public announcement of the The campaign went live our small community rallied around us and inundated the email inboxes of local TD’s asking them to reach out and help save our Gallery from extinction.

We reached out to local landlords for vacant buildings within the city centre. The community of Waterford responded with immense kindness and our board of directors viewed many buildings in the hopes of finding us a home. Unfortunately, it seemed like we couldn’t find a space big enough to accommodate us and we cannot lie. We began to lose hope.

But our knight and shining Cllr was yet to appear and find us that building that was just right. Eamon Quinlan joined the campaign and after months of liaising with the other council members, Jane Cantwell, Catheriene Collins, Kieran Keogh and Conor Nolan, he sourced a building which will not just accommodate the Rogue Gallery and studios but the artistic community of the new cultural quarter. The space will also incorporate living accommodation, which we envisage will contribute to easing the lack of housing available within the City Centre.

Today, with great excitement and the utmost pleasure, we at the Rogue Gallery and Studios are delighted to announce that we have found a new permanent home, within the cultural quarter. We are so grateful to be given a home but also a chance to be at the centre of an emerging community within our city.

The Rogue has worked hard to establish itself not just within the artistic community but the community of Waterford City as a whole. The overwhelming support we have received throughout this journey shows us that it wasn't for nothing. We feel truly loved, accepted and a very real part of this community and want to express our thanks to but a few of those who have shown us their unerring support.

It was through the help of many council members such as; Marc Ó Cathasaigh, Seamus Ryan, John Hearne, Jim Griffin, Breda Brennan, Jason Murphy Una Dunphy, Bernadette Phillips, and the Waterford Council of Trade Unions and of course those already mentioned above, coupled with our volunteers and resident artists who championed the call throughout our campaign. These are but a few who made this announcement possible today.

THANK YOU!

Waterford News & Star

LAST week, it was announced that a permanent home has been secured by Waterford Council for the city’s Rogue Gallery. A four-storey building on Thomas Street is set to house the gallery on the ground…

05/02/2020

To follow on from our policies on the arts which we posted earlier this week, we need to talk about public spaces for the arts, and what's required to create a vibrant artistic life in a city.

Too many night-time venues and clubs have closed in the last few years, only to be bulldozed to make way for grey hotels or office blocks.

Local councils must support more performances and exhibitions in public spaces - they should protect existing spaces from greedy developers too.

To make matters worse, our archaic licensing laws strangle the life out of nightlife. Clubs and other venues close earlier in Dublin than they do anywhere else in Europe. Not only does this deny people the opportunity to access music and entertainment on their terms, it fuels other problems too - like anyone who has seen the city centre after 3AM will attest to. It makes no sense to close all the clubs in the city at once.

We should follow the lead of the Give Us The Night campaign, which calls for positive changes to our night-life.

For working people, the hours in the evening after work are when we are free to enjoy arts and culture but most venues are closed. Galleries, theatres and other cultural spaces should offer late-night openings to better accommodate working people.

The arts and culture belong to the people - let's fund them properly and make them accessible to all!