Galway City Council is to run a community art programme in the Fána Burca estate. As part of the Per Cent for Art Programme, Wexford artist Michael Fortune will be working on a nine-month film and photography project in the Fana Burca estate.

The project, titled 'Project Seventeen', will be based on ideas of home, family, community and domesticity.

Starting at the end of October, the community house, Number Seventeen will be transformed into a local cinema where six film screenings and talks will be presented for free to the people of the estate. To coincide with this, the artist will also provide equipment and workshops in filming, editing and web design to those who are interested from the estate.

On Friday, 5 September at 7.30pm, Michael will present a public talk in the community house, where he will outline the project in detail. People of all ages are invited to submit their names if they wish to be involved in any part of the project over the coming months.

Participation in the project is free and would suit people with a keen interested in art, film, photography, sport, folklore, local history, traditional music, nature and community development.

The artist will provide all training and equipment throughout, as well as supplying new equipment, which will be left in No. 17 once the project is complete. During this time, Michael will produce a new body of photographs, which will be based on his experience in the estate. These photographs will be produced in a limited edition publication, which will be launched in June 2009 and a copy made available to every home on the Fana Burca estate.

Michael received his MA in Scriptwriting from Dun Laoghaire School of Film, Dublin and BA in Fine Art, from Limerick School of Art and Design. He has produced numerous public art and participatory projects, which have been launched and screened at various locations from art spaces, and village halls to ferry ports and handball alleys.

Most recently he produced and screened a new body of video work titled 'Departures and Arrivals', which was commissioned by Wexford County Council as part of its Per Cent for Art Programme.

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