Joe Flavin appointed director at Core at Corby Cube

Published: 5 March 2018
Reporter: Steve Orme

"Passion and ambition": Joe Flavin

Northamptonshire venue The Core at Corby Cube has appointed Joe Flavin as its new director.

He replaces Nick Walker who held the job for two years and left in autumn 2017 to return to his writing career.

Flavin joins The Core from Axis Ballymun on the northside of Dublin, a venue that specialises in arts and creativity for young people. He previously worked at the Visual Centre for Contemporary Arts and The George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Carlow and the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.

He is a founding member of The Corps Ensemble which works to merge the talents of a professional group of actors with the best of Ireland’s writing talent, with an ambition to produce large-scale plays on Irish stages.

Martin Sutherland, chief executive of The Core at Corby Cube and Northampton’s Royal and Derngate, said, “Joe will bring great energy and wide-ranging experience to this role. We look forward to working with him to further develop the organisation’s vision and scope.”

Gary Tait who chairs the board added, “with the passion and ambition for The Core he showed in the selection process, I’m confident he’ll build on our achievements of the past seven years and ensure that The Core continues to both be at the heart of our community and to reach out to new audiences.”

Flavin said, “The Core is reaching maturity as an arts centre and there’s now a huge opportunity over the coming years to firmly cement this magnificent space as a home and a hub for the arts and entertainment in Northamptonshire, with the people of Corby driving their venue forward from its centre.”

He will take up his new post in April 2018.

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