1/2 day workshop bringing together two great loves, dance & cinema. Learn the ropes from some of Honey & Lemon’s favourite movie icons with a film screening & creative dance workshop. Refreshments incl. Sign-up: boxoffice@civictheatre.ie / 01 4627477
Every Tuesday lunch time in October, we’ll come together in community to support each other to meditate and draw on Zoom. This is a great weekly tool to calm down, destress and build resilience.
No art experience necessary, just a simple pen & paper.
ENERGISING, RELAXING AND FUN!
Designed to maintain flexibility, strength and coordination – these classes include easy stretch exercises, dance sequences and freestyle movement to music of all kinds – No experience necessary!
1/2 day workshop bringing together two great loves, dance & cinema. Learn the ropes from some of Honey & Lemon’s favourite movie icons with a film screening & creative dance workshop. Refreshments incl. Sign-up: boxoffice@civictheatre.ie / 01 4627477
Tales Under the Thatch is a Creative Ireland and Fingal County Council funded project that aims to give older adults aged 65 and over the chance to develop storytelling skills.
DTI is part of the HSE Living Well with Dementia CHO 6 programme, a community-based project that supports people wth dementia to continue to live at home and participate in their own community. Venue is Holy Family Parish Hall, Kill Avenue, Dlr.
This class puts music & movement together in a recipe for feeling wonderful! It will seamlessly guide you through a series of simple, modern and creative dance movements & exercises focusing on musicality, expression, rhythm and flow.
We have an Open Day on Friday which will attract the early start booley walkers to the late night ceili goers, giving many an opportunity to experience our living heritage. There will be an opportunity to taste homemade bread, country butter with jams throughout the day and there will be plenty to see all day including old photos and more recent photos of our stone heritage by Derek Watters taken from last years Stone Heritage Project Survey of the Cooley Mountains.
Mullaghbuoy Community Centre will be open for exhibition setup from 10am so come a little early if requiring your own table to display any peices. From 10.30am we have a series of demonstrations and talks happening with the support of local community including all who attend on the day young and old.
10.30am Jennette will explain a little about basket making. The workshop is on all day so you can see the baskets evolve.
11am. Anne & Concepta will talk about making bread butter & Jam as well as demonstrations of the stages of bread & butter making.
12.45 Aine will finish the first half with a short talk about how our lifestyles have changed over the years impacting our health.
1pm local musicians will play a few tunes giving any dancers an opportunity to warm up for the evening session.
2pm In the afternoon we would love to hear about any oral history around memories or dialect related to “Booleying” facilitated by Seamus Murphy a local historian who will talk about The Mountains of Cooley filim where he describes them as booley huts while local farmers refer to them as stone maries for sheep.
If you have anything that represents traditional living heritage please consider displaying on the day. Bring it along and share for a while with no commitment to stay the whole day.
NB Theres a “long walk home” (to Mullaghbuoy a Booleying themed 9km walk) led by Derek Watters. Registration at 9am at Mullaghbouy and transport to starting point soon after on return walkers will experience exhibition, entertainment & hospitality a “Hooley Booley Cooley” at 1pm with a bigger Hooley at the Mullaghbuoy Ceili Dance at 7.30pm. Ceili Band Starts at 8pm.
Contact: cooleyconnectwellbeing@gmail.com 0833924117
Free Events all day 10.30 – 5pm
10euros 7.30pm Ceili Set Dance
Basket making workshop booked out
Prize Draw announced at end of the ceil
Our popular six-week art course covers all the basics of acrylic painting.
The poetry of Thurles-born poet, Dennis O’Driscoll, (1954-2012), is celebrated at the Circling the Square Festival, named after the title of Dennis’s memorable essay about growing up in the town.
