Wednesday 5th April 2023
Graduate Stories – Life during and after IADT
LIVE ON DUBLIN LEARNING CITY FACEBOOK AT 12NOON
3 IADT Graduates, Katherine Michael, Design for Stage and Screen; Danny Sykes, Creative Music Production; and Clare O’Brien Creative Computing; talk about their journey in education, what it was like to study in IADT and what has happened since they graduated. Inspiring stuff. Don’t miss it!!
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Basketball Coaching Workshop – Wednesday April 5th – 6pm – 7:30pm – St Laurence O’Toole’s Recreational Centre
An opportunity for any aspiring coaches to attend a basketball coaching workshop lead by Shane Maughan from Basketball Ireland. Participants will observe a basketball session of the NEIC Trojans U14 players and gain invaluable insight to get their coaching journey up and running. All Welcome!
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – 25
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NEIC Basketball group
Basketball Coaching Workshop
An opportunity for any aspiring coaches to attend a basketball coaching workshop lead by Shane Maughan from Basketball Ireland. The participants will observe a session of the NEIC Trojans U14 players and gain invaluable insight to get their coaching journey up and running. All Welcome!
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – 25
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Information Session on Travellers and Roma Community
This session talks about the lived experience of Travellers and Roma with plenty of time for questions and answers.
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Join us for a lunch time walk to learn about Dublin City’s climate action plan and projects, like Climate Campaigners.
We will meet in the plaza outside the Bord Gais Energy Theatre at 13:00 and walk towards the Civic Offices.
No need to register!
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – 15
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Dublin City Council
Culture Club – Let’s explore IMMA
What does it mean to gather, reflect, and act in community? Join us for this Culture Club that will explore IMMA’s new solo exhibition “Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth”. Pierce, who lives and works in Dubin, relocated to Ireland from the US in 2000 and this new exhibition consists of performances, videos, installations and archives. There will be plenty of time to explore the artworks and chat throughout and after the talk.
Booking email: [email protected]
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Type of Event – In person
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Target audience – All learners
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Learning through Drama – Connections Arts Centre Rathgar
This is an inclusive workshop, everyone is welcome. The programme will be led by the needs of the participants on the day exploring different topics through Drama, for example:
- Your CV : Identifying your strengths
- Money Management: Understanding the value of money
To register your interest please email: [email protected]
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Type of Event – In person
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Target audience – All learners
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Christ Church, Rathgar Rd, Dublin 6, D06 CF63
Preparing for College
A workshop aimed at exploring some of the barriers future college students might face and where to find support to overcome them.
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Type of Event – In person
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College Green, Dublin 2
Language Exchange Spanish/English at Cabra Library
Language exchanges are a great way to learn a new language with native speakers. They can teach you how to use a new language in a conversational setting, while at the same time helping another to learn your own language.
Wednesday
Spanish/English Conversation Exchange Adult Wednesday, 6.30pm-7.30pm
No booking required!
Other exchanges:
Saturday
Irish Conversation Exchange/Ciorcal Comhra Adult Saturday, 11.30am-12.30
Everyone welcome – No booking required!
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – All learners
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Dublin City Libraries
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Navan Road, Dublin, D07 AYW1
April Art Walk with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Art Walk is a free guided tour introducing contemporary art in Temple Bar. Enjoy an afternoon of art in the city starting at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios with an introduction to the exhibition Gather by Niamh O’Malley, part of the Irish Tour of Ireland at Venice. Continue on for a visit to Black Church Print Studio to see how Niamh O’Malley’s Artist’s Edition print Flag was made. Finish with a short walk across the river to The Complex gallery for an introduction to the group show Fly Floor, curated by Mark O’Gorman and Niamh O’Malley.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery supporting the development of artists and the creation of art.
Black Church Print Studio is an artists’ collective that supports and promotes the development of contemporary art practice through the medium of printmaking.
The Complex is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation committed to providing arts to all people and space to artists for all art forms.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – 20
Target audience – Mature Learners, Part time/flexible learners, All learners
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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre. A centre for creativity in the capital, we provide a place for artists to thrive and ways for you to experience contemporary art. For free. For everybody. Founded in 1983 – by artists, for artists.
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Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre. A centre for creativity in the capital, we provide a place for artists to thrive and ways for all to experience contemporary art.
Arts lovers and food lovers are welcome to participate in Nutri.arrt. It is an interactive workshop finding the intersection between nutrition, culture and art. This is a space to express creativity through conversations and games on belonging and food culture, exploring identity, diversity, migration, community and health.
Light refreshments.
Registration [email protected]
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Type of Event – In person
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Target audience – All learners
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Rather Gather Arts Collective Facilitation of creative workshops for the community and for artists. Mentoring and support. Cultural, advocacy, curation and production of a wide range of cultural programmes relating to displacement, diversity and social justice. Developing and building long term collaborations and creative strategies through international networks for arts and migration; with leading inter/national arts, artists and arts lovers.
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An Síol is a Community Development Project (CDP) working in Stoneybatter for over 25 years. We deliver services and provide support to meet the needs of the residents of Stoneybatter and the North West Inner City.
Fatima Homework Club & NCAD student Emma Brennan
5 th – 6th April 2023
NCAD Gallery
Awarding the Everyday celebrates the small, day-to-day achievements in children’s lives that can often go overlooked or undervalued. The project aims to promote the strengths, skills and pride of children and their community.
Awarding the Everyday is a collaboration between Fatima Homework Club and NCAD student Emma Brennan, made possible through NCAD’s Dublin 8 Neighbourhood Residency, and presented in the NCAD Gallery as part of the Dublin City Learning Festival 2023.
Young Artists
Focus Group: Priya Cusack, Cici Byrne, Ashley Mooney, Lily Hudson, Darcie Slattery, Aoibheann Mannion, Lottie Delaney, facilitated by Shauna O’Brien.
Junior-Senior Infants: Remy Howe, Fletcher Kelly, Theo Henderson, Mila Reid, Pamela Chalk, Shadiy Kurzac, Kenzie Byrne, Layla Costello, Bella Massey, Sunnie Carrol, Alden Rankin, Darla Brophy, Rosie Doyle, Elsie Dumbrell, Billy Grimes, Tilly Brannigan, Cherry Cassidy, Nadya Kurzac, Freya Dunphy.
1st, 2nd and 3rd Class: Frankie Kane, Blair Brophy, Skylar McIntyre, Kendall Byrne, Effie Dumbrell, Cici Byrne, Priya Cusack, Shiann Lynch, Kealin O’Brien, Arthur Cox, Isabella Foran, Lottie Delaney, Aoibheann Mannion, Harper Farrell, Darcie Slattery, April Dickens, Eve Byrne, Perrie Walker.
4th, 5th and 6th Class: Jamie Mae Butler, Ashley Mooney, Nevaeh Roche, Isabella Grimes, Magda Zafer, Lily Hudson, Bella Farrell, Laney Kane, Luke Mooney, Harrison Cassidy Kelly, Lara Byrne, Penny Kavanagh, Harlow Kavanagh.
Emma Brennan is a student in the BA Fine Art Print at NCAD whose practice is concerned with examining stereotypes and assumed social roles, particularly in the context of motherhood, Irishness, and the female experience. Since Autumn 2022 she has been working collaboratively with the staff and children of Fatima Homework Club which has seen her practice develop to include collaborative processes and engage with themes of place, community and celebration. Dublin 8.
The Dublin 8 Neighbourhood Residency is a programme of NCAD’s Studio+ year, which sees students immersed off campus in the Dublin 8 area, working with local partners to engage in community-based collaborative arts processes.
NCAD’s Access Programme collaborates with schools and community partners in delivering a range of innovative programmes that seek to provide experiential art and design opportunities for engagement with NCAD, promoting awareness of and pathways to higher education in art and design.
Thanks to: NCAD staff Anne Kelly, Fiona Whelan, Finola McTernan and Caelainn Kerrigan; Fatima Homework Club staff Shauna O’Brien, Sue Fagan, Sharon Cooney, Stacy Nicholson, Victoria McDonnell and Michelle Dunne; and Peter Brennan for carpentry support.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – 80
Target audience – All learners
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NCAD’s Access Office works to promote equity of access to third-level education to groups who are under-represented in third level.
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The NCAD Gallery venue operates a publicly accessible events and exhibition programme supporting practices in art, design, visual culture and transdisciplinary research that engages critical questions surrounding global challenges and propositions we encounter in contemporary life today, located on the National College of Art and Design, Dublin campus. Anne Kelly, NCAD Curator
The Bridge Project & NCAD: Exploratory Art Workshop
PRIVATE EVENT
Participants of the Bridge Project will come together with students from the National College of Art and Design to take part in an exploratory art workshop. The Bridge Project is a community-based alternative to custody for adult males with a history of offending. NCAD’s Access Office works to promote equity of access to third level education to groups who are under-represented in third level.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – PRIVATE EVENT
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The Bridge Project is a community-based alternative to custody for adult males with a history of offending. It serves the Greater Dublin Metropolitan Area and is based in Dublin city centre. Bridge provides a range of services to participants that are delivered by a multi-disciplinary team including Probation Officers, education staff, key workers, Community Employment personnel as well as volunteers.
NCAD’s Access Office works to promote equity of access to third-level education to groups who are under-represented in third level.
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100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, IrelandPhone + 353 1 636 4200 / Fax + 353 1 636 4207
Awarding the Everyday: Fatima Homework Club with NCAD Student Emma Brennan
PRIVATE EVENT –
Awarding the Everyday celebrates the small, day-to-day achievements in children’s lives, that can often go overlooked or undervalued. The project aims to promote the strengths, skills and pride of children and their community. Awarding the Everyday is a collaborative project between Fatima Homework Club and NCAD Student Emma Brennan, made possible through NCAD’s Dublin 8 Neighbourhood Residency, supported by NCAD’s Access Office, and presented in the NCAD Gallery as part of the Dublin City Learning Festival 2023. NCAD’s Access Office works to promote equity of access to third-level education to groups who are under-represented in third level. Fatima Homework Club is a programme of Rialto Youth Project which concentrates on Homework Support and Arts-based programmes.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – PRIVATE EVENT
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In an age of inequality, where working class communities are oppressed, the Rialto Youth Project is working towards bringing about social change, providing an integrated youth service, based on the needs of young people and in particular those most at risk.
NCAD’s Access Office works to promote equity of access to third-level education to groups who are under-represented in third level.
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100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, IrelandPhone + 353 1 636 4200 / Fax + 353 1 636 4207
An Introduction to Your Library’s Free Digital Resources
Come and learn about all the online resources you can access for free using your Dublin City Libraries card! We’ll help you set up BorrowBox on your phone or tablet so that you can access audiobooks and ebooks for free wherever you are.
Depending on your interests and needs, we’ll introduce you to some of our other digital resources too. Love classical music? Discover the Medici TV app. Learning English or a second language? Discover our selection of language apps. Love reading the news? We’ll show you how to access magazines and newspapers for free. Want to learn how to play an instrument? Find out how to access ArtistWorks’ online music lessons.
Our digital resources provide plenty of opportunities for people to learn new knowledge, explore new hobbies and upgrade their study skills for free! These 20-minute demonstrations will be done on a one-to-one basis!
To book a place, contact 01 222 8890 or [email protected]
We welcome students, parents, older people and everyone in between. Be sure to bring your library card with you on the day; alternatively, bring photo ID and we’ll make one for you.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – One to one
Target audience – All learners
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12 Percy French Rd, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, D12 FK18.
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12 Percy French Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, D12 FK18.
Are You Smarter Than Your Smartphone?
Our smartphones can be puzzling sometimes. Does stuff seem to disappear off your phone? Do your downloads seem to go missing? Do you have trouble connecting to a wifi network when you’re out and about? Are you unsure if you should be using an app or a browser? Pop in to our informal drop-in clinic to ask your questions about your smartphone.
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Type of Event – In person
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Target audience – All learners
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We are the Adult Education Service with Dublin and Dublin Laoghaire Education and Training Board.
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We are the Adult Education Service in Swords. We have a range of courses for adults wanting to go back to education – reading and writing, computers, English for Speakers of Other Languages, childcare, healthcare, horticulture and much more.
Are you curious about Revolut? Are family and friends all using it but you don’t know where to start? This talk will explain what you need to know about this payment platform – what it’s about and how to get started. You’ll be able to decide if it’s right for you.
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Type of Event – In person
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Target audience – All learners
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We are the Adult Education Service with Dublin and Dublin Laoghaire Education and Training Board.
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We are the Adult Education Service in Swords. We have a range of courses for adults wanting to go back to education – reading and writing, computers, English for Speakers of Other Languages, childcare, healthcare, horticulture and much more.
Are you new to Ireland? Are you puzzled by phrases like ‘What’s the craic?’ and ‘I’m up to ninety?’ Would you like to learn what your friends and family are saying? Come to this fun, interactive class to learn more about the great phrases Irish people use every day.
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Type of Event – In person
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We are the Adult Education Service with Dublin and Dublin Laoghaire Education and Training Board.
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We are the Adult Education Service in Swords. We have a range of courses for adults wanting to go back to education – reading and writing, computers, English for Speakers of Other Languages, childcare, healthcare, horticulture and much more.
Tour and art workshop at the Hugh Lane Gallery
Join our combined Visual Thinking Strategies tour and art-making workshop for Dublin Learning City Festival 2023. Artist Ashleigh Downey will guide participants on a tour of selected artworks and facilitate discussion using the Visual Thinking Strategies method – a method that encourages participants to think speculatively and to respond to an image from their point of view, offering evidence for their ideas grounded in their observations. Following this discussion, participants will join Ashleigh in an art activity that further explores the materials and concepts of the artworks discussed on the tour. For adults, no experience necessary.
Free. Booking essential. Book here.
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Type of Event – In person
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Located in Dublin’s City Centre, in Parnell Square, Hugh Lane Gallery, (originally named Municipal Gallery of Modern Art), houses one of Ireland’s most exciting collections of modern and contemporary Irish and international art. It is also the home of Francis Bacon’s Studio. The gallery was founded by Sir Hugh Lane in 1908 as part of the dynamic and pioneering Celtic Revival Movement in Ireland at the turn of the 20th century.
Social conditions in Dublin in the late nineteenth century where Robert Tressell (author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists) grew up
Join Dr Mary Muldowney, Historian in Residence for Dublin Central, to learn about social conditions in Dublin in the 19th Century, with a particular focus on the life of Robert Tressell. Robert Tressell was born in Dublin in 1870. His early life in the city was reflected in his famous novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
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Type of Event – In person
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Target audience – All learners
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Dublin City Libraries are trusted places that nurture curiosity so that opportunity, ambition and imagination flourish.
Venue
Ilac Shopping Centre, Henry St, North City, Dublin, D01 DY80
Ballymun Library Writers’ Group
A writers’ group is a supportive community of like-minded writers who come together to pursue the art and craft of writing. The members of a writer’s group will help each other by offering advice, giving information, and even providing positive criticism to help writers enhance their writing skills.
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Type of Event – In person
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Target audience – All learners
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Dublin City Libraries
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Ballymun Rd, Dublin 5, D05 VY99
Toddler Storytime at the Central Library
Toddler Storytime at the Central Library takes place every Wednesday morning at 10.30am. We have stories, some music and fun, and you’re welcome to stay in the library afterwards to mingle and get to know other parents. Suitable for ages 1-3 but all are welcome.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – Children
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Dublin City Libraries
Venue
Ilac Centre, Henry St, North City, Dublin, D01 DY80
Performance and Reading by Cecilia Bullo as part of her solo exhibition ‘Being Haunted by the Breezes, Now How Will You Exist?’ on view at the RHA 6 – 7pm
Join artist Cecilia Bullo and a number of performers and musicians for a special performance and reading as part of her exhibition ‘Being Haunted by the Breezes, Now How Will You Exist?’ on view in the Gallagher Gallery, RHA.
This performance will consist of an augmented and enhanced version of the soundtrack currently part of Cecilia Bullo’s exhibition, Being Haunted by the breezes, now how will you exist?.
This unique performance accompanied by a live presentation of Primevil-Mother will be executed with instruments and a vocal delivery within the gallery space.
Primevil-Mother is a soundtrack envisaged by Cecilia Bullo and developed with the assistance of Assyriologist expert Prof. Martin Worthington (TCD, constructed and produced together with PROJECT collective consisting of Paranoid Visions founder P.A and legendary musical terrorist Stano.
For this live performance ritualistic spoken words in ancient Sumerian will be performed by the artist. On this occasion for this performance they are joined by Kaz from hotly tipped post punk/pre grunge duo Vulpynes on drums.
Free.
Booking is not required.
Standing event.
Duration: approximately 1 hour.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – All learners
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The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts lives in the centre of Dublin City in a modern building with five gallery spaces and multiple studios for student courses and artist residencies. The RHA has always aspired to cultivate Art in Ireland. For 200 years we have been run by eminent artists and architects, elected by their peers in recognition of their work. RHA Academicians work in tandem with the gallery team and RHA director to realise the core vision of supporting artists, training students and exhibiting contemporary art: to concentrate native talent in one place, as one community.
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The Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts lives in the centre of Dublin City in a modern building with five gallery spaces and multiple studios for student courses and artist residencies.
Community Gardens for Sustainable Living
Discover how community gardens can support our wellness, biodiversity and food security. There will be engaging activities, interesting discussions and a tour of the space. Come explore, learn, and get involved in this new space!
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – Mature Learners, Part time/flexible learners, Socio-economically disadvantaged learners
Game on: Games night
Game on: Games night at Coolock Library.
Every Wednesday 6 – 7.30pm
Age 10-14
Booking essential !
T: 01222 8490
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – Booking essential
Target audience – All learners
Organiser
Dublin City Libraries – Coolock Library
Knitting group
The Coolock Library ‘knitting group’ meets every Wednesday at 2.30pm, new members are warmly welcome.
Our Knitting group is great way to meet new people, swap patterns and have a chat whilst working on your projects.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – All learners
Organiser
Dublin City Libraries – Coolock Library
Venue
Barryscourt Rd, Kilmore, Dublin, D17 C950
Samba Drumming Workshop with Masamba Samba School
Explore the vibrant carnival culture of Brazil with the Masamba Drummers. This workshop will provide an interactive introduction to the exciting carnival drumming traditions of Brazil, with plenty of hands-on playing with the support of the Masamba crew!. All instruments are provided. No previous experience necessary. Just show up on the night. Limited free parking available.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – 50
Target audience – Mature Learners, Part time/flexible learners, Socio-economically disadvantaged learners
Organiser
MaSamba Samba School was set up in 1994, by people passionate about Brasilian culture. We have worked hard to become the best samba group in Ireland, and have received huge acclaim from audiences in Ireland, throughout Europe, and even Brasil. With a drum core of over 15 experienced drummers, a dance section featuring the best Brasilian dancers in Ireland, and a huge stock of authentic carnival costumes, produced for the group in Brasil, MaSamba have the capacity to perform at everything from an intimate soirée to a full-on carnival party. As well as street and pageant work, MaSamba boasts a small semi-professional band of percussionists who dedicate their time to expanding their knowledge of Afro-Brasilian music and building an impressive range of technical playing skills. This group specializes in playing stage shows, and has performed extensively throughout Ireland, as well as London, Berlin, and most recently Chicago.
Children’s Storytime at Cabra Library
Join Library staff on Wednesday afternoons for a fun-filled storytime!
Children’s Library
Ages 3-8 yrs. All Welcome.
For more information contact Cabra Library: T: 01 222 8317 / [email protected]
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – Children
Organiser
Dublin City Libraries
Children’s Storytime at Ballyfermot Library
Children’s Storytime on every Wednesday afternoon at 3pm in Ballyfermot Library. Come along to relax and listen to some fun stories read by library staff.
All welcome
For more information contact Ballyfermot Library: T: 01 222 8422 / [email protected]
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – Children
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Dublin City Libraries
Music and Poetry Evening with Smithfield Creatives
Creating a network of artists and entertainment
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – All learners
Age Friendly Wednesdays
Chair yoga, games club, music session and film. Enjoy a variety of entertainment at Walkinstown Library
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – Mature Learners
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Dublin City Libraries
One Dublin One Book – Tales from the Archives
One Dublin One Book author, Andrew Hughes, talks about how his background as an archivist has influenced his historical crime fiction.
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Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity –
Target audience – Mature Learners
Organiser
Dublin City Libraries – Coolock Library
Tour – National Folklore Collection at University College
Participants can gather at the Access & Lifelong Learning Centre at 10.50am & will be accompanied to the Folklore Collection
Additional Details
Type of Event – In person
Attendance capacity – 10
Target audience – All learners
Organiser
In UCD Access and Lifelong Learning, we are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable learning experience for every student. From that first question of “Is University for me?” Right through to graduate employment opportunities, we are here for students on every step of their journey.
Venue
Participants can gather at the Access & Lifelong Learning Centre at 10.50am & will be accompanied to the Folklore Collection
