Wednesday 6th April

As part of #DLCFestival2022 come and learn about Ukrainian Culture. Dublin is a @UNESCO Learning City alongside #Nikopol, #Melitopol, and #Novoyavorivsk

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ukrainian-culture-night-tickets-314693465627

5-8 minute presentation using props to explain why doctors and pharmacists tell people to finish the course when taking antibiotics. Not finishing a course of antibiotics is dangerous for the person and for everyone because it feeds into the growing problem of antibiotic resistance which is predicted to claim 50 million lives each year by 2050 if we continue on this road.

Humans are curious animals. We explore a lot of the world around us using our eyes. Things so far away or so small that they escape our eyes’ abilities have always fascinated us. That’s why I have become a researcher because I wanted to find out more about these hidden worlds. And that’s why mankind has invented microscopes which help us to see the life at its smallest scale (and telescopes to look at distant galaxies).

Modern microscopes can be complex and expensive, but the idea behind an optical microscope is rather simple. It actually is not so different from a webcam. After exploring together with the participants how the webcam lens forms an image, I will explain how we can turn a webcam into a microscope that allows us to look at cells from e.g. blood, plants, or pond water.

Walkinstown Library would like to invite you to explore our Cubbie Sensory Hub with soft music, calming images and a hammock. What’s not to love? Come and play our Tovertafel! The Magic Table interact with games, do jigsaws or play music. With plenty of games to choose from, everyone has a favourite, visit and discover yours! While you are here, check out our sensory toy box full of vibrant, fun pieces, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Call 222 8890 to book your place

3pm: Matthew O’Connell Quartet (student band)

4pm: Origin Story (faculty Band) http://www.matthewjacobsonmusic.com/origin-story.html

Registration link here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublin-learning-city-festival-tickets-298157094897

There is a story in all of us come and join Mark to learn tips and tricks to memoir writing to tell your story

Registration link here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublin-learning-city-festival-tickets-298157094897 

Join Dublin’s North Inner City Learning Neighbourhood Trail.

Soilse is an Addiction Rehabilitation Service based in Dublin’s north inner city. We aim to provide a comprehensive, holistic addiction rehabilitation service that empowers those in recovery to move towards a drug-free lifestyle.  Come see our service, meet our team and talk to our participants about their journey. All welcome from 2pm.

Join Dublin’s North Inner City Learning Neighbourhood Trail.

SIPTU college offers a selection of courses, seminars and workshops to members of the union. The SIPTU Basic English Scheme offers individual and group tuition for adults in reading, writing, spelling, ESOL and FETAC Communications at levels 3 and 4.

At 10.15am, out tour will visit the 11th floor NEC room for coffee/tea/biscuits and short presentation on the history of the building.  Possible visit to viewing deck at the top depending on weather, numbers, etc. 15 people

Event is booked out.

Join Dublin’s North Inner City Learning Neighbourhood Trail.

SAOL is an integrated programme of education, rehabilitation, advocacy and childcare.

The role of Socially Engaged Art in Recovery and Education

Presentation, facilitation and performance from the women of SAOL on the role of creativity and the creative process in their recovery and education.

A short video will also be shown, followed by a tour of the project and refreshments.

Visit between 10:30am-1pm

Join Dublin’s North Inner City Learning Neighbourhood Trail.

Parnell Adult Learning Service is situated in the heart of the North Inner City.  We have three essential services in our Georgian House: Drugs Court Education ​Initiative, Foundations Homeless Project and the Adult Education Service.  We provide courses from QQI Level 2 to Level 5 as well as Community Education and various ESOL programmes.

We invite you to join us for our ‘15 minute moves’ programme;  Tap the App,, Tai Chi Taster, Smoothies with Lyndsay and Get Smart with Art.  Meet our AES Guidance Team, and chat to fellow students over a cuppa!

Visit between 10am-11:30am

Join Dublin North Inner City Learning Neighbourhood Trail.

Ozanam house is a community based project operated by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. We provide member s of the local community with a vital sepping stone to learning and development, safety and encouragement.

Our community members range in their ages, from two years old to well into their nineties!

Join us at 12 for a tour of the house, hear about our work and have a cup of tea

Open for visits at 12pm

Join Dublin North Inner City Learning Neighbourhood Trail.

The Larkin Centre is a non-profit making organisation engaged in the provision of a range of services within Dublin’s North East Inner City. Since its establishment in 1986 the Centre has worked on behalf of people experiencing disadvantage and its service provision has grown in response to community needs

Visitors are welcome to visit our garden and learn about the courses we offer. In our centre, visitors can learn about out other services, including our self-employment programme.

Visit the garden between 10am-11am

There is a story in all of us come and join Mark to learn tips and tricks to memoir writing to tell your story.

Registration link coming soon!

Join Dublin North Inner City Learning Neighbourhood Trail.

Opened in 1986, the Central Library is Dublin City Council’s largest branch.

Services available at the library include – Children’s Lending, Music and Business with an emphasis on language learning, adult basic education and Work Matters – employment related information.

Demonstrations of e-resources will be available on the day for groups of 4 Bookings: [email protected]

Free tour of the Berkeley, Lecky and Ussher Libraries at Trinity College Dublin, part of the largest library in Ireland. Today it has over 6 million printed volumes with extensive collections of journals, manuscripts, maps and music reflecting over 400 years of learning.

Join tutor Ken O’Duffy to discuss Climate Change and how we think about the environment. Are we being asked to ‘solve’ climate problems that we did not cause? How can we feel hopeful about the future when there are so many issues? What can we do to take action in our own way?

No booking required. The session runs from 2.00pm to 3.00pm.

Marja Almqvist and Claire Byrne of the Liberties Weavers will give a talk on the history of weaving in the Liberties and the vision, current activities and future plans of the Liberties Weavers project. NCAD graduate, Sandra Chase will talk on her involvement with the Liberties Weavers and ‘circular learning’ the importance of having somewhere in the community to link up with when you graduate.

“We aim to be as inclusive as we can, and particularly welcome newcomers to the Liberties to get involved in the project and expand our local knowledge with their own textile know-how and histories. We also want to reach out to people who for various reasons find it difficult to attend weaving workshops in person.”

A look back on the Irish Civil war 1922-1923 with a focus on women’s stories, a centenary reflection. This online class hosted by Hayley Barabazon, MA Irish History in DCU. Hayley specialises in Gender History, researching Women in the Revolutionary Period.

Please visit http://www.coolockals.ie/dublin-learning-city-festival/ to register for this event which runs from 2.00pm to 4.00pm.

Talk with Maedbh about family learning with some creative and practical ideas about teaching maths.

A talk with Josephine Jewell about the importance of digital skills.

Do you ever look at a blank page and wonder ‘where do I start’?

In this class our tutor Mark will be sharing helpful hints and tips on how you can get creative with your own words. A great session aimed at helping adults take that first step to putting pen to paper.

Open to all adult learners. 2pm to 3 pm.

Booking not required and tea and coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by Ballymun Adult Read & Write Scheme, CDETB

A 45-minute workshop where you can learn more about the 9 different types of intelligences and better understand your own strengths.

2.00pm to 2.45pm. Tea, coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by the CDETB Adult Education Guidance Service (Ballymun)

Visit our green-fingered gardening class while they are working. Take part, plant a seed and take it home.

This is a great chance to see a real adult education class in action.

The class is aimed at anyone who is unsure of how to get started with planting or gardening. All adult learners welcome.

1.30pm to 3.30 pm. Tea, coffee and snacks available all day.

Organised by Ballymun Adult Read & Write Scheme, CDETB

Drop in and try your hand at some of our logic puzzles, word games and number quizzes. Find out what apps you can use for logic or number games on your phone or tablet.

Guess the amount of sweets in a jar, challenge your memory, and play countdown. This session aims to open your eyes to some of the different ways we can give our brain a workout.

Open to all adult learners. 11.00am to 1.00pm.

Booking not required and tea and coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by Ballymun Adult Read & Write Scheme, CDETB

CDETB has students from countries and nations all over the world. This workshop will focus on the home countries of our current students and tutors – from Brazil to Korea and from Poland to Jordan. Learn about their nationalities, their customs and their national dishes. Meet our English language students and find out more about our community of English classes.

Open to all adult learners. 10am to 11.30am and 1.30pm to 2.30pm.

Booking not required and tea and coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by Ballymun Adult Read & Write Scheme, CDETB

Learn how to do more with your smart phone during our drop in sessions throughout the morning.

Do you know how to use Mobile Hotspot, Google Maps or a QR code?

Did you know your mobile phone has a calculator?

This class is aimed at taking the mystery out of using your smart phone. In a supportive environment, learn to set an alarm, send a GIF, change your ring tone or adjust your volume with the help of our experienced tutors.  For all adult learners.

10.00am to 11am, and 11am to 12pm. Booking not required and tea and coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by Ballymun Adult Read & Write Scheme, CDETB

If you would like to find ways to improve your spelling skills, then this workshop is for you. Any adults who would like to improve their spellings, or challenge their spelling skills, are welcome to come and join this session. Try some fun games such as Boggle and Countdown, and join our short workshops where our tutors will share some handy spelling tips and helpful hints for remembering tricky words.

10am to 11am, 11.00am to 12pm, and 1.00pm to 2pm.Booking not required and tea and coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by Ballymun & Adult Read & Write Scheme, CDETB

Did you know they have updated the food pyramid? Do you know what is in your food, or what portion sizes adults should have?

Come to this class for hints and tips for making healthier food choices, and while you are there, discover more about what is in your food.

Open to all adult learners. 10am – 11am. Booking not required and tea and coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by Ballymun Adult Read & Write Scheme, CDETB

Come and learn about Ballymun from our students’ projects with pictures, articles and news stories about Ballymun past and present. Meet our students and tutors to learn more about the history of this wonderful community.

Open to all adult learners. 10.00am – 11.am. Booking not required and tea and coffee and snacks will be served all day.

Organised by Ballymun Adult Read & Write Scheme,  CDETB.

Join us for a paper crane making demonstration and opportunity to come together and create a paper crane for peace in the Ukraine. The students will guide you through the process of how to make a paper crane and we will infuse our intentions for peace into each one. You will need origami paper or just plain white paper to participate. Lets join together in solidarity to make 1,000 paper cranes for an Art installation that will be on exhibit in the school Art Show and possibly the Ukrainian Embassy.

This lecture examines the history of the Inquisition in Spain and Spanish America from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It looks its beginnings, its original mission to identify and persecute Catholic heretics of Jewish or Islamic origin, and its interactions with politics, religion, and society in 16th-century Spain. It also examines the evolving role of the Inquisition that incorporated wider concerns such as Protestantism in Spain and the prosecution of blasphemy and suspected witchcraft. In addition to those already outlined, the themes in this lecture are censorship, freemasonry, bigamy, the inquisition in America, torture, and prosecution, and the auto-da-fé.

Wine grapes are one of the most sensitive crops to variations in weather patterns, putting winemakers and vine-growers at the forefront in the fight against Global Warming. For the second consecutive year we are participating in the Dublin Learning City Festival, where we will provide an online wine tasting with Global Warming and its influence on wine as the main topic.

This is a “dry” tasting so no wine will be sent to the participants, but I would suggest getting a bottle from one of the three wine regions (or the three) I will be talking about during the event. They reflect very well how the Wine Trade is reacting to Global Warming in very different ways along the planet:

Rueda in Northern Spain: you can get a nice Verdejo for around 15€ anywhere.

Puglia in Southern Italy: this is a warm wine region where full body reds like Primitivo thrive, you should be able to find a nice one for 15€ or less.

Australia is famous for both red and white wines, we’ll be trying a Chardonnay from one of the cool climate subregions such as Adelaide Hills, Mornington Peninsula, Margaret River, Geelong, Yarra Valley or Tasmania. But just get any Chardonnay from Australia for 15€ to 20€.

The Leaving Certificate and CAO points aren’t the only ways to access Third Level. This Zoom session will outline the progression routes from FE to university that are available via the Higher Education Links Scheme at Pearse College of Further Education (CDETB), which offers access courses in the Humanities, Business, Engineering and Science…..What’s more, no points are required!

As part of the Dublin City of Learning Festival join us the Hugh Lane Gallery for a Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) discussion for adults and have your say on what you think is going on in selected artworks. VTS is a fun method to look at art and to make meaning out of artworks collectively. You will explore engaging works of modern and contemporary art from the Hugh Lane Gallery’s collection and temporary exhibitions. No background knowledge is needed for the participants nor provided by the facilitator. Instead of the conventional approach to visual art, VTS encourages to think speculatively in an enjoyable and open-ended way.

Free, advanced booking required via Eventbrite.

Join tour guide and local historian Alan Byrne on this walk through 150 years of the Guinness family’s gifts to the city. We’ll see the parks, churches, homes and other projects as donated by the brewers to the people of the Liberties.

Organised by CDETB Liberties College.

Register for this event here www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-bayno-to-the-brewery-the-guinness-walking-tour-tickets-311176426067

Join Julianne on the live interactive sample class to learn some great ways to win over difficult customers. Delivering excellent customer care is simple and helps set your business apart.

Organised by CDETB Liberties College.

Join tutor, Seamus Bradley and gardening students, including members of the local Men’s Shed. See how easy it is to grow food, even in pots and window boxes. Learn how to garden in ways that help the soil and promote bees and other wildlife.

Organised by CDETB Adult Education Finglas.

The Leaving Cert isn’t the only way to access Third Level. This one-hour Zoom session will outline the progression routes from FE to University (via the Higher Education Links Scheme) that are available at  Pearse College, Crumlin, which provides University Access courses in areas such as the Humanities, Business, Engineering & Science. What’s more, no CAO points are required!

Join Antonio, our Master Potter as he shows you the ancient art of throwing clay. Take a sneak peak at our Pottery rooms and kilns and perhaps whet your appetite for joining us on one of our most popular courses in the future!

This event will take place from 9:30am-11am.

This event is organised by Antonio Borza, a teacher on our Art Portfolio course.

You are invited to drop in to our Bull Alley Campus to take a peak at our Art Portfolio students hard at work on their pieces for their end of year project. This is a rare opportunity to be a fly on the wall in one of our most popular courses.

This event will take place from 9:30am-12pm.

The event is organised by Gary Somers, a Teacher on our Art Portfolio Course.

The Bookmarks Programme is a collaboration between Trinity Access, the Library of Trinity College, and the School of English in Trinity College. The programme sees primary school children from our partner primary schools in Dublin write and illustrate their own books over a period of two months. This is facilitated through the support and guidance of authors, artists and children’s literature specialists. The programme culminates with the publication of these books in an exhibition in the Old Library of Trinity College. The project aims to inspire children to become the next generation of storytellers and artists – in short, to tell their own stories and imagine the future. The programme supports students from three primary schools each academic year to pursue and interrogate a theme that is both relevant to their lives and inspiring to their imaginations.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a strictly private and ticketed event for participating students, families, and teachers.

This Creative Drama workshop will be a fun and open environment for you to experience drama and performance, while connecting with new people.

This is an energetic and playful one hour workshop set in one of Ireland’s most prestigious drama schools.

Event time: Wednesday 6th April 5.30pm-6.30pm