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BEALTAINE DRAMA WORKSHOPS with Donna Ruane
in conjunction with the Bealtaine Festival Celebrating Creativity in Older Age
Tuesdays 11.00-12.30pm, commencing 6th May

There is an actor in all of us - here’s the chance to let him/her out! Try your hand at drama in this series of informal, fun-filled workshops. Facilitated by drama teacher, director and performer Donna Ruane, this workshop series will help you bring your imagination to life. We don’t need any TV cameras to create our own Linenhall soap opera or award-winning drama!

Bealtaine Drama Workshops take place over four Tuesday mornings commencing May 6th from 11.00am-12.30pm (continuing May 13th, 20th and 27th). Places are limited, and booking is ESSENTIAL. Booking and further information from the Linenhall.


ARTIST’S LUNCHTIME TALK with Fidelma Sheridan
Wednesday 7th May, 1.00pm-1.50pm

Fidelma Sheridan graduated from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in 2005 with an Honours degree in Textile design. Basing her work on the ”fleeting moments” of the everyday, Fidelma uses a wide variety of materials including inks, watercolours, pencil, threads, hand-dyed yarns and fabric, paper, bleach and paint to create collages “formed by abstract washes layered with fading images of people from my past and present, crumbling surfaces collapse softly into nothingness, illuminated by flashes of explosive colour.” Here, she talks about her work in conjunction with her current exhibition at the Linenhall.

Admission free, all welcome.


GALLERY TOUR AND WORKSHOP WITH A DIFFERENCE!
in conjunction with the Bealtaine Festival Celebrating Creativity in Older Age
Friday 9th May @ 11.00am

Explore the work of artist Fidelma Sheridan with the Linenhall Arts Centre’s very special community arts team. This gallery tour and hands-on workshop is sure to impress and delight participants! As part of the Bealtaine Festival the Linenhall has turned its Visual Arts Programme for Schools on its head and invited the 5th and 6th class students of Cornanool National School to design and deliver a gallery tour and workshop for older members of the community. Highly capable, well informed and conversant in the vocabulary of visual art, the children of Cornanool National School will lead a tour introducing the work of textile and mixed media artist Fidelma Sheridan. During the tour participants will be encouraged to engage in discussion about the exhibition. Following the gallery tour participants will be brought to the Linenhall’s Community Arts Workshop where they will create their own art works exploring in a practical way some of the techniques employed and themes explored in Fidelma’s work.

The Linenhall Arts Centre’s Visual Art Programme for Schools offers gallery tours and workshops to selected primary schools in the Castlebar area. The programme is ongoing through the school year and runs in conjunction with the visual art exhibition programme at the Linenhall’s gallery space. The 5th and 6th class students of Cornanool National School have attended sixteen tours and workshops in this programme over the last three years.

Admission is FREE. However, places are limited, and booking is ESSENTIAL.
Booking and further information from the Linenhall.


PUBLIC GALLERY TOUR AND WORKSHOP WITH A DIFFERENCE!
Saturday 10th May @ 12.00pm

Cornanool National School 5th and 6th class will be leading a tour and hands-on workshop of the Fidelma Sheridan exhibition in the Linenhall’s gallery. Designed as part of the Bealtaine festival, this Saturday tour is open to all members of the public of all ages.

For further information see GALLERY TOUR AND WORKSHOP WITH A DIFFERENCE! Admission is FREE. However, places are limited, and booking is ESSENTIAL. Booking and further information from the Linenhall.


CREATIVE WRITING COURSE FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
with Gerald Wilson
Six Tuesdays from 7.30pm-9.30pm, commencing 20th May

This course offers participants the opportunity to develop creative writing for film and television. Learn about the layout of film and television scripts, scene development, characterisation, dialogue and its functions and the visualisation of narrative. Film scenes will be analysed and participants written work will be constructively criticised and assisted in its development. Participants will work at their own pace and there will be no pressure or deadlines to complete work. Open to adults and 16 years upwards.

Gerald Wilson has lectured on Film for the British Film Institute; taught Film Studies at the Guilford Art School; taught scriptwriting, direction and Film Studies at the International Film School, London. He has a multitude of Television and Film scripts to his credit including Champion House (BBC), Maigret (ITV), Stone Killer (Columbia) and Memoirs of a Small Town (Norskfilm).

CREATIVE WRITING COURSE FOR FILM AND TELEVISION takes place over six Tuesdays commencing May 20th from 7.30pm-9.30pm (continuing 27th May, 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th June). Places are limited, and booking is ESSENTIAL. Booking and further information from the Linenhall.


UILLEANN PIPING MASTERCLASS with Brian McNamara
Thursday 22nd May @ 4.30pm

One of the finest pipers of his generation, Brian McNamara has a profound musical understanding based on many years of academic research. In addition to extensive tours of the USA, Asia and Australia as musician and tutor he has produced a stream of world-class recordings including Leitrim's Hidden Treasure (voted Best Traditional Newcomer in 1998 by Irish Music Magazine), Fort of the Jewels and, most recently, Reed Only.

In this master class, Brian will work with participants on a tune of their choosing. This is a fantastic chance for up and coming pipers to gain advice from a master in this field. Participants should inform the Linenhall of the tune they wish to work on at the class when booking. The masterclass is open to pipers of all age groups.

UILLEANN PIPING MASTERCLASS takes place on Thursday 22nd May at 4.30pm. Admission is free. Places are limited, and booking is ESSENTIAL.


PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS with Marianne Heemskerk
Two Saturdays, 12.00pm-4.00pm commencing 7th June

Here’s a great chance to get a basic introduction to the medium of printmaking with an experienced printmaker. Discover techniques including drypoint etching and carborundum print in monochrome and a variety of colours. Bring along an idea of an image, and over the two days you’ll learn how to create your own prints based on that image. No previous experience required, just ideas and enthusiasm!

Marianne Heemskerk is a printmaker and member of the Linenhall Arts Centre’s Community Arts Team. She studied art at the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs in Amsterdam and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and is one of the west of Ireland’s leading experts on printmaking.

PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS takes place over on Saturdays 7th and 14th June from 12.00pm-4.00pm, with a short break around 2.00pm. Places are limited, and booking is ESSENTIAL