Nuachtlitir Leabharlanna agus Ealaíon Átha Cliath Theas Geimhreadh 2014
South Dublin Libraries & Arts Newsletter Winter 2014
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Welcome/Fáilte Welcome to the latest issue of Off the Shelf, our magazine which highlights the programmes, collections and services offered by South Dublin Libraries and Arts. Fáilte chuig an tEagrán is déanaí de Off the Shelf a léiríonn buaicphointí clár, cnuasach agus seirbhísí Leabharlanna agus Ealaíona Átha Cliath Theas. This issue gives an overview of just some of the successful projects and services South Dublin Libraries and Arts provide and that we aim to build on in the future. For up to date information on our programmes check with your local library, browse our website www.southdublinlibraries.ie and subscribe to our on-line newsletters. Explore our services and enjoy!
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4 L ibraries Open for Business TEDxTallaght 2014 5 Music Generation To the Stars: Excellence Awards 2014 New Library for North Clondalkin 6 Commemorating the First World War 8 Red Line Book Festival Culture Night 9 Life and Work of J.B. Malone Health & Well Being Week 10 Children’s Programming Tenderfoot: Plays for Young People
South Dublin Libraries & Arts Newsletter Issue No. 5 Winter 2014 © South Dublin Libraries & Arts Nuachtlitir Leabharlanna agus Ealaíon Átha Cliath Theas Eagrán 5 Geimhreadh 2014 © Leabharlanna agus Ealaíon Átha Cliath Theas Graphic Design: Silverbark Creative Photographs: Rob O’Connor @Rocshot Email: libdevoff@sdublincoco.ie
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South Dublin Libraries continue to support Business, Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business Skills Development and Job Skills Development. As well as the annual Business Focus programme which took place earlier this year in February, South Dublin Libraries participated in November’s national Library Ireland Week campaign “Libraries: Open for Business”. County Library Tallaght and Ballyroan Library hosted informative free talks including Starting and Scaling a New Business with Gary Hammond from Iterate, and State Supports for New and Existing Businesses, a practical seminar organised by the Local Enterprise Office (South Dublin). Lucan Library hosted a workshop on Social Media and Online Marketing with Jurgita Glodenyte. Over the coming months South Dublin Libraries will continue to work closely with other agencies in providing business resources, networking opportunities, seminars and other programmes that can foster the development of local economic initiatives. South Dublin Libraries will also continue to support job-seekers in their search for employment. Through co-operation and partnership with national and local employment agencies the library will provide practical workshops, talks and information referral on all matters relating to job-seeking. Our website, www.southdublinlibraries.ie is a valuable resource in this area, with a dedicated Business and Jobs page available 24/7. This page will be reviewed over the coming months providing you with more updated information.
TEDxTallaght 2014 This year’s TEDxTallaght was called Theatre of Curiosity, and that it certainly was! Having procured our local licence from TED for the fifth year running, TEDxTallaght is an independent locally organised event which brings together innovative creative speakers for a night of entertainment and inspiration on the topics of Technology, Entertainment and Design. Ten speakers took to the stage in The Civic Theatre in Tallaght to a packed out auditorium. Elaine Doyle of FoodCloud spoke about how we might change the way we grow crops, getting more from the land with the use of a very simple environmentally friendly product called Biochar. Adam Murphy did the impossible, explaining Quantum Mechanics and Spooky Action at a Distance theory in only 10 minutes….a mean feat….but then again…he’s a wizard scientist who sees the magic in everything! William Priestley talked about nurturing a positive image for urban areas which have fallen victim to the ‘bad’ label. William has worked in New Orleans after Hurricaine Katrina, in Tallaght and currently works with a youth regeneration programme in Limerick. Ever thought you might like to row across the Atlantic? Well Paul Gleeson had the thought and so he did. He spoke about this experience and how he applies the lessons learned to everyday life. Next up, Jack Kavanagh, a remarkable young man from Dublin, broke his neck 2 years ago in an accident. Jack gave a tremendously powerful talk on how he is adapting to his new normal….living in the moment. Darren McNelis, a young man who was addicted to video games as a youth and as a result fell well behind educationally, spoke of how a constant digital life almost destroyed his working memory causing cognitive dissonance, until he decided to change himself, completely turning his life around. Ian Kingston, a personal development coach from Wicklow gave us some great insights on how to live a successful life, sharing the toolbox of wisdom that his late father had left behind. Gillian Riley, author and coach, put forward that by changing our attitude to food, we can change the way eat, living a healthy life without the need to diet. And finally Annemarie Steen from Eindhoven in The Netherlands had the
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New Library on the way for North Clondalkin
The development of a new library for North Clondalkin has been officially confirmed. The library will be centrally located within the established village area of Rowlagh, close to existing community facilities and schools. It will be a welcoming and inclusive space, offering IT facilities, meetings rooms, quiet reading areas and a children’s library. The contemporary design will maximise the use of natural light and ventilation throughout the building, and will also open up into the surrounding green area with a library garden for outdoor activities.
audience play! Having suffered burn-out after a stressful career, Annemarie changed her life around through doing what our parents and the education system taught us not to do as adults: Play! As Einstein famously said ‘Intelligence is creativity having fun.’ And fun she gave us! One Tweet on the night stated “Well done @SDCClibraries on an amazing #TEDxTallaght last night! You brought @TEDx to a new level in @Ireland !!” We sincerely hope to do the same in 2015, but in the meantime, all of the talks from this year’s TEDxTallaght are available online at www.tedxtallaght.com – We hope you enjoy! TEDxTallaght is brought to you by South Dublin Libraries as a part of The Red Line Book Festival.
Library members will avail of all the services on offer for free, from borrowing the latest bestseller, attending storytelling sessions with their children, accessing the Internet or just reading the newspaper. For more information please visit South Dublin County Council web site www.sdcc.ie
Music Generation, the U2 and Ireland Funds’ supporting the National Music Education Programme initiated by Music Network, has selected South Dublin for participation in the fourth and final round of the programme. Our Libraries & Arts are amongst the partners in this Music Education Partnership and will enable high quality, accessible music education programmes for children and young people in our local communities. Full details on the initiative will follow in 2015.
To the Stars: Excellence Awards 2014 South Dublin Libraries & Arts’ commitment to providing the best of services and programmes for the local community was once again officially recognised this year by national and international awards. Our state of the art Ballyroan Library won the 2014 Irish Concrete Society Award. This building is also listed amongst the most innovative libraries in the world offering 21st century services to people of all ages. The Children’s Summer Programme initiated by our Children’s Services and run in conjunction with Dublin City County Council and other local authorities was shortlisted for this year’ Excellence in Local Government Awards as per our Red Line Book Festival.
Our Local Studies Blog was nominated for the Blog Awards Ireland 2014 which celebrates the best of Irish blogging. Our library in Clondalkin was selected for funding by the Carnegie UK Trust for its project Library AfterDark Writers’ Café. The initiative will run under the Carnegie Library Lab programme which aims at enhancing innovation and leadership in public libraries. Clondalkin library’s proposal will see the library come alive after hours once a month on a Friday from 6:30-9:30pm. It will provide a writers café to support for new or emerging writing and also a space for writers to spend time working on their materials.
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Commemorating the First World War 2014 has given South Dublin Libraries the opportunity to continue the Decade of Centenaries project which started last year with the 1913 Lockout exhibition in the County Library, and our “Rifles Riots and Rebels” schools pack.
Landscapes of War and Peace 1914-2014 During the Red Line Book Festival we featured an exhibition by Michael J. Whelan including his poems and images inspired by the poets of the Great War and Peacekeeping duties in modern day conflicts in the Middle-East and Balkans. Michael exhibited historical artefacts and documents of family history over the past 100 years, poems and other paraphernalia from the Great War and his UN peacekeeping operations.
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Great War Road Show In association with South Dublin County Heritage Office we were delighted to host this two-fold event curated by historian Myles Dungan. The Great War RoadShow included a day long conference which was held in September in Tallaght Library as part of our History and Heritage month while an evening performance on music and songs took place in the Civic Theatre during our Red Line Book Festival. Both events were a resounding success bringing the First World War alive for all participants.
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Our Heroes http://ourheroes.southdublinlibraries.ie/ “Irish Life” was a newspaper which was published in Dublin in the early 20th Century. At the outbreak of the First World War, the newspaper published a supplement called “Our Heroes”. The supplement contained 1,600 photographs and biographical notes of officers in Irish regiments and of Irish officers in British regiments who fell in action, or who were mentioned for distinguished conduct from 1914 to 1918.
We had a very successful exhibition of artefacts from the First World War which ran in the County Library from the 21st of August to the 27th of September. This consisted of personal items and medals, and their stories, from both sides of the conflict. These stories helped to give visitors an idea of the human cost of the conflict. Also on display were examples of weapons used. Some items on display were kindly lent by residents of South Dublin.
Our Local Studies Unit, in collaboration with the Department of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht, have digitised this valuable historical resource and made its text searchable and available free to the public for the first time in database form. This database is of all-Ireland importance and has met with overwhelming approval from many historical associations, libraries and descendents of the men who are mentioned. It also contains details of the dates of death and final place of burial or commemoration, which were not included in the original work.
An explanatory tour of the exhibition was arranged for several groups of local schoolchildren, and they were genuinely fascinated by the stories behind the artefacts, and their questions revealed a keen interest in the subject.
“Our Heroes” is a snapshot of a cross section of the Irish officer class of the British Army, alongside the privates and NCOs listed among them who bravely distinguished themselves in the field or were killed in action.
A slideshow was created showing the names and additional details of South Dublin’s 1914-1918 war dead. This was displayed on several screens in the library for the duration of the exhibition.
Cllr. Trevor Gilligan recently took steps to address the absence of a public First World War memorial in the Clondalkin area. Arrangements are now being made to research and commemorate all of the Clondalkin war dead of 1914 – 1918 by means of a brass plaque in Clondalkin Library.
The exhibition will run for the month of December in Ballyroan Library.
Schools Pack The next instalment of the “Rifles Riots and Rebels” schools pack was released in soft copy on Source digital archive, and also in printed form housed in specially designed folders for schools in the South Dublin area. This issue covers the Great War, again it uses language and illustrations that can be easily understood by late primary and early secondary schoolchildren, while at the same time explaining the complex causes of the conflict.
Historians, researchers and students alike will find this resource a valuable tool, allowing interrogation of the original text to find not only servicemen’s names, but everything that was contained in the original biographies - school names, rugby clubs, counties, ships and much more besides.
Clondalkin’s War Dead commemorated
Patrick O’Sullivan, Chairperson of the Clondalkin Tidy Towns Committee, has adopted this project, with the generous support of Cllr. Gilligan, as part of next year’s entry into the National Tidy Town competition under the category of “Community Involvement & Planning’. The first step in this process was Patrick’s retrieval of the names from the In Flanders Fields website. Our Local Studies Unit was able to add seven names to this list from our existing South Dublin County Roll of Honour. The Clondalkin names have been printed and framed and now hang in Clondalkin library as a temporary Roll of Honour, along with a bound copy of the names with some additional details. It is envisaged that visitors to the library will be able to add names of men and women from Clondalkin who died during the war, but who may at present be listed on official records as simply being from Dublin. Any new names added will be researched and verified by Local Studies, and these will be included on the permanent brass memorial. A 1916 and War of Independence plaque will join the WWI memorial in due course.
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Our Red Line Book Festival returned this year with a packed programme, offering a wide range of events for all ages. The Festival ran from 14th to 19th October, taking place at various venues across the county and attracting over 2,000 people. The school programme was fully booked with some 1,000 children attending during the week.
The Festival also welcomed for the first time in South Dublin County acclaimed Chinese writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, award winning Italian crime fiction author Alessandro Perissinotto and UK children’s writer Tom Palmer.
This year’s programme featured 42 events, including 69 speakers such as renowned writers Donal Ryan, Mary O’Donnell, Paul Lynch, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Nuala Ni Chonchuir and Catherine Dunne. Legendary violinist and poet John Sheahan (from The Dubliners) joined us for a very entertaining afternoon session while historian Myles Dungan and his team recreated the Great War with its stories, music and songs for a packed audience in the Civic Theatre.
Over 140 people participated in our Red Line Poetry Competition with 249 entries. The prize giving event was immensely enjoyable with readings from judge Nessa O’Mahony and the poets from the shortlisting. South Dublin Libraries would like to thank everyone who took part in this year’s festival and helped us to make it another very successful and enjoyable event. Once again we were delighted to have the support of the Arts Council and Poetry Ireland while our partners this year included also the Italian
Cultural Institute, Tallaght Community Arts and the GlasHaus Hotel. The Echo and InTallaght Magazine featured the festival profusely, while our radio advert with RTE Supporting the Arts along with mentions in Sunday Independent and Irish Times’ The Ticket brought the festival to the attention of national audiences. The Festival has been shortlisted for the 2014 Chambers Ireland Award for Excellence in Local Government for supporting the arts within the local community. The Red Line Book Festival will return in 2015 from 11th to 17th October. In the meantime enjoy the podcasts and photos of this year’s festival and join us on Facebook for updates on literary events and other cultural initiatives.
Culture Night at South Dublin Libraries On the 19th September 2014, Ireland’s cultural venues threw open their doors late on Friday evening. And of course, many of our libraries did too! Ballyroan Library hosted the wonderful Padraig Yates, author of A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918. Padraig’s book is filled with the struggles of ordinary people living their ordinary lives during extraordinary political and economic upheaval. A powerful social history, it is a book that reminds us that for all the headline-grabbing events, putting bread on the table was still the most important priority for most. The County Library Tallaght presented the Irish Great War Society’s living history display for Culture Night. Members of the Irish Great War Society dressed in regimental uniform and exhibited artefacts and memorabilia from the Great War. The
event concluded with an Edwardian tea party where, through poetry and recitals, the audience remembered the 230,000 Irishmen that fought in the Great War and the 45,000 that were killed in action. Clondalkin Library tuned into its own history on Culture Night making for a very special event: Carl Philips and His Band played the hits of the 50’s, 60’s and showband era. Back in the day, the very popular Mayfair Ballroom was situated in Clondalkin and people travelled from all over Dublin and beyond to it. All of the great showbands played there. A large crowd came along to the library on Culture Night, dancing and sharing their reminiscences of meeting their husbands and wives at the ballroom, funny and sad memories from their dancing days. The band was all show band royalty!
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All the great showband hits were had, some ballads and a few surprises. It was a truly special sight to see these ladies and gentleman giving it socks to Sex on Fire’! Bottles of ‘minerals’ (old expression in Ireland for soft drinks) and packets of crisps were served as would have been what was available in ballrooms at the time. No alcohol! The Clondalkin Library staff put together a fantastic exhibition of reminiscences and memorabilia - much of which was loaned to them by Adair Cowan - the son of the owner of the Mayfair Ballroom. The Cowans had a family reunion with the library event as its highlight. Keep an eye out for events happening for 2015 Culture Night at South Dublin Libraries.
Celebrating the life and work of J. B. Malone On the 29th October 2014, Mayor Fintan Warfield formally launched an exhibition celebrating the life and work of J. B. Malone. J. B. Malone was the prime mover behind the establishment of Irish walking routes such as the Wicklow Way, and a passionate advocate of hill-walking as a recreation activity. Local historian, Frank Tracy had originally suggested that an exhibition be prepared to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of J. B. Malone’s death. Frank undertook the monumental task of indexing all of J. B. Malone’s hill and mountain articles carried in the Evening Herald and prepared a series of articles for the Evening Herald based on J. B. Malone’s original articles. On the night, the Mayor also launched Frank's book which is published by South Dublin Libraries Listing and Index of Evening Herald Articles 1938 ~ 1975 by J. B. Malone on Walks ~ Cycles ~ Drives. The Local Studies Section of South Dublin Libraries would like to acknowledge all those who so willingly assisted with this exhibition - the Malone family, Rose, Stephen and John; Peter Healy, Dermot Quinn and Tom Barraghy, Sean Rothery and the RTE Archives and the National Library of Ireland who supplied material from their collections and permitted its use.
Michael Fewer researched J. B. Malone and his life and work, located material, compiled the text of the exhibition, selected materials for inclusion and devised the exhibition. He also contributed a commemorative article to the Evening Herald. Cormac Looney, Deputy Editor of the Evening Herald engaged fully with the celebration of J. B. Malone’s work, carrying eleven articles in the Evening Herald during September and October 2014. Mayor Warfield expressed his hope that the exhibition would inspire people to get out investigate and enjoy the beautiful areas suggested by J. B. Malone. The Listing and Index of Evening Herald Articles 1938 ~ 1975 by J. B. Malone on Walks ~ Cycles ~ Drives compiled by Frank Tracy is available for reference in South Dublin branch libraries and can be viewed and downloaded from the library e-books site and from SOURCE, our digital archive. Both are accessible from www.southdublinlibraries.ie
The Exhibition will run in Lucan Library in the near future and will be hosted in Ballyroan Library in March 2015.
Health and Wellbeing Week Get Your Ass Off The Couch Never before has it been so important for people to take care of their mental and physical health. South Dublin County Council’s inaugural Health and Well Being Week took place from September 29th to Sunday October 5th, and South Dublin Libraries were delighted to take part. We have a continuous focus on health and well-being for everyone throughout the year. Apart from regular talks and displays on all health issues, we also have online resources available via our website. Consumer Health Complete (CHC), provided by EBSCO, is accessible using your library card and is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-orientated health content. Also in our Online Research section you will find our Re-Imagine Yourself resources and details of the Healthy Reading Scheme. As part of the Health and Well Being Week initiative, all our libraries hosted events which were open to everyone free of charge. All events received a terrific response from the community. Highlights included: Lunchtime talk at County Library Tallaght by Prof Jim Lucey, psychiatrist and author of In My Room: the recovery journey as encountered by a psychiatrist. This was an inspiring talk with many moments for reflection;
Eat Yourself Well with author Bernadette Bohan at Clondalkin Library. After being diagnosed with cancer for a second time Bernadette took her health into her own hands, and in this talk she shared the simple changes that can transform our life. AWARE, the national charity providing support around depression, visited Stewarts Library outlining the various programmes they offer, particularly their Life Skills programme. Prof Des O’Neill, consultant geriatrician at Tallaght Hospital and author of Ageing and Caring, outlined the challenges that can arise from ageing and also, importantly, how active and rewarding life can continue to be in old age. This talk at Ballyroan Library received an excellent response from the local community. Health and well-being are also important from a very early age, and our children’s events were very popular. Yoga for Children was enjoyed by school children at Castletymon Library while an Active Storytelling session with lots of movement proved a big hit in County Library Tallaght. South Dublin Libraries were delighted to support Health and Well-Being Week and look forward to more uplifting events during the 2015 Festival!
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If you go down to the library today you might find . . . Lots of children and a Mayor
A teenager, and even more authors
All attending our annual Schools Quiz. This year an amazing 36 schools took part with Ballyroan BNS emerging as the winners.
A little Buzzy Bee The bee is now a regular visitor to South Dublin Libraries. He’s our Summer Reading Challenge icon and has been stamped on over 1000 participating membership cards in 2014. Congrats to all the children who took part in the challenge. The bee has his own twitter account, @summerbuzz, and is now regularly engaging with school twitter accounts from all over Ireland.
They may be part of Totally Teen, our special programme for the teens of South Dublin. Events took place during May and November which introduced authors and illustrators to our second level students. Creative writing classes and book clubs for teens continue to operate across our branch network. A special event Weathering the Future featured a panel of authors discussing climate change with teenagers during the Red Line Book Festival. The initiative was part of Weather Stations, an international project with Tallaght Community Arts and Collective Action. Of course these teens could also have been attending one of the Careers and Study events organised in Tallaght library. This programme offered workshops on Study Skills, Preparation for Leaving Cert History Projects and Art Portfolios, as well as talks on careers. We like to support education too.
Teachers come to our libraries too A simply wonderful author or two Would they have been visiting us for our annual Children’s Book Festival? Probably. Imagine That! Is the theme we are branding our festival with and it sums up all we want to say about our festival. This wonderful programme of more than forty events featuring authors, illustrators, poets and drummers delighted primary school children across the County. We were delighted to introduce authors from the UK to our schools this year with Tom Palmer entertaining a packed Civic Theatre and Jeremy Strong captivating hoards of fans in Ballyroan library. News2Day, the RTE2 children’s news programme, featured the visit of Sligo illustrator Wayne O’Connor who helped us celebrate All Ireland Poetry Day with his lively Roald Dahl workshop. Another full house in the Civic Theatre saw Nicola Pierce, Brian Gallagher and Rory McConville present Reading History where they discussed their books and writing with almost 300 children.
They are very fond of our block loans which allow them to take 30 books back to their school for 3 months at a time. And then of course there’s the Classroom Readers collection; 30 copies of over 100 titles - perfect for reading together in the classroom time.
A mad professor, a maths magician, a robot and maybe even Jamie Heaslip Science Week was not enough; the children wanted more! So in 2014 we invented Science Festival – 18 days of science filled fun and mini experiments and investigations with events for over 1000 children. We had Lego workshops which looked at machines and mechanisms, hands on science experiments for children who investigated mirrors and designed boats, an amazing Maths based science show and we simply must mention our robotics workshops in Ballyroan library which were attended by Science Week ambassador and rugby player extraordinaire, Jamie Heaslip.
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A few sleepy teddies All of these little teddies had a sleepover in the libraries of South Dublin in June and, as you can see, some of them were not very well behaved!
You might even find a few champions of reading
We were celebrating the anniversary of one of our favourite books, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and invited children, and their teddies, to help us celebrate. Images of the bears were tweeted during the evening and every child was given a photograph of their bear to take home the next day.
In 2014 South Dublin Libraries were the lead partner in the launch of www.readingchampions.ie, a website resource celebrating reading and featuring a number of ambassadors for litereacy. The website was developed by six local authorities.
In October we marked the anniversary of the Elmer books with a series of fantastic Elmer Parades in our libraries.
. . . and of course hundreds and hundreds of beautiful, amazing, fantastic books. We have over 200,000 children’s books in our libraries and 22,000 children have borrowed and read 51,000 of these during 2014. That’s a lot of very happy children.
TENDERFOOT Plays By & For Young People South Dublin Libraries and Arts were approached by the Civic Theatre and Veronica Coburn, Tenderfoot Programme Director, earlier this year to co-fund the publication of a collection of the plays created as part of the Tenderfoot project.
With the introduction of the new Junior Cycle Curriculum and its focus on arts modules prioritising articulation, communication and performance /
South Dublin Libraries and Arts wish Veronica and all those involved in future Tenderfoot productions all the very best.
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TENDERFOOT: a Volume of Plays by and for Young People will be officially launched in January 2015.
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“When you are sixteen you don’t think about writing a play. Or if you do you don’t think you’ll see it produced in a theatre. Seven years ago Tenderfoot gave me an opportunity I never thought I would have…
Veronica Coburn, Tenderfoot Programme Director, had the unenviable task of choosing which plays to include in the collection. She describes in the Introduction the various reasons why these plays were finally selected: excellence; relevance; range. “Some write about what they know. Some write about what they want to know. Others are delighted by words and form. What I like about this volume, in keeping with Tenderfoot’s core value that art is for everyone, is that a young person might read or see one of these works and think “I could do that”.
presentation, the collection will be of particular interest and relevance to the education sector.
TENDERFOOT
Tenderfoot is an apprentice theatre programme for Transition Year students, which has taken place in the Civic Theatre Tallaght for the past seven years. This programme gives students a unique opportunity not only to learn the craft of writing for stage, but also to act, stage-manage, work on production design and costume design – a fully immersive theatre experience with their peers and for their peers.
after participating in the first Tenderfoot workshop I continue to appreciate the world it has opened up to me” Aisling O’Leary, Tenderfoot participant.
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