Winter classes at Galway Arts Centre 2010

Welcome to Galway Arts Centre’s winter programme of classes starting in January 2010 we hope you will find a course to suit you. Adult day and evening classes start the week of Monday the 18th of January and run for 10 weeks.

Booking for all classes is strongly advised, as places are limited. For booking please contact Victoria at reception at Galway Arts Centre phone 091-565886 or email victoria@galwayartscentre.ie

Evening Classes

Life Drawing (All Levels) with Sibéal Ní Chuimín
Mondays 7-8.30pm (10 weeks) €140 /130 (9 places)
In this all levels course in life drawing we will look at developing observational skills and the principles of composition and proportion. Participants are asked to bring their own paper and drawing equipment.

Creative Writing Fiction - with Celeste Augé
Mondays 7-8.30pm (10 weeks) €110/100 (8 places)
Create new worlds, invent yourself, lose yourself!
This course is for anyone who would like to develop their unique writing voice through the medium of fiction.
We will look at aspects of the craft of writing, as well as reading and discussing extracts from contemporary novels and short stories, using them as inspiration for writing and revision.
Participants will do in-class writing exercises and assignments on their own time. These will be shared during the workshop, in a supportive environment meant to challenge and inspire.

Digital Photography (Beginners) with Tom Flanagan
Mondays 6.30-8.30pm (10 weeks) €150/€140 (6 places)
This hands-on workshop is designed to show participants how to use a digital camera properly. This course will give you the ability to competently use a digital camera. You will be encouraged to take photographs on an ongoing basis throughout the duration of the course and will be given assignments on a weekly basis to put theory into practice. A wide variety of subjects will be covered please ask for complete course details at reception

Drawing into Paint Studio Workshop with Maeve Curtis
Wednesdays 6 - 8.30pm 10 weeks 8 places maximum (BEGINNERS)
Cost €155/145
This course explores the fundamentals of drawing and painting by working initially from everyday objects. Each participant is actively encouraged to develop critical and analytical skills within the group whilst sharing their own work. The use of colour, tone and temperature is explored using acrylic paint before each artist embarks upon an exploration of their own chosen theme. Please bring an A3 sketchbook and a range of pencils (2B, 4B, 6B), pencil sharpener and an eraser for the first workshop. A list of additional materials will be provided during the course.

Playing for Real with Max Hafler
Monday / Tuesday 6.30-8.30pm (5 weeks) €160/140 Starting Feb 8th
Working on scenes from Anton Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS [in the translation by Martin Crimp] , the workshop will explore the whole idea of playing for truth in naturalistic drama, initially working on exercises focusing on theatrical truth/ offstage life etc, then on specific scenes from the play . it requires attendance at all 10 sessions which will begin on February 8th and run for 5 weeks twice a week on Monday and Tuesdays.This class is an intermediate course for people seriously interested in developing their acting skills.
Please leave in a cv [if you have not worked with Max before] or letter of interest to the Arts Centre [preferably with an email address] . Max will let you know by January 11th as to whether you have been accepted The course is only going to accept 8 people maximum.

Creative Writing Poetry (Beginners) with Kevin Higgins
Tuesdays 7-8.30pm (10 weeks) €110/100 (8 places)
Over ten weeks Kevin Higgins will lead participants through every aspect of poetry writing, from inspiration to editing to learning how to take constructive criticism. He will also help participants get their poems out into the world; the last two classes will be dedicated to How To Publish Your Poems and How to Read Your Poems in Public.

Acting with Pete Mullineaux
Wednesdays 7-8.30pm (10 weeks) €110/100 (8 places)
A performance class, which will bring out the actor in you! The focus will be on exploring self-potential through acting and other techniques. Participants will explore improvisation skills, a selection of play texts, breathing techniques, projection, voice work and gesture. The overall aim is to have fun and build self-confidence while learning more about theatre.

Text in Action with Claire-Louise Bennett
Tuesday’s 6.30 – 8.30pm (10 weeks) €130/120 (8 places)
This course will be of interest to artists and theatre-practitioners who want to explore what text can do in a performance context. The chief objective of this course is to encourage a reorientation in terms of how text is defined within artistic practice; where it comes from and what its function is. In order to assist these renegotiation participants will become familiar with a range of cross-disciplinary workshop strategies which depart from employing text as a representational aid and instead approach text as an event. We will look at specific techniques including open text, bricolage, constellations, repetition, listing, fragmentation, hybridization, and accident. The course takes the form of a laboratory and is committed to the generation of new, performance-orientated work, in whichever medium, and will culminate in a short showing of the work developed over the ten weeks.