Galway Arts Centre Education Courses

Digital Photography for Beginners by artist Louise Manifold is a 10 week evening course for adults. The course is intended to provide a general introduction to photography and is suitable for both absolute beginners and people with a little basic photographic knowledge wishing to develop their potential as photographers.

This 10 week course aims at working creatively with digital photography to give practical hands on experience of working with your digital camera to gain confidence and gain knowledge of what you camera has to offer.

Cost €110/€100 Concessions

This course is suitable for those who wish to spend an extended period of time developing their drawing skills, or working on a portfolio for Third Level. Students will explore a wide range of media, including charcoal, ink, mixed media and paint. 

 with Martin Keaveney B.A., M.A., PhD Candidate (Creative Writing), published and produced creative writer

An Introduction to the Ad Hoc Choir - Voice Workshops

Happy Harmonies, world songs, improvisations. Ahead of the September term there will be a number of introductory workshops to see if the Ad Hoc Choir is for you. At a special price of €5, these workshops are for everyone who would like to try singing in a group, and no experience is needed!

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Wednesdays 7:00pm - 8:30pm

A casual, fun Art class, with an emphasis on developing each participant's unique style.
Each week there will be a focus on an different genre (Still-life, Landscape, Portraiture etc.)

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AUTUMN POETRY WORKSHOPS AT GALWAY ARTS CENTRE/FRIDAY

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.[...]

AUTUMN POETRY WORKSHOPS AT GALWAY ARTS CENTRE/THURSDAY

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.[...]

AUTUMN POETRY WORKSHOPS AT GALWAY ARTS CENTRE/TUESDAY 

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet. [...]

Autumn Daytime Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Arts Centre/MONDAY

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for all those beginner and continuing creative writing students out there, facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars. Susan Millar DuMars writes both poetry and fiction. A collection of her stories, Lights In The Distance, was published in December 2010 by Doire Press; she has published four collections of poetry, Big Pink Umbrella (2008), Dreams For Breakfast (2010), The God Thing (2013), & Bone Fire (2016) all with Salmon Poetry. Susan was the Featured Fiction writer in a recent issue of the American online magazine The Atticus Review.She is also co-organiser of the Over The Edge reading series which specifically promotes new writers. Susan edited the anthology Over the Edge – the first ten years, published by Salmon, which includes work by forty seven writers who have published a first book since they did a reading at an Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library.[...]

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