Ireland Events Calendar for May 2010
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Ireland Events Calendar for May 2010 |
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| May 2010
Weekly Workshops in Felt making, Handspinning, Weaving, Crochet, Knitting etc
Our workshops include: Spinning, Dyeing and Weaving, Felt Making, Knitting, Crochet, Yoga/Bodywork, Cooking, Painting Classes and Childrens Workshops. Courses run by professional textile artists/ jewellers. Please phone for further information. Something for everyone! |
| May 2010
Art Exhibition in the Blue Geranium Cafe with Barry Dawkes.
Barry developed his love of watercolour painting in Norfolk under the expert guidance of well known Norfolk artist, Ian King. Having moved to West Cork four years ago, he has continued to paint capturing the beauty of the West Cork landscape in both watercolours and pastels. A full member of the Pastel Society of Ireland, Barry has exhibited in the Societys National Exhibition, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He is chairman of the local Carbery Art Group where he regulary gives demonstrations and workshops, and teaches watercolour painting at Adult Education Centres. |
| May 2010
Cookery Courses
The Just Cooking School will 'add a little flavour' to your life with creative Cookery Classes that can teach you how to be the perfect "Domestic God or Goddess". With step by step Recipes, guidance and Menu advice it's a practical way to learn a skill for life and can put the fun back into home cooking. |
| 1st May 2010
Festival of the Fires
History is to be made on Saturday May 1st as one of the world's oldest recorded festivals is rekindled at the Hill of Uisneach in Co. Westmeath and at over two dozen sites nationwide. |
| 1st May 2010
Sibin Festival 2010
Sibín brings a quality full day session to the Man O War pu1 in Balbriggan that guarantees a great crowd year on year. Kick off the summer festival season with a bang. You can expect some of Dublin’s liveliest bands and a plethora of DJs pumpin out Drum&Bass, Dubstep, Techno, Reggae, Funk and Soul. This year the production crew have teamed up with Knockanstockan Festival to deliver you twice as much bang for your buck. Together this year we have some of Dublin’s finest crews. |
| 1st May 2010
Monthly Craft Fair
Our craft fair takes place on the first Saturday of each month (excluding January) in the Belmont area of East Belfast. Admission to the public is FREE, so why not pop in and have a browse around. With space for 17 crafters on the ground floor and 4 on the first floor, and a small outdoor food market, there is a wide range of goods at affordable prices. |
| 1st May 2010
Spring Flowers Watercolours with Jenni White
Time: 10:30am to 5pm - Spring Flowers Watercolours - only €65 - includes lunch in the Blue Geranium Cafe |
| 1st - 2nd May 2010
Heineken Kinsale Sevens
Within eight weeks, on the May bank holiday weekend, at least sixty teams - maybe more - will converge on Kinsale to participate in the most successful event of its type in Europe. Kinsale RFC will welcome teams, players, participants and supporters from all over Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Holland, other European countries. |
| 1st - 3rd May 2010
Weekend Pottery Course
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| 1st - 3rd May 2010
Lina Stein Millinery Workshop 3 Days of intense Millinery Magic - make 2 hats. If you are interested in Millinery as a profession, then this intense 3 day Workshop is for you! Your roller-coaster ride into the Millinery world will take off with making a head piece or fascinator, then you get more technical and expand your knowledge by designing and making a straw hat that would be suitable for any fancy wedding or race meeting. |
| 1st - 31st May 2010
Silver Jewellery Making Courses
A registered craft jeweller with the Craft Council of Ireland and award winner for design and workmanship, fully insured to run jewellery courses as set up by the Craft Council of Ireland. The small workshop, which has space for only six students with basic equipment, are all under my personal supervision .The intention is to give an insight to designing and making handmade jewellery, to a student's own personal design. |
| 1st - 31st May 2010
Saturday Art Classes with Georgina Maher
Children Art Classes each Saturday in Cumann Ioseaf, Balloonagh Tralee, time 11:00 - 12:30 and 1:00 - 2:30. Boys and girls age from 5 - 10 welcome to a wonderful socal outlet for children to make new friends in a warm, bright and friendly atmosphere. The classes have been running since early 2007 and children enjoy doing paper crafts, clay, painting and make and do for all seasons. To book your childs place please contact Georgina on 087 6211752 / artybits@eircom.net. |
| 1st - 31st May 2010
Ballyboy House Open Garden, Woodland & Riverwalk
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| 1st - 31st May 2010
Pottery Classes, Pottery Demonstrations Pottery classes all year round. Visit our website for details. |
| 2nd May 2010
Farmers Market at Hosfords
Goods on sale shall include local baking, shortbread, local chocolates, mobile pet shop, live chickens, chicken coops, photography and cards. |
| 3rd May 2010
Holistic and Psychic health fair
Time: 11am - 6pm. Over 60 stands including: Therapies, Crystals, Products, Jewellery, Aura Photography,Seaweed Products, Tahitian Noni Juice, Psychic Readers and Fortune Tellers and much more. Free Workshop and talks so come along and experience some of the Therapies that will be on offer. If you like to book a table or a stand at one of our fairs contact Geraldine (details above) |
| 3rd May 2010
May Day Craft And Food Fair
Time: 11am |
| 3rd - 14th May 2010
Metalsmith Workshop - Silver Smithing
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| 4th - 9th May 2010
New Park Music Festival
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| 6th - 9th May 2010
Baltimore Fiddle Fair
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| 7th - 8th May 2010
Lina Stein Millinery Workshop Due to popular demand this workshop has been developed to enable students with good basic millinery skills to progress beyond intermediate level. This course will include important elements, such as a more considered approach to design and attention to detail and quality, with a focus on self-initiated projects and experimental ideas. |
| 7th - 10th May 2010
Phoenix Festival
Action packed family festival programme of extreme, arts, live music & heritage events. Tullamore’s central location brings together a unique mix of people and ideas to celebrate our unique history through colourful street spectacles, live music, and extreme events in a colourful friendly festival atmosphere. |
| 7th - 23rd May 2010
Dublin Dance Festival
The Dublin Dance Festival is a celebration of international dance, the only festival solely dedicated to promoting contemporary dance in Ireland. |
| 8th May 2010
Drawing Classes with Desmomd McCarthy
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| 8th May 2010
Bat Walk
These Bat Walks begin with an illustrated talk on Bats, dispelling all of the myths and detailing just how marvellous these tiny mammals really are. Followed by guided bat walk with use of Bat Boxes (which allows you to hear the bats, hunt, and communicate with each other) around Belvedere parkland. Walk is weather permitting (bats are far too sensible to be out in the wet or cold!). Wear warm clothing sensible footwear and bring a small torch. Entry is free, donations if desired to Bat conservation Ireland. |
| 9th May 2010
3-hour drop-in pottery class for beginners
Have you ever fancied signing up to a pottery course but have been unsure whether you'd enjoy it? How about dipping your toe in the water with a drop-in class at Kinsale Pottery - no commitment to a whole term of classes, but the chance to try:
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| 9th May 2010
Frock Around The Clock Frock Around The Clock is the only event of its kind in Northern Ireland, dedicated to bringing you the very best of Ireland's vintage sellers, together under one roof. At each fair you can expect to find a fabulous array of genuine vintage clothing, rich in colours and textures; a dazzling display of vintage costume jewellery, including signed collector's pieces; accessories galore; vintage homewares; textiles and lace; vinyl records and vintage comics; beautifully designed clothing, bags and jewellery created from recycled vintage textiles, and much, much more! |
| 9th May 2010
Antiques Fair
Fair opens 11am |
| 9th May 2010
Rare and Special Plant Fair
The Rare & Special Plant Fair was established to ensure that the gardening public has an opportunity to purchase rare, unusual and special plants at reasonable prices, and to ensure that nurseries and breeders of these plants in Ireland have an opportunity to present them for sale. At the same time, the Fair aims to provide an opportunity for visitors to visit a private garden that they might not otherwise visit. |
| 10th - 14th May 2010
Figure Painting from the Model - with John Dinan
MOST SUITABLE FOR Artists with some experience, or with a lot of experience
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| 13th May 2010
Lina Stein Millinery Workshop Take a day out of your hectic program and put those idle fingers to some use. Get creative and learn to make a beautiful Headpiece, be it with feathers, Sinamay, straw, veiling, flowers or beads.
Have fun creating your very own hat, bonnet or chapeau
And learn about the classic art of Millinery design and technique with renowned Westport based Milliner Lina Stein
She will demonstrate some basic techniques and then you can let your imagination run wild
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| 13th May 2010
Knocksink Wood Bat Walk
9.15pm. Education Centre , Knocksink Wood Nature Reserve, Enniskerry. See, hear, and learn about bats. Allow 1 to 2 hours but participants can join us for as long or as short as they wish. Meeting at dusk (9.15pm). Bring insect repellent and a torch. Booking is not required - all are welcome. For more information, please phone Knocksink Wood Education Centre 01 2866609 (weekdays). |
| 14th May 2010
Lina Stein Millinery Workshop During the one day course, you will expand your knowledge on how to work and manipulate the versatile material, sinamay by hand to create elaborate pieces that are sculptural in nature.
Embellish them with beads, feathers or flowers to create exotic and stunning head pieces
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| 15th - 16th May 2010
Bronze-casting weekend course
€200 per person plus €40 materials and lunches
This weekend with Helle Helsner introduces participants to the ancient art of bronze casting using a combination of pre-historic and modern methods. You will be able to sculpt in wax, make moulds from clay, sand and horse dung, and prepare your mould in a gas-fired kiln. It may be possible to burn out moulds and melt bronze in the ancient pit-firing process, or otherwise in a more modern gas-firing. You will be able to produce a small bronze sculpture which you will finish with paring, burnishing and patinating.
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| 15th - 16th May 2010
Glass Fusing weekend course
Learn how to cut, assemble and shape coloured glass using a kiln with Michael Ray. Learn about mould making materials suitable for shaping glass, how to texture and produce holes without drilling. Students get the opportunity to make several coloured pendants, glass coasters, tiles or dishes.
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| 15th - 16th May 2010
Weekend Pottery Course
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| 15th - 16th May 2010
Improvers Floral Watercolours - Tragumna
with Jenni White
Time: 9:30am - 5pm at Crosslea Studio (between Tragumna & Castletownsend) - 2 days only €130 - includes lunch |
| 16th May 2010
Dawn Chorus
with BirdWatch Ireland
for National Biodiversity Week
5am. Information Office, Upper Lake, Glendalough. Sunday 16th May is Dawn Chorus Day, and all over Ireland people will be getting up incredibly early to join a guided walk to listen to and learn the birds’ songs. The National Park is delighted to once again welcome the staff of Birdwatch Ireland to host this walk. Allow 2 hours. There is no limit to the number of participants – all are welcome. There is an optional Birdsong Workshop in the Education Centre after the walk. Suitable for all ages. Booking is not necessary. For more information, please phone 0404 45425. |
| 16th May 2010
Belvedere's Annual Dawn Chorus
Meeting at 4am in Belvedere Visitor Centre for guided Dawn Chorus Walk with Alex Copland of Birdwatch Ireland, part of the National Dawn Chorus events. This is something that you should do at least once in your life time! Breakfast will be available afterwards. Free entry event. |
| 20th - 23rd May 2010
Dublin City Soul Festival
Dublin City Soul Festival ~ a celebration of peace, unity and love! This unique 4 day festival, now celebrating its 4th year, offers a variety of reasons to be cheerful: |
| 21st - 23rd May 2010
Garden Festival
If you are looking for a fun day out or a weekend away, the Garden Festival has plenty to enjoy! Kids are very welcome too, with plenty of activities to keep them occupied during your visit to the Show. Children under the age of 16 are FREE when accompanied by an adult. After exploring all the Garden Festival has to offer, you can wander through the gardens of Hillsborough Castle and out into the village with its charming specialty shops, pubs and coffee houses and historical sites. |
| 22nd - 23rd May 2010
Lina Stein Millinery Workshop During this 2 day course you will create a stunning straw hat to match your special outfit and that will definitely grab the judge’s attention!!The basics of couture millinery- Using Sinamay as the main material, along with fabrics such as silk and satins, crinolines and flowers. We will discover the different techniques necessary for creating a hat, or something else altogether exotic and you will have the opportunity to Create a trimming suitable for the occasion |
| 23rd May 2010
Talk on Fruit Trees by Fruit Expert & Nurseryman,Dr.Pat McDonnell
This is a unique opportunity to speak to an acknowledged expert on fruit growing. Pat has worked extensively on Fruit Research for Teagasc. He has developed the innovative and highly acclaimed Coronet series of Apple Trees. Time 3pm |
| 23rd May 2010
Dublin Toy and Train Fair
The Dublin Toy and Train Fair now runs four times a year. Not to be missed by collectors of antique toys. |
| 24th - 28th May 2010
Advanced Landscape Painting MOST SUITABLE FOR Artists who have previously taken my '6 Steps' Painting Workshop
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| 27th - 30th May 2010
Wicklow Arts Festival 2010
Wicklow Arts Festival takes place annually in May in the beautiful harbour setting of Wicklow Town. Now in its seventh year, the Festival has grown with the town to become an important cultural fixture in the calendar with audience figures rising steadily year by year. For 2010 the Festival will be running over four days from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th May. |
| 27th - 31st May 2010
Guinness Blues on the Bay Festival
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| 28th - 30th May 2010
Galway Early Music Festival
The Galway Early Music Festival which runs annually in May and features concerts by top international performers, workshops, schools events and music and theatre in the Galway City Museum and in the street. The Festival has a unique, relaxed and friendly atmosphere and highlights the medieval town of Galway and the artistic and cultural richness of the area. |
| 28th - 30th May 2010
Wise Woman Weekend
The Wise Woman Weekend is a weekend of learning, discovery, celebration and fun for women of all ages. |
| 28th - 30th May 2010
Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival
Baltimore Wooden Boat Festival - a celebration of the traditional timber sailing boats of Ireland. The 9th Festival runs from Fri 28th - Sun 30th May 2010 - with more events and more boats. We invite sailors and boat-lovers from near and far to join us in Baltimore in May for a weekend of sailing, talking, learning and partying in true West Cork style! |
| 29th May 2010
Lina Stein Millinery Workshop This is a great way to continue your travels on the road of hat making and expand your skills you acquired in previous beginners courses with Lina |
| 29th May 2010
Composting Day in conjunction with Cork County Council
1 - 4pm |
| 29th - 30th May 2010
Watercolour Workshop with Harry Feeney
This is an opportunity for all potential students to enjoy and take part and unwind in a nice relaxed atmosphere. So if you are a complete beginner or a more experienced painter then we have the courses for you. The courses are friendly, practical and confidence building with positive results that you can clearly see and even better bring home, your new paintings and new skills. |
| 30th May 2010
Scruffs Dog Show
Will take place on Sunday 30th May and Sunday 3rd October 2010 10 Fun Classes for all to enjoy - All entry fees go to the ISPCA Belvedere Scruffs Dog Show In aid of and association with the ISPCA. In Belvedere Scruffs Dog Show we are judging for Happy Healthy Well adjusted & Loved dogs regardless of lineage or ancestral line |
| 30th May 2010
Doolin Saturday Market and Craft Fair
This weekly Market combines the fresh local produce and artisan foods of a traditional Farmers’ Market with the unique hand-made goods of a Craft Fair. The Market takes place every Saturday, June through August, at the Russell Community Centre in Doolin, County Clare, Ireland. Tea and coffee, light snacks, and parking available. |
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