Creative Women

Join us for exciting book event in Terenure! Details below: Vision Ireland Terenure is organising a book week in the last week of April. They have some amazing collectible items (such as a signed first edition by Seamus Heaney and one by Samuel Beckett and more!!) as well as a wide range of 'ordinary' books. On Thursday evening 30th April, there will be a literary evening with readings by four local authors followed by a Q & A and light refreshments. All are welcome. Pop in and buy a book. All proceeds go towards the wonderful work of Vision Ireland who help thousands of people who have lost or are losing their sight. Put it in your calendar and see you there. ❤️🤗 BOOK EVENT Celebrating the joy of reading while supporting services for people living with vision impairment Thur 30 April, 2026 19:00 to 21:00 Vision Ireland Terenure 23 Terenure Place D6WTK22 Live music and light refreshments Browse and purchase from our store library Readings by Irish authors **Gill Perdue** **Sylvia Leatham** **Fiona McCann** **Mary Minnock** Needless to say, it will be occasion to listen to readings from our Literati Mary Minnock ! :) See you soon!

## **The Jam: Open Mic Night** 🎤 ### *Seafront Sessions \| All Are Welcome* 🌊 **The Jam Hits the Seafront** 🎡 The Jam is heading to the coast! Every second Thursday, we take over **The Promenade** for a high-energy, public Open Mic night. This is where our community meets the seafront for a night of live performance, creativity, and connection. 🌊🎸 Whether you’re a performer looking for a lively room to test your material or a music lover looking for a great night out, this is the place to be! 🤘✨ ### **The Vibe** 🍻 The Open Mic is a public celebration. It’s loud, it’s social, and it’s open to everyone! * **The Floor is Yours:** Step up and share your craft. We provide the space; you provide the soul. 🎤✨ * **All Genres, All Talents:** This is a multidisciplinary room. We are proudly open to **comedians, storytellers, poets, and musicians of all genres.** Whether you’re dropping a beat, a punchline, or a poem, there is a place for you here. 🎭🎷📖 * **Your 10 Minutes:** Each performer has a **strict maximum of 10 minutes**. There is zero pressure to fill the whole slot—whether you have one piece or a full ten-minute set, the floor is yours! ⏳ * **The Venue:** Since we are hosted in a local pub, there is a full bar service available at the venue to keep you hydrated! 🍺 ### **Equipment & House Rules** 🛠️ * **PA System:** Roland Street Cube EX. * **Microphones:** 2 mics and stands provided. * **Percussion:** Cajon, shakers, and a glockenspiel are available. * **Backing Tracks:** Cables provided to plug in phones/tablets. * **Accessories:** Music stand, stand light, extra guitar picks, and tuners available. * **Keyboard:** Available **on request only**. Message us in advance if you need it. 🎹 * **Instruments:** **We do not provide guitars.** You must bring your own instrument. 🎸🚫 * **Technical Setup:** To keep the night moving, the 10-minute limit is final. If you require help setting up or have specific technical requirements, you must let us know in advance. ⚠️ ### **2026 Season: Dates & Themes** 📅 * **April 30** \| The Jazz Fringe 🎷 *(Jazz Festival Special)* * **May 14** \| Electric Dreams ⚡️ * **May 28** \| High Tide 🌊 * **June 11** \| Neon Nights 🌃 * **June 25** \| Summer Solstice ☀️ * **July 9** \| Cover Your Tracks 🎸 * **July 23** \| Boardwalk Empire 🎡 * **August 6** \| Heatwave 🔥 * **August 20** \| Shipwrecked ⚓️ * **Sept 3** \| Back to School 🎒 * **Sept 17** \| The Big Screen 🍿 * **Oct 1** \| Harvest Fest 🍎 * **Oct 15** \| The Witching Hour 🕯️ * **Oct 29** \| Ghouls & Guitars 🎃 *(Halloween Special)* * **Nov 12** \| The Afterglow ✨ * **Nov 26** \| The Grand Finale 🏁 ### **The Details** 📍 * **Admission:** FREE ENTRY 🆓 * **Sign-up:** **8:00 PM Sharp**📝 * **First Act:** **8:15 PM** ⚡ * **Age:** Strictly **18+**. * **Location:** The Promenade, Bray (Seafront). **Come for the music. Stay for the shore.** 🌊🎶🤘 Check out our social media and full event list here: [https://linktr.ee/TheJam.HBE](https://linktr.ee/TheJam.HBE "https://linktr.ee/TheJam.HBE")

Join the murder this Walpurgis Night at The Wild Duck. A gathering of crows—curious, well-dressed, and open to chance encounters. Play new and familiar games, meet strangers, trade trinkets, and follow where conversation leads. No fixed structure—only an invitation to take part. Come alone or arrive together. Stay a while or drift as you please. Something simple begins here. It may not remain that way. **Dress Code:** black, feathers, sparkles. Bring something small, if you wish. Complimentary drink included. The first gathering. The rest will follow. 📅 Date: Sunday, 30th April 2025 🕕 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM 📍 Location: Wild Duck, Temple Bar, D1 💰 Tickets: 🎟️ €17 General \| 2 for €23 \(online only\!\) 🚪 €19 at the door \| €29 for 2 🎟 RSVP now to secure your place! [TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE](https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/crow-party-with-fool-nouveau-and-rosie-hop-tickets-1987193918504?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl)

\*THIS IS A PAID EVENT\* Join us for a warm, supportive in-person gathering where women come together to share, heal, and reconnect. OPEN TO ALL WOMEN OVER 18. Held around the energy of the full moon, this circle offers a gentle space to pause, reflect, and release what you’ve been carrying — emotionally, mentally, and energetically. This is for women who are used to taking care of everything and everyone… but are ready to take a moment for themselves. Through sharing, guided moments, and simply being in a safe space with other women, you’ll be held without pressure, without judgment — just as you are. Come as you are. Leave feeling lighter, grounded, and more connected to yourself. \*THIS IS A PAID EVENT\* €25 for one €45 for two women attending together Must purchase tickets on eventbrite or DM me for other payment methods such as Revolut, Cash, etc. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/womens-healing-circle-balbriggan-tickets-1987807992215?

These group harmony singing and vocal exploration sessions are for anyone who is longing to connect to themselves and others through the voice in service to a more loving world. These 5 weekly Thursday night sessions which run from 30 Apr to 28 May, are all about freeing your voice, singing in harmony and feeling part of a community of warm, friendly people. We will continue till 2 July, so you can also enrol on another 5 week set after this one if you feel inspired to keep going! Over the course of these sessions we will explore together what it is like to cultivate a sense of **being enough (with less effort)**. This is a radical rejection of the ideology of self-improvement, productivity, speed, talent, growth and individualism which we are surrounded by. When we sing, we work intimately with worries around what we sound like, whether the sounds we are making are acceptable, whether we are ‘doing it right’ and ultimately whether we are enough. As we notice these thoughts and feelings, we can invite the ease with which we were born to return. We also work intimately with liberation of our breath and body. > In these sessions you will be invited to become more aware of opportunities to try less, let go more and you will learn about how to support your voice through diaphragmatic breathing and somatic connection. Humans have gathered to use their voices as tools for healing, prayer, divination, plant communication, echoes of topography, expressions of identity, creators of harmony and much more but music and singing have been reduced largely to entertainment and big business in modern capitalist culture. In these sessions we **reclaim our voices as technologies of connection and enchantment**. Singing is not for the few, it is our birthright and a means to better health and wellbeing. We will experience beauty not only in the aesthetics of our voices but in their authenticity and capacity to connect us. We do not have to sound or look beautiful to *be* beautiful as we are all miraculous beings simply by existing. Singing is one of the most powerful tools to connect and bond human beings so as we sing together, you will experience a sense of being held in a container of human sound, a balm for the soul. You may even experience a sense of ‘interbeing’, a deep sense of interconnectedness and non-duality. Contrary to what we are told, us humans are not on this Earth to compete with and dominate each other. > We are all leaves of the same tree, cells of the same organism, stewards of the same Earth. This course will also be rooted in what we can **learn from Indigenous and traditional cultures and from living systems (nature)**. We will sing songs which connect us to our ancestral lineages and to the Earth. We will musically explore and celebrate concepts from the Global South such as Ubuntu (a set of related African value systems emphasising interconnectedness) and Buen Vivir (a Latin American concept describing living well as sustainably living in harmony within a community including humans and nature) as well as those from closer to home such as ‘*Dinnseanchas’, meaning* lore and knowledge of place and ‘d*úchas’* (heritage and wildness, a sense of where you come from, to whom and to where you belong). This course is open to all, regardless of how you sound and previous experience. The Facilitator: Rachel is a song leader with a background in ethnomusicology and has spent time with many communities around the world facilitating and researching music making, Rachel is also an educator and uses music and singing as a tool for for learning and changemaking in the areas of wellbeing, diversity, sustainability, social justice and community building community. ##### **Booking & Pricing:** 5 week course €140 - €90 sliding scale Info and sign ups: https://fullcirclechange.ie/event/rooted-together-in-harmony/

Mixed level ballet class suitable for people with good ballet foundations knowledge (improvers to intermediate)

Adult Bachata and Salsa dance classes with practice social at Coolock Ardlea Scout Den Coolock Village. This is a mirror studio located upstairs from the hall with nice wooden floors. This is a weekly Thursday event. Come down, learn and have fun! Men and Women are welcome. Free taster for first timers and discount for students, request via dm. Beginners cost 10 euro for all beginner classes and practice.

Join us on Saturday mornings for a self-awareness experience through dance, designed to help you feel free, confident, sensual, light, and fully alive. 💃🏽✨ This is a recurrent class happening in a lovely dance studio, filled with incredible females. We often stay for lunch together at a café of our choice, because community is part of the experience. In the sessions, we usually explore: • Grounded hip movement and natural body isolation • Combinations focused on flow and expression • Musicality and rhythm connection • Confidence through dynamic footwork • Your authentic, inner energy. This will arise naturally as you move without holding back This class is open to **all levels**. Most students have no or little experience with dance. Choreographies are just a means of self-expression. Whether you already dance or you simply want to feel your body again, this space is for you. Expect warmth, laughter, a little challenge and a lot of energy. Let’s move, sweat and awaken our vital force together ❤️‍🔥 **Location:** The Liffey Trust Studios, Studio 5 **When:** Saturdays **Time:** 11:00 To reserve your spot, please join this event and complete the payment: • **Drop-in class:** €16 Payment link: [revolut.me/mariafxfqd](revolut.me/mariafxfqd) A monthly plan is offered for €60 if you decide you want to become a regular. Reconnect with your true self through movement and community 🧡

Join us for coffee, a chat and bring your project at the CHQ (fully accessible venue). We're usually at the tables in the middle of the building - just look out for the yarn :) There's a choice of cafes, including the Bakehouse & Starbucks. There's no charge for the meetup but we ask please that you join our Whatsapp group if you plan on staying with the group. Cost is only €5 a year to pay for Meetup subs etc.

Life Drawing Session, Saturday afternoons 12-3pm in lovely Dublin City centre studio, with huge south facing bay windows and loads of natural light. Easels, drawing boards, all art materials and tea and coffee included. All levels of experience and or confidence (or lack of) are welcome! 50e for one session or 250 for six Small groups to allow for 2m per participant Bookings are confirmed on payment, and can be done by bank transfer, card over the phone or Revolut. Please contact 0863514303 or studio10dublin@gmail.com to ask if we have a spot available for you.

**This month’s Creativity Circle is very timely. We will be making our own craft flowers out of paper, coffee filters, popsicle sticks, sparkles, cupcake liners, pipe cleaners and more! All ages welcome, show up as you can, bring a friend or a few if you would like to! Excited to see you there! Seats Limited. Held at the Westerville Public Library Meeting Room B.**

🌸 Mother’s Day deserves more than flowers 🌸 Join us for an elevated outdoor paint experience designed for creativity, connection, and unforgettable memories. ✨ Brushes & Brunch: Mother’s Day Garden Edition ✨ Beautiful garden vibes Brunch bites Signature refreshments Guided painting Soft music Luxury energy Whether you're celebrating your mother, your daughter, your friends, or simply honoring yourself — this experience is your invitation to slow down and create something beautiful. No painting experience needed — just bring your good energy. This is not your typical paint party. This is intentional. This is elevated. This is your moment. 🎟 Limited seating available to keep the experience intimate. Reserve your spot early https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brushes-brunch-a-curated-mothers-day-painting-experience-tickets-1987709930911