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Learn French in Montpellier
Opt out and Learn French in Montpellier, France if you are in the need of a high standard French course for work/study to improve your language skills as a traveler.
Language Courses France
ESL offers language courses abroad in France, Switzerland, Lyon, Nice and Montreux with carefully-selected French schools that offer French courses for all ages.
Arts Organisations
Westwood
The Westwood Clubs offer a world class health club in three conveniently located clubs in Leopardstown, Sandymount, and Clontarf Rd. West Wood offers you everything you need to look and feel your very best. Including the best fitness, weight loss, body-shaping, tennis, beauty and relaxation facilities available anywhere. It is the home of our Boogie Bugs dance and drama programme in Clontarf.
Mermaid Arts Centre
The Mermaid Arts Centre presents an ambitious programme of performance including innovative dance, spellbinding theatre, cutting edge music and art-house cinema. It is also the home of our Young Gaiety programme in Bray.
Draiocht Arts Centre
Since 2001 Draíocht has reached right to the heart of the people it serves in Dublin 15 and its environs to provide stimulating and accessible arts programming including professional national and international work, local community drama, and children's theatre and pantomime.
Iontas Arts Centre
Iontas Arts & Community Resource Centre in Castleblayney offers spacious conference facilities to all , a state of the art 310 seater theatre, community offices, a fantastic gallery space, a town library, a fitness suite, a restaurant, excellent childcare facilities and commercial outlets. It is also the home of the Young Gaiety programme in Castleblayney.
Wexford Arts Centre
Wexford Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary venue of professional arts practice and local cultural initiatives. It celebrates and fosters high quality creative and artistic experiences by commissioning and presenting art forms across disciplines.
Dunamaise Arts Centre
The Dunamaise Arts Centre aims to provide the people of Laois and the surrounding counties with access to the best in contemporary arts practice, both professional and community, in the performing and visual arts. Funded by the Arts Council, the centre presents work by leading local, national and international performance and visual artists.
Solstice Arts Centre
The Solstice Arts Centre develops and facilitates art form and project based programmes in new and responsive ways. All public space with the building is a place of activity, and the opportunity to create navigable choices for visitors to the centre. The 320 seat theatre space is the core of the performing arts in Meath. With 20 flying lines and the latest lighting and audio technology, the theatre can support the professional development of regional groups whilst producing a vibrant national and international performance programme.
The Source Arts Centre
The Source Arts Centre opened on 2nd October 2006 and is Ireland's newest arts centre. It consists of a 250 seat auditorium with fully flexible seating, and a dedicated gallery space. A year round programme of events will include film, theatre, dance, ballet, opera, music, family events and visual art exhibitions. And alongside the professional events The Source will have a community and youth outreach programme.
Civic Theatre
The Civic Theatre, opened in March 1999, a project of South Dublin County Council and also grant aided by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands. It is managed by an independent limited company, under a tenancy and management agreement.
The Guthrie Theatre
The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is an American center for theater performance, production, education and professional training. By presenting both classical literature and new work from diverse cultures, the Guthrie illuminates the common humanity connecting Minnesota to the peoples of the world.
The New Theatre
The New Theatre provides an accessible, open and professionally-run venue for use by incoming companies. In selecting its own productions, The New Theatre explores new writing and new territory and seeks to present plays that relate to Ireland. At all times The New Theatre reaches out to young professionals in theatre, music and film and actively encourages them to become involved in front-of-house management, publicity, lighting or set design, writing and direction.
Theatre Companies
Fishamble Theatre Company
Fishamble focuses on the discovery, development and production of new dramatic works for the Irish and international stage. As well as developing and commissioning a range of innovative new writing, Fishamble provides training initiatives to serve artists' needs, such as playwriting courses.
The Corn Exchange consists of a loose ensemble of players who practice the company's exhilarating trademark style of Commedia dell'Arte, which encourages risk and champions precision through play.
Founded by Roger Gregg in 1998, Crazy Dog Audio Theatre is a professional production company based in Dublin, Ireland. Crazy Dog regularly produces both studio-based and live radio theatre series for RTE Radio 1 (the National Broadcasting Company of Ireland). The company's series are subsequently released on CD and aired by radio stations across the United States.
toBE
toBE provide theatre-based learning to organisations and groups around Ireland through the format of tailor made training events.
TEAM Educational Theatre Company
TEAM Educational Theatre Company is Ireland’s longest established Theatre-in-Education Company and has earned national acclaim over the last thirty-three years working within the Primary and Post Primary system serving up to 140 schools in the state every year.
Drama Societies
NUIM Drama Society
NUIM Drama Soc are committed to variety in their productions, including classics, contemporary plays, ambitious new projects such as the Black Box Festival and the One Act Festivals (which encourage first-time participants) and colourful extravaganzas. They also have an excellent reputation for producing student-written work.
An active drama society, staging an average of 40 plays a year (two a day at 1pm and 7pm), hosting numerous workshops and participating in the annual ISDA Festival.
International Colleges
Kennesaw State University (KSU), the third-largest university in the University System of Georgia, is a comprehensive university with expanding undergraduate and graduate programs in Kennesaw, Georgia, one of metropolitan Atlanta's burgeoning northwest suburban communities.
St. Mary's University, Minnesota
Enriched by the Catholic, Lasallian heritage, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Texas Woman's University occupies a notable position in higher education as the nation's largest university primarily for women. Its campuses in Denton, Dallas and Houston are joined by an e-learning campus offering innovative online degree programs in business, education and general studies.:
Marquette University, Wisconsin
Marquette is a Catholic, Jesuit university situated in Wisconsin, USA. Marquette's Mission is the search for truth, the discovery and sharing of knowledge, the fostering of personal and professional excellence, the promotion of a life of faith, and the development of leadership expressed in service to others
Marquette University: Dublin Project Blog Spot
A blog all about Marquette students' experiences during the Original Theatre Project in 2007.
Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota
An undergraduate, residential liberal arts college firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage.
Photographers
The Headshot Clinic
Situated on South William Street in Dublin city centre, The Headshot Clinic offer quality, professionalism and value for your headshots
Turcan Photography
Can travel to you with portable lighting and collapsable backgrounds to take high quality headshots at competitive prices.
Mark Boland: Silver Image
Provide a no-fuss quality package. Flat sitting fee which will include web access to all pictures taken and one high quality 10 x 8 image, either digital or hard copy. Additional prints or files available for €25, and no copyright restrictions on the pictures. Photo session in studio in Dun Laoghaire close to DART and buses. Students can bring changes of clothes / hairstyles. Group discount rates can be discussed.
Useful Links
The Arts Council of Ireland
The national agency for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland.
Theatre Forum Ireland
The voice of professional theatre and the performing arts in Ireland, providing information and advice, professional training and events, and advocating on behalf of the sector.
Dublin's annual contemporary arts festival.
The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival - the only English speaking contemporary theatre festival left in the world, leads the way in the presentation of outstanding Irish and international performance.
IFTN Website
The Irish Film & Televsion Network - for everything that's happening in film and TV!
MakeupFabLicious, the company started by TV3 celebrity make-up artist Rossana Dickinson to provide the star treatment when you need a make upexpert at hand, offers a number of services at it's make up academy, including make up workshops and courses.
Jump Cut Film
All aspects of film production catered for - including showreel recording, editing, preparation.
Social welfare information
Click on the following links for details about how to avoid social welfare fraud: Department of Social Protection homepage, details on Back to Education requirements and allowances and contact for fraudulent claims
Script resource
If you're looking for a script as a teacher or student, you may wish to look at the Samuel French site here
Scavengeinc
A useful spot for sourcing high quality, inexpensive costumes. Ideal for theatre companies, film makers, and photographers.
Shoot Audition
Shoot audition is a studio that has been set up to film video auditions and monologues. We film actors in front of our state of the art green screen and on our Panasonic HD camera. The cost of a video audition and monologue is €35.
Shoot audition also runs workshops in the lab every Monday from 6:30-9pm; the workshops cost €5 per class. In the workshops we run scenes, share ideas and film as much as we can.
