The Irish dancing thread (v2.0)

Hello, hello and welcome to the all-new, shiny thread for fire dancers, spinners, object manipulators, drummers, musicians and anyone else interested in these arts anywhere in Ireland.

Our community started coming together a few years ago, and it's grown to include people from all over the country...

If you are new to poi or staff or spinning stuff and want to meet up with any of the Irish spinners, please post in this thread, introduce yourself and feel free to come along to the workshops, gatherings or events that get talked about.

Also, if you'd like to be on my mailing list for fire gatherings and other juggling events, please PM me your email address and I'll add it. The fire gathering takes place fortnightly in Belfast, but it's one way to keep in touch with everyone.

So welcome, and hope to see you soon

Clare x

Updates on Circus/spinny gatherings around Ireland

Belfast:

Tuesday:
5pm-7pm
Streetwise (community circus) meet in Morton Community Centre (off Lisburn Road)… providing a free, indoor space to practice and learn new skills. Run by Dave from Babcock and Bobbins (on HoP as Bobbins).
8.30pm-10pm
I run a poi workshop for the Crescent Arts Centre (now housed in City Church, Holylands - opposite the Spar), featuring occasional special guests when they visit… Please PM me if you are interested in poi lessons.
9.30/10pm-midnight
Fortnightly fire gathering in Crescent Park, Belfast (opposite The Fly/Scratch bar). This is a friendly and informal gathering for anyone interested in spinning fire or learning more. Please PM me if you want to know the dates for the next gathering.

Wednesday:
7pm-9.30pm
Adult circus in Belfast Community Circus (Gordon St, Cathedral Quarter, Belfast). Weekly circus training for adults using various circusy props. £5 per week.

Galway:

Tuesday:
5pm-??
NUI Galway juggling club meet in Aras Na MacLeinn. Providing a free, indoor space to practice and learn new skills.

Thursday:
5pm-??
NUI Galway juggling club meet at the Bank of Ireland theatre.

Sunday:
12pm-4pm
NUI Galway juggling club meet at the Dangan Sports Centre.

Cork:

Tuesday:
5.30pm-8pm
Cork Community Circus meet at Loch Community Centre, at the top of Barracks St, Greenmount – providing an indoor space to practice and learn new skills. (Probably) run by Cormac (not on HoP). Three euro cover charge.

Limerick:

Thursday:
7pm-9pm
Limerick Juggling Club meet at the Limerick Youth Centre, on Lower Glentworth Street. Club run by fantastic jugglers Joe McGinley and Richy Brennan.

Dublin:

Monday:
5pm-9pm
DIT juggling club meet in the hall behind Belvedere College – providing a free, indoor space to practice and learn new skills.

Tuesday:
7pm-9pm
Trinity juggling club meet in Goldsmith Hall, Pearse Street – providing a free, indoor space to practice and learn new skills.

Wednesday:
7pm-9pm
DIT juggling club meet in Linen Hall, across the road from Bolton Street. Go through the archway at the side of Bodkins, and it's on the top floor, in the gym.
4.30pm-6pm
NCAD juggling club meet.

Thursday:
6pm-9.30pm
UCD juggling club meet in the Memorial Hall, beside the Architecture buildings – providing a free, indoor space to practice and learn new skills.

(PS:
DIT will meet...
24th September - 5th December 2007
28th January - 14th March 2008
31st March - 25th April 2008)


Dun Laoghaire

Tuesday:
6pm-8pm
IADT meet… somewhere… a new club, and everyone is welcome!


Events:

British Juggling Convention (April)
UberParis (June)
Play (July)
EJC (July)
Falmouth (September)
Clonakilty JC (September)
Bristol (September)


(If you have any updates on these clubs or events, please PM them to me...)


Take care, happy spinning
X

Woot, first reply, and I'm not even Irish

I'll be around Dublin this weekend, arriving Thursday evening, doing a gig on Friday, then potentially have Sat & Sun (24th & 25th March) to do stuff with

Any Dublin spinners fancy meeting up for spin/juggle/drink sometime?

Wow. A new thread. This is going to take some getting used to. I'll put the kettle on for us, and wait for everyone else to arrive.

Good plan putting all the meets info in the first post by the way Maybe it should be added to the first post in the "welcome to Ireland" thread in the meet others forum - and a link to here, because no-one really looks there anyway...

Durbs, as I've already explained to Clare, I'm horribly busy on Thursday, but will be around on Saturday and Sunday evening when i finish work for spinning/drinking, so let me know if you're at a loose end.

Tis all grand

They'll be staying with lovely Rob on Thursday, then giggery and accom on Friday, then back to Rob's on Saturday and Sunday for spinning and suchlike

Bluecat Rob... you'll remember hairy Rob from the U'Belfast workshop? Ridiculously good poi spinner with lots of hair?

Meh... wish I could be there

Helen... I think the details are already in the welcome to Ireland thread... I'll go check

x

Hairy rob!!!! whaaaa I jus had another haircourt recently!!
Jus messing!

Just about to hand in my thesis so nowt but fun for me for the weekend!

The new thread looks lovely Clare!

Hello and take care everyone!

Rob

Hey hey - Rob, looking forward to meeting you, and thanks for putting me up/putting up with me

I think it's a great name...

Thanks rob... nice one matey
xx

ooooo a new thread

Helen, may I have some tea when the kettle boils? *gets out the buscuits*

I've had far far too many biscuits today and yesterday... I just can't say no when there's free biscuits on offer - and a good selection too; cookies, jaffa cakes, regular and chocolate digestives and fig rolls amongst others

Will endeavour not to lurk quite as much as with previous Irish dancing thread (twas commented on at the last Dublin Convention... imagine that!)

Great idea starting a new thread though, old one was getting a little unwieldy... also a quick note to remind folks that before heading to Goldsmith Hall on Tuesdays, they should check Trinity's calendar as Goldsmith Hall is only on during term time - so next session is the start of April when the undergrads return from holidays.

Dee x

*Waves to the Irish thread all the way from New Zealand*
Miss you all - big hugs to yooooouuu!!!
xx
Eve

Hello lady

Hope you're having a great time in Noo Zeeland... greetings to the fiery circles out there

xx

hello hello hello,
*takes biccie from 3C*

ive just quit my job so now ill finally have wkends free for funny spinny stuff, whoop

Cool - more Dubliners, potentially around for spinny-spinny fun Sat/Sun

Yes indeed Dublin spinner folk...
Come watch Durbs... the lil man with a whole bucket load of poi attitude.

Will perform for biscuits and compliments...



Claire... good work... poi makes everyone give up their job. Hurrah!

Come watch? Come play with!
(Poi-wise that is...)

Biscuits, compliments and funny smelling cigarettes

What's busking like in Dublin btw?

*opens another packet of biscuits and passes them round*

There's alot of poi spinners called Clare huh? or in some cases its spelt "Claire"

I've seen a few people setting themselves up on Grafton Street, seems to be the place to be if you wanna busk.
It's been taken over by those people who stand as still as statues. (I like the Angel girl, she's pretty!)
We need to increase the number of jugglers and spinners on grafton street!!

Fire busking's pretty rubbish in Dublin Durbin...

You need drummers, and fire safeties and pretty girls for the hat... otherwise the police assume you're a crusty juggler and move you on fairly fast.

But I dunno... it's been a while for me, so maybe's it all changed...

Not sure what the implications of a High Court ruling that section 3 of the 1847 Vagrancy (Ireland) Act is unconstitutional will have on the Guards policy of frowning upon busking, especially passing the hat ... may be worth while investigating this (any volunteers?)

Slightly more details for anyone interested:
Section 3 of the Act made begging in a public place an offence and provided for a sentence of up to three months on conviction on that charge. Apparently the ruling stated that the law interfered with a person's right to freedom of expression and his right to communicate.
The legislation was struck down.

OOhh New thread!!!!! Hi every1

Yo durbs man, i'll be about town on Sat, if the weather is good, i would definately be up for a spin of some sorts. PM let me know wat ur buzz is?

Peace

I'm surprised there isn't more Artsy people busking around Temple Bar...I'd say you'd attract loads of attention around there if you were spinning fire and such. It's also easier to get a good space to spin, Grafton Street is always packed, could be quite dangerous.
Tho I suppose Grafton Street is the place for street artists really, always has been