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



This thread was started nearly a couple of years ago now... and it's since grown to include more people, gatherings, events, fun and games than we had thought possible.



And it's still growing - so if you're new to the arts, or want to meet up with any of us, please post at the end of this thread to introduce yourself... or send me a PM with your email address and I'll add your name to our mailing list.



There are spinners, dancers and manipulators all over the country, and you'll find lots of them on here... don't be shy, we're nice



So welcome, and hope to see you soon



Clare x



Updates on Circus/spinny gatherings around Ireland � 6 November 2006



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 the lovely Dave from Babcock and Bobbins (on HoP as Bobbins).

8.30pm-10pm

Lisa and I take our poi workshop in Crescent Arts Centre (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 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. �3 per week (I think).



Galway:



Tuesday:

5pm-??

NUI Galway juggling club meet in Aras Na MacLeinn. Run by the fabulous Eimhin (on here as Flip), providing a free, indoor space to practice and learn new skills.



Thursday:

5pm-??

NUI Galway juggling club meet at the Bank of Ireland theatre� as above.



Sunday:

12pm-4pm

NUI Galway juggling club meet at the Dangan Sports Centre�. As above.



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 the lovely 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-7pm

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� somewhere



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.



Dun Laoghaire



Tuesday:

6pm-8pm

IADT meet� somewhere� a new club, and everyone is welcome!







Events:



Tralee:



November 24-26

Tralee juggling convention� organized by the lovely Fanzini�s, the public show is looking fantastic�





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





Take care, happy spinning

X

Getting to the other side

You can only be young once but you can always be immature.

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers...

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

Getting to the other side

that'd be great Clare.

If people want to me to try and sort them out for accomodation just let me know...

I'm doing ok. My head's wrecked but I'm managing...it's just coming out in a manic way.... I'm quitting smoking too again (day 2) so it's a big source of it too....

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

Hey James

I'll pass the word on here also...

nice one on the smoking...

get yourelf a nice pipe

Love is the law.

Well, quitting might not be such a bad idea at this time...

I've forwarded this post and your mobile number and email to the interested peoples...

Take care mister... we love you lots

Getting to the other side

Hello to everyone from germany, I�m back on Thursday and then on friday the 2nd clionakilty juggling convention is happening. So we�ve got that lovely big sports hall happening again, this time renegade show is in a pub place in town and afterwards i�ve heard rumours of a beach party and fire play if weathers nice.
Camping is available, this year 5 mins walk from the hall.
Get a bus from cork to clonakilty to get here.

I�ve been ubereurope inspired and looking forward to a nice long practice session.... darragh is still working on the 24hour hall but its definitly not for certain.

Hope everyone�s well and see you soon



Ronan

Don't bolt your door with a boiled carrot...

bounce..........bounce...........bounce...........(tumbleweed going past) eerily quiet on this thread, anyway, anyone got any info on the Tralee convention? I know the clonakilty is on this weekend but need info re: Tralee so I don't end up in Amsterdam on the same weekend.

You can only be young once but you can always be immature.

Dude, I just took out my diary and that's like.....a wednesday... You don't make it easy do you!

Good to see you on the weekend!
When I say you doing poi with your hat on i was dying to see some PHAT (poi and hat). You should work on that! Talk to Dev kev.

You're on my top 10 list of huggers btw ... !

James

I live in a world of infinite possibilities.

hey eimhin.......or rather heaven!!!!
so happy for you!!!



tina

- Ho Sa -
kisses & peace & love to beautiful madges
*rever le temps le prendre*

Congrats Eimhin!!

Hope you have a great time, I'm sure you'll learn lots

James, hope you're doing ok darlin...

And I hope everyone else is having a great summer

If any of the Galway crowd see Reuban, tell him hellos and congrats from Andy and I - we saw him come runner-up in the Bangor busking festival yesterday...

He did a great show, with loads of confidence - especially since the rain chased off the audience just before he was due to start!! But by the end, he had a huge audience again... hurrah

Best wishes everyone
Clare x

Getting to the other side

Yay Eimhin! I am sure you will look absolutely fabulous in tights...



James, met your twin recently! He is way into drums, has similar plans to what you have in mind via internet networking etc.He's bringing a spectacular drummer here to teach and perform next weekend, and couple of african dance insructors/performs too. Wicked. We are combining workshops with an organic feast and wild night dancing at my friends retreat center. Wish you were here! Hope you are doing well.



Clare,Yay! I am so excited you are on COL 2006! Way to go! I can not wait to see it. I hardly got to see you spin this last trip... Next time...





Love to all you guys, I soooooo miss Ireland!

"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."

Nice one eimhin!

I'm down in cork for next while, so give me a shout and call on down for a visit sometime

Don't bolt your door with a boiled carrot...

Tis a pity I didn't get to see/dance more at the EJC, but I had a good time doing something unexpected... I hope everything is going well on your missions, lady



As for the COL thing... lol, I suspect I'm on there cos I was the only Irish entry... it most certainly wasn't my best dance ever...!





But... this is where the title came from ( ):





The Story of the Lake

Getting to the other side

 Written by: flip


just got accepted to circus school and so off I go on the 27th
of september to Circomedia- Bristol






Congratulations Eimhin!

Helen_of_Poi

EJC Ireland 2006 Organisational Team

Hey all you guys

If anyone would like to join us in tullamore are going field picking, firespinning and chilling out with some of the biggest oldest trees in ireland this weekend... we are getting the train down saturday morning.

Its only an hour outside dublin and the forest is dense enough to keep out the rain... enough

and we found this lovely field full of sheep... for all you sheep lovers...

Hope to see all you guys soon... whos coming to galway for the party? Why is it on a wednesday night!!! Bloody hippies.

ps, amelie is leaving for france in a couple of weeks too...and may not be back except for the odd weekend... so we may need to organise another party On a weekend or... Gatecrash!!!!

Are you coming Ronan? Bring that 'Healthy' brother of yours...

Hey miss banshee!!! pm on the way... hope your well. hugs

Love is the law.

There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1,

"in most of our friends we're the hippies. but we have hippie friends of our own.. its like a dog having its own pet" - H. Sinoquet 19-03-2005

Maybe

Love is the law.

"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."

There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1,

"in most of our friends we're the hippies. but we have hippie friends of our own.. its like a dog having its own pet" - H. Sinoquet 19-03-2005

hello petals not been here in a while

barry, i think we arrived there at 10ish, but it was closer to midsummer so it got dark later, i'd imagine they start at dark but LN could check www.burncrewconcept.org i'd check it for you but je ne parle pas francais

big hugs & congrats to eimhin, you lucky bugger. you soooo deserve it

& more hugs & congrats to clare for making the col6 dvd for those who haven't seen it yet it's beautiful

wish i could have made it to tullamore, sounds idyllic, i really need to get another such weekend in before the end of the summer but there aren't enough days in the week lately. aidan, make sure you let me know when amelie's leaving.

sl�n

L

My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely

"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."

Work Less, Spend Less!

There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1,

"in most of our friends we're the hippies. but we have hippie friends of our own.. its like a dog having its own pet" - H. Sinoquet 19-03-2005