Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Wednesday 23 Nov 05
Attic Artists
Attic artists are a group of retired people who meet on Wednesday mornings in the basement of the Gaelic League building to have art classes and do their work. People were working with pen, pencil, acrylic and old doing portriture, lanscape,still life and imaginative compositions. I had brough paper and pencils but when I got there I didnt know what to work on, evrone had their own piece that they were working on, one of the artists Fonze was working on a portrait of another of the attic artists - he was working on a series of them and giving them to the artist depicted. Many people were working from photographs and one lady had brough some primroses to paint. After doing a few quick sketches of people working the art teacher who was their giving advice gave me some dried mushrooms to draw - which I loved - great abstract shapes. I really got into just sitting there drawing away in the quiet chatter. I was quiet disappointed when the session ended and i hadnt finifhed my mushrooms!
Basement
Gaelic League Hall
Thomas St
Limerick
Bob Ryan, bobryan3@eircom.net
http.welcome.to/attic
Whitehouse Poetry Revival
It's a bit of a strange one walking into a pub on your own not to be meeting anyone but to sit and wait and i did for the Whitehouse poetry reviival. Luckly there were several other people there doing the same thing and many regulars who spotting a new face came over to chat and tell me a bit about the evenings events. After about half an hour the readings began all local male poets except for one young american woman. The standard varied or at least to what i liked and wasnt so fond of but the key thing seemed to be to give people a chance to get the work they had done in solitude get out into the air and other peoples ears. That combined with a couple of pints and some complementart chips and cocktails sausages made for a convivial evening indeed.
The White House Poetry Revival
The White House
0’Connell St
Limerick
Barney Sheehan -086 8657494
Dominic Taylor -0872996409
whitehousepoets@eircom.net
www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets
Wednesdays 9pm -close
Attic artists are a group of retired people who meet on Wednesday mornings in the basement of the Gaelic League building to have art classes and do their work. People were working with pen, pencil, acrylic and old doing portriture, lanscape,still life and imaginative compositions. I had brough paper and pencils but when I got there I didnt know what to work on, evrone had their own piece that they were working on, one of the artists Fonze was working on a portrait of another of the attic artists - he was working on a series of them and giving them to the artist depicted. Many people were working from photographs and one lady had brough some primroses to paint. After doing a few quick sketches of people working the art teacher who was their giving advice gave me some dried mushrooms to draw - which I loved - great abstract shapes. I really got into just sitting there drawing away in the quiet chatter. I was quiet disappointed when the session ended and i hadnt finifhed my mushrooms!
Basement
Gaelic League Hall
Thomas St
Limerick
Bob Ryan, bobryan3@eircom.net
http.welcome.to/attic
Whitehouse Poetry Revival
It's a bit of a strange one walking into a pub on your own not to be meeting anyone but to sit and wait and i did for the Whitehouse poetry reviival. Luckly there were several other people there doing the same thing and many regulars who spotting a new face came over to chat and tell me a bit about the evenings events. After about half an hour the readings began all local male poets except for one young american woman. The standard varied or at least to what i liked and wasnt so fond of but the key thing seemed to be to give people a chance to get the work they had done in solitude get out into the air and other peoples ears. That combined with a couple of pints and some complementart chips and cocktails sausages made for a convivial evening indeed.
The White House Poetry Revival
The White House
0’Connell St
Limerick
Barney Sheehan -086 8657494
Dominic Taylor -0872996409
whitehousepoets@eircom.net
www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets
Wednesdays 9pm -close
# posted by Neva Elliott @ 2:35 PM 
