Arts News April 24th

Writers at work course DO YOU have pages in a drawer you've been wanting to show someone? A new course at Galway Arts Centre is for writers who are at work on a project. This could be a novel, short story, collection of stories, sequence of poems, or even a play or film script. Participants' only homework each week will be to read two 15-page extracts from other students' manuscripts and be prepared for a 20-30 minute discussion on same. Providing generous and specific feedback on others' work helps us to be inspired risk takers in our own writing. Each participant will experience at least one such session of feedback on their own work. An in-class writing exercise at the start of each class will serve to further shake off mental cobwebs, and perhaps lead us into new writing. This is an ideal course for the hardworking but isolated writer. The course is takes place on Tuesdays (2-4pm) starting on Tuesday May 8 and runs for eight weeks. Places must be booked in advance. The cost is €95 with a concession rate. To register contact Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, Galway. Telephone 091-565886. Email: info@galwayartscentre.ie Spring poetry workshops NEXT month Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins. Each workshop will run for eight weeks, starting the week of May 8. They will take place on Thursday afternoons, 2-4pm (first class May 10); on Friday afternoons, 2-3.30pm (first class May 11) and on Saturday afternoons, 2-3.30pm (first class May 12). The Friday and Saturday afternoon workshops are open to both complete beginners as well as those who've been writing for some time. Thursday afternoon is an Advanced Poetry Workshop. Cost is €90, with a concession rate. To reserve a place contact reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886 or email info@galwayartscentre.ie.