Less than 7 days to go for Curtain up on the Little Shop Of Horrors at the Town Hall Theatre from Wed 20th March nightly at 8.00 pm. Presented by the team at the Ballinasloe Musical Society - Tickets can be bought here http://www.ballinasloetownhall.com/booking.shtml
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The Annual St. Patrick;'s Day Parade will take place in Ballinasloe on Sunday March 17th with assembly at 1.30 at the Fair Green!
The Life and Legacy of George Brent
The 'Town Talks' Series Between January 27th and March 23rd, the Society will run a series of 5 free talks in Europe Direct Ballinasloe. The first of these will cover the life and times of local actor and Hollywood great, George Brent in Ballinasloe Library on January 27th at 2:30pm The talk will be given by film critic and broadcaster, John Maguire. Ballinasloe Life Magazine Join us at Ballydangan Bog on World Wetlands Day, 2nd February from 2-4 pm, to hear from local farmers and community groups protecting nature in South Roscommon. These include the FarmPEAT Project, the Ballydangan Bog Red Grouse Project, and the Uí Máine Kingdom Project.
We will learn about farming on peat soils, red grouse conservation, the lowland karst landscape, and the sharing of folklore through art. It will be an opportunity to get some fresh air, spend time on the bog, and build new connections with the landscape and each other. All are welcome, farmers especially! Book your place now on Eventbrite Visit www.farmpeat.ie to find out more! Ballinalsoe Life Magazine - An Insight into the Area We Live In
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A great occasion for the young and young at heart! The staff of St Claire’s Ward organised a Coffee Morning plus Cake Sale in the main reception area of the Mary’s Meals raising a huge €4,190 to mark the retirement of Geraldine Gohery Mary’s Meals work with some of the worlds poorest communities in 18 different countries. They set up feeding programs in places where hunger and poverty prevents children getting an education. Daily meals are provided in schools to encourage children who other wise would be either working or scavenging for food. Education offers a route out of poverty. 5 years ago Geraldine was inspired to get involved in Mary’s Meals. With the help of two other volunteers, Helen Keane and Marie Burke they have been fundraising to sponsor a school Milimba in Zambia. There are 478 children attending the school. It costs €10,516. per annum. This breaks down to €22 per child for a whole school year. Geraldine would like to sincerely thank everybody for their exceptional generosity and those who supported this fundraiser and helped in anyway.
Special thanks to Lucy Kelly, CNM2 and Irene McArdle,CNM1, Managers of St. Claire’s Ward, James Keane, Hospital Manager and Mary Mahon, Director of Nursing. NO FRILLS Over 93% of all monies raised goes directly to feeding the children. Mary’s Meals will only go into a school where they are given a commitment from local volunteers to prepare and cook the food. For further information on Mary's Meals or contact Geraldine Gohery 0876708020. Ballinasloe Musical Society will celebrate a century of music and drama with a special Centenary Concert which will take place on 21 st October at 8pm in the Ballinasloe Town Hall Theatre.
This will be a musical extravaganza with songs from a variety of much-loved past performances, including Oklahoma, Singin’ in the Rain, South Pacific and Calamity Jane to name but a few. A selection of leading ladies and gentlemen will perform on the night, including Catherine Smyth, Sarah Corcoran, Seán Óg Hurley, Louise Colohan, Séamus Feerick, Rachel Goode, Patrick Byrne, David Kennedy and more. A large ensemble of past and present members will also come together to perform, with all welcome to join. Don’t miss this once in a lifetime celebration of music, culture and community that will pay homage to the 100 years of live performances by Ballinasloe Musical Society , with National Broadcaster Fergal Darcy as MC . Tickets are available on www.ballinasloetownhall.com. Production team for their 2023 run of 'Godspell', which will take place from 19th - 23rd March 2023 in the Town Hall Theatre. New to the reigns as Director is Tuam native, Ronan Lardner, who will be familiar to many as the voice of The Live Wire, the lunchtime show on Galway Bay FM. No stranger to musical theatre, Ronan has most recently directed shows in Tuam and in Castlerea. Another new addition to the team is Jay Molyneux, who will take on the role of Choreographer. Also a Galway native, Jay has been performing since the age of 7 and is a full time dance teacher at the Genevieve Ryan Dance Academy. He has choreographed and directed many shows throughout the western region. Members and Cast are thrilled to welcome back the Maestro, Shane Farrell, as Musical Director, for his 10th show with the Society. Shane, who lives in Loughrea, is renowned country-wide for his work as a choir master and musical director, as well as for his fundraising endeavours, including most recently, the recording of Sing for Saoirse, which took place in the Ballinasloe Town Hall Theatre in July, and is due for release in October. Plans for auditions for Godspell are being put in place and a date will be announced very soon. Keep an eye on Ballinasloe Musical Society's social media pages for more! Dates – Tue Nov 1st and Wed Nov 2nd at 8.00 pm in Gullane’s Hotel. A fresh vibrancy to Heritage Week this year was evident all around locally. Members of the Society were involved in a number of projects and the Society itself held a number events that had fantastic interest and turn out over two weekends.
In the library, Dr Geraldine Curtin gave a talk on the 19th century reformatory school in the town, there was a collaboration with Group 8 and Aughrim 1691 to create an art exhibition themed on the Battle of Aughrim, and there was a walking tour of the town on National Water Heritage day that brought over 100 people out, and a couple of dogs, to hear talks and songs linked to water related landmarks around the town from local archaeologists, historians, authors and balladeers. In advance of St Grellan’s Day on September 17th, the Society put an emphasis on telling the story of the town’s patron saint, with a particular focus on bringing the story to a new generation of children. Teaming up with Milkshake Dance and Performance Academy , the children learned the story of St Grellan through the medium of Rap and Hip Hop. The children recorded a video of the rap and hip hop dance which was put out on social media and was a fitting tribute to the patron saint of a culturally and religiously diverse town. Local Historian Pat Johnston also did presentation class to Ms Blade and Mr. Ronaldson’s 4th classes in Creagh School on St Grellan and his ‘Bacall’. Mass was also held in honour of former Patron Saint of the UI Maine Kingdom at Tobergrellan. Their monthly public meeting takes place at 8pm on October 4th in the Men’s Shed, Cullen’s Yard (behind the Credit Union) and as it’s fair week, local historian Barry Lally will give a refresher on the Great October Fair. On 24th October at 7.30pm in Gullanes Hotel, Dr Christy Cunniffe will give a talk on the outstanding examples of stained glass in the churches and chapels of Ballinasloe, along with the town’s ecclesiastical sculpture and art. A fundraising table quiz for the Society will take place of 22nd November at 8pm in Gullanes (tables of 4 - €40) and details of the membership plan for 2024 will also be launched on the night. Chairperson Conor Johnston stated ‘following a fantastic response to the setting up of the Heritage Society, we are looking forward to growing the Society to provide a framework for a plan of scale to preserve, protect and promote the heritage and history of our town. Our area has a history and heritage of real substance, be it architecturally, archaeologically, or industrial, through sport, music and a rich social and cultural fabric and it deserves a space to celebrate this. We particularly want to reach out to, and collaborate with, other community groups to achieve this’. You can visit the Ballinasloe and District Heritage page on FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM to keep updated! Works are ongoing on Society Street, Ballinasloe, transforming the Old Bank Chambers building into a remote working hub, aptly named the “Ballinasloe Enterprise Hub”. This Enterprise Hub is a sister building of the Ballinasloe Enterprise Centre in Creagh.
BACD Clg, the new owners of the building are carrying out the project works and are currently looking for formal expressions of interest from prospective users/tenants. Manager of the project Lyn Donnelly stated ”Since we started the renovation, we’ve had high interest and as a result started an informal waiting list. We have contacted everyone on that list and are now reaching out to others who may have an interest in availing of space. This will allow us to gauge the demand and fully optimise the space in the hub”. The works commenced on site in March 2023 by John McNamara & Sons Ltd and are scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2024, which will also coincide with the BACD clg 25th Anniversary. The project was given a welcome boost recently with grant aid received from Galway Rural Development through the LEADER programme to purchase the furniture for the hub. The total cost of the project is over €1.5m and as BACD is a not for profit community development company were eligible to apply for partial grant funding. Funds were received from the Just Transition Fund, the Town & Village Fund & GRD LEADER Programme. BACD are backing the project with their own reserves and a business loan from Ballinasloe Credit Union. When the project is completed, the building will be able to cater for over 40 people. If anyone is interested in renting space or using the hub for meetings, remote work, co-working space, enterprise space or hotdesking the Expression of Interest form is available HERE or by contacting Lyn Donnelly at lyn@bacd.ie or 090 96 46516 |
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