Teen Week 2012 - from the 26th of March

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Teen Week extends to a second branch of Clare County Library.

Teen Week 2012 takes place in two of Clare County Library’s main branches this year having been piloted and successfully run in deValera Public Library, Ennis, for the past two years. Beginning on the 26th March 2012, Scariff Public Library along with Ennis will join in the hosting of a week long programme of cultural, artistic and educational events especially for teenagers.

The programme is consistently supported by teachers and pupils from local second level schools who appreciate the scheduling of a week long festival on their doorstep which invariably includes events of an educational nature that tie in with the school curriculum. Clare County Library staff see the week as an ideal opportunity to engage with teenagers and focus on a library user group who may be existing or potential members.

Screenwriting workshops
Events kick off on March 26th 2012 with a screenwriting workshop facilitated by Vinny Murphy. Vinny has worked as a writer, director, actor and composer for film, TV and theatre. He has acted in more than 40 films, directed 11, and composed music for more than 15 titles. He directed and co-wrote the critically acclaimed 1999 feature film ‘Accelerator’. At Scariff and Ennis libraries Vinny will explore aspects of screenwriting providing the basic tools needed to write a screenplay.

Music workshops
John Lillis has extensive experience in studio and music project management and has very successfully delivered music workshops both nationally and internationally to several youth groups. His workshops introducing teenagers to current music technology and alternative ways of artistic expression through music have become a regular event during Children’s Book Festival and Teen Week in Co. Clare. John will provide an introduction to dj-ing, scratching, production, sampling, rapping and beatboxing in both Ennis and Scariff libraries during the last week in March.

Biodiversity of County Clare session
Shane Casey, biodiversity officer with Clare County Council, will provide an informative presentation on the biodiversity of County Clare and how it links to our built and cultural heritage. This session takes place in deValera Library, Ennis on the 28th of March.

Interactive Hamlet workshop
Playing with Shakespeare is an interactive workshop for Leaving Cert Students on Hamlet delivered by Blackwater Projects. Company Director Greg McGeogh will use a mixture of lecture and discussion to stimulate an active interest in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and to help overcome some of the difficulties implicit in Elizabethan language and writing discursively on the subject. The workshop begins with some warm-up exercises that serve the dual purpose of ice-breaking and acquainting the students with the physical side of theatre which will be explored throughout the workshop.

Software and Programming Languages session
On Friday March 30th Dr. Chris Exton, Course Director of the BSc Course in Computer Games Development at The University of Limerick will give an hour-long presentation to students in both libraries on Software and Programming Languages. According to Dr. Exton most peoples’ interaction with software is from the user perspective, for example through a mobile phone or PC. In his talk he will show the audience a simple computer program and demonstrate the relationship between software and programming, giving the audience the opportunity to become robot programmers.

Scariff Teenage Book Club
Scariff Library’s Teenage Book Club takes place on Tuesday 27th March at 6pm.
Come along and talk about your favourite books, play games and meet new people. There will be lots of books specially picked for you to take home and pizza too!

Both Scariff and Ennis Library staff are looking forward to welcoming teenagers to their branches to enjoy this week long festival especially planned for them. Through the week’s events audiences will have the opportunity to see what their local library has to offer on a permanent basis as well as enjoying this specially arranged programme for them and their friends.

Click here for a timetable of events for deValera Public Library, Ennis (PDF)

Click here for a timetable of events for Scariff Public Library (PDF)

See also:
Teen Week 2011
Teen Week 2010