Taster Sessions

A partnership between the Workers' Educational Association and the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh, this project is made possible by the Creative Industries Innovation Fund which is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure.

Creativity Thirst is a project designed for those considering setting up their own business in the Creative Industries orlooking to make some extra income with their creative skills. The programme has been developed by the WEA in response tospecific needs identified in the Creative Industries.

As part of this project, two Taster Sessions are being delivered in the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh. They will be presented by professionals who work both locally and internationally in the Creative Industries.These role models will give some background to their work and explain how they approach commercialising their business ideas. The sessions are FREE to attend.

Who's it for?

Anyone who would like to know more about working in the Creative Industries represented at the sessions but you must be over 16.

For further information contact Carole Kane on (028) 9032 9718 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to register.

Taster One

Date:Wednesday, 17th November 2010
Time: 7.30pm
Location:Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh
Introduced by:Catherine McInerney, Manager of LitNet NI and the WEA.

Bernie McGill
Writes for the theatre and fiction, and also creative writing facilitator

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Bernie McGill is the recipient of two Arts Council of Northern Ireland Awards for the IndividualArtist, and is the 2008 winner of the Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Contest (US). Her shortstories have won prizes in the 2010 Sean O'Faolain Short Story Award, the 2010 Bridport Prize,and she has been shortlisted for the Brian Moore and the Orange/Northern Woman Short StoryAwards.

Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster and published in Fortnight, Brand,Verbal and Northern Woman magazines, in The Belfast Telegraph and in the anthologies TheBarefoot Nuns of Barcelona and in My Story. Her play, The Weather Watchers was produced andtoured in Ireland in 2006 by Cahoots NI and in 2010 she co-wrote The Haunting of HelenaBlunden for Big Telly Theatre Company, for which she was nominated, along with co-writer PaulBoyd, for the Best New Song of the Year Award by the Stephen Sondheim Society, London. Herfirst novel, The Butterfly Cabinet, has just been published in the UK and Ireland by HeadlineReview, and will be published next year in the US by Free Press and in translation in Italy and theNetherlands.

Taster Two

Date:Wednesday, 8th December 2010
Time: 7.30pm
Location: Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh

Liam McGarry
CEO McGarry Consulting & Wee Man Studios

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Liam is co-founder of Wee Man Studios, Northern Ireland’s best and brightest 3D mobile gamedeveloper. Wee Man Studios have developed a pioneering games engine, as well as the recentlyreleased and critically acclaimed Galactic Racer, (previewed by PocketGamer.co.uk as one of the Top 10 most anticipated iPhone games). It took over two years, a cocktail of public and privateinvestment, dealing with contractors from around the globe, meetings in the UK & US and nolittle stress but it certainly hasn’t been boring... we’ve learnt a lot and are happy to pass it on.

Liam also runs McGarry Consulting, a consultancy business aimed at helping start-ups and smallorganisations to develop ideas, plan for growth and secure funding. If you are looking to developan idea (and cheaply) or want to know more about funds, call in and say hello.

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