Dublin City Council Community Development team have asked us to pass on the following message:
'Holding It Together Apart’ is a Community Development project aimed at helping people to maintain their physical, spiritual and mental well being while isolated and at home with Covid 19.
The unprecedented challenge for people staying at home sees new and difficult stresses at various levels. For the person living alone, increased loneliness, lack of engagement, confinement in one space brings one challenge. For the family space and entertaining, maintaining sanity, calm and equilibrium in the daily routine brings others. Cocooning in a small apartment is very different than a house with a garden. Mental Health is a very core issue for all.
The aim was to develop a range of activities and interesting projects for all ages and backgrounds that were easy to do and could be followed each week.
We have links with many great artists, creative developers and professionals, many who worked with us in the Dublin City Area on ongoing projects who also were challenged with very little work in their area who were also struggling with the lock down. We started with the plan to provide classes in dance, meditation, movement and creative practice to help engage all members of families and households in staying active and calm.
While the sunshine and good weather has been fantastic the rain and cooler wetter weather means staying indoors is somewhat more difficult.
We are delighted to have a number of classes now up on line for all the family to engage with. The full list and links to the youtube videos are below:
Dance Music classes with Professional Dancer Tarik Shebani
Episode / Class 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-31Y7X4tvc&t=19s
Episode / Class 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMXvDj88jc&t=7s
Episode / Class 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tcPNnhzPI&t=534s
Episode / Class 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Lw8zKr9rY&t=19s
Episode / Class 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FzLEBGd2rI&t=4s
Juggling Class with Jitterbug TV – Hugh Brown
Episode / Class 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ze2-juohM&t=27s
Episode / Class 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ats3BMPnuRs&t=29s
Creative Writing Classes with Coach and Poet Anne Tannam
Episode / Class 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlWgsijEnFE&t=306s
Gardening Tips with Horticulturalist Aoife Munn
Episode / Class 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbRkqElsT3U
Sculpture Class – Create Miniature Animals with Sculptor and Set Designer Andrew Clancy
Episode / Class 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjOntrVNb6s&t=20s
* Tarik Shabani is a professional dancer who has worked on a host of professional theatre, festival and studio projects.
* Aoife Munn is a renowned horticulturalist featuring on RTE regularly who has been working with DCC Parks Recreation & Community in the past few years on education.
* Hugh Brown is an Actor with 22 years experience in Film, Theatre, Street Performance, Circus, Clown and Music, specialising in producing work for young audiences
* Anne Tannam is a published poet with two collections and a new one to come in 2020 and also a qualified life coach with
* Andrew Clancy is a renowned Sculptor and set designer, his work is in both public and private collections and over the past twenty years has exhibited widely.
Further classes will aim to include Yoga, laughter yoga, cooking and baking, laughter yoga, narrated stories and poems, pandemic pooches (a dog competition), ritual and grieving assistance and new dances.
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