BEALTAINE EXHIBITION

Thank you to everyone eho took part in our recent Framed! My Life In Pctures Exhibition which was luanched ny Lord Mayer Emer Costello on May 11th at Terenure Library. The exhibition was a great success and a big thank you to Rick Quinn who over the course of 6 weeks encouraged our participants to recall and share their personal memories and special events in their lives.

FRAMED! MY LIFE IN PICTURES
A note by Eamon Henry. 12 May 2010

A project in creative writing has been completed by nine members of the Active Senior IT Society (ASITS), under the direction of Mr. Rick Quinn, at the Terenure Enterprise Centre (TEC). Entitled “Framed! My Life in Pictures”, the result comprises a booklet covering four aspects of each writer’s life, namely:

*Childhood;
*Love is;
*My working life;
*Older and bolder.

The “Childhood” section has a page of descriptive writing by each of the nine writers and by Rick himself, with a relevant photo at the top of each page. The other three sections follow a similar pattern. A further writer has covered the last two of the four sections.
The eleven writers involved, six women and five men, come from a wide range of backgrounds, urban, rural, and country-town. Their life experience is extremely interesting, in its variety of events and conditions over the past 60 or 70 years, as so skillfully described by them.

An exhibition of photographed pages from the booklet is on display at Terenure Library from May 11th to May 15th, before moving to Ballyroan Library on May 24th.
The visual layout of prints for the exhibition was done by Mr. Patrick Lyons.
The exhibition was officially opened by Cllr. Emer Costello, Lord Mayor of Dublin, on the morning of Tuesday 11th May, 2010, as a partial celebration of the Bealtaine Festival.
Also present at the exhibition opening were Cllr. Edie Wynn and other members of the TEC Board of Directors, as well as the ASITS Committee. Ms. Michelle Hannon, Manager of TEC, welcomed the Lord Mayor. Some forty guests in all were present.

The Lord Mayor, in her opening address, reminded her listeners of the important role of the Dublin City and County Libraries over many years, in entertaining and educating thousands of people by what they had to offer. She congratulated the writers and all involved in making this exhibition possible.
This special project in creative writing may hopefully become a blueprint for similar projects by older people, not just in Dublin, but much more widely. It may come to be a significant contribution by ASITS to the cultural life of people living in Dublin and elsewhere. It might also show yet another way of making people more aware of their being members of a local community, and not just isolated individuals. This applies more especially to older people.

National Concert Hall Christmas Lunchtime Concert

Many thanks to everyone who attended the ASITS trip to the The National Concert Halls Lunchtime Christmas Concert on Wednesday December 10th, the concert was entitled "A Russian Christmas" and featured the RTE Orchestra and special guests

I think everyone who was there will agree that it was a great success and a really enjoyable festive treat. We regret that due to limited tickets a lot of our members were dissapointed but we will be organising more events of this kind in the future and we look forward to seeing a s many of you as possible there.

Dail Eireann Visit

A big thank you to Chris Andrews TD and his assisstant Lynda for all their help in organising two tours to Dail Eireann for ASITS during the month of December. In all almost 40 members got tour the beautiful government buildings and sit in the public gallery. Once again due to a huge interest in this tour we hope to be running this again in the near future, we will keep you imformed of this and other outings in the pipeline.

CONGRATULATIONS to Ms Gilroy and the YSI (young social innovators) class 2008 from St Colmcilles Knocklyon who showcased their project "Rights of the the Elderly" at the Young Social Innovators nationl showcase final at the RDS, and won €500.

The students who undertook the project with the help of ASITS members were a great help with our mobile phone workshops.

On behalf of all ASITS members and everyone at Terenure Enterprise Centre we would like to send our congratulations and a big thank-you.

Well done everyone!!!

Yeats Library Tour

National Library W.B. Yeats Tour

Submitted June 13th


Thanks to everyone who came along to the National Library W.B. Yeats Interactive tour on Thursday June 12th.
It was a great day and a wonderful exhibition, if you did,nt make it along on the day it is well worth a vist before the exhibition finish's in January 2009.
Special thanks to our tour guide on the day Sarah O'Connor for making it both informative and fun.

(From L to R)- Angela, Aine, Pauline, Christine, Eamon, Eileen,

Hopefully this is the first of many social outings for ASITS !!!!

http://www.nationallibrary.ie

Writers Workshop

Aim: This workshop is intended as a trigger to encourage older people to gather their memories and record them in written form using their computer skills so that they pass on a living heirloom to the younger members of their family.

Format: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Recreating the old ways of gathering around the kitchen table for news and everyday chatter about life, this intimate setting is a very inviting opener for sharing life stories and remembering events long forgotten.

Facilitator: Susie Minto has a deep love for stories and their energy. She enjoys telling all kinds of tales - traditional stories and legends from her Scottish roots and from many world cultures, as well as personal anecdotes and spontaneous stories straight from her imagination.
Please phone to book your place as there is limited availability

Young Social Innovators go Mobile

March sees the end of our spring training for those getting to grips with their mobile phone. A big thanks to the transition year students of St Colmcilles Community School in Knocklyon who helped out each week offering individual tutorial on the basics of texting, sending and receiving messages as well as setting your ringtone, alarm and using the camera. Further mobile training will commence in the Autumn.

2008 AGM A Great Sucess

Hello All

Many thanks to all those who attended yesterdays AGM, 35 people in total! Many people had some excellent suggestions and ideas and we look forward to an even more sucessful year ahead for local older people to embrace computer and mobile technology.