Library and Civic Centre
Belturbet Library and Civic Centre: A Landmark Service designed to meet the needs of Belturbet People in the 21st Century and beyond!
The end of design, renovation, construction and fit out of the Town Hall building is in sight. The wait has been a long one. Everyone – Staff and Public alike - is eagerly looking forward to the opening of the new Library and Civic Centre and to seeing all the planning and hard work pay off.
Where in Belturbet can you find
- Free Membership giving access to great books and other materials
- Free Wi-Fi Access, Broadband Internet Access and Public PCs
- A wonderful Events Space, Study and Reading Areas
- A warm welcome from trained Staff
- A safe community place where everyone is treated equally
Belturbet Library of course!
Books are and always will be at the heart of our service, and fostering a passion for reading remains our core aim. You won't find a better collection in any library serving this population level, whatever your interests might be. An exciting departure is the introduction of a special DVD film collection.
For children, libraries offer the best chance to open wide the doors to the world of knowledge. In this information age, literacy skills are growing in importance. Reading, more than any other skill, provides the gateway into the digital world. Parents, Teachers and Children will not be slow to recognise the great Children's Service now on offer.
Business and Community Information, print and digital; will now be available to support job seekers, local enterprise and to provide much needed economic stimulus for this community. We expect that great study and reading facilities, completely absent in the old library, will be heavily used and appreciated by all sections of the community.
Library Events
The multi-purpose Library Events Space together with the facilities on offer in the Civic Centre should ensure that this building establishes itself as a key strand in the cultural life of this community.
The Virtual Library
The old manual library service is, thankfully, a thing of the past. A fully computerised service with eRegistration, online and web registration, and SMS texting, catapults Belturbet Library from the 19th to the 21st century in one giant leap.
Free Wi-Fi access, public PC facilities and broadband access to the Web, together with print and photocopy facilities complete this 21st century library picture. Staff and Users alike will benefit from direct access to Cavan Library Service's ground breaking, innovative, and nationally important Web and Social Media presence.
Building Community
Cavan County Council’s commitment to delivery of safe, inclusive, equitable spaces with no physical, social or financial barriers continues with Belturbet library and Civic Space. With the active support of the CRAIC Advisory Group, we have worked hard to tackle the universal access challenges thrown up during the renovation period. We are looking forward to seeing everyone, including People with Disabilities, benefiting from our determination to continue to deliver excellence in accessibility.
In Partnership with Belturbet Community
We work at the invitation of Belturbet community and with the understanding that, together and in real partnership, we will shape service provision from this landmark building.
We look forward to seeing this community grow in self worth and confidence through the exciting and creative developments that will take place in this wonderful Civic Space.
The Town Hall is Belturbet’s landmark building and the approach taken by Cavan County Council and Belurbet Development Association together ensures sustainable usage of the entire space for the future.
There are real synergies between the Library Service and the Community and Resource facility. Both services take on a new significance as a result of co-location in this wonderfully restored building. The benefits will become clear over the coming months and years and we look forward to seeing this community thrive as a result.
Help us to build a new community of users. Please come and visit us. We will be proud to introduce you to all services and facilities from Tuesday, 13th May 2014.
Courthouse Gallery
The Courthouse Gallery, which is part of the Courthouse Studios and Gallery complex, is an integral part of the cultural life of Ennistymon and North Clare, an area with a dynamic and burgeoning community of artists, poets and musicians.
The building, a late Georgian Courthouse dating from 1790, was first developed as artist studios in 1997, with support from the Arts Council. It was subsequently redeveloped and converted to its present form with the aid of Access Funding received from the Department of the Arts and support from Clare County Council. We opened the doors in 2007 as the Courthouse Studios and Gallery, comprising five multidisciplinary artists studios, a sound recording studio, a main art gallery and a smaller upstairs gallery space.
The building has been sympathetically converted to its present use by architect John O’Reilly and retains much of its original fabric as well as its original scale and form with interesting architectural features such as the original Georgian windows and fanlight. This has been a highly successful conversion and reuse of a Georgian Courthouse into a 21st century studios and gallery complex.
The Courthouse Gallery is a community complex of exhibition spaces, artist studios and a recording studio. The ethos of the gallery is “To be open to all, inclusive in its aims, programming, practice and audience.” We run the gallery to the highest standards. As well as changing exhibitions on a regular basis, we also host evening events such as music, performance, poetry readings and dance. We have regular lectures on history, archaeology and folklore during the winter months. In this way, the gallery attracts a truly varied audience.
The gallery can be rented out for events for a fee of €50 which includes publicity and a gallery assistant for the evening.
The Courthouse complex is overseen by a voluntary board of management. The gallery is run by an enthusiastic team of professionals and volunteers directed by curator Trudi van der Elsen. We have put in place a panel of volunteers who can be called on to invigilate exhibitions and help with all the tasks required in a busy gallery.
We are kindly supported by Clare Co. Council and the Arts Council. Ennistymon Parish Community Employment Scheme supports our gallery assistants.
The building, a late Georgian Courthouse dating from 1790, was first developed as artist studios in 1997, with support from the Arts Council. It was subsequently redeveloped and converted to its present form with the aid of Access Funding received from the Department of the Arts and support from Clare County Council. We opened the doors in 2007 as the Courthouse Studios and Gallery, comprising five multidisciplinary artists studios, a sound recording studio, a main art gallery and a smaller upstairs gallery space.
The building has been sympathetically converted to its present use by architect John O’Reilly and retains much of its original fabric as well as its original scale and form with interesting architectural features such as the original Georgian windows and fanlight. This has been a highly successful conversion and reuse of a Georgian Courthouse into a 21st century studios and gallery complex.
The Courthouse Gallery is a community complex of exhibition spaces, artist studios and a recording studio. The ethos of the gallery is “To be open to all, inclusive in its aims, programming, practice and audience.” We run the gallery to the highest standards. As well as changing exhibitions on a regular basis, we also host evening events such as music, performance, poetry readings and dance. We have regular lectures on history, archaeology and folklore during the winter months. In this way, the gallery attracts a truly varied audience.
The gallery can be rented out for events for a fee of €50 which includes publicity and a gallery assistant for the evening.
The Courthouse complex is overseen by a voluntary board of management. The gallery is run by an enthusiastic team of professionals and volunteers directed by curator Trudi van der Elsen. We have put in place a panel of volunteers who can be called on to invigilate exhibitions and help with all the tasks required in a busy gallery.
We are kindly supported by Clare Co. Council and the Arts Council. Ennistymon Parish Community Employment Scheme supports our gallery assistants.
Steambox Gallery
Steambox is a research centre for Studies in Technological and Experimental Arts and Media, developed by theIrish Museum of Contemporary Art. It is IMOCA’s first fully independent facility.
Having smaller, multiple galleries throughout the city is not a unique practice for a museum, but we feel it is the most appropriate and will be the most successful for Dublin.
Several collaborations under development with other institutions will hopefully roll out this year and be housed insteambox.
steambox houses two galleries- the main hall [approx. 7.5 x 40.5 m] and the project gallery [7.5 x 10m].
Having smaller, multiple galleries throughout the city is not a unique practice for a museum, but we feel it is the most appropriate and will be the most successful for Dublin.
Several collaborations under development with other institutions will hopefully roll out this year and be housed insteambox.
steambox houses two galleries- the main hall [approx. 7.5 x 40.5 m] and the project gallery [7.5 x 10m].
SIRIUS
SIRIUS is an arts centre in Cobh, County Cork. SIRIUS approaches art through the lens of society. SIRIUS creates focused, artist-driven projects and collaborative, community-oriented projects. SIRIUS facilitates the production and presentation of, and public engagement with, art and knowledge, and offers professional development opportunities to artists through commissions and residencies. SIRIUS operates across all art forms – visual, performing, live, film, sound, vocal, written and born-digital – programming a mix of exhibitions, performances, events, activities and publications, both on site and online. SIRIUS plays a civic role locally and beyond in Ireland.
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