ANNOUNCEMENT - Scoil Scairte
The Trailblazery presents
Scoil Scairte, a ‘Hedge School as Gaeilge’
in collaboration with Manchán Magan
Thursdays, September 30-November 25 2021
A new 9-week immersive journey into the heart and soul of the Irish language
Dear friends,
We are THRILLED to finally announce Scoil Scairte a new collaboration with Manchán Magan (writer, journalist, documentary-maker) and supported by Foras na Gaeilge.
Scoil Scairte is the Irish School you always dreamed of guided by a host of inspiring bilingual multidisciplinary artists, activists, creatives, educators, culture makers and indiginous language keepers including Eithne Ní Chatháin(singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist), Paula Kehoe (director, producer, writer), Kneecap (hip-hop trio), Úna-Minh Kavanagh (journalist, gamer, forager), Timmy Creed (actor, writer, theatre-maker) Róise Goan (artistic director, producer, writer) and Ola Majekodummi (journalist, commentator, filmmaker). It also features musicians from around the world including Rising Appalachia, Peia, Siobhan Moore (Ajeet) and Aisling Urwin (otherwise known as Woven Kin).
Scoil Scairte is a dynamic Irish language learning experience that weaves culture, creativity, heritage, folklore and indiginous wisdom with individual, social and ecological wellbeing.
This 9-week voyage of discovery invites people to gather together online to explore, experience and learn the Irish language in a global learning community.
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More than an Irish class, Scoil Scairte is an immersion in the psyche and soul of a powerful language, culture and place. It will provide a supportive environment to inspire people to connect with themselves, each other and the living world through the potency of this ancient living language.
The purpose of Scoil Scairte is to provide a modern, multi-faceted platform to engage in a soulful and structured way with the Irish language as a rich cultural treasure. It taps into a growing cultural desire for new ways of learning (and unlearning), connecting and sharing at this extraordinary time on our planet. Join Scoil Scairte and explore how language can shape how we see the world and our place in it.
“I believe passionately that the Irish language can steer us back to what truly matters,” says course collaborator, Manchán Magan, “allowing us to make sense of an increasingly chaotic world by reintroducing us to the mysterious glories of the natural world and the subterranean existence to all things. The seeds of wisdom, ease and sustainability are contained within the language and now is the time to share this wisdom as widely as possible.”
Registration
Scoil Scairte price: 9 sessions over 9 weeks €225. Spaces are very limited.
Register now and we’ll email you a reminder before booking opens on September 8th.
Be with us ~ Bí in éineacht linn.
With love,
Kathy and all at The Trailblazery xo