Culture Night

Last night the junior girls from Beresford House visited Airfield House, Farm and Gardens as part of  'Culture Night'.  The programme of events at Airfield included viewing the farm and gardens, a printing demonstration as well as an opportunity to learn some stitching techniques and live music from the Hot Club of Dublin.

Our pupils arrived at Airfield just in time to take part in the tour of the Farm. Animals on the farm included chickens, geese, sheep, cows, pigs, horses, and goats.

After the tour there was time to visit the printing studios where pupils undertook to complete a mono print. This was all the more meaningful as a number of Form I pupils are currently involved in a print project in our own art room.




Pupils choose an image to print.

The image is etched
onto a plastic plate.

Ink is applied to the plate.





The plates are lined up ready to print



Pupils assist by preparing paper for printing

The prints are put through the press.

The finished prints are examined.

Finally the pupils enjoyed a relaxing moment in Airfield house listening to some music performed by the Hot Club of Dublin.

Pearse Museum

Today Form II visited St. Enda's Park where they viewed the Embroiderers Guild  Exhibition on the top floor of the Pearse Museum. Here they saw a number of traditional as well as contemporary embroidery techniques. Posted today are some images of the pupils at work in the Museum as well as a group shot in the courtyard beside the Museum!

Embroidery Exhibition

Tomorrow,  Form II artists will visit the Irish Guild of Embroiderers exhibition 'Off the Wall ', which is on display at the Pearse Museum in Rathfarnham.

Pupils will examine  traditional embroidery techniques, in addition to some of the latest innovations regarding fabric printing, dying and machine embroidery.

An Báinín

Saturday evening witnessed the first gathering of the new An Báinín club. This club is available to pupils as part of Saturday evening activities. An Báinín is a knitting club and is the brain child of a group of Form V girls. The girls have turned to knitting not just for the sake of learning a craft, but also because they benefit from its therapeutic properties, plus they can create functional and useful pieces of wool craft.

The resurgence of knitting as a pastime is evident in the number of knit classes running all over the country. 'This is Knit', a shop in Dublin City Center, holds classes and stocks all necessary tools and equipment needed to indulge in the craft. They even offer some free knitting patterns to get you started.