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Blue Teapot Theatre Company’s Performing Arts School is taking applications for September 2023. This is an opportunity for people with intellectual disabilities, who are aged 18 and over, to access formal training.

Choosing the right paving is one of the most important decisions you’ll make if you’re renovating your garden or planning a new one. It’s probably the biggest investment you’ll make in terms of cost – not just the cost of buying your paving but of laying it correctly too. Natural flagstone paving and brick or block paving all have their place – but the suggestion I’m making increasingly often to my clients recently is to consider outdoor porcelain paving.

THE PAST year has been something of an annus mirabilis for Galway’s Blue Teapot Theatre Company. Len Collin’s inspired film of the Blue Teapot play Sanctuary was screened in Britain to ecstatic reviews and was later shown by RTÉ. In May, the company staged its ground-breaking production of Dancing At Lughnasa at the Town Hall.

The EYE Cinema will get a taste of Hollywood for one night only pre-general release on March 31, as Sanctuary premieres in Galway to raise funds for a new theatre for Blue Teapot.

From award winning potters to newly qualified ceramicists, some of the variety and virtuosity of contemporary Irish studio pottery will be on display for two days in Galway during the first week of the Arts Festival.

The fourth lecture in the Oranmore Heritage 2014/2015 Winter Heritage Lecture series will take place on Wednesday next February 25 at 7.30pm in Oranmore Library.

THE CERAMICISTS Sonja Landweer and Katherine West will host an exhibition of their work at the Norman Villa Gallery in Lower Salthill.

Galway Potters’ Market, a celebration of studio pottery and ceramics, takes place on Thursday July 19 and Friday 20, at the Fish Market at The Spanish Arch, from 10am to 6.30pm.

In January this year Louisburgh potter and artist Anthony O’Brien travelled to Tatiko, a small village in northern Nigeria to film the traditional potters at work. The Tatiko potters are all women, who work without potters' wheels, kilns or any specialised equipment. The pottery they make is for everyday use, for cooling water, storing oil and grain, and for cooking over the open fire. But what makes their pottery so special is that it is stunningly beautiful, finely decorated in a rich red clay. There are some 50 women potters in Tatiko, making hundreds of pots every week, which are all sold in the local market. People come from all over northern Nigeria to buy their work.

Commons’ Clay Café is a hive of activity for the summer months, with pottery painting, summer camps, parties and the restaurant.