This award is funded by Westmeath County Council and the Arts Council. It aims to foster talent, creativity and activity in filmmaking in County Westmeath. A grant of €10,000 will be awarded to a filmmaker towards the cost of production of a short drama or documentary film of 10-12 min duration to be shot in […]
Enter our Road Safety Quiz, in association with Westmeath County Council Transport section, and win a LED Beanie Hat. Pick up your entry form in all Westmeath Libraries - limited numbers so make sure to enter today!
Westmeath Libraries are delighted to announce that C-Pens are now available to borrow from Westmeath Libraries. The C-Pen is a wonderful tool for anyone learning English, or for people with reading difficulties such as dyslexia. It can also be of benefit to people with vision problems, as this portable device reads text out aloud to […]
Join us in Mullingar Library for our Autumn Time Poetry Club with Paul Timoney, as part of our Local Live Performances. Express yourself in a friendly, fun-filled and supportive environment. Feel free to bring along your favourite poem, or your own compositions. No need to book, simply join us in the library from 6:00 to […]
If you’d like to learn how to garden more sustainably a one-day course is being offered that will cover everything from gardening without chemicals, to pollinator planting, vegetable growing, mini-pond building, pruning, cuttings and much more. The course is run by horticulturist and environmentalist Aoife Munn and will take place on Sunday October 16 from […]
‘The Big Dig’ offers hands-on learning for curious children to budding archaeologists. Children are invited to explore the Viking world through a simulated archaeology dig. They are given the chance to experience what it is like to be an archaeologist by learning how to excavate the remains of a Viking house. As they dig through […]
It is amazing what you can discover about your local area from the snug safety of your home! Wstmeath Heritage is delighted to offer a FREE* course (mostly online) that will take you step-by-step through the available online sources that will allow you to paint a picture of the geological, archaeological, and historical events that […]
Westmeath County Council, as part of its Decade of Centenaries programme, welcomes a new exhibition of photos from the Irish Civil War. Titled ‘Civil I Am’, the exhibition showcases around 40 images from the conflict, all collected from various archives and libraries. Curated by Galway-based historian Damien Quinn, the exhibition was recently displayed in Galway’s […]
Deadline: 26 September, 5pmWeb: www.create-ireland.ie/artist-in-the-community-scheme-awards-now-open/ The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects. Applications are now open, via English and Irish, available on this page. This includes the following awards: Research and Development Award (without mentoring) Research […]