The course will cover key elements of actor training including Voice, Movement and Improvisation. As well as stage acting the training will also include an introduction to screen acting.

The training will also introduce participants to classical and contemporary play texts, using both scenes and monologues to hone your craft, improve sight reading and how to break down a script into its component parts. This course aims to provide young actors with a taste of drama school training at conservatoire level whilst offering a broad foundational understanding of acting techniques.

If you love musicals and want to have a go yourself but don’t know where to begin, this course is for you. Adults with a passion for musical theatre are offered an opportunity to develop the fundamental techniques required to perform in Musical Theatre. Taught through group master-classes and rehearsals, this intensive immersion in musical theatre will help build confidence, develop new skills and develop existing skills in a collaborative environment. During the course students will work with a singing tutor & musical director, leading musical theatre director and choreographer, to develop their singing, dance and performance skills.

This practical weekend workshop will give you an introduction to the stages of set design, from reading the script and creating a concept, to understanding what is required to design a set and create a model box.

You will learn how to gather imagery and ideas from sample text and bring those ideas to life. You will learn practical skills of model making and scale drawing and how to make the most of these in your own work.

Do you feel like you have been left behind in this digital age? Our computer and technology courses aims to provide learners with the skills and confidence to live and work in a digital world.

These courses are delivered once a week over 27 weeks

• Basic Computers: For complete beginners to learn all the skills you need to get the most from everyday technology in a fun and informal environment.
• Women in Technology: This course supports women in a safe environment to gain skills and build skills in using modern technology.
• Digital Pathways

The health and wellbeing strand aims to provide learners with the space to explore their own sense of wellbeing. To nourish the mind, body and soul and to encourage resilience and self-care in a supportive atmosphere.

• Personal Development
• Women and Wellness
• Mindfulness
• Art
• University of the Third Age (U3A): Are you over 55? Join this fortnightly group to pursue your interests in a social setting where learning is lifelong.

The first steps to education courses aim to provide learners with the skills and confidence in the important areas of literacy and numeracy. The courses are designed to support you and make you feel empowered to learn and to progress at your own pace. This programme is targeted at early school leavers and people new to English and Irish languages.

The Access Course is a 1 year course that aims to provide mature students (aged 23 or over on year of entry to a degree programme) with the opportunity to prepare, personally and academically, for an undergraduate course of full-time study of at least three years duration at NUI, Galway.

The purpose of the course is to allow students to critically reflect on their own educational stories both individually and collectively as they work through educational and career pathways.  The course also prepares students for the academic, social and cultural opportunities and challenges of university study.