Community Arts
Community Arts Studio
Dungannon Community Arts Studio is the home of Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council's dynamic and diverse arts programme.
The aim of the Community Arts programme is to meet the needs of residents and to involve groups that may feel excluded from active participation in the arts.
Local Artists
We always try to use local artists where possible for workshops or projects. This provides a unique platform for local artists to develop and pass on their skills.
If you are an artist living in the Borough area and would like to get involved in facilitating or assisting with workshops, contact the Community Arts Studio on 028 8775 3626.
Arts & Disability
The arts and disability programme exists to empower, enhance and enrich the quality of the lives of people with disabilities through a participatory creative experience. Dungannon Disability Arts challenges the way the wider community think and feel about disabilities.
Local groups involved in Disability Arts:
- Dungannon Chest, Heart & Stroke Association
- Disability Action
- Moy Resource Centre (Visually Impaired Group)
- Oakridge Social Education Centre
- McCague Centre (Aughnacloy)
- Coalisland Care Centre
- Parkanaur Training College
- Sperrinview Special School
- Willowbank Community Resource Centre
- Ardnaskea Court Sheltered Accommodation (Coalisland)
- NI Mental Health (Beacon House)
- Fiddes Court Sheltered Accommodation (Aughnacloy)
- Ashbrook Nursing Home (Coalisland)
Types of projects provided by the Arts & Disability Programme are: - creative writing, pottery, glass painting, circus skills, puppetry, animation, drama, storytelling, textiles, willow sculpture, printing & artist-in-residence. The Arts & Disability Programme is funded by Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council and the Arts Council of NI Lottery Fund.
Click here for further details on what's on offer from the Arts Council of NI
Access400 - this unique information service on accessible facilities in arts, cultural, leisure, heritage and community venues across NI, is also an invaluable resource for anyone interested in facilitating inclusive culture, arts and leisure activities. The service is in 2 formats: a handy guide book and an online database. The online service has more detailed information and venue profiles are updated regularly with useful information for disabled people about car park facilities, audiovisual aids and much more.
Click here to access Adapt NI's website to find out more information on Access 400
Aughnacloy Truagh Historical Society
Programme 2009 - 2010
2009
8 SEPT Tour Guide: Mr Brendan McAnallen
Historical Field Trip To The Brantry
(Meet at the Brantry Bard Cultural Centre - 7.00pm sharp!)
13 OCT Speaker: Mr Ronnie Hanna (Talk & Short Film)
"The G.I.'s In Ulster" (1942 - 1945)
10 NOV Speaker: Mr David Fitsimmons
Talk and Memorobelia Exhibition on World War II
8 DEC "The Annals of Aughnacloy"
Launch of the new, extended version of this important and local publication, written
by JJ Marshall.
New Edition By Mr Malcolm Duffey (Chairperson)
2010
12 JAN Speaker: Mr Malcolm Duffey
"The Impetuous Nathaniel Montgomery Moore"
9 FEB Speaker: Mr Jack Johnston
"The Goff Estate"
9 MAR Speaker: Mr Brendan Gormley (Archaeologist)
"History & Farming Practices Of The Sperrins"
13 APR Speaker: Mr Michael Fisher (Northern Correspondent / RTE). Michael has family
connections with Aughnacloy!)
A tribute to Aughnacloy Town & Border Area
11 MAY Historical Field Trip to the Sperrins
Details confirmed at a later date
8 JUN Annual Outing / AGM
Details to be confirmed
Meetings are usually held in The McCreedy Mill Centre, Aughnacloy, on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, at 8.00pm (unless otherwise stated).
New Members & Visitors are always welcome!
Contact Details
Community Office, McCreedy's Mill, Aughnacloy BT69 6AL Tel/Fax: 028 8555 7002 email:
aughnacloydevelopment@btconnect.com
ANNALS OF AUGHNACLOY
Aughnacloy Historical Society has recently re-published "The Annals of Aughnacloy" by J.J. Marshall.
"The Annals of Aughnacloy was first published as a first edition in a slim volume of 26 pages in 1920, but this was followed by a second edition consisting of 76 pages in 1925.
J.J. Marshall was born in Mullaghmore, near the Dyan on 29th March 1862, the eldest son of Mathew and Mary Jane Marshall. After his early education he attended the Intermediate School Aughnalcoy, which was set up in the former Methodist Meeting House. During this time he lodged with his uncle, William Johnston who had bought a farm in Killyhoman, Co Monaghan.
After a brief spell at the Royal Belfast Academical Institute (R.B.A.I.) he was apprenticed to a draper and eventally gaining a position with Robinson and Cleavers, Belfast. Living in Belfast gave him the opportunities to pursue his career and his interest in local history.
J.J. Marshall published a number of local histories, which earned him the title "Historian of the Northern Blackwater". The last of these publications was "Aughnacloy Seventy Years Ago-Reminiscences of an Octogenerian", which was published in 1943. He died on 1st July 1944.
J.J. Marshall's "Annals" have long been out of print and have become a collector's item. The Historical Society felt obliged to re-print in order to fill the gap and keep alive the interest in local history.
The new publication, an introduction by Jack Johnston, J.J. Marshall's Second Edition, The Reminiscences and a section of Aughnacloy's more recent history written by Malcolm J Duffey.
The book has broken with tradition in the use of a larger format, maps, photographs and postcards. In years to come it may well be sought after just as the original Second Edition.
Copies can be obtained by contacting Mrs Davina Stewart, Tel: 028 8555 7667; Liz Salter (Community Office) Tel: 028 8555 7002 or at local outlets. Cost £12.00 or £15.00 P&P.
Community Arts Studio
Unit T11, Enterprise Centre
2 Coalisland Rd
DUNGANNON
BT71 6JT
Tel 028 8775 3626
Fax 028 8775 3789
Minicom 028 8772 6685
Email arts@dungannon.gov.uk
