Butterfly Mosaics project presented to Deans Gate
A lovely piece of art project has been just completed and handed over as a gift to the Deans Gate Day Centre. After Andy Tynan, a member of Connect Café, came up with the idea of making a gift of a mosaic piece to the neighbouring Deans Gate it took several weeks for a Connect Cafe group from St. Canices Neighbourhood Hall to produce a piece. And it was special too as for the first time the mosaics project took an active involvement of one of the Deans Gate’s service users – Sean Stapleton of Ballyragget, who has enjoyed sketching the pattern, smashing tiles and then putting them together into a beautiful shape of a butterfly. Sean has also started to join us for a bit of piano playing and chats in the St. Canices Hall and is getting to know more and more people in the local community hall. It has been great to see Sean being involved in the community project and in return we enjoyed Sean’s company, his sense of humour, chats and singing too!
At the St. Canice’s Neighbourhood Hall we have been working on producing Community art project over the last 3 years. You can see them displayed on the outside of the Hall and if you like what you see please join us at our next mosaics project which will be starting in the next few weeks. In our projects we use as much of recycled materials as possible, broken tiles and old bread boards are reused and get a new, more colourful life!
For more info please contact Dorota Brennan, Project Coordinator at 087 3571368.