Author: Cherry

Painting workshops – Ballymena

Ballymena artist Louise Lester of local business LLCrafts offers lots of different painting workshops as part of her “Enjoy Painting” classes. Covering Ballymena, Antrim and Kilrea. Louise gives everyone the opportunity join in with a group and get the benefits from joining an art class. You can choose what medium you enjoy working in – oil, watercolour, acrylic, pastel or paint. All the things that you need will be available at the class. Painting workshops in Ballymena Joining an art class can benefit more than just your artistic skills – it can improve your mental health. Painting can improve you...

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Reading Together – Ballymena Bookclub

Reading Together is something that Ballymena Bookclub would like to encourage. This month Ballymena Bookclub are reading “My Family and other Animals” by Gerald Durrell. My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell published in 1956, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell family on the island in a humorous manner, and also richly discusses the fauna of the island. It is the first and most famous of Durrell’s Corfu trilogy, together with Birds, Beasts,...

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Hope Centre Turn-About programme

In Ballymena the Hope Centre is running Turn-about programme. The new educational programme runs for 10 weeks and aims to helps people to address problems such as isolation, alcohol and drug misuse. Eight people have taken part so far and they will benefit from several different activities which have been planned for the next few weeks. Hope Centre Turn-About programme The project offers a variety of opportunities with workshops addressing self esteem, practical advice, personal training and exercising. The fitness sessions are very beneficial as exercise can promote a healthy lifestyle and give routine to each day. Exercise can...

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Foy Vance Belfast – Music Tuesday

Its Music Tuesday and one of our favourite musicians, Foy Vance, is returning to Belfast at the end of the year. Here at Ballymena Today Foy Vance is always playing in the background. We are happy to announce that he has a new single out, a new album coming and his tour tickets are on sale now! Foy Vance Belfast In late 2015 Foy became only the second artist signing to Gingerbread Man Records, a division of Atlantic Records started by Ed Sheeran. Recording for his Gingerbread Man debut The Wild Swan took place at the legendary Blackbird Studios...

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Work experience – advice and help

Students from Dunclug College have been writing and preparing content for Ballymena Today. Recently they sent us this great article which is useful for anyone at school who is trying to organise their work experience now or in the future. Finding the right work experience that’s right for you and helps get experience for your future career can be difficult. Getting the right one is the key, as you don’t want to go somewhere where you’re going to hate. Here are some tips for finding the perfect work experience. Look online Search some businesses/places where you could see yourself working at or like the job idea. For example if you are interested in working as a vet, you could pop into your local vet or ring and see if they offer work experience. If they say no nor have people already doing work experience the week you’re doing it, don’t give up! There are other places where you could try to get experience. Prepare a CV Not all places that offer work experience asks for a CV, but it will be always helpful if you have a draft of a CV wrote out, just in case. Having one is a good idea, so when you have got your GCSE results etc. you can add it to your CV. To make up a CV you can try to ask your...

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