Want to Join the Circus?

Gerry Callaghan 2022-01-23

Come have fun and learn new and different skills!

Galway Community Circus, Gateway Youth Project, Foroige and New Horizon offer the Sunday Circus skills workshop.

For more details check out the video

Open to all young people between 13 and 17 years old.

Closing date for Applications is 26th January, first come, first served!

Interested? Just fill out the online form or let reception on the Athlone site know you want to attend

Sunday Circus Skills Workshop

Sunday 30th January to Sunday 27th March (excepting Sunday 27 February)

St. Joseph’s Community Centre, Shantalla, Galway

Activities each Sunday would look like this:
13:15 Bus pickup in Athlone accommodation centre
14:30 Arrive Circus skills Workshop in Galway
14:45 Start day’s adventures.
16:15 Finish for the day.
16:30 Bus home, arrive Athlone at 18:00 or so.

Free of charge to all young people aged 13 to 17 who live in Athlone Accommodation centre.

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FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee

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