Temple Bar Chocolate Festival and ticket giveaways

Stop eating chocolate now folks and save your chocolate cravings, for this is the ultimate experience in chocolate tasting, learning, sampling and hogging…the Temple Bar Chocolate Festival is happening in Dublin on the Halloween weekend. A whole three days of chocolate fun, I can’t wait! The festival includes some interesting workshops, demonstrations, talks, family events and, most important of all, tastings and a chance to buy lots of lovely chocolate. The schedule looks like this: Friday 30th Octooober Truffle Making workshop with Gillian Walsh at 10.30am and 12.00pm for one hour in The Gallery of Photography. Here you can learn how to roll your own chocolate truffles, box them up and take them home. Or eat them right there, whatever takes your fancy Tickets for this are €10, concessions €8. Chocolate Tasting Workshops with ChocONeill at 1.30pm and 2.45pm in The Clarence for 45 minutes. This will be a brief … There’s more

Art and Business: Talk by Allan Cavanagh (me, but I like the third person, makes it sound authoritative)

I’m giving a talk this Saturday 15th August in the Galway City Museum Coffee Shop at 4.30pm, along with Lynda Cookson. I’ll be talking about how I’ve created a viable business out of art instead of flipping burgers, which is an important job too but a bit smelly. Art + Business + Creativity, with Lynda Cookson and Allan Cavanagh! Lynda Cookson, Artist and Writer based in Galway, will be giving an unmissable talk on how building a painting can be like building a business whilst demonstrating her technique of creating an oil painting. “It’s not such a huge jump from being creative to being businesslike,” Lynda claims, drawing on her experience of combining the two worlds. Throughout her own career, she has learned how important it is that your business life as an artist runs parallel with your creativity; and she will speak about how handling business and promoting your … There’s more