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Working with two local festivals: Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival and the Children’s Festival - Waterville. Encouraging local community to become involved in local art based project. To create community based art to be used for both festivals. Involves the creation of life like caricatures of Charlie Chaplin to be created from wood and clothed from charity shops. The caricatures can be interchanged as children depending on the Festival. To be displayed on Waterville seafront as an attraction and promotion of visual art. Community groups and businesses can be encouraged to create a character that reflects their club/ business/ group.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Tech Amergin Adult Education Centre

Amergin (a mythological figure sometimes known as Aimhirghin Glúngheal) was the poet, seer and lawmaker of the Milesians, the Gaelic invaders, whose first successful landfall was at what is now Waterville. As he stepped ashore, Amergin recited his famous poem claiming identity with the surrounding landscape. 'Tech' is the modern 'teach', a house. Waterville Vocational School, which is now reincarnated as Tech Amergin Community Arts & Education Centre was commonly known as 'The Tech' or Technical School. Hence the name, a wordplay on the centre's mythological and modern origins. Tech Amergin under the aegis of KES (The VEC in Kerry) organises a wide and comprehensive range of courses for the local community as Theyll as a regular programme of arts events.

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