Space needed in Dublin city for teaching art classes.

Pauleeeeeeee

I will be providing private art classes in the new year several times a week to groups of approximately six people at a time.
I need to find a suitable space in Dublin city centre to comfortably accommodate that many people.

Obviously I will be looking for a reasonable monthly rate for renting a space like this.

If anyone has any suggestions or knows of anywhere that is currently available for something like this, please let me know.

Thanks.

-Paul

lostdesign

I know your looking in the city centre but if you can't find anywhere checkout RUA RED in tallaght. They have a room specifically setup for art workshops for rent.

www.ruared.ie

Pauleeeeeeee

Hey lostdesign, thanks for the suggestion.

I gave RUA RED a call there and they seem like they'd be accommodating enough towards what I'd want to do.

Still though, Tallaght is a decent way out and I'd imagine it would be a lot easier to generate a larger number of students if the space was based a little more centrally.

If anyone else has any suggestions that would be great.

Nobrow

There is a place on the corner of exchange street/smock alley, opposite the hotel. Its a lovely space that has been taken over by these emo art kids who obviously have rich Daddys who are willing to bank roll their little games.

Anyway, they do lots of silly little "art" projects there, but if they have a free night and you come across as suitably angst ridden, maybe they will let you use the building for an hour or two once a week. Drop in and see them. They can only say no.

Pauleeeeeeee

Nobrow, thanks for trying to help but you seriously have no idea what you are talking about in relation to that place.

Here's the original post from another Irish forum from the person who bothered his hole to get that place set up:

"I recently applied to the Arts Council to open up an All Ages, not-for-profit, Performance/Gig/Artist/Discussion space that would be run by a collective of young people but open to everyone. This would be in the centre of the city, in an area with a lot of pedestrian footfall.

The space would be entirely programmed by the collective. The visual appearance of the space inside and out will be a changing project for some of the young artists with exhibitions on show during gigs etc. My ambition is that it would be open late to provide an alternative space to hang out and do stuff. There's plenty of places to drink in the city, this would be a non-alcohol space.

The application is partnered with Project Arts Centre so they have offered to handle the bureaucracy end of stuff such as health and safety training, insurance and child protection training (which are all necessary when over 18's are mixing with under 18's). They will also be on hand should we need any advice on production stuff.

So I got word today that we've been given 18k to start the project off. This would cover rent, utilities, PA purchase, fit-out of the space amongst other things. How long we can keep this going for depends on what rent price is negotiated. My hope is that the project will be hugely successful because Dublin is crying out for a space like this and from our initial success we'll gain the momentum to get further funding with a view to increasing the level to which we support ourselves. The scheme for the funding is called the Young Ensembles Scheme and it is to support groups or ensembles of young people working on artistic projects. I outlined that space was the main deficit, the creativity was already there. I see this project as bringing a whole bunch of people together from performance, artist and music backgrounds that have not worked together before and will open up new possibilities. This should hopefully be ready to go during the Summer.

So what I need now is to get a collective of people together that are interested in making a space like this happen. We will need a collective that handles bookings and organises stuff. We will also need volunteers to 'supervise' (2 at all times). This will be anyone over 18 and all will be given the necessary training (A day or half day). The way I see this working is finding a balance between meeting safety and legal requirements on paper and having a space that does not discriminate on age basis."




So...no rich dads with large bank balances in the equation I'm afraid.