KAVA News:
- Mary O’Donnell Exhibition runs until the 6th May
- 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th May – Yoga with Fionnuala at 9.30am
- 2nd May – The Reel Room Flim Club – Tarrac!
- 4th May – Concert in the Courthouse with Chango 8pm
- 5th May – Gig For Palestine
- 6th May – Drawing Club at 7pm
- 8th to 17th May – Group Exhibition with Carmel Daly, Thereze Ward & Peter Goosens
- 19th to 30th Exhibition with Belinda Deutinger
- 31st May – Kinvara Plein Air starts
Fleadh na gCuach – it’s Cuckoo festival time and this year it is celebrating its 30th year anniversary. There are lots of music and events for the whole family happening starting with the official opening in the Pier head at 6.30pm on this Friday 3rd May. Full programme details are available on Facebook and www.kinvara.ie/fleadhnagcuach. The cuckoo organising team are looking for volunteers to help out with some of the Community events. If you can lend a hand for a couple of hours, please let us know at cuckoofleadh@gmail.com.
Kinvara Tidy Towns: welcome our community to come out once or more as suits for an hour over the next few weeks and months. We meet on Wednesdays at 10.30am and 7.30pm and Saturday mornings at 10.30am at the community centre. All are so welcome 🙏. And you can also volunteer in your own time.
Kinvara Theatre Group will be staging their second production ‘The Shaughraun’, a heroic Irish comic drama, on May 17th and 18th in Kinvara community centre and on May 25th and 26th in Kilcornan community centre. Tickets can be obtained on Eventbrite, Healing Harvest, Be Yourself Boutique and on the door. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Local election time! At the recent Kinvara community council meeting a motion was passed that Kinvara will be poster free in the upcoming local elections. The election candidate will be vising the area over the next few weeks looking for your vote. This is a great opportunity for you to raise what you believe to be important local issues affecting our community.
Gort community bowls club: are hosting free bowls tuition for the month of June 2024! Starting 4 June until 28 June .This will take place every Tuesday and Thursday 4:30 pm to 6 pm and Friday 4 pm to 5:30 pm. All equipment supplied. Bowls is a fun social activity suitable for all over the age of 18 years. Please contact Carmel at 091 631756 for further information or to book a place, or simply turn up on the day .Tea will be after.
Kinvara Community Council Meeting:
Kinvara Community Council’s monthly meetings take place the third Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is taking place on Wednesday 17th April at 8pm in Kinvara Community Centre. We encourage all members of the community to attend these meetings where discussion and debates on any items put forward on the agenda are always welcome. All sub groups who are affiliated to Kinvara Community Council must send a representative to every KCC meeting in order to maintain their benefits. Any items for inclusion on the agenda must be emailed in by Monday 15th April and you must be there to present your item.
Kinvara Community Council needs Volunteers:
The Community Council plays a vital role in providing services to assist the community in several projects. We recently celebrated our success in securing a grant to upgrade the Community Centre to a sustainable energy building, we assisted the Heritage Committee in securing ownership of St. Coman’s graveyard, we supported the Aughinish Community in objecting to an industrial aquaculture site and we created a new corporate entity for the Children’s Crèche. Current projects include, developing a traffic management plan for Kinvara and in promoting the installation of a boardwalk to Dunguaire Castle.Our main role is to maintain and develop the Community Centre in the heart of Kinvara. The building provides facilities for community groups, schools, charities, cultural and commercial organisations to hold meetings and events. To continue this work, we need your help. We need volunteers to join our committees to assist us in the finance, property management, legal, social, cultural, and media affairs development of the community. Your input can be as little as a few hours per month, or as much as you feel you can contribute to improve the Council for the benefit of Kinvara. Please consider joining our team by dropping an email to communitycentre@kinvara.ie and one of our officers will contact you for a chat.
Energy Improvements at our Community Centre:
The works taking place in March and April 2024 include internal insulation of the main hall and sealing of all wall, door and window air leaks. The oil boiler will be removed. We will no longer be dependent on fossil fuels and will have an electric Air to Air heating system and heat retaining ventilation. We will produce some of our own energy with an array of solar roof panels. We are happy to discuss these energy usage reduction and climate change solutions with any interested members of the community.