What is truer than truth? The Story

……now put that in your pipe and smoke it

ADVICE TO WRITERS

Even if it keeps you up all night,
wash down the walls and scrub the floor
of your study before composing a syllable.

Clean the place as if the Pope were on his way.
Spotlessness is the niece of inspiration.

The more you clean, the more brilliant
your writing will be, so do not hesitate to take
to the open fields to scour the undersides
of rocks or swab in the dark forest
upper branches, nests full of eggs.

When you find your way back home
and stow the sponges and brushes under the sink,
you will behold in the light of dawn
the immaculate altar of your desk,
a clean surface in the middle of a clean world.

From a small vase, sparkling blue, lift
a yellow pencil, the sharpest of the bouquet,
and cover the pages with tiny sentences
like long rows fo devoted ants
that followed you in from the woods

Billy Collins

Feb 28 acting class FULL. Extra Tuesday class now offered due to demand, book now for Tuesday March 5 or else Thursday April 11 - only two more chances to act the maggot before September. Early birds & all that. Or try creative writing? http://bit.ly/Wwyutx

Thanks for your continued support & enthusiasm.

Booking fast folks! Calling scribblers, stooges, pencil pushers, funambulists, fantasists, wordsmiths and angry feckers….Come act the maggot with us! Rage against the thingamabob. Creative writing or acting? Choose your medium to play.

Introducing new Thursday morning class in creative writing: Feb 21 at Ranealgh Arts Centre. Details of current available classes below.

BEGINNERS ACTING: Thursdays starting Feb 28, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9.30pm)
Only few spots left – so guys, come on and join us for the craic! Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, Dublin

BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Tuesdays starting March 5, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9pm) Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.

NEW Morning Course in Ranelagh, Dublin 6
BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Thursdays starting Feb 21 – 6 weeks (10am-11.30am) Where: Ranelagh Arts Centre in Ranelagh village, Dublin 6

If you wish to book a spot on any of these courses, please email us saying which one you want and you can guarantee your place by paying a €40 deposit online here – http://actthemaggot.com/deposits/ Once you have paid your deposit the place will be yours and an orientation email will follow. Remainder of course fee to be paid at first class.

HOW TO BOOK: 0873744926 actthemaggot@gmail.com All courses €140. Book now. Early Birds act the maggot!

How to get to Kaplan College: (come down Parliament Street facing the river, take left at Turk’s Head, take right down lane way at the Czech Inn and No. 7 is the big green Georgian door up the steps on your left before Smock Alley Theatre
How to get to Ranelagh Arts Centre: (cross the street from Ranelagh Luas stop it is sandwiched between Nick’s Coffee & Superquinn. Painted baby blue, you can’t miss it.

Calling all pensive pensioners, busy mums, part-time workers, lads and ladies of leisure – young & old – we like everyone! Join us on Thursday mornings and tap into your creativity in this fun writing class like no other in Dublin!
NEW DAYTIME COURSE in RANELAGH DUBLIN 6
Come a long and act the maggot with us in the lovely Ranelagh Arts Centre
If you like your class mates you can even have coffee with them after in Nick’s next door!

Thursday mornings starting Feb 21 – 6 weeks (10am-11.30am) €140
Where: Ranelagh Arts Centre in Ranelagh village, Dublin 6:
across the street from Ranelagh Luas stop & beside Superquinn & Nick’s Coffee.

Flourish in 2013 with Act The Maggot. A fun New Year’s Resolution!
Roll up. Roll up: New Beginners Writing Course
BOOK NOW. Early birds act the maggot!
actthemaggot@gmail.com or call 0873744926

IMPROVERS ACTING: Wednesdays starting Jan 23, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9.30pm)
Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar.
This class is for people who have done a little bit of drama/acting or improv
in the past and are not absolute beginners. There are still a few spots left –
so guys, come on and join us for the craic!

BEGINNERS ACTING: Thursdays starting Feb 28, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9.30pm)
Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar.
come down Parliament Street, take left at Turk’s Head, take right down lane way
at the Czech Inn and No. 7 is the big green Georgian door up the steps on your
left before Smock Alley Theatre

BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Tuesdays starting March 5, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9pm)
Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.
Come down Parliament Street, take left at Turk’s Head, take right down lane way
at the Czech Inn and No. 7 is the big green Georgian door up the steps on your
left before Smock Alley Theatre

Also NEW Morning Course in Ranelagh, Dublin 6
BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Thursdays starting Feb 21 – 6 weeks (10am-11.30am)
Where: Ranelagh Arts Centre in Ranelagh village, Dublin 6: across the street from
Ranelagh Luas stop & beside Superquinn & Nick’s Coffee.

If you wish to book a spot on any of these courses, please email us saying which one you want and you can guarantee your place by paying a €40 deposit online here – http://actthemaggot.com/deposits/ Once you have paid your deposit the place will be yours and an orientation email will follow. Remainder of course fee is to be paid in cash at first class.

All courses €140. BOOK TODAY. Early Birds act the maggot!

Sorry folks our January course is completely full since last week. A lot of soon-to-be maggots mean business this new year! Bookings for the next course have already begun. Starts Feb 28. Avoid disappointment. Early birds act the maggot! Book today. There is always our Creative Writing course too – next available scribbling starts March 5, 2013. Book now for any 6-week course. actthemaggot@gmail.com or call 087 3744926

Quotes to ring in 2013

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
Wally Lamb, writer

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”
Goran Persson, politician

“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.”
Cyril Cusack, actor

Flourish in 2013 – Act The Maggot – G’wan!
www.actthemagot.com

Be the change you want to see

Make Act The Maggot your New Year’s Resolution.
ACTING
PART ONE
Beginners Acting – 6 weeks – Thursday Jan 17-Feb 21 inclusive
Beginners Acting – 6 weeks – Thursday Feb 28-April 4 inclusive
Beginners Acting – 6 weeks – Thursday April 11-May 16 inclusive

PART TWO
Improvers Acting – 6 weeks – Wednesday Jan 23-Feb 27 inclusive
Improvers Acting – 6 weeks – Wednesday March 6-April 10 inclusive
Improvers Acting – 6 weeks – Wednesday April 17- May 22 inclusive

CREATIVE WRITING
PART ONE
Beginners Creative Writing – 6 weeks – Tuesday January 22-Feb 26 inclusive
Beginners Creative Writing – 6 weeks- Tuesday March 5-April 9 inclusive
Beginners Creative Writing – 6 weeks – Tuesday April 16-May 21 inclusive

www.actthemaggot.com
actthemaggot@gmail.com