Caricatures Ireland

Had a great night on Saturday at the Mayor’s Ball in the Galway Bay Hotel. The meal was beautiful, five courses of the best vegetarian food I’ve had in a long time. Managed to raise a few quid for charity as well during the caricatures, as each person donated as I drew them. I also tried to get donations from people before they saw the finished product!

Shane Lennon and Lucia Evans put a brave face on it!

The lovely ladies of the Galway Junior Chamber…

Andrew and Alison asking for a refund…

Aidan and the missus squaring up to me…

…and even more satisfied costumers!

Well done to everyone involved for what was a very successful night.

Tags: Corporate/Conference, Mayor's Ball, caricatures, entertainment, galway bay hotel by Allan
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…or is about to! Mayor of Galway Niall O’Brolchain gets a caricature makeover at the Mayor’s Youth Conference today.

Photo courtesy of Aengus McMahon.

Tags: Corporate/Conference, Mayor's Youth Conference, caricatures, conference cartoons, galway city council, galway water crisis, humour by Allan
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On Sunday night I’ll be in the Portmarnock Golf Club for a private function. Maybe I should bring my clubs as well as my pens. Why I haven’t played golf since…

… the Ryder Cup!

UPDATE: Images from the Trinity Medical Ball can be seen here!

Tags: Corporate/Conference, Dublin, Golf, Portmarnock, Ryder Cup, Trinity Medical Ball, caricatures by Allan
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Have to give a plug to me old muckers in Stagecraft Ireland. They’ve just launched their new website, and provide a range of corporate entertainment and education packages:

“Stagecraft Ireland provide a range of entertainment services for corporate events, night clubs, parties, festivals, childrens’ events, etc. We run workshops aimed at fostering teamwork and problem-solving, invaluable for any organisation or circus, dance and percussion which are always great fun for kids.

Stagecraft shows can be theatrical, spectacular, fun, zany, atmospheric, comical, spooky, whatever you need! We design productions to suit all kinds of audiences and ages.

Ultraviolet light shows, interactive walkabout/stilt/unicycle characters, fire performances, cabaret style circus productions, workshops. Guaranteed to impress!”

I worked with these guys frequently last year at the Ryder Cup and the RDS Horse Show and they mesmerised their audiences. Stagecraft Ireland’s contact details can be found here.

Tags: Corporate/Conference, Facilitation, Galway, nightclubs by Allan
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I’ve put all the SPAN cartoons together here. It’s a good way of showing what I can do for documenting conferences and meetings.

SPAN (Strategic Planning Action Network – Réseau de Programmation Stratégique Active) is a “North-West Europe” Interreg III B inter-regional cooperation project. Eight partners from four regions in four European Union Member States are involved in SPAN.

The project has an overall budget of EUR 4 million, 60% of which is funded by ERDF, through the Interreg III B Community Initiative.

SPAN aims to develop innovative approaches to strategic planning for the benefit of all the partner regions and test them under actual conditions. The stress is placed on the participation of civil society in the planning of territorial interventions at regional, infra-regional and local levels. The project also aims to shed new light on relations between urban and rural areas, relations which could be put to better use in the future.

Tags: Cartoons, Corporate/Conference, Dublin, Facilitation by Allan
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