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FAMILIESFamilies are invited to visit IMMA at any time during opening hours. Families can visit the exhibitions, use art materials in the Response Room, take part in the IMMA TRAIL or explore the grounds and history of the Royal Hospital.  IMMA Art Trail
An Art Trail featuring outdoor works from the IMMA Collection is available to pick up in the galleries.
The Response Room
During your visit to IMMA, drop into the Response Room. Tell us about your experience of the artworks on exhibition, draw or write on a Response Card and pop it into the special postbox. Make an artwork with the materials in the room (pencils, markers and paper) or have a look at what other visitors have written or drawn in response to their experiences at IMMA.
Explorer for Families
IMMA’s family programme, Explorer, welcomes children and adults to experience art works and art making together on Sunday afternoons, in the company of two of IMMA’s gallery staff, the Mediators.
Explorer is: - Free and drop-in
- On Sundays between 2.00pm to 4.00pm
- Explorer runs from 24 January to 30 May 2010 and 3 Ocotber to 5 December 2010
- There is no Explorer on Easter Sunday, 4 April 2010
- The maximum number of participants is 35 (adults and children), so arriving early is advised
- Projects are designed for children aged 4 to 10 years old
- Project themes are repeated over two consecutive Sundays
For further information about Explorer please contact Mark Maguire, Assistant Curator: Children's Programmes, email: family@imma.ie or contact the information desk email: frontofhouse@imma.ie What’s on at IMMA for Families? Gallery Visit
Guided Tours
Heritage Tours
Response Room
YOUNG PEOPLE
STUDIO 8: Space for Young People  Studio 8 is a space at IMMA which young people, aged 15-18 years, can use as their base when visiting the Museum. It is a relaxed and informal gathering place from which young people of varied interests and levels of creative experience can explore the galleries or take part in facilitated: tours of exhibitions; talks and discussions; art making; visits to IMMA’s Artists’ Residency Programme; sessions on critical writing, curating and exhibition installation, and more. Studio 8 is open for young people to ‘drop in’ anytime from 11.00am - 4.00pm on Saturdays from 6 Mar—24 Apr 2010 (excluding Saturday 3 Apr, Easter weekend). Activities in Studio 8 are free, and basic materials are provided. The studio is coordinated by Lynn McGrane and activities are facilitated by artists and Mediators (IMMA’s gallery staff). No booking is required and it is not necessary to attend every week. 
Experimental Drawing Workshop Based on the Solo-Show of Jorge Pardo
Artist Clodagh Emoe invites you to join her and Lynn McGrane, Studio 8 Coordinator, in Studio 8 on Saturday 13 and 20 March to take part in two workshops informed by work displayed in the solo-exhibition of Jorge Pardo. Pardo’s practice intertwines various disciplines to renovate everyday objects, homes and museum spaces into something new. Pardo and his team use drawing techniques associated with architecture and design to engage with fine art. Using Jorge Pardo’s interdisciplinary practice as point of departure the workshops focuses on drawing as a technique to develop innovative 2D and 3D forms. This workshop is an opportunity for you to experiment and explore techniques of drawing as it is used in its contemporary context. This workshop enables each participant to create both individual designs and an ambitious large-scale collaborative piece. The workshops use techniques of drawing and design to create individual and large-scale 2D and 3D. Techniques such collage and model making and strategies that play with scale and repetition are demonstrated to enable each participant to fully engage with this experimental project. Although Jorge Pardo’s exhibition is used as the initial point of departure, each session is structured into three main stages - the work produced in each stage informs the next - reiterating the important aspect of process. However, the workshop has been structured to allow flexibility and participants can drop in and take part at any stage. The workshop aims to enable participants to engage with the work of Jorge Pardo and to create experimental designs based on drawing. This workshops further develops participants understanding of drawing and it’s place in contemporary art practice. It is possible to be included on the list for Studio 8 update emails – please contact Caroline or Jen (details below). For further information please contact Caroline Orr, Curator Education & Community Department, email caroline.orr@imma.ie, tel: 01-612 9956 or Jen Phelan, Administrator Education & Community Department, email jen.phelan@imma.ie, tel: 01-612 9919.
What’s on at IMMA for Young People? Gallery Visit
Guided Tours
Heritage Tours
Talks & Lectures
ARP: Public Access
For further information on the Youth Programme please contact Caroline Orr, Curator: Education and Community Programmes, email: caroline.orr@imma.ie
ADULTS
WORKSHOPS
IMMA offers a range of once-off and ongoing workshops to provide people with an opportunity to create work in response to their experiences visiting the gallery spaces and meeting artists. Workshops are led by professional artists and members of the Museum's Mediators (gallery-based staff). Workshops take place in Studios 8, 9 and 10, and also in the galleries. STUDIO10/GALLERY SESSIONS FOR ADULTS
Studio10/Gallery Sessions, which combine facilitated exhibition tours, discussions, art-making and more, are an excellent springboard for engaging with modern and contemporary art. These sessions, for adults of all levels of creative experience, are free of charge and are exploratory in nature, focusing primarily on the art work in IMMA’s gallery spaces. The art-making element of the sessions is experimental and is a means of investigating the ideas and artistic processes encountered in the galleries. In spring/summer 2010 there are four blocks of Studio10/Gallery Sessions, with each block addressing a  particular exhibition at IMMA and being facilitated by two IMMA Mediators. Blocks comprise of 4 consecutive weekly sessions that take place from 10.00am to 1.00pm on Fridays, based from Studio 10.
Please note, all blocks of Studio 10/Gallery sessions are now fully booked. Block A February 5, 12, 19, 26.
Exhibition: What happens next is a secret Block B March 5, 12, 19, 26.
Exhibition: Jorge Pardo Block C April 9, 16, 23, 30.
Exhibition: Anne Tallentire: This, and other things 1999 - 2010 Block D May 7, 14, 21, 28.
Exhibition: Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts Blocks of sessions are free of charge; however, to ensure quality of experience for participants, places are limited and booking is essential. Please note, it is not possible to book consecutive blocks. Places will be allocated on a first-come/first-served basis. For further information please contact Caroline Orr, Curator: Edcuation and Community Department, tel: 01-612 9919 or email caroline.orr@imma.ie
What’s on at IMMA for Adults? Gallery Visit
Guided Tours
Heritage Tours
Talks & Lectures
ARP: Public Access For further information on programmes for Adults please contact Lisa Moran, Curator: Education and Community Programmes, email: lisa.moran@imma.ie GROUPSFree tours
Groups can book online for a free guided tour of IMMA’s exhibitions. Please note tours must be booked at least three weeks in advance of your intended visit. To book a tour please click here. Artists' Residency Programme visits
Groups can organise to meet one or more of the artists working on IMMA’s Artists Residency Programme in the Museum’s studios. All visits to the Artists Residency Programme are free of charge but advanced booking is required. To book please contact Janice Hough, Artists Residency Programme Coordinator, email: arp@imma.ie or contact the information desk at email: frontofhouse@imma.ie Workshops
Workshops for groups can be arranged in conjunction with a free guided tour or an Artists' Residency Programme visit. In this way, groups can discuss art work in the gallery or studio spaces and afterwards have a facilitated art making workshop. Please note workshops must be booked at least three weeks in advance of your intended visit. For further information or to book please contact Lisa Moran, Curator: Education and Community Programmes, tel: 01-612 9912, email: lisa.moran@imma.ie or Caroline Orr, Curator: Education and Community Programmes, tel: 01-612 9956, email: caroline.orr@imma.ie
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