The lads had some great craic down at teh Fisherman’s Club in Bray to celebrate 40 years of Sunbeam House.

The Cube Celebrating Sunbeam’s 40th
With Afternoon Tea In the Summerhill
Hotel Enniskerry

My name is Tomas, I am 49 years of age. I have always loved travelling.  I have a keen interest in air planes and air travel ever since my older brother Andrew had a pilots licence.  When I was about 14 he used to take me on flights in a Tampico plane.  A Tampico is a single engine air craft.  I have great memories of flying over the City of Dublin.

I have travelled to many different parts of the world. Including East Asia,  the USA and Europe.  I have learned a lot from my travels including geography and different cultures.

These are just some of the countries I have been to and some of the airlines.

• Denmark: Scandinavian Airlines.
• Poland 11 times: Ryan Air
• France 3 times: City Jet
• Spain 3 times:  Ryan Air
• Italy : Aer Lingus
• Hungary: Malev Airlines
• Florida: 3 times  Aer Lingus
• Canary Islands 3 times: Ryan Air
• Japan: KLM airlines

My brother works in Kuala Lumpur .  Kuala Lumpur is in Malaysia some time in the future I would like to visit him there.

It is 14 hours and 30 minutes from Dublin.

Ad currently on TV featuring staff and service-users from Sunbeam.

A great day was had by David, Brian, Alan and Paul at the National Ploughing Championships 2017. Some of the highlights being the brand new Range Rovers, the new born piglets, checking out the tractors, seeing Michael D. Higgins, meeting Jackie Tyrrell and getting lots of freebies to take home!

Patrick, Killian, Martin and Pat attended the ploughing Championship in Tullamore Co Offaly on the 29/09/17 where they got to meet President Michael D Higgins, Ex Ireland rugby international player Shane Byrne. All had a most enjoyable day.

Sunbeam truly can’t thank the Transition Year students of St Gerard’s and Difference Days enough for all the amazing effort today!

Paul, Nicole & Eimear volunteering to help raise
funds for Irish Heart Happy Hearts appeal today in Tesco appeal.

This exhibition is the culmination of an art collaboration project with Bri Nua, Sunbeam House Services Arklow and St. Mary’s College Arklow. Student’s from Bri Nua, and St. Mary’s College worked together to develop ideas and artworks based on the theme of their identity within the community.

A total of 15 students took part in this project and are displaying work in this exhibition. The workshops provided a space for students to enjoy the process of getting to know each other and share their individual artistic skills with each other. A variety of media is used in the various artworks, including cloth, paint, wood and wool.

The exhibition opening will be held on Wednesday the 26th April from 6 o’clock to 8 o’clock.

The exhibition will then be open to the public from Tuesday the 25th April and will run for just over 2 weeks.

Conor, Martin and Maria.

From left: Johnny, Charlotte, Robert, Martin, Amanda, Tina, Rosie, Sineadand Helen.

Martin and Stephen.

Martin O’Brien with some of his gouache paintings at the opening of his solo show in the Arklow gallery on Monday the 13^th of March 2017. Martin has been painting for over two years and has recently begun printing, three of his prints can be seen behind his group of supporters who came to congratulate Martin on his exhibition.

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Filmmaker Dave Thomas from Actually Films has just launched a campaign to raise funds for his film Aretha – a short film about a young girl with Down Syndrome.A disability activist for many years, Dave hopes to challenge perceptions of the norm with this inspiring film but he needs your help! You can pledge here to help the campaign-https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aretha-an-inspiring-short-film.

Here are some pictures of the launch of the video the guys from Eolas and the Cube made for a research in Trinity College. The name of the research is TILDA, that is the Irish longitudinal study on ageing for people with intellectual disabilities.

They participated in making a video about healthy eating. The idea is to show the data collected in a easy way to understand. So this follow the idea of nothing about them, without them. They received certificates and an outstanding award for acting!

The guys involved are Thomas Gilbert, Amy Quinn, Derri Keating, Niall Flynn and Daniel Ryan.

“Will the kettle ever boil?”

Well done to Shauna O’Leary who recently trained as a Barista in the Dublin Barista School. Many thanks to Bray Area Partnership for organising funding to make this happen.

Shauna has now secured a work experience in the Dublin  Barista School Café during December.

Some pictures of Cathy who collected shoe boxes for team hope and this is her 9th year!

Last Friday night in the Arklow Bay the ‘the heart-stopping, booty-shaking, earth-quaking, justifying, death-defying, legendary’ Ballyraine and BRI Nua music group played their hearts out in the Arklow Bay Hotel.

Even in this early stage the group has developed and grown in confidence with the support of tutor and mentor Tommy Breen.

More importantly than that, the guys were unconditionally and warmly accepted and given recognition as musicians, by musicians and local people, from their own community – as the below video shows.

Well done to all of the guys, Tommy Breen and Lorraine Newsome – It was an amazing night.

You can check out the video below and watch out for the standing ovation at the end which went on long after this video stopped.

Brilliant.

Some words used in the above email were courtesy of another great musician – Bruce ’The Boss’ Springsteen (credit where credit’s due)

A group from Bray RT took part in a work shop in the Make Shop recently. Some people made motorised robots that race across the ground, spin in circles and they learnt about motors, batteries, hot glue guns and power tools. Others designed and built their own clocks while learning about batteries and electronics!

Some nice pics from Culture Night 2016.