The 13th annual SHS photo competition – thanks to all who entered. Congrats to Dan Wilson and Amanda Mannix who were the winners and to all the runners up and entrants.

Dan the Man with some serious acting in Virgin Media’s ‘Blood’ on TV currently. Lookin’ good Dan!

Hi Everyone,

Cathy Macken here. It’s time to start filling your shoeboxes again for Team Hope.  This is my 11th year doing this appeal.

Closing date for boxes is the 9th of November  so we need to get busy filling our shoeboxes. Please help to make a difference for a child this Christmas.

Shoeboxes can be dropped in to Bri Nua, Main Street, Arklow or at the Gallery, Main street.

A big thank you to Servier in Arklow who have given funding to our music program.

Pictured here are members of the Servier social committee with Sunbeam music instructor Tommy Breen collecting a cheque for €922 which is going towards Filming, sound and lighting costs of our Inclusion concert in November.

We will have details of the concert, which is a major event and includes no less than six organisations, in the coming weeks.

Shirley plans on spending time working in an orphanage in Sri Lanka in early 2019 and Is raising money to buy educational aids and some fun stuff for the children there. Hoping some of you can join her for a cuppa (see poster attached) and please spread the word.

Pictured above are a sample of the 35 entries submitted by service users from Ballyraine, Bri Nua and Bray RT into this year’s Tinahely show which took place on the August Bank holiday Monday. The categories entered included: Woodcraft, ceramics, art and handcrafted items. There was a high level of competition this year but all entries from Sun beam came in for great praise from the Judges on the day. The prize winners from the show were as follows:

Class 215(Any hand-crafted item)

2^nd Nicola Riley

3^rd Tara Cawley

4^th Wayne Scarfe

Class216(Any woodcraft item)

1^st Michael Ellis

2^nd Patricia Hurley

3^rd Patrick Grummell

4^th Geraldine Stokes

Class 248(Ceramics, pottery)

2^nd Tom Lawler

3^rd Geraldine Stokes

Class 304(painting)

Highly commended- Tom Lawler

These and all the other entries can be seen on display at the Creatives group show which opens on Tuesday the4th of September in Arklow visual arts from 5-7pm and runs until Friday the 14^th. Your presence is most welcome.

A  group of artists from Ballyraine and Bri NUa who work in a variety of art mediums from painting, felting, pyrography, print, upcycling textiles and embroidery are exhibiting in

The Arklow Gallery from Tuesday 4th of September until the 14^th September.

This group of 29 artists have completed a wide range of work in their chosen medium offering this exhibition something to interest everyone.

Opening Night on Tuesday 4^th September 5-7pm All Most Welcome

Participating artists are:

Aisling Maguire, Cathy Macken, Daphne Hollingsworth, David Stafford, Dervla Fallon, Emma Reynolds , Emma Kinsella, Geraldine Stokes, James Ledwidge, Jamie Clarke, Johnny Mc Grainer, Killian Byrne, Mark Hayward, Martin O Brien, Michael Grummel, Myles Kavanagh,  Nicola Riley, Patrick Grummel, Rosie Walshe, Sean Sheeky, Selina Whyte, Shirley Johnson, Tara Cawley, Tom Lawler, Tomek Rozanski, Trish Hurley and Wayne Scarfe.

There is also a group textile wall hanging created with artist Maeve Hunter who worked with Eimear Wixted, Grainne Lawlor, Kiera Broe, Nicole Appleby, Paul Roche, Rachel Langrell and Tomek Rozanski on a collaborative textile workshop.

Some fun this week with an ‘Ice- cream Day’ and a trip to see Wicked at the Bord Gais Theatre.

This is the POD group on a wonderful trip to Wells House in Wexford. It was interesting ,fun and we had lots of laughs.

The POD trip to Mama Mia2

We went to the Douglas Hyde Gallery to see the exhibition called “A Visibility Matrix”, at Trinity College.

Looks like it has been a busy couple of months down at the Cube in Sunbeam.

Eolas have been busy out and about in Bray this week!

Michael, Annette, Patrick, Roisin, Myles and Dervla In Grafton St having a lovely time just before going on The Viking Splash tour.

Here we are doing the arts and crafts class. Making a new sign for Eolas.

We went to see the new redecorated Strand Hotel which was the former house of Oscar Wilde’s parents, so we also familiarised ourselves with Oscar Wilde’s life