SLIGO SPANISH SOCIETY - SOL Y SOMBRA

We are back, with our Autumn course schedule. 10 week courses for all levels, with a mix of face to face and online classes. We plan to have 40% face to face and 60% online classes for this term. Our first class will be in a classroom. Email sligospanishsociety@gmail.com for more info.                                                              Location Yeats Building, Sligo. Online on Zoom. Price €120 full price, €100 for students or the unemployed (this is a reduction of our normal price). Duration and times  Online classes will be 75 minutes long and  will be from 7.30pm to 8.45pm. Our face to face classes will be 60 minutes.  Face to face classes will be from 7pm to 8pm or from 8.15pm to 9.15pm.  LEVELS BEGINNERS – Tuesdays This is for those people who want to start from the very beginning and who have little ...

As I write, many of us are at home now without much to do, so it is a good time to learn something new.  We have decided to put some of the material from our Spanish courses online - and also to create new material and videos and upload them too - so that people can continue studying Spanish even though we have had to suspend our classes.  The blog posts and videos will, at first, be a little random - they will be for a variety of levels and will address many different topics. But whatever your level, we are sure you will find something to entertain and educate you. We will regularly add new blog posts.  Full list of all lessons now here.   If you have any requests, please get in touch; sligospanishsociety@gmail.com.  Every blog post will have a level attached. Our Level guide will be useful to help you see which videos are best for you, though of course you can watch any video you want...... COMPLETE BEGINNERS : Self-explanatory, for students who ha...

We are suspending all of our Spanish and salsa classes for the time being, in light of the Coronavirus outbreak.  Students of Spanish have two classes to complete in their courses, and these classes will be taught whenever things return to some kind of normality. 

On Saturday the 7 th March 2020, exactly two years after the start of this project, singer songwriter and composer, Felip Carbonell will deliver chapter four of his series of concerts dedicated to the Hispanic poets and songwriters. Having performed three unique concerts prior to this, La Nueva Trova Cubana (#1), Chile y Argentina (#2) and Boleros de Mexico y Cuba (#3) , Felip will introduce us this time to the poetry of The Great Spanish Poets of the 20 th Century . The big names of Antonio Machado, Rafael Alberti and Federico García Lorca have always attracted a plethora of songwriters and composers from different parts of the world to explore their poems and compose music for them.  This concert will feature a small selection of the works of these and other poets -all of them in Spanish - put to music by mainly Joan Manuel Serrat and Paco Ibáñez , two of the Spanish songwriters that influenced Felip’s early years as a musician. The relaxed format of thi...

Give your dancing a boost with our Salsa Workshop on Saturday, February 29th.  We are pleased to welcome Jonathan Navarrete to Sligo to give an afternoon salsa workshop. Jonathan is originally from Ecuador but now teaches salsa and bachata in Dublin Salsa Academy.  The workshop will run from 2pm to 6pm and will be useful for Beginners and Improvers. We will cover the fundamentals of good, stylish salsa; basic steps, body movement, footwork, turns, partnerwork, simple and more advanced combinations.  Come, learn and have fun too! The workshop costs €24 and takes place in the Avalon Centre, Sligo, near the Garda Station and Dunnes Stores.  Email: sligospanishsociety@gmail.com to book a place or for more info. 

Our New Year Spanish courses begin the week of January 20th. We have courses for all levels - including a course for preparation for the Spanish Leaving Cert exam. Registration - January 15th We ask anyone who wants to do a course with us to come to Registration and pay the course cost in full. Registration is on Wednesday, January 15th, in the Yeats Building, Sligo, from 7.30pm to 9.00pm.                                               Duration and times All courses last 10 weeks. Every class is of one hour and fifteen minutes duration and runs from 7.30pm to 8.45pm (except for the Leaving Cert course which is from 5pm to 6.15pm). Location Classes take place in IT Sligo. Prices Almost all courses are €130 (€110 for students or the unemployed). The Leaving cert course is €120. LEVELS  (from lowest level to highest) BEGINNERS – T...

Learn something new this new year with Sligo Spanish Society - Salsa and Bachata classes start again on Monday, January 13th at 7.30pm in the Yeats Building, Sligo. All classes cost €10.  Last year, with our teachers Andre, Tony and Lenka, we started classes that our students enjoyed and came back to, again and again. This year we are looking to build on last year's success, and are ready to welcome people who have never danced these two sensual Latin dances before, but who are keen to try.  So don't worry if you are a complete beginner, we will start with the basics. Come and join us, you will not regret it! All welcome, no partner needed.