FOCKLE AYNS DTY CHLEAYSH

Manx for Beginners!
Mini Festival Repeated at Cregneash

A series of music, singing, dancing and Manx language workshops will be taking place at Cregneash on Saturday 24, Sunday 25 and Monday 26 August, together with displays of Manx music and dancing, a Manx language exhibition and children's activities. There will also be demonstrations of a wide range of Manx traditional rural crafts including thatching and horse work.

This weekend provides complete beginners, Manx residents and visitors alike, with the opportunity to see and learn traditional dances, to hear and sing Manx songs and to learn and speak a few words of Manx Gaelic. There will also be opportunities for people with some knowledge of Manx language, music and song to learn some more. There will also be information sheets about the Manx language organisations and where to go to learn the language.

The days' activities will be structured to allow people to have a go at many different aspects of traditional Manx culture. The programme for the weekend is as follows:
1. Beginners sessions aimed at giving 10 - 15 minutes of Manx to the absolute beginner.
2. Singing and children's rhymes workshops - 10.30, 11.30 and 12.30.
3. Whistle workshops - for beginners and more advanced students - 10.30, 11.30 and 12.30.
4. Dance workshops will take place in Church Farm Barn - 10.35, 11.35 and 12.35.
5. Music and Dance displays from 1.30 to 4.00 outside Harry Kelly's cottage.

Cregneash was perhaps the last home of Manx Gaelic, with Manx having survived as the language of the community into the 1930's. It is appropriate that Cregneash is being used as the venue for this festival to promote and develop a secure future for the Manx language and culture.

The Cruinnaght Chreneash has been organised by Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh and is presented by Manx National Heritage in association with the Manx Heritage Foundation and the Isle of Man Arts Council. For more information contact Phil Gawne at [email protected] or on 834844.

Cruinnaght Chreneash
Feailley Veg son Sleih gyn Gaelg!

Hed strane dy keirdlannyn kiaull, arrane, daunse as Gaelg er cummal ayns Creneash Jesarn 24, Jedoonee 25 as Jelune 26 Mee Luanistyn. Chammah's shen bee taishbynyssyn kiaull as daunse ayn, taishbynys jeh'n Ghaelg as reddyn ry-yannoo son paitchyn. Bee taishbynyssyn elley ayn jeh ram keirdyn cheerey tradishoonagh goaill stiagh thoo as gobbragh lesh cabbil.

Nee'n kione shiaghtin shoh cur caa braew yindyssagh daue gyn ys erbee er ny cooishyn (Manninee as skibbyltee boghtey) daunse y akin as ynsaghey, arraneyn y chlashtyn as ynsaghey as fockle ny jees dy Ghaelg y ynsaghey neesht. Bee caaghyn currit daue as beggan dy ys oc er ny cooishyn shoh dy ynsaghey ny smoo. Bee Gaelgeyryn flaaoil ayn - s'treisht lhiam - cur magh fys mychione ny sheshaghtyn Gaelgagh as yn aght share dy ynsaghey y Ghaelg.

Hed ny taghyrtyn er cummal ayns aght cooie daue ta geearree cur cheb er ayrnyn jeh'n chultoor tradishoonagh ain. Ta'n claare reaghit myr shoh heese ec y traa t'ayn:
1. Keirdlannyn son gynsaghey y Ghaelg son sleih gyn ys erbee, mysh 10 - 15 minnidyn.
2. Keirdlann arrane as draneyn as arraneyn ny paitchyn - 10.30, 11.30 and 12.30.
3. Keirdlann feddan - goaill stiagh adsyn gyn ys erbee as adsyn as schleiyn oc hannah - 10.30, 11.30 and 12.30.
4. Keirdlannyn daunse goll er cummal ayns Soalt Balley Humman - 10.35, 11.35 and 12.35.
5. Taishbynyssyn kiaull as daunse veih 1.30 - 4.00 cheu mooie Thie Harry Kelly.

Va Creneash nane jeh ny buill s'jerree raad va'n Ghaelg ymmydit myr chengey bio yn boodeeys as sleih ayn smooinaghtyn dy row ee foast ayn ayns ny jeih as feedyn. S'cooie as kiart eh eisht dy bee Creneash yn laare son lhiasaghey as bishaghey y Ghaelg son y traa ry-heet.

Ta'n Cruinnaght Chreneash er ve reaghit liorish Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh as t'eh currit er toshiaght liorish Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin lesh cooney mooar veih Undinys Eiraght Vannin as Coonceil ny h-Ellynyn. Son tooilley fys loayr rish Phil Gawne ec [email protected] ny er 834844.

Phil Gawne