THE Associated Board of the Royal Schools Of Music is offering to fund three-month study trips to London for singing and instrumental teachers ... An exhibition on 100 years of Spanish cinema is running until Monday at the Instituto Cervantes, Northumberland Road, Dublin ... The prize winners in the Irish Times/Anna Livia/Writers Inc poetry/short story competition are Hugo Kelly (short story) and John O'Donnell (poetry) ... The Newry Arts Centre is hosting a festival of Irish language drama next Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, which includes a new play by fiddler Proinsias O Maonaigh - phone Newry 318688 for information ... Book now for a set dancing weekend from April 25th-27th, on Inishbofin, taught by Brooks Academy, which brought you the St Patrick's Day ceili ... Phone Age and Opportunity on 01-8370570 for information on the Bealtaine Festival of creativity for older people, which is taking place around the country in May...

What sounds like a fascinating seminar on "Irish Travellers On The Grand Tour" is taking place in UCD on the weekend of April 11th, to coincide with the publication by Yale University Press of A Dictionary Of British And Irish Travellers In Italy 1701-1800 - phone Blathnait Crowly on 01-7068162 for details ... Fionnuala Hunt, violinist and director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra lectures in the Artspeak series at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, on Tuesday next at 8 p.m. ...