BY-LAWS OF AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS / THE CELTIC ARTS CENTER
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7e: An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center was established as an educational and cultural center to preserve and develop the cultural expression of the Celtic people. An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center also seeks to engage in cross-cultural exchanges with peoples of other backgrounds.

7f: An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center offers free workshops in Irish Gaeilge. These workshops serve to introduce participants to the idiomatic expression of Celtic people and to aid the preservation of the language. An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center encourages its voting members to engage in a continuing course of Gaelic study.

As part of its educational programming, An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center, offers semester-long courses in the histories, cultures, languages, visual arts, folk dances, and traditional crafts of all the Celtic nations. These courses and lectures provide a means to preserve and promote the continued growth of these important cultural traditions.

An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center offers regular concerts (céilí) and weekly music sessions (seisiún). These musical events introduce the authentic traditional music of the Celtic nations, and educate participants in these important cultural traditions.

An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center also performs plays presenting a variety of Celtic themes. These plays communicate a wide range of Celtic historical and cultural experience.

7g: An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center accepts donations for its weekly musical seisiún and charges an admission fee for its concerts, special events, and plays. An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center also holds periodic rummage sales, craft fairs, raffles, and celebrations of Celtic holidays (Samhain and Nollaig, for example), for fund-raising purposes.

An Claidheamh Soluis / The Celtic Arts Center also plans to rent out its theater space to outside groups at times when the space is not being used for its programming, and intends to charge an appropriate fee in this connection.


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