
Monsters in your School
Calling x4 D15 Primary School Class Groups
Dance in Your School
14 & 21 March 2025
Beag - A Little Event Celebrating Early Arts
Friday 3rd July 2015
10am - 2pm
A river splashes through the gallery, a rocket bursting into space in the corridor, footprints run across the lobby and behind the stairs ... Come along and play with us!
Beag is a little event that has a huge focus on the arts for the very young.
Draíocht will, for this one day, be magically transformed into a big space for adventure through story, visual arts, music and dance for the very small.
With a combination of book-in and free drop-in events, children are invited to explore the little spaces that big people don’t usually see. Little characters will lurk under the chairs; footprints will amble across floors and elsewhere in the small nooks that only children notice.
Armed with your imagination and natural curiosity, explore colour by drawing big on our gallery walls, build a box and wool sculpture, dance with artist Antje O’ Toole, hear and respond to a story with artist Orla Kelly and bang a drum with artist Linda Ferguson. This event will culminate in a celebratory exhibition of the work created by the young artists and explorers in the First Floor Gallery from Thursday 16th July 2015.
Event: Roam Free @ Draíocht
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Cost: Free Event, REGISTER @ BOX OFFICE ON ARRIVAL
AGE: Activities are designed for 18 months- 5 years but younger and older siblings are welcome
Location: Roaming all over Draíocht.
Event Information: These creative spaces are free to roam, for self directed play and inventiveness. Follow the Foyer Footprints, look under the chairs, around the stairs, beneath the tables. Follow the Roving River in the Ground Floor Gallery as is flows from the gallery walls down onto the floor and explore colour creating large scale drawing right on our gallery walls!
Make your way to the creative toddler room in our downstairs Workshop Room, where cars are used for print. Cones become rockets, play with paint, weave, stick, build - bring your imagination and dress for mess. Make your way to the First Floor Gallery and go Bonkers for Building with 3D construction and Sculpture with wool, cardboard boxes and cylinders.
Event: Chin Wag in the Artist Studio
Time: 10:30am-1:30pm
Cost: Free Event, REGISTER @ BOX OFFICE ON ARRIVAL
Age: All welcome
Event information: Visit our Artist in Residence Andrew Carson and find out what a real live artist actually does. Have a look at his work - give him some critical feedback - he might even let you draw a picture with him!
Event: Leo The Lion
Times: Workshop 1: 10:15am- 10:45am
Workshop 2: 1:30pm-2:00pm
Cost: €5 per child, accompanying adult free
AGE: aged 2-4 yrs
Location: Green Room
Event Information: Once upon a time in the jungle there lived a Lion called Leo. He loved to do tricks and entertain. Join Órla Kelly and Leo the Lion for an exciting circus adventure in story, creation and in paint.
Event: Bop and Sway
Times: Workshop 1:10:00am-10:30am
Workshop 2:12:00pm-12:30pm
Cost: €5 per child, accompanying adult free
AGE: 18 months - 4 years
Location: Draiocht Studio Space
Event Information: Twirl, bop, sway, skip, little legs and arms move to the music. Join Antje O’ Toole, our dancer for an exhilarating dance workshop, letting your baby engage with sound and movement.
Event: Rat-a-tat
Times: Workshop 1:11:00am-11:30am
Workshop 2: 1:00pm-1:30pm
Cost: €5 per child, accompanying adult free
AGE: Workshop 1: 0-2.5 years
Workshop 2: 3-4 years
Location: Draiocht Studio Space
Event Information: Drums go 'rat-a-tat' and 'bang,' bells go 'ding dong,' and sad trombones go 'wah wah'.
Join Linda Ferguson to look, see hear and play instruments, move to music, sing along and finish with a dance.
Órla Kelly is the co-founder and director of Early Childhood Creativity, an initiative that aims to stimulate creative thinking and activity in early years, children and their parents, and to support artists and educationalists to develop specific and creative ways of working with early years children (0-6 years). Órla is a visual artist, creative educationalist and an arts manager. She has worked with children for over fifteen years creating work in Ireland and Europe. Órla is currently working in partnership with Fingal County Council and Scoil Bhride Cailini in Blanchardstown, as artist-in-residence in Room 13.
Linda Ferguson is a tutor on the Foundation Music Programme and is the lead tutor on the Preschool Music Programme with Music Generation Wicklow. She holds a BA Degree in Folk Theatre Studies and an MA in Community Music. Her areas of expertise are in Irish Traditional Music, Folk Music, Community Music, Song-Writing and Improvisation. She is a vocalist and plays Tin-Whistle, Guitar, Bodhran and has training in both African and Samba drumming. Linda believes that music is for all ages and abilities. She has found that music is a very powerful form of communication which can heal, inspire, unite and ignite anyone who encounters it!
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