In collaboration with Mother Tongues / With Illustrator and Writer Debora Adachi

Language Explorers Workshop

Sat 10 May 2025 , 3-4pm

Tickets Free | Pre-booking Essential
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Event2025 Language Explorers Mother Tongues

Join illustrator and writer Debora Adachi for this specially created Language Explorers Workshop - A Journey of Heart and Art that aims to provide time and space for parents/carers and their children to spend time being actively engaged in artmaking, use their own mother tongue and learn about the languages and cultures of others.

In this cosy and welcoming space we'll discover the magical world of feelings together! We will share stories and create crafts that will help us understand and cope with our emotions. Your little ones will have the chance to learn about their feelings and share these moments with you!

While the workshops will be guided in English, we encourage families to embrace their home languages.

If you've any questions about this workshop, please contact sarah@draiocht.ie.

More About Language Explorers

Language Explorers is Mother Tongues’ flagship programme for children in the early years. These workshops have a strong focus on language development, parent-child communication and literacy. Workshops provide a high-quality unique creative experience for parents and their children based on storytelling, drama, visual arts or music. While the workshops will be guided in English, we encourage families to embrace their home languages. This fosters meaningful connections between parents and children, creating a truly inclusive environment. Meet and connect with other like-minded families and share your language journey! English or Irish speaking or multilingual, every family is welcome to our workshops!

More About Mother Tongues

Mother Tongues is a social enterprise working to promote multilingualism and intercultural dialogue in Ireland.Since our foundation in 2017 we have inspired many schools, libraries and community organisations to embrace multilingualism and act as catalysts for change, showing that Ireland welcomes all linguistic and cultural identities, and inspiring future generations of bilingual and multilingual children.Our goal is to inspire everyone in society to be open to linguistic and cultural diversity and value the benefits that multilingualism brings to individuals, communities and to our society as a whole. Children can reach their full potential by developing English alongside Irish and their family language, but to do so they need parents who are motivated to keep up their mother tongue, teachers who are positive about every language and a society that welcomes linguistic diversity in all its forms.This is why the projects we develop at Mother Tongues focus on children, by offering them opportunities to develop their language skills, parents, giving them the confidence to transmit their language to their children and teachers, enhancing their awareness of linguistically responsive practice. We work all over Ireland and collaborate with many organisations in the delivery of our programmes.