RíRá Children’s Arts Festival is in full swing… October 14, 2009
Posted by thedockblog in Children, Literature, Music, The BackRoom Bar Cafe, competitions.Tags: RiRa Childrens Arts Festival, the back room bar cafe
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This week sees the return of RíRá Children’s Arts Festival to The Dock – its all very busy at the moment with two fantastic shows of SeaShoreShow from Nico and Martin this morning and they are back at 6pm for their Instant Orchestra.
Full line up for the rest of the week is on www.thedock.ie/performances/children so be sure to check it out – we will try and get some pictures up as soon as we can.
Also just announced – as part of the free Family Fun Day to finish up the festival we have just added Tea and Tales to line-up – In the BackRoom Café Bar, reading from their favourite childhood stories, will be local celebs – Mary Blake, Colin Regan, Charlie McGettigan, Evelyn Kelly and Cathal Roche. Stories will be geared at children from 4 years of age to 12. Interspersed with the story telling will be a literary quiz devised by The Reading Room Book Shop, Bridge Street Carrick on Shannon with a fantastic prize promised to the winners!
Family Fun in the galleries May 29, 2009
Posted by thedockblog in Children, Visual Art.Tags: Children, Family Fun, The Dock Galleries, visual arts
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Preparation is under way for our family fun day this Saturday the 30th of May at 2pm. Sarah Stevens, tutor for the day, was busying herself about the exhibition this morning dreaming up wonderful ways for families to play and create together in gallery 2. Gallery 2 is a great space to hang about in, lots of light, tall ceilings and of course at the moment Denis Farrell’s paintings powerfully holding court with the room. Next Saturday will be our second Family Fun Day, as Arty Party keeps reminding us …a better name is coming…. ideas most welcome. It is great to offer families a space within the community to come and chill out together and most importantly have some fun together. It is really important to The Dock that the family fun day is seen as our way of highlighting how important it is that families are provided with public spaces to relax in and be a family in. Life can sometimes end up being lived in a whirl with the most important things, like time together; being forgotten… so come on in this Saturday bring the Granddads and the Aunties and enjoy being a family.
Claire Mc Aree – Visual Arts Co ordinator
RiRa goes down a treat! October 22, 2008
Posted by thedockblog in Children.Tags: RiRa Childrens Arts Festival
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The very first RiRa Childrens Arts Festival, which ran from Wednesday 15th October to Sunday 19th October, was a huge success and The Dock and The Market Yard Centre would like to say a big thank you to every one who helped make it special - to every one who came and joined in the fun, to all the performers, to our very kind sponsors – Leitrim County Council Enviroment Section, Department of Enviroment, Heritage and Local Governemnt, Ballinamore Library and Connaught Gold. Also to our fantastic facepainters, Emma and Orna, who are donating the money collected to the Jack and Jill foundation.
Check out a few of the pictures from the festival below and see you all next year for what will be an even bigger and better Festival!
Emma and Orna hard at work
Hopscotch on the forecourt
Storyteller Niall DeBurca with a captive audience!
