CHILDREN'S ART IN LIBRARIES

Autumn Programme 2013An initiative of the Dublin City Council Arts Office

CHILDREN’S ART IN LIBRARIES

AUTUMN IS IRELAND’S NATURAL TIME FOR STORIES. WHETHER IT’S MAKING UP YOUR OWN, EXPLORING WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE OR DELVING INTO IRELAND’S HISTORIC PAST ; WE THINK THAT THERE’S REALLY SOMETHING FOR EVERY TASTE AND AGE GROUP IN THIS SEASON’S CHILDREN’S ART IN LIBRARIES PROGRAMME.

Twelve artists have been commissioned to create and deliver ten very different programmes that any child who lives in the City will have the opportunity to access.

“Swallowed Fly”, artist Adrienne Geoghegan

Front page image: “Totem”, artist Yvonne Cullivan

School groups will have the opportunity to experience the inspirational story of female outlaw, pirate and heroine, Gráinne Mhaol, as they embark on a storytelling adventure that charts some of her most notorious adventures.

The six to eight year old age group will be given the chance to improvise through words and music as part of Wo-Mu, our music programme specifically designed for the library context. Across the city another group will be exploring just exactly Where those Wild Things are, creating their own unique 3 dimensional puppet heads in the process.

Older children will have the opportunity to Create a Character from Page to Stage by working with theatre-maker Michelle Read, using elements of drama to create their own short plays. If storytelling is more your thing, well then, children’s Illustrator Adrienne Geoghegan is on hand to guide you through the creative process of making your own book.

In the lead up to and during Science Week this year we are delighted to introduce an Art and Science strand to your programme, with the kind support of The Arts Council. Children will be encouraged to explore the eco-systems that grow in urban areas under the guidance of artist Sinéad Carey; while how and why we communicate will be explored in Communication Stations, focusing on sending and receiving signals, messages and information. Finally, those interested in exploring the intriguing concepts of time and space travel can participate in exciting creative workshops with artist Kitty Rogers.

So whether you’re an artist, scientist or storyteller, we think you’ll find something that will be of interest to you in this Autumn’s Children’s Art in Libraries Programme!

Ballyfermot Library

FINDING THE WILD THINGS with Artist Bethan Parkes

Age Group: 6–9 year olds

The night Max wore his wolf suits and made mischief of one kind and another, his Mother called him a Wild Thing ...

In Maurice Sendak’s timeless story Where the Wild things Are our hero Max creates his own imaginary world, by transforming his bedroom into a forest and sailing off in his own personal boat to a land inhabited by wild creatures that only he can tame.

Drawing inspiration from this classic story, children will be encouraged to create their very own unique Wild Thing bringing him/her to life in the form of a 3D head or puppet and developing their own unique creative flair in the process.

Finding the Wild Things will take place in Ballyfermot Library from Saturday 28th September – Saturday 19th October at 2.00pm – 3.30pm.

For further details and a registration form, please contact: Ballyfermot Library: Telephone: 01 6269324 or e-mail: [email protected]

Walkinstown Library

WO-MU with musicians Nick Roth and Olesya Zdorovetska


Since time immemorial, the word has been a rich of source of inspiration for the making of music, giving rise to many different songs and stories.

Over four weeks this specially commissioned programme will encourage children to use their voices through singing, recitation and vocal sounds, as well as simple percussion and keyboard instruments.

Wo-Mu uses words and music to help children to improvise and engage with text in a new, exciting and sonic way, re-imagining the art of reading and gaining new musical and literary skills in a fun and open environment.

Children are also encouraged to bring their own instruments if they are learning already, although no previous musical experience is necessary for full participation.

Wo-Mu will take place in Walkinstown Library on Wednesday and Friday the 16th and 18th October and Wednesday and Friday 23rd and 25th October at 3.30pm to 5pm

For further details and a registration form, please contact: Walkinstown Library: Telephone 01 4558159 or e-mail: [email protected]

Ballyfermot Library

CREATING A CHARACTER FROM PAGE TO STAGE with playwright Michelle Read

Age Group: 10-12 year olds

Characters are everywhere! In books, films, in plays, in our favourite TV soaps! But how is a character born? And how do you make one up and breathe life into him or her?

Creating a Character from Page to Stage will take place in Ballymun Library from 2.00pm – 3.30pm on Saturday 28th September – Saturday 19th October.

For further details and a registration form, please contact: Ballymun Library, Telephone 01 8421890 or e-mail: [email protected]

Creating a Character from Page to Stage is a short creative writing course which answers those very questions. During four weekly sessions participating children will make up characters, develop stories for them and by the end of the process, write and perform a character monologue. Each session, led by award winning Theatre maker Michelle Read, uses creative writing exercises and drama games to guide children through a highly imaginative exploration of character construction and storytelling.

Walkinstown Library

I CAN MAKE MY OWN BOOK! with artist Adrienne Geoghegan


When is the last time you made a book of your own? Wrote the story? Drew the characters? Set the scene? Started one, but didn’t finish it? Made one and loved it? Or NEVER tried it?

Well, whatever start you did or didn’t make, author and illustrator Adrienne Geoghegan, of Visual Art Boot Camps, will take you on a four week book–making journey of discovery! Over four weeks Adrienne will examine the basics of book and character development. Each week children will learn the step-by-step process of creating their own unique, one-off story in words and pictures. Each child will discover the secrets of brainstorming, unravel the mystery of character development, break down the narrative (story) into scenes, create storyboards, and build confidence in using a variety of mediums; from collage to paint, oil pastel to pencils. Then finally each participant will write his or her story!

I can make my own book! will take place in Pembroke Library from 11.00am – 12.30pm on Saturday 28th September – Saturday 19th October.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Pembroke Library, telephone 01 6689575 or e-mail: [email protected]

Pearse Street Library

SENSORY STORIES with artist Yvonne Cullivan


How many different ways can you explore a story? Have you ever thought about exploring a story through sound, touch or maybe even smell! And what are the different ways that you can retell stories? This will be storytelling, but not as you know it!

Over four weeks children will work with artist Yvonne Cullivan to produce a collection of multi-media stories. These stories may be invented by participants or based on a story from memory or maybe it’s just someone’s favourite. Each story will be broken down, keeping the senses in mind, and then recreated through a number of hand-made objects. Children will have the opportunity to experience creative writing, drawing, cut-out, collage, collected materials, audio recording, and construction in the creation of their own unique story. The objects that are made will then connect together and retell a story that appeals to all of our senses.

Sensory Stories will take place in Pearse Street Library from 3.30pm – 5.0pm on Monday 30th September – Monday 21st October.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Pearse Street Library, telephone 01 6744888 or e-mail: [email protected]

Ringsend, Raheny, Central, Charleville, Coolock Libraries

The Children’s Art in Libraries Programme is delighted to present this specially commissioned children’s storytelling event for schools with expert children’s performers Bryan Burroughs and Gabrielle Breathnach. During this interactive 40 minute event, children will explore the world of this very Irish Heroine.

GRÁINNE MHAOL – THE PIRATE QUEEN with artists Gabrielle Breathnach and Bryan Burroughs

An adventure in storytelling


Gráinne Mhaol was a 16th century Irish female pirate, outlaw and heroine who rose against all the odds to control a clan in western Ireland. But who was this woman really? And what do we really know about her?

Using a broad range of storytelling devices, participants will be taken on an imaginative journey that will see them board pirate ships, command armies, enter the halls of great chieftains and finally be brought to the court of Queen Elizabeth to hear how this pirate Queen famously petitioned her ‘enemy’ and won. Gráinne Mhaol the Pirate Queen is open to school groups of children aged between six and ten years. Please note booking in advance with your local library is essential.

Gráinne Mhaol – The Pirate Queen will take place in the following venues:

Ringsend Library on Tuesday 5th November. There will be two performances at 10.30am and 12.00pm.

For further details please contact: Ringsend Library, telephone 01-6680063 or e-mail [email protected]

Raheny Library on Wednesday 6th November. There will be two performances at 10.30am and 12.00pm.

For further details please contact: Raheny Library, telephone 01-8315521 or e-mail: [email protected]

Central Library on Thursday 7th November. There will be two performances at 10.30am and 12.00pm.

For further details please contact: The Central Library, Telephone 01-8734333 or e-mail: [email protected]

Charleville Mall Library on Tuesday 12th November. There will be two performances at 10.30am and 12.00pm.

For further details please contact: Charleville Mall Library, Telephone 01-8749619 or e-mail: [email protected]

Coolock Library on Wednesday 13th November. There will be two performances at 10.30am and 12.00pm.

For further details please contact: Coolock Library, telephone 01-8477781 or e-mail: [email protected]

Drumcondra and Rathmines Library

AN URBAN TAKE ON A VICTORIAN PAST TIME

with artist Sinead Carey Age Group: 7–11 year olds

What is an Urban Eco System? What can a Wild flower do for you? What types of plants are really growing in our cities and why?

This four week programme aims to encourage participants to explore ecosystems in urban areas. Children will be encouraged to consider the effects of these plants growing in urban spaces and whether or not their presence has a positive or negative affect on a community. They will then be introduced to the concept of guerrilla gardening and will examine the medicinal properties of common plants that grow readily in urban spaces. Using the artwork that they create during the programme, children will then investigate the concept of communicating through plants and explore the many different dialogues that can be created.

An Urban Take on a Victorian Past Time will take place in the following venues:Drumcondra Library from 11am - 12.30pm on Saturday 9th November – Saturday 30th November.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Drumcondra Library: Telephone 01 8377206 or e-mail [email protected]

Rathmines Library from 2.30pm – 4.00pm on Saturday 9th November – Saturday 30th November.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Rathmines Library: Telephone 01 4973539 or e-mail [email protected]

ART & SCIENCE

ART & SCIENCE

Cabra Library

COMMUNICATION STATIONS with artist Elizabeth Archbold


If you were lost in an unfamiliar world how would you figure out where you were or how to send messages to somebody looking for you? What different ways could you think of to send and receive information? What information would you try to communicate?

Communication Stations is a programme that is about sending and receiving signals, messages and information. Children will embark on an adventure to explore how to use available resources to navigate their way if lost, by looking at what devices could be invented to send and receive information.

Using art forms such as painting, collage and sculptural assemblage, participants will work together over four weeks to explore the many logistics of communications.

Communication Stations will take place in Cabra Library from 2.00pm – 3.30pm on Saturday 21st September – Saturday 12th October.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Cabra Library: Telephone 01 8691414, or e-mail [email protected]

ART & SCIENCE

Donaghmede, Phibsboro, Finglas and Marino Libraries

ART & SCIENCE JOURNEYS THROUGH

SPACE AND TIMEwith artist Kitty Rogers


What would it be like to journey through Space and time? How could you possibly do it? Where would you go? What would you need?

In this workshop children will have the opportunity to make their very own inventions for space and time travel. Exploring the basic premise and theory of time travel; participants will transform simple materials into the stuff of adventure.

Each workshop will involve a focus on simple construction techniques that will consider how to contend with zero gravity, black holes and the effects of travelling through time tunnels into the fourth dimension while of course using lots of imagination to make science and art collide!

Journeys Through Space and Time will take place at the following times in the following venues:Donaghmede Library on Wednesday 13th November from 3.30pm – 5.00pm.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Donaghmede Library, Telephone 01-8482833 or e-mail [email protected]

Phibsboro Library on Saturday 16th November from 11.00am – 12.30pm.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Phibsboro Library, Telephone 01-8304341 or e-mail: [email protected]

Finglas Library on Wednesday 20th November from 3.30pm – 5.00pm.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Finglas Library, Telephone 01-8344906 or e-mail [email protected]

Marino Library on Saturday 23rd November from 2.30pm – 4.00pm.

For further details and a registration form please contact: Marino Library, Telephone 01-8336297 or e-mail [email protected]

www.dublincity.ie

Dublin City Arts Office The Lab, Foley St., Dublin 1 Telephone: 01 2225455 Fax: 01 8178985 E-mail: [email protected]

The Development Office Dublin City Public Libraries Telephone: 01 6744842/3 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.dublincitypubliclibraries.ie Blog: www.dublincitypubliclibraries.com

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The Children’s Art in Libraries Programme is an initiative of the Dublin City Council Arts Office in collaboration with Dublin City Public Libraries.

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