Please note booking links can be found below each listing.
Messy Play with Eilis O’Toole
Date: August 12th
Time: 11-12noon
Venue: X91 Dx57
Fee: €5 per person
Age: 3-5yrs
Booking: LINK
Please note: Young audiences must be accompanied by an adult. Adults do not need tickets for this event.
About Eilis O’Toole
Eilis O’Toole graduated from N.C.A.D. with a degree in Fine Art Painting. She has exhibited in many national group shows, and solo shows. She has work in public collections including the OPW and AXA Insurance.
Eilis completed a level 8 course in ‘Group Facilitation in the Arts’, in CIT Crawford, Cork, and has been working as a freelance artist facilitator in schools, preschool facilities, libraries, Lismore Castle Arts, Butler Gallery and arts festivals such as Cruinniú na nÓg, Well Festival, Spróg, Towers and Tales and Kilkenny Book Festival. She also facilitates Art Kart in Waterford University Hospital as part of the Waterford Healing Arts Team.
About Messy Play
In this immersive workshop young children will explore the Natural World through creative play. There will be a wide variety of natural and tactile sensory materials to engage and stimulate their imaginations and curiosities. This is a messy, fun, creative and social workshop and a feast for the senses where young children and parents/care givers have the opportunity to play and create alongside each other.
Silent Books with Sinead Bolger
Date: August 26th
Time: 11-12noon
Venue: X91 Dx57
Fee: €5 per person
Age: 5 -8yrs
Booking: LINK
Please note: Young audiences must be accompanied by an adult. Adults do not need tickets for this event.
About Sinead Bolger
Sinéad Bolger is from and lives in County Waterford. Having worked as a facilitator, theatre-maker and activist across the arts for the last fifteen years, she is delighted to work with SprOg Festival. With a diploma in Theatre & Performing Arts as well as in Facilitation with a focus on youth theatre, Sinéad has worked with young people in Waterford Youth Arts, Little Red Kettle, County Carlow Youth Theatre, Barnstorm Youth Theatre, Electra Stage School and M.A.D. Youth Theatre in Louth, Dublin, Carlow, Kilkenny and Waterford. Sinéad is interested in exploring how nature affects us and how young people articulate their own experiences of it.
About Silent Books
Join Sinead as she explores IBBY Ireland’s Silent Books.
Silent books (wordless picture books) that could be understood and enjoyed by children regardless of language.