Autumn Programme 2014

CHILDREN’S ART IN LIBRARIES An initiative of the Dublin City Council Arts Office

BAIN SULT AS!

Tá na laethanta ag éirí dorcha níos luaithe agus gach duine ar ais ar scoil. Agus táimid ar ais le Clár Fómhair na Leabharlanna 2014- Ealaíon do Pháistí.

Cad iad na rudaí a thaitníonn go mór leat? Cad is fearr leat déanamh sa saol? Seans go bhfuil áit éigin gur bhreá leat thar aon áit eile. B’fhéidir go bhfuil leabhar iontach agat nó rud eile a thaitníonn go mór leat.

Tá seachtar ealaíontóir tar éis seacht gclár a chur le chéile. Tá na cláir

agus na taispeántais an-difriúil óna chéile.

Beidh deis ag gach páiste atá ina chónaí sa chathair freastal ar na cláir.

Ar mhaith leat bheith i d’Ealaíontóir, Ceoltóir nó Ailtire amach anseo?

Beidh suim agat sa Chlár seo an Fhómhair d’Ealaíon do Pháistí.

School’s back, the days are getting shorter and once again the Children’s Art in Libraries Programme returns, with a programme that’s all about your favourite things; whether it’s something that you love, a place that you like to visit or a book that you find irresistible. Seven artists have been commissioned to create and deliver seven very different programmes and performances that any child who lives in the City will have the opportunity to access.

So whether you’re a budding Artist, Musician or Architect, we think you’ll find something that will be of interest to you in this Autumn’s Children’s Art in Libraries Programme!

PÚCA PUPPETS PRESENTS The Mice and The Elephants Age Group: 3-5 year olds and their families.

“Did anyone hear anything? I thought I heard a little creaky squeaking sound?” said the Elephant. “Please can you ask the elephants to stop walking on us!” the Mouse King shouted. The Elephant looked around, “is that a tickly little noise or do my ears need cleaning? Oh my goodness, what a teeny, tiny, funny little furry thing you are, did you say something? Come up here beside my ear until I hear you speak”.

To celebrate and mark the arrival of two new baby elephants in Dublin Zoo, the Children’s Art in Libraries Programme in partnership with Púca Puppets are delighted to present The Mice and The Elephants, a Panchatantra Hindu animal fable from India . Using, drawing, simple paper sets and puppets, the storyteller will retell and re-enact, this gentle and imaginative tale of the small saving the large.

Perfect for young children and their families. The Mice and the Elephants will take place in the following venues:

Donaghmede Library on Wednesday 29th October. For further details please contact: Donaghmede Library 01-8482833 or e-mail: donaghmedelibrary@dublincity.ie There will be two performances at 10.30am and 12.00pm.

Pearse Street Library on Thursday 30th October. For further details please contact: Pearse Street Library 01-6744888 or e-mail: pearsestreetlibrary@dublincity.ie There will be two performances at 10.30am and 12.00pm.

Ballyfermot Library on Tuesday 4th November. For further details please contact: Ballyfermot Library 01-626932 or e-mail: ballyfermotlibrary@dublincity.ie There will be two performances at 10.00am and 11.30am.

Ballymun Library on Wednesday 5th November. For further details please contact: Ballymun Library 01-8421890 or e-mail: ballymunlibrary@dublincity.ie There will be two performances at 10.00am and 11.30am.

Cabra Library on Thursday 6th November. For further details please contact: Cabra Library 01-8691414

or e-mail: cabralibrary@dublincity.ie There will be two performances at 10.00am and 11.30am.

A SENSE OF PLACEwith artist: Yvonne CullivanAge group: 8-11 Year olds What’s your favourite place? Why is it so important to you? What do you remember most clearly about it?

Exploring place through sight, sound, touch, and smell, this programme will look at how we experience and remember particular places. Working with the artist Yvonne Cullivan, children will produce a collection of multimedia elements that relate to their chosen place. Such elements can be invented, remembered, or real and will be recreated by participants using all sorts of media, including images, colours, textures, sounds and smells.

Over five weeks, children will have the opportunity to participate in creative writing, oral storytelling, discussion, drawing, collage, and audio recording. At the end of the programme it is hoped, that these elements will be displayed together according to the children’s designs, as a sensory representation of their own personal sense of place.

A Sense of Place will take place in Walkinstown Library from 3.30pm – 4.30pm on Thursday 6th November – Thursday 4th December.

For further details and a registration form, please contact: Walkinstown Library, Telephone 01-4558159 or e-mail: walkinstownlibrary@dublincity.ie

STOP MOTION ANIMATION WORKSHOPS

with artist Aoife Giles Age Group: 7-11 year olds

From flying books to mini Lego explorers, dancing chairs to animating your favourite poems or phrases, this workshop will give children the opportunity to bring their library to life.

Over two workshops children will work with artist Aoife Giles to explore the hidden creative potential in the objects that are all around us. Utilising the library space, participants will be encouraged to see the creative possibilities that are inherent in our everyday spaces and objects and during this process children will learn skills in stop-motion animation as well as shooting and editing their own short films.

All materials will be provided, but if you want to bring along a special figurine or toy, that would be great too!

All videos will be made available online after the workshop, so that you can share it with your friends and family.

Stop Motion animation workshops will take place in the following libraries on the following dates:

Finglas Library on Saturday 22nd and Saturday 29th November from 10.30am – 12.00pm For further details and a registration form, please contact: Finglas Library, Telephone 01-8344906 or e-mail: finglaslibrary@dublincity.ie

Coolock Library on Wednesday 19th November and Wednesday 26th November from 3.30pm – 5.00pm. For further details and a registration form, please contact: Coolock Library, Telephone 01-8477781 or e-mail: coolocklibrary@dublincity.ie

Pearse Street Library on Saturday 22nd and Saturday 29th November from 2.00pm – 3.30pm. For further details and a registration form, please contact: Pearse Street Library, Telephone 01-6744888 or e-mail: pearsestreetlibrary@dublincity.ie

with musician Imogen Gunner Age Group: 7-10 year olds Do you know any poems or stories that you think could make a good song? Would you like to find some? What do you think would happen if you told these ideas to a musician? Over two workshops, using the lines from poems and stories found in the children’s section of the library, children will work with musician Imogen Gunner to find and create the words that they can use as a starting point for song-writing.

Playing a variety of instruments, Imogen will work with participants to creatively bring their ideas to life, encouraging them in the process to gain a deeper understanding of melody, bass-line, percussion and of course song writing.

Songs from the Library will take place in the following libraries on the following dates:

Charleville Mall Library on Monday 3rd and 10th November from 3.00pm – 4.30pm. For further details and a registration form, please contact: Charleville Mall Library, Telephone 01-8749619 or e-mail: charlevillemalllibrary@dublincity.ie

Please note the following sessions are for school groups only:

Cabra Library on Monday 10th and 17th November from 10.00am – 11.30am For further details, please contact: Cabra Library, Telephone 01-8691414 or e-mail: cabralibrary@dublincity.ie

Drumcondra Library on Friday 7th and 14th November from 10.00am – 11.30am. For further details, please contact: Drumcondra Library, Telephone 01-8377206 or e-mail: drumcondralibrary@dublincity.ie

SONGS FROM THE LIBRARY

A DIARY OF DUBLIN CITY LIBRARY AGED 20¼.

with artists Emmett Scanlon and Aoife Giles Age group: 12+

Using your library as a base, come and explore architecture, design and the rooms we use everyday in a new way!

We occupy rooms and streets and gardens and parks, all of the time, all of our days and all of our lives. But these spaces also occupy us – they change our mood, alter our feelings, direct how we talk with our family or friends. We remember them in our hearts, minds and bodies as we grow up and old, even if we don’t use some of these spaces anymore.

A Diary of Dublin City Library is a pilot programme that will support children to develop their understanding of our designed and built world and the rooms and places we use everyday, exploring the role they play in our daily lives. Working with architect Emmett Scanlon and artist Aoife Giles over two hours and using a variety of creative and exciting methods, you will be encouraged to explore architecture, using the spaces of the library through touch, smell, and sound, as well as sight!

A diary of DUBLIN CITY LIBRARY AGED 20¼ will take place in Dublin Central Library from 11am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm on Tuesday 28th October. Participants are welcome to sign up for either session. For further details and a registration form, please contact: Central Library, telephone 01-8734333 or e-mail: centrallibrary@dublincity.ie

WHERE’S LIBRI?

with Make and DoAge Group: 8+ (parents/carers are encouraged to also take part) Today is not a great day to visit the library.Prize winning librarian, Mary Libri, has disappeared without a trace.

In this alternative reality game, part adventure, part game and part story, visitors to the library must find the clues hidden in the library that explain the disappearance of its most important librarian who may be in grave danger. Together they must figure out where she is and how to save her in time.Running for approximately 25 minutes this family game of four or less players will ask participants to go on a unique adventure in their local library.

Where’s Libri? will take place in the following libraries on the following dates:

The Central Library on Tuesday 21st October at 3.30pm. For further details and a registration form please contact: The Central Library, Telephone 01- 8734333 or e-mail: centrallibrary@dublincity.ie

Pearse St. Library on Friday 24th October at 3.30pm. For further details and a registration form please contact: Pearse St. Library, Telephone 01-6744888 or e-mail: pearsestreetlibrary@dublincity.ie

Raheny Library on Saturday 15th November at 11.00am. For further details and a registration form, please contact: Raheny Library, Telephone 01-8315521or e-mail: rahenylibrary@dublincity.ie

Please note: There is a maximum of four participants per team.Places are limited teams must book with the library in advance of the Game taking place.

A specially commissioned Dance performance for 10 – 15 year olds

The story of a journey to hell and back. Well, what would you do for love? please note booking is essential

Journey is a Dublin City Council Commission for the Children’s Art in Libraries programme and is supported by Dance Ireland and the Arts Council

The Children’s Art in Libraries Programme is delighted to present this specially commissioned children’s dance event for both schools and the public, choreographed

by dancer Maria Nilsson Waller.

Ballyfermot Library will transform into a dance playground, for one of our most iconic legends of all times - Orpheus and Eurydice. Follow, on a journey through books and tales, down to the underworld and back up again, as the drama of life and love, beauty

and loss, unfolds around you.

Journey is open to primary and secondary school groups of children and young people, aged between ten and fifteen years of age. Members of the public are also welcome to

attend the schools’ performance.

Choreography: Maria Nilsson Waller

Music and Video: José Miguel Jimenez and Maria Nilsson Waller with additional music by Gluck.

Performers: Lucia Kickham and Neil Brown

JOURNEY

Journey will take place in Ballyfermot Library on the following dates: Monday 20th October: 11.00am and 12.30pm (Schools Performance) Tuesday 21st October: 11.00am and 12.30pm (Schools Performance) Wednesday 22nd October: 11.00am and 12.30pm (Schools Performance) Thursday 23rd October: 11.00am and 12.30pm (Schools Performance)

There will also be a performance for the public on Wednesday 22nd October at 7.00pm. Please note booking for this performance in advance with Ballyfermot Library is essential. For further details please contact: Ballyfermot Library, telephone 01-6269324 or e-mail: ballyfermotlibrary@dublincity.ie Cover/ Photo Credit: Clare Langan

Dublin City Arts Office The Lab, Foley St., Dublin 1 Telephone: 01 2225455 Fax: 01 8178985 E-mail: artsoffice@dublincity.ie

The Development Office Dublin City Public Libraries Telephone: 01 6744842/3 E-mail: library.development@dublincity.ie Web: www.dublincitypubliclibraries.ie Blog: www.dublincitypubliclibraries.com

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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