SprOg Festival 2015

1. Dabbledoo
DabbledooMusic.com
Mon 27th
July
Tue 28th
&
Wed 29th
July
Thur 30th
July
Mon 27th
July
Wed 29th
JulyTue 28th
July
Mon 27th
July
Wed 29th
JulyTue 28th
July
Mon 27th
July
Wed 29th
July
Sprog Launch
Sun 19th July
Thur 30th
July
Spraoi Festival Events
Fri 31st
July, Sat 1st
& Sun 2nd
August
2015
0spR ggross gory guts!
Shorts for
wee ones
2-2.45pm, Garter Lane Theatre
All children & families
Tickets: €4 or €11 for
family of four
Eight award-winning short films
from the British Animation
Awards. A more cheerful collection
of stories from around Europe you
will not find. Full of music, colour
and character but no dialogue.
Ainmhithe
Masks
1.30-3pm, Children’s room,
Garter Lane Gallery,
5+ Tickets €11
The animal kingdom is alive
with creativity! Discover the
secrets to create your own
Ainmhithe (animal) mask with
artist Ronan O’Reilly.
It takes Gutsby London Science Museum!
Garter Lane Theatre, Children & families,
FREE 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3.30pm
Follow the journey of food into your mouth, through the
acid bath in your stomach, along metre after metre of
pulsating guts, and then out the other end! Featuring video
footage of people’s insides, this is a gross, squirm-inducing
show all about the amazing human digestive system.
Meta-Perceptual Helmets
Garter Lane Gallery
12 & 2pm, children & families, FREE
If we have two eyes, they why is our vision so limited? Why
don’t they allow us to look behind and in front at the same
time, or sideways in both directions? Join artists Anne
Cleary and Denis Connolly for a unique interactive session.
You’ll sense how animals view and perceive the world, from
the perspective of giraffes, horses, even hammerhead sharks!
A MaGical Italian Bubble
Concerto by Bollesapone
3pm, €10 Family of four €30
An eccentric conductor takes you into the slippery world of soap
bubbles to perform a concert for you, where the unexpected is always
waiting in ambush. From odd instruments giant bubbles appear,
bouncing bubbles, portable bubbles, bunches of bubbles, and some
people might be invited to enter into a giant bubble.
What Lies
Beneath
& Ainmhithe
3pm, Garter Lane Theatre
All children & families, FREE
Celebrate the opening of “What
Lies Beneath”, a fun exhibition
of Anatomy with a Twist, with an
Injection of Life, by Dr. Maeve
Doyle, and Animithe, a colourful
watercolour exhibition of ancient
Irish animals by Ronan O’Reilly.
11- 11.45am, Children’s room,
Garter Lane Gallery,
5+ Tickets €11
DabbledooMusic creator Shane
Mc Kenna and a host of colourful
musical characters like ‘Jazz Cat’
and ‘Igor’ (The World’s Greatest
drummer) will show you this exciting
new way to make music using
shapes, colours and animation!
12-1pm, Children’s room,
Garter Lane Gallery,
8+ Tickets: €11
DabbledooMusic is a multimedia
musical experience for everyone.
It combines audio and visual
elements to create a unique and
accessible introduction to group
music making on a range of
exciting instruments.
HandPrint
Animal Zoo!
2-3pm, Bausch & Lomb Dance
Studio, Garter Lane Gallery
3-5 years, Tickets €11
Create an animal zoo using your
child’s handprints for different parts
of the animal. This fun interactive
class, led by Mariana Shostak, will
get your wee ones creating and offer
a wonderful keepsake to remember
just how small their hands are!
The
FUNdamentals
of Science
3.45-5pm, Garter Lane Theatre
Children & families FREE
Join Eoin Gill of CALMAST
Waterford IT’s award winning
science outreach team for a
cool, electrifying and explosive
exploration of science! This fun,
interactive show is recommended
for children aged 8+.
The Science
of Colour
2.30-3.45pm
Garter Lane Theatre, 8+, FREE
Join Dr. Sheila Donegan of
CALMAST Waterford IT’s award
winning Science Outreach Centre
for an interactive journey through
the science of colour.
Science
Cupcakes!
10-11am, Children’s Room,
Garter Lane Gallery
5+ years on Tues 28th and
3-5 years on Weds 29th
Tickets: €11
Amy Moran from Cupcake
Couture leads this tasty workshop
with a sciency twist where she will
demo all the tips and tricks for
decorating cupcakes. Don’t forget
to bring a tub… yum yum!
Kookie
Creatures
11.30am-1.30pm, Children’s
Room, Garter Lane Gallery
8+ years Tickets: €11
Get crafty with Laura McNamara
from Firefly Parties. Design your
own Kookie creature, sculpt it and
it will live in its own little home.
Experiment
with Wind
2-3.30pm, Children’s Room,
Garter Lane Gallery
5 + years Tickets: €11
Join Laura McNamara from
Firefly Parties and and make
a paper windmill, air spinner,
mobile and perhaps a sailing
boat....but will it float?!
Baby BooGie
11.30-12.30pm,
Bausch & Lomb Dance Studio,
Garter Lane Gallery
0-2 years (capacity 15 babies 15
parents total 30) Tickets: €11
(accompanying adult FREE)
Enjoy music and dance with your
baby in a workshop specially
designed for parents and toddlers in a
calming and comforting environment
where dance artist, Jess Rowell,
will guide you in an exploration of
movement and rhythm.
DiscoverinG
DNA Workshop
with Brendan Kennedy
3-5pm, Garter Lane Theatre
8+, FREE
Explore the science of genetics,
extract your own DNA and learn
about the structure of DNA by
making a take-home model.
Led by Brendan Kennedy of
CALMAST Waterford IT’s award
winning Science Outreach Centre.
Dabbledoo Music
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Mon 27 July - Sun 2 Aug
Shows & workshops everyday, pre-book on 051-855038 or www.garterlane.ie
sprOg is presented by Garter Lane Arts Centre generously
sponsored by Genzyme Ireland and supported by Calmast,
the Science Outreach centre at WIT and Science Foundation Ireland.
Pre-book on 051-855038 or
www.garterlane.ie to avoid any disappointment or tears! We would request
the following to ensure
everyone’s enjoyment: Please...
• Acknowledge the age recommendations for the shows and workshops
• Remind children to use the toilet facilities beforehand
• No food, drink, mobile phones, video or photography in the theatre
• Give us a contact number for you whilst your child is at a workshop
• Feel free to sit with your children and enjoy the performances together
Waterford, a European City of Science. Enjoy sprOg 2015!