The pre-Spraoi festival at Garter Lane for children & their families
HOW TO PAINT….A CUPCAKE!
Monday 30 July 2.45-3.45pm
Children’s Room, Garter Lane Gallery
Age: 5+ Tickets:€10
Taking inspiration from her tasty cupcake paintings that feature as part of Sugar join artist Deborah Donnelly in this fun step-by-step cupcake workshop. You will leave with your very own delicious masterpiece! Deborahs work is a celebration of colour and fun and she is author of the brilliant page-by-page How to paint…A Cow! and How to Paint…A Penguin! guide books.
SUGAR!!
Monday 30 July from 3.45pm
Garter Lane Theatre
Age: All Children and their Families
FREE admission and all welcome
Don’t miss Sugar, a group show of sweet themed work by Deborah Donnelly, Brendan Jamison and Orla Walsh. Sugar is a calorie-free, sweet treat that won’t rot the teeth!
Join us for its official opening party from 3.45pm for a FREE fun-filled family afternoon not to be missed!
Sugar continues all summer until mid-September.
SUGAR CUBE SCULPTING
Tuesday 31 July 11am – 12.30pm
Garter Lane Theatre. Age: All Children
(Under 5s to be accompanied by an adult)
Tickets: FREE admission pre-bookin required
Sugar cube building workshop with sculptor Brendan Jamison for kids and adults to join in! Brendan will show how to build a tower and a house like those in Sugar. The sugar cube sculpture workshop is a great exercise in problem-solving but also a lot of fun for all the family!
TIC TEAC TIC TEAC PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOP
Wednesday 1 Aug 1.30 – 2.30pm
Children’s Room, Garter Lane Gallery
Age: 3-6 years (plus accompanying adult)
Tickets: €10 (First 15 bookings receive a FREE
ticket to afternoon show)
In association with her show Tic Teac Tic Teac, Puppeteer Niamh Lawlor invites 3-6 year olds to remember what it was like to be a baby and to make a baby puppet who just might grow up before the end of the workshop! All children must be accompanied by an adult and should bring an overall or wear old clothes.
Tic Teac Tic Teac performance will take place after puppet workshop at 3.45 – 4.30pm.
MONSTER GINGERBREAD HOUSE
Thursday 2 Aug 11am – 12.30pm
Garter Lane Theatre Age: 5+ years
Tickets: FREE admission pre-booking required
Come along and join artist Ben Hennessy in this fun workshop and help build a MONSTER gingerbread house inside Garter Lane! Make friends and work as a team to construct a sugary dwelling. Your masterpiece will then be left on display in the gallery for the rest of SprOg alongside the Sugar exhibition.
CARTOON CHARACTER WORKSHOP….WITH A TASTY TWIST!
Friday 3 Aug 10am – 1pm
Children’s Room, Garter Lane Gallery
Age: 7-11 years Tickets: €10
Workshop with a tasty twist! Create your own cartoon characters with the help of Fabian Erlinghauser, animation supervisor on Cartoon Saloon studio’s Oscar-nominated film The Secret Of Kells. The workshop teaches children how to draw and animate cartoon characters and learn animation techniques!
To book any of the above call 051-855038 or www.garterlane.ie
