*** Pre-booking for all events is essential, to avoid disappointment.
*** More events to be added to the programme.
For all bookings please contact us on 059 9172439 / 059 9170307 / 059 9170304
Schools Tours
During Carlow Arts Festival, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art will be replete with more fresh new exhibitions than at any other point in the year. The children can see Ben Long’s gigantic nine-metre tall sculpture of a horse made out of scaffolding. Or be awestruck by Polly Morgan’s sculpture fashioned from 2428 cast crow femurs, or experience the black humour in Frances Upritchard’s monkeys. Eight illustrators (many of them cartoonists) show their latest work, including Children’s Laureate Niamh Sharkey.
In the Link Gallery, a wall sculpted in wood in a studio in Borris, by wood artists from Ireland, Australia, Hawaii, France, the US, Wales and Taiwan, will be on display. Finally, the Digital Gallery will house the successful entries (including the winner) of this years Open Submission Art Competition. The adjudicators of this years Open Submission are inviting 5 notes artists to participate including Dorothy Cross and her splendid Shark-Heart Submarine 2011 (consisting of shark’s heart in a glass jar).Maximum 30 students
Cost : Free
Date: 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th June
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art
and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre
Time: 11am & 1pm
Age: 4th class up
Science-tastic
Science-tastic is an outreach programme directly linked in to the science curriculum with full lesson plans and teacher notes provided. It is a fully interactive children’s laboratory where the children get to discover and explore science through experimentation and activities filled with explosive science.
Bubbling, fizzing, foaming and explosive reactions are sure to impress and excite the children. The providers will attend only one school per day, providing three hands-on 1hr workshops and also a 40min demonstration class. The schools participating in the workshop will be asked to provide three classes with approx 30 children per group during the day. 
This programme is suitable for groups from 3rd to 6th class.
Cost : €3.00 per student
Date: 11th, 12th, 13th June
Venue: On school premises
Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm TBC
Age: 3rd to 6th Class
Lego Workshop
Éigse Carlow Arts Festival is very pleased to work with IBM for the fifth year in a row. Volunteers from IBM conduct workshops to introduce older school children to the engineering process of LEGO robotics. Robotics is universally recognized as a powerful learning tool for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The children learn mechanical design, construction, and programming and teamwork skills. Using Lego building elements, students build different robots and program them to move, react and make sounds to solve problems. Suitable for 6th class students. Maximum of 5 students per school.
Cost : Free
Date: Friday 14th June
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art
And the George Bernard Shaw
Theatre
Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm TBC
Age: 5th & 6th Class
Sponsored by 
Dog and String Theatre
The Dog and String Theatre Company presents The Wishing Tree. Three stories, The Old Women in the Vinegar Bottle, Discover Azal the Artist and Cinderella come together with life size puppets, animated objects and shadow play to make this wonderful tale come to life. Capacity 100 students approx.
Cost: €5.00 per student
Date: 10th & 11th June
Venue: Visual Centre for Contemporary Art
And the George Bernard Shaw Theatre
Time: 10.30am & 12.30pm
Age: 4 – 8 yrs
Pottery Workshop in association with IWA Carlow
The children will get an opportunity to create a unique three-dimensional artwork by shaping clay. The “plasticity” of clay makes it the ideal material to sculpt into any shape and forces the children to think about structures, shapes and forms. Projects may include items such as animals, tiles, leaf dishes and jewellery. The pieces will then have to dry and be fired in the kiln and will not be available to bring home until this process is complete. The work shop will also include a demonstration of the kiln. The workshops are the suitable for children from 8 – 12 years. Maximum of 10 children per workshop.
Cost: €2.00
Date: 11th, 12th & 14th June
Venue: IWA, Kilkenny Road, Carlow
Time: 11am – 1pm
Age: 8 – 12yrs
*** Pre-booking for all events is essential, to avoid disappointment.
*** More events to be added to the programme.
For all bookings please contact us on 059 9172439 / 059 9170307 / 059 9170304