Glór to host mini children’s festival

GLÓR will be celebrating all things childlike in October, with a mini children’s festival.
It kicks off on Saturday, October 8, with Miriam Lambert, from the acclaimed Lambert family of puppeteers, presenting Goldilocks and the Three Bears in a storybook that comes alive. Peek and Boo open the performance and their international language of movement will guide the children through the tale. Miriam will also facilitate a puppet-making workshop later in the day, with all materials supplied to create a take-home puppet.
The second event will be on Wednesday, October 12, when Branar Theatre Company will present Mise Scéal Cailín, the story of a little girl who can’t sleep. With beautiful puppetry, live music and animation, Branar tell a simple, magical and moving story of the night the girl couldn’t get to sleep and the adventure she had trying.
On Saturday, October 15, there is a Child Health Expo at which Dr Eva Orsmond from RTÉ’s Operation Transformation will uncover the importance of nutrition to ensure children stay healthy naturally. There will be a selection of expert-led workshops to choose from, including asthma and respiratory, eczema and skin problems, behaviour management tots and teens; alternative therapies and paediatric first aid. This conference will boost parenting skills and knowledge.
Glór will join forces with the internationally renowned Barboró International Arts Festival for Children to present La Baracca with two captivating shows, both on Friday, October 21.
On and Off is suitable for children aged one to four and will help young children to overcome their fear of the dark and discover the language of light. On stage there is an actor but the main character is light. Music and movement create a dance to the rhythms of the light switches. Lamps, bulbs and cables become flowers, a spoon, a candle and a carousel.
The second show is L’elefantino/The Little Elephant and is for ages two to six. Bubu is the only boy of the family and his sisters are too small to look after the house so Mum and Dad have given Bubu the job of washing all the family’s socks. It is a tedious job and so Bubu, while washing, tells a story. As if by magic, socks come to life and transform into animals of the jungle that tell the audience how the little elephant with a small nose but an insatiable curiosity was the first of all the elephants to have a trunk.
Since 1976, Bologna-based theatre company La Baracca has produced over 140 shows for children and put on more than 9,000 performances.
The mini children’s festival concludes with the Speks on Saturday, October 22. The Speks are a six-piece traditional Irish music band for children. They live on a mysterious island off the coast of Clare called Glasses Island, where everybody wears glasses. The band members are Quince, Naymon, Tommo, Pete, Ed and Rafferty.