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Saturday 30th April 2022 Lismore, Co. Waterford www.towersandtalesfestival.ie
Festival Team Founders Committee Lord Burlington Niamh Sharkey Elaina Ryan Fiona Kearney Julian Mack John Huddy Artistic Directors Niamh Sharkey Elaina Ryan Lismore Castle Helen Courtney Denis Nevin Patrick Nevin Darren Topps Steering Committee Elaina Ryan Niamh Sharkey Helen Courtney (Lismore Castle) Rachel O’ Hara (Lismore Castle Arts) Gael Byrne (Lismore town representative) Aisling Fitzgerald (Towers and Tales) Marie Kelly (Towers and Tales) Niamh Baldwin (Waterford Libraries) Loretta Kinsella (Waterford Libraries) Lismore Castle Arts Paul McAree Producers Aisling Fitzgerald Marie Kelly Festival Designer Olan Wrynn Producing Intern Pax Ó Faoláin Special thanks to our partners, funders, donors and all of those who contribute as volunteers to Towers and Tales Festival. Visit us in Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, Ireland or on our website: www. towersandtalesfestival.ie, or contact us on: e: towersandtales@gmail.com | tel: 058 53614
WELCOME It is our enormous pleasure to welcome you to Lismore Castle for Towers and Tales, and if you have been before, welcome back! The festival is one of the true highlights of our year and a day that everyone at the castle looks forward to with great anticipation. Even more so this year because we have not been able to hold the event at the castle since 2019. During that time many people have worked incredibly hard to keep momentum going and we were so proud to be able to deliver two online festivals in 2020 and 2021. But nothing beats the experience of attending in person and we are thrilled that the place that inspires us so much will once again be filled with authors and illustrators that inspire the world. Towers and Tales is now in its eighth year and one thing we have noticed is how some young audience members have grown up to become volunteers and some volunteers have developed in to participants and contributors. This evolution is a source of profound happiness and something we hope will continue long in to the future. In the meantime we would like to thank all the wonderful Towers and Tales authors and illustrators as well as the volunteers, helpers, sponsors, committee members and of course the Festival Producers Aisling and Marie. But we are also grateful to you for choosing to visit Lismore and in doing so supporting the creative objectives behind the festival. Covid has not gone away and we write with some trepidation still, but if you are reading this it means the festival is going ahead so it only remains for us to wish you a fantastic day of stories, fun and a little bit of Lismore magic. William and Laura Burlington It’s hard to convey, after three years, how excited we are to bring Towers and Tales back to Lismore. In 2022, we look forward to the 8th annual Towers and Tales festival, where some of the most wonderful children’s writers and illustrators meet their readers in a very special place. Whether you’ve been to the festival every year or you’re thinking of your first visit, you’ll receive a warm welcome at the gates of Lismore Castle and in our festival venues throughout the town. There is something for everyone at Towers and Tales: rhymes for babies, draw-along events where all children will have the chance to create something, writing workshops for older children and storytelling for all the family. Visit The Vault Café where an exhibition of locally based artist Shona Shirley Macdonald’s illustrations will be launched in time for the festival. Some events are ticketed, and you can book these at http://www.towersandtales.ie/. Many are free – we invite you to soak up the atmosphere at the festival hub, get creative at the Inspiration Station and discover the many surprises we have in store for you. The festival has always been more than just one (admittedly wonderful!) day in Lismore: our friends and partners at Waterford Libraries have been instrumental in making sure that children all over Waterford can experience some of the magic of Towers and Tales, even if they can’t be with us on festival day. On Friday 29th April, hundreds of students will meet with our festival artists at free events in venues and libraries all over Waterford. And one lucky school will be chosen to receive a library of books as part of our Bookbag programme. School events and book-gifting are crucial to the identity of Towers and Tales, and allow us to ensure that we reach audiences that might not get to visit us in Lismore, or to pick up a book at Eason, the festival bookseller. If you wish to support this outreach, we welcome donations as you purchase your tickets, or through the festival website. The castle captured our imagination during our first visit, we can think of no better place than Lismore to be a playground for writing, drawing and telling stories. Come sketch and stroll through the gardens with us, knock for a story in the castle’s front porch or doodle on the dungeon walls – if you’re brave enough. We can’t wait to see you at Towers and Tales 2022. Elaina Ryan and Niamh Sharkey | Artistic Directors
festival programme exhibition - The Pooka and Other Stories Friday 29th April-Friday 13th May 2022 The Vault Café This exhibition presents an opportunity to see original work by Waterford based illustrator, Shona Shirley Macdonald. Shona’s work is intricate and detailed, ranging from the playful mischief of The Pooka Party to the moving photorealism of An Féileacán Agus An Rí. Her latest title, Cluasa Capaill ar an Rí, written by Bridget Breathnach, won the Gradam Réics Carló, was selected as a World Book Day book and is shortlisted for the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. Her work has been exhibited throughout Ireland in both solo and group shows, and internationally at the Bratislava Illustration Biennial. Is maisitheoir leabhar agus údar do pháistí í Shona Macdonald. Cónaíonn sí i bPort Láirge, agus le déanaí bhuaigh sí Gradam Réics Carló do leabhar Gaeilge na bliana 2021. I measc a cuid leabhair tá ‘The Pooka Party’, ‘Cluasa Capaill ar an Rí’ (scr. Bridget Bhreathnach), ‘An Feileacán agus an Rí’ (scr. Máire Zepf), agus ‘The Moon Spun Round’ le W.B.Yeats (ed.Noreen Doody). Taispeánadh a cuid saothair ar fud na hÉireann i dtaispeántais aonaracha agus ghrúpa, agus go hidirnáisiúnta sa Bratislava Illustration Biennial. Shona is an award winning children’s book illustrator and author living in Co. Waterford. Her books include The Pooka Party, Cluasa Capaill ar an Rí (wr. Bridget Bhreathnach), An Féileacán agus an Rí (wr. Máire Zepf), and The Moon Spun Round by W. B. Yeats (ed. Noreen Doody). Her work has been exhibited throughout Ireland in both solo and group shows, and internationally at the Bratislava Illustration Biennial.
Saturday 30th April 2022 DAPO ADEOLA | AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR Dapo Adeola is an illustrator, author and character designer who rocketed into the picturebook world with his greatly acclaimed illustrator debut, Look Up!, written by Nathan Bryon and published by Puffin in 2019. Dapo illustrated My Dad is a Grizzly Bear and My Mum Is a Lioness, written by award- winning author Swapna Haddow (both published by Macmillan Children’s Books), and collaborated with Malorie Blackman on their picturebook We’re Going to Find the Monster. Dapo is the author of Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black, featuring 18 talented Black British illustrators. Born in Britain and of Nigerian heritage, Dapo’s work tends to revolve around creating characters and imagery that challenge gender norms and equality politics in a fun and upbeat manner. An avid believer in the importance of equal representation in the creative arts, Dapo runs illustration- and character design-based workshops with children and adults to help highlight the possibilities of a career in illustration to inner city people of various ethnicities. Dapo currently lives in London. Recent publications: Rocket Rules (Puffin) | Official World Book Day book 2022 My Mum Is A Lioness (Pan Macmillan) | Picturebook (with Swapna Haddow) for age 2+ Space Detectives: Extra Weird Creatures (Bloomsbury) | Chapter book (with Mark Powers) for age 7+ Recent awards: Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2020 UKLA Award in 2021 for Look Up! with Nathan Bryon EVENTS Meteors & Monsters 1 p.m. | Pugin Hall | €5 | 3+ years Are you a budding astronaut, like Rocket in Look Up! (written by Nathan Bryon)? Or do you have a wild imagination like Charlie and Eddie in We’re Going To Find The Monster (written by Malorie Blackman)? Join award-winning illustrator Dapo Adeola for a special event exploring his picturebooks. Draw along with Dapo and take the chance to ask him anything about his work as an illustrator. Space Detectives with Dapo 4 p.m. | The Vault Café | €5 | 7+ years Dog lost in space? Grown an extra head and don’t know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? You need the Space Detectives! Meet Connor and Ethan: when they’re not selling ice-cream on the world’s first orbiting city, Starville, they’re solving intergalactic mysteries. Join us for an action-packed event with Dapo Adeola, illustrator of the Space Detectives series (written by Mark Powers). Draw along with Dapo and take the chance to ask him anything about his work as an illustrator.
Saturday 30th April 2022 OEIN DEBHAIRDUIN | AUTHOR Oein DeBhairduin is a creative soul with a passion for poetry, folk herbalism and preserving the beauty of Traveller tales, sayings, retellings and historic exchanges. He works for the National Museum of Ireland as Curator (Traveller Culture Collections Officer) and seeks to pair community activism with cultural celebration, recalling old tales with fresh modern connections and, most of all, he wishes to rekindle the hearth fires of a shared kinship. Twiggy Woman, a collection of ghost stories, will be published by Skein Press in 2023. Recent publications: Why the Moon Travels (Skein Press, 2020) | Short stories (with Leanne McDonagh) for age 0–6 Recent awards: Judges’ Special Award and Eilís Dillon Award at the 2021 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards EVENTS An Mala Lesko/ Hand telling Join award-winning author Oein DeBhairduin as he explores a traditional Traveller story telling technique that relies on intuitive body wisdom and the fluency of the spaces in which tales are told. Will combine drawing, finger story telling and Irish Traveller folk tales. Followed by a signing of Why The Moon Travels. 1 p.m. | The Vault Café | €5 | 9+ years Why the Moon Travels WORKSHOP Join award-winning author Oein DeBhairduin in the atmospheric setting of Pugin Hall in Lismore Castle as he reads from his book Why the Moon Travels (illustrated by Leanne McDonagh) and explores some traditional Traveller folk tales. 4 p.m. | Pugin Hall | €5 | 9+ years
Saturday 30th April 2022 OLIVIA HOPE | AUTHOR Olivia Hope is an Irish writer with a special love for children’s fiction. Before writing, she was a former record-breaking athlete, and competed internationally. She is also author of the folklore tale A Way Home - An Slí Abhaile upon which the successful 2021 Irish illustrator art exhibition in Siamsa Tíre (the national folk theatre of Ireland) was based. Olivia was also co-curator and art director of the art exhibition. She has worked with all ages, from nursery schools to nursing homes, and taught children English, PE and, on one occasion, ice-cream making, which ended badly. She reviews books for Children’s Books Ireland and regularly blogs on www.writing.ie. She currently lives in the wilds of South West Ireland with her family. Recent publications: Be Wild, Little One (Bloomsbury, May 2022) Picturebook (with Daniel Egnéus) for age 0–6 EVENTS Prepare to BE WILD – Magical Flying Creatures 12pm | Lismore Library | €5 (Carers free) | 3-6 years Join picture book author Olivia Hope for an interactive adventure inspired by the art of Daniel Egnéus from their book Be Wild, Little One. Fly across oceans, run with wolves through the mountain snow, dance with fireflies, and prepare to BE WILD! Little ones can make their own magical flying creature and bring their creation on music and dance-filled travels across nature and around the world. This is an interactive event of storytelling, crafting, music and movement for ages three to six and their parents or guardians. Prepare to BE WILD – Fantastical underwater scenes 4pm | Lismore Library | €5 (Carers free) | 3-7 years Join picture book author Olivia Hope for an interactive adventure inspired by the art of Daniel Egnéus from their picturebook Be Wild, Little One. Fly across oceans, run with wolves through the mountain snow, dance with fireflies, and prepare to BE WILD! Little ones will work together to create a fantastical underwater scene using multiple art mediums. This is an interactive event of storytelling, crafting, music and movement. All the family are welcome, though the event may be best suited to children aged 3 to 7.
SATURDAY 22ND APRIL 2022
DAVID KING | AUTHOR
David King is a children’s author and education
professional. His first children’s book But Really
. . . Adventures with a Difference was published
in 2019. He lives in East Cork with his wife and
five children, including his son Adam, who was
the inspiration behind his picturebook A Hug
For You, illustrated by Rhiannon Archard. Adam
was an inspiration to children and adults all
over Ireland, appearing on The Late Late Toy
Show with his now famous virtual hug in 2020.
Recent publications:
A Hug For You (Penguin Sandycove) |
Picturebook (with Rhiannon Archard) for age
3+
Recent awards: Credit: Shaunagh O’ Connell
Photography
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Junior), An Post Irish Book Awards 2021
EVENTS
A Hug for You
10.30am | Pugin Hall | €5 | Family
Adam King’s virtual hug has travelled around the country, then around the world and even
into space, lifting our hearts at a time when we most needed a hug – and when many of
us couldn’t have one. Inspired by Adam and the true events surrounding his virtual hug,
his Dad David King wrote A Hug For You, illustrated by Rhiannon Archard and published
by Sandycove/Penguin Random House Ireland. This went on to become a number one
bestseller, winner of the An Post Junior Children’s Book of the Year and shortlisted for overall
Irish Book of the Year. We are delighted that David, along with Adam, will join us at Towers
and Tales for a very special family event that is sure to leave you feeling as warm and fuzzy
as the best of hugs.
Saturday 30th April 2022
ÁINE NÍ GHLINN |
AUTHOR
Áine Ní Ghlinn is a children’s writer, poet, scriptwriter.
She has written thirty five books, including poetry
collections and an array of books and novels for
children and teenagers. She has also written several
children’s plays and television scripts.
Her ambition as Laureate na nÓg is to lift the cloak
of invisibility from Irish language authors and
literature, and to encourage children and young
people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. Áine was
announced as the sixth Laureate na nÓg on 13th
May 2020 and will hold the title until 2023.
Recent Publications:
Credit: Ger Holland Photography
I Mo Chroí Istigh (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2022) | Novel for age 10–18
Daidí na Nollag (An tSnáthaid Mhór, 2022) | Picturebook (with Andrew Whitson) for age 0–6
Rúin Oscailte (Coiscéim, 2022) | Poetry collection for adults
Recent awards include:
Oireachtas award for YA fiction, 2021 (I Mo Chroí Istigh), Oireachtas award for children’s
drama, 2021.
Rúin Oscailte shortlisted for Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin,Irish language Book of the Year, 2021.
Poetry awards include 1 st prize, Oireachtas Poetry competion, 2021 and 1 st prize in An Fiach
Dubh competition, 2021.
Previous awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions
for the novels Boscadán, Hata Zú Mhamó & Daideo.Daideo also won an Irish Literacy
Association Book of the Year award and a CBI Honour Award for Fiction.
Áine is also a recipient of a Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship, 2019.
EVENTS
Ceardlann Filíochta
10am | Lismore Heritage Centre | €5 | 9-12 years
Ceardlann spraíúil do dhaoine óga san aoisghrúpa 9-12.
Léifidh Áine Ní Ghlinn roinnt dánta agus cabhróidh sí leis na scríbhneoirí óga dánta dúlra a
scríobh le crochadh ar an gcrann filíochta. (Scríbhneoireacht Ghaeilge a bheidh i gceist sa
cheardlann seo)
Please note this event will be presented as Gaeilge
The Poetree (The Poetry Tree)
2pm | Lismore Heritage Centre | €5 | 8+
A fun workshop where Áine Ní Ghlinn will read some simple poems as Gaeilge and will guide
the participants through the creation of poetry using sounds and language – all languages
are welcome, including Gaeilge, English and any other language of your choice! Participants
can hang their poems on the Poetree/Crann Filíochta to create a rich display of new writing.Saturday 30th April 2022 NADIA SHIREEN | AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR Nadia Shireen enjoyed making homemade magazines and comics as a child. She studied law at university and then worked in magazine journalism; it was during this time that she started to draw again. In 2007 she was accepted onto an MA course in Children’s Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Her debut book Good Little Wolf received a mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award and won the UKLA Book Award. Nadia has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Her picture books include The Bumblebear, The Cow Who Fell To Earth, Billy and the Beast and Barbara Throws A Wobbler. She was a World Book Day author in 2022 with her new middle grade series, Grimwood. She lives in Brighton with two grumpy cats. Recent publications: Grimwood (Simon and Schuster) | Chapter book for age 7+ Barbara Throws a Wobbler | Picturebook for age 0–6 Slug in Love | Picturebook (with Rachel Bright) for age 0–6 Recent awards: Barbara Throws A Wobbler: UKLA/Oscars Book Prize (TBA)/longlisted Carnegie Grimwood: Alligator’s Mouth EVENTS Barbara Throws a Wobbler 12 p.m. | Lismore Heritage Centre | €5 (Carers free) | 3-7 years Bad-moods will be banished after a laugh-out-loud storytelling session with Nadia Shireen! Barbara is having one of those days. She has a sock problem and there’s a strange pea. Then, all of a sudden, Barbara’s Wobbler is out of control! But what happens when a bad mood like this comes along? Barbara has a lot to learn about the ways of wobblers! Adventures in Grimwood 4 p.m. | Lismore Heritage Centre | €5 | Ages 5-10 Urban fox cubs Ted and Nancy are forced to flee from their home in the Big City, and decide to take shelter in Grimwood. They’re expecting peace and quiet in the countryside, but instead they meet with thieving eagles, dramatic ducks, riotous rabbits and a whole host of unusual characters. It’s funny, furry and a little bit wild! Join Nadia for a (very silly) storytime session and some drawing fun.
Saturday 30th April 2022 SARAH WEBB | AUTHOR Sarah Webb LOVES books! She has several jobs, all book-related. Firstly, she is an award-winning children’s writer. Her books include Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illustrated by Steve McCarthy), both winners of Irish Book Awards. She runs creative writing clubs for children and teens, reviews children’s books for the Irish Independent, and programmes children’s and family events for book festivals and MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland). She also works part-time in a children’s bookshop, Halfway Up the Stairs, where she is Events Manager. Sarah is passionate about bringing children and books together and was awarded the Children’s Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland. Her latest book is The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street (illustrated by Rachel Corcoran) for readers aged 9+. Recent publications: The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street (The O’Brien Press) | Chapterbook for age 9+ Animal Crackers: Fantastic Facts About Your Favourite Animals (The O’Brien Press) | Non- fiction (with Alan Nolan) for age 7+ The One With the Waggly Tail: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (The O’Brien Press) | Poetry and rhymes (with Steve McCarthy) for all the family Recent awards: The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street (illustrated by Rachel Corcoran) shortlisted for Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year Award (Senior) at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Dare to Dream: Irish People Who Took on the World (and Won!) (illustrated by Graham Corcoran) shortlisted for TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World, illustrated by Lauren O’Neill, won the An Post Irish Book Awards Senior Category (2018) A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea, illustrated by Steve McCarthy, won the An Post Irish Book Awards Junior Category (2017) EVENTS The One With The Waggly Tail 10 a.m. & 12 p.m. | Lismore Library | €5 (Carers free) | 0-3 years Join award-winning children’s writer, Sarah Webb for this interactive animal- themed event for little ones and their grown ups. Revisit favourite childhood rhymes and songs such as How Much is That Doggie in the Window? and B-I-N-G-O!, discover new ones from Ireland and beyond, and create your own dog to take home with you. Bring a toy dog with you if you like (or any other toy animal) to join in the fun!
Saturday 30th April 2022
Jennifer FARLEY & OLIVIA GOLDEN
Olivia Golden is an illustrator based in Cork.
She has illustrated over 30 books for children,
including Cillian ag Comhaireamh (written by
Siobhain Grogan) and Scéalta le hInsint don
Ghealach (written by Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn)
along with a variety of covers and books for
adults. Her work has exhibited both nationally
and internationally.
Jennifer Farley is an author, illustrator and
designer from Dublin. Jennifer specialises
in illustration for children’s books and
maps. Her artwork is bright, colourful and
sometimes, a little bit humorous. She has
illustrated 12 children’s books, 3 of which
she wrote herself. Her most recent book is
Scout’s Best Day Ever! A Doggy Adventure
Around Ireland. Her book Shooting For the
Stars: My Journey to Become Ireland’s First
Astronaut was written by Norah Patten and
won an An Post Irish Book Award.
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EVENTS
SKETCH AND STROLL
12 p.m. & 2 p.m. | Lismore Castle Gardens | €5 | 6+
Illustrators Olivia Golden and Jennifer Farley take you on a creative sketching journey
around the magical Lismore Castle Gardens where you can discover the wonder of the
petals, trees and grassy banks.FEST I VAL T IMETABLE
AUTHOR/
SATURDAY EVENT LOCATION AGE
ILLUSTRATOR
The One with the
10:00am Pádraig Wallace Lismore Library 0-3
Waggly Tail
Lismore Heritage
10:00am Áine Ní Ghlinn Ceardlann Filíochta 9-12
Centre
David & Adam
10:30am A Hug For You Pugin Hall Family
King
The One with the
12:00pm Pádraig Wallace Lismore Library 0-3
Waggly Tail
Jennifer Farley &
12:00pm Sketch and Stroll Lismore Gardens 6+
Olivia Golden
Barbara Throws A Lismore Heritage
12:00pm Nadia Shireen 3-5
Wobbler Centre
An Mala Lesko/ Hand
13:00pm Oein DeBhairduin The Vault Cafe 8+
telling
Meteors and
13:00pm Dapo Adeola Pugin Hall 0-3
Monsters
Lismore Heritage
14:00pm Áine Ní Ghlinn Poetree 8+
Centre
Prepare To BE WILD
14:00pm Olivia Hope - Magical Flying Lismore Library 3-6
Creatures
Jennifer Farley &
14:00pm Sketch and Stroll Lismore Gardens 6+
Olivia Golden
Adventures in Lismore Heritage
14:00pm Nadia Shireen 5-10
Grimwood Centre
Why the Moon
16:00pm Oein DeBhairduin Pugin Hall 9+
Travels
Prepare to BE
16:00pm Olivia Hope WILD - Fantastical Lismore Library 3-6
Underwater Scenes
Space Detectives
16:00pm Dapo Adeola The Vault Cafe 7+
with Dapo
Space Detectives
16:00pm Dapo Adeola The Vault Cafe 7+
with DapoFestival Hub
The festival hub is the heart of Towers and Tales. Join us here for doodling, knock on the Castle
door for a story, create characters with the team from Glucksman Gallery or get a reading
prescription from your favourite Children’s Books Ireland Book Doctors.
SATURDAY EVENT HOSTED BY LOCATION AGE
Waterford City and
Courtyard All
All Day Book Swap County Library
(Tent) Ages
Services
All
All Day Inspiration Station Lismore Castle Arts Gallery Lawn
Ages
Mary Feeney’s All
All Day Eason Book Shop Eason
Yard (Tent) Ages
Mary
All
All Day Hug Wall Towers & Tales Feeney’s Yard
Ages
(Woodshed)
All Day Knock for a Story Towers & Tales Front Porch 6+
Early
Pop-Up Poetry West Wing
All Day Branar Years
For Lil’ Peeps Porch
0-6
Castle
All
All Day Pop-Up Chapters Towers & Tales Gardens/
Ages
Vinery
East Wing
Tower & All
All Day Childvision Camp Childvision
Courtyard Ages
(Tent)
10:00am,
Courtyard
12:00pm, Monsters Home The Glucksman 5-8
(Tent)
3:00pm
West Wing
Children’s Books Porch & All
12pm-4pm Book Clinic
Ireland Courtyard Ages
(Tent)
Courtyard 9-12
11am & 2pm A Magical Journey The Glucksman
(Tent) years
Superstar Circus Centre 6-12
1pm | 3.30pm Show & Circus Cork Circus Factory Courtyard /All
Disco Lawn Ages
Lismore
2pm Dungeon Doodle Lismore Castle Arts Castle 6+
Dungeon
Lismore
4pm Dungeon Doodle Lismore Castle Arts Castle 6+
DungeonBOOK SWAP Waterford City and County Library Services Bring a book, pick a book! The library team will be on hand to help, and will be offering free library membership all day. All Day Event | Castle Courtyard | Free INSPIRATION STATION Create your own leaf paint brush and join in the foraging fun of paint and petals. Led by the Lismore Castle Arts Team, this will be a hub of creativity. All Day Event | Gallery Lawn | Free EASON BOOK SHOP Pick up a book from your favourite festival artist. All Day Event | Mary Feeney’s Yard hug WALL Our Hug Wall is inspired by David King’s picturebook, A Hug for You. We invite all festival goers to come and create a hug for someone special and hang it for all to see. All Day Event | Woodshed | Free KNOCK FOR A STORY The most intimate event of the festival. Only 6 people at a time enter through the front porch and enjoy readings throughout the day from festival artists and some special guests. All Day Event | Front porch | Free | 6+ CHILDVISION CAMP Come and join the Childvision team and learn a new way of experiencing the world. Take part in fun games where you can ‘crack the code’ using Braille, complete puzzles while in the total darkness of a blindfold and enjoy sensory stories that will ignite your imagination. All Day Event | Castle Courtyard | Free | All Ages
Pop-up Poetry for Lil’ Peeps | BRANAR Tales of teddies, moments of magic, comforting cuddles and worlds of wonder are celebrated in an exciting new collection of poems and nursery rhymes for young children. Pop Up Poetry for Lil’ Peeps is a new multi-platform project presented by Branar for children of all ages up to 6 years. Irish writers and artists Inni-k, Mary Murphy, Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin and Liz Weir have created new poems and nursery rhymes in Irish and English for this unique project. Audiences can enjoy this work online through vivid audio recordings and new animations by artist Maeve Clancy. Originally commissioned by the Galway County Council, Creative Ireland Programme led by the Arts Office in partnership with Galway City Council and Roscommon County Council’s Creative Ireland programmes, in association with Children’s Books Ireland and Poetry Ireland. All Day Event | West Wing Porch | Free | Age: 0-6 Pop-up Chapters Be surprised and thrilled as you stroll around the Castle Gardens where dramatic readings of some of your favourite books pop-up from behind the garden walls and appear around corners. All Day Event | Castle Gardens & Vinery | Free | All Ages Book CLinic | ChiLDren’s Books IreLAnd Are you a young reader? Looking for a new series to delve into? Feeling uninspired by your bookshelves at home? Do you need a prescription for a new read? Then pop along to the CBI Book Clinic where the CBI Book Doctors will be ready to offer the best advice for young readers. Children will leave with a CBI Reading Passport, and a prescription for their next read to take to their local bookshop or library. Register for the book clinic online, please book one 15 minute slot per child. 12pm-4pm | East Wing Tower | Free (Online Registration) | All Ages Super Star Circus Show & Disco | Cork Circus Factory Ready, Steady, Hup, it’s time for some super cool circus with Jimmy, Gabbo, and AD. These three circus enthusiasts love to do Circus cause it’s the the bestest thing ever. On a mission from the Circus Gods to share their amazing tricks with the world, whether the world wants it or not, our circus heroes will charm their way into your hearts. You’ll see that there’s no such thing as failure, only another chance to try it again. And before you know it you’ll be trying it too. Super Star Circus is a circus show of 20 minutes for young people, performed by 3 of our Youth Circus Tutors, followed by a “Circus Disco” for 40 minutes. 1 p.m. & 3.30 p.m. | Castle Courtyard | Free | All Ages
Dungeon Doodl e Who dares to enter Lismore Castle’s dark and eerie dungeon? Join the Lismore Castle Arts Team to draw your own glow in the dark monsters, ghouls and ghosts on the walls of the castle’s creepiest place. 2pm & 4pm | Lismore Castle Dungeon | €5 | 6+ Monsters Home The Glucksman Gallery Team Every monster has their own extraordinary home as spooky as Hotel Transylvania or as stinky as Shrek’s swamp! In this imaginative workshop we’ll be combining illustration, mask making and construction as we design our own monsters and then build them their special homes. 10am, 12pm & 3pm | Castle Courtyard | Free Online Registration | Age 5-8 A Magical Journey The Glucksman Gallery Team This creative workshop invites children to make their own illustrated books that guide readers on an imaginative journey through a world of their own making. Revealing the hidden forests, secret pathways and spooky houses that can lead to magical worlds and amazing adventures. Each book will be unique and the workshop will enable children to learn illustration, storytelling and bookmaking techniques. 11am & 2pm | Castle Courtyard | Free Online Registration | Age 9-12
SCHOOLS AND OUTREACH PROGRAMME Meeting an author or illustrator in person is the perfect way to encourage young minds to explore the world of books. To make sure as many young people as possible experience the magic of Towers and Tales we have partnered with Waterford City and County Library Services to take our authors and illustrators into schools, libraries and venues across the county on Friday April 29th. Schoolchildren will get a taste of our programme that day and we hope to grow that number in future years. Bookbag is a children’s book gifting initiative that aims to get books into the hands of as many primary school children as possible and is key to the ethos of Towers and Tales. This project was established by Niamh Sharkey, one of our Artistic Directors, during her time as Laureate na nÓg, and is a joint initiative of Brown Bag Films and Children’s Books Ireland. This year, one lucky school will receive a library of books in the month of May. For information on our schools and book gifting programme you can contact nbaldwin@waterfordcouncil.ie
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