illustration elle Power design www.designassociates.ie
Bookings Nenagh Arts Centre, Town Hall, Banba Sq Tel: 067 34400
inTroducTion Fáilte arís go dtí an clar Spleodar. Tá súil againn go mbainfidh tú taitneamh as na himeachtaí a bheidh ar siúl le linn na Féile agus beimid ag tnúth le tú a fheiceáil san Aonach i rith na seachtaine. Welcome to the annual Spleodar Festival. Over the Hallowe’en mid-term we look forward to bringing noise and light to the streets of Nenagh. We’ve got a great selection of workshops and events to keep the kids and family occupied and we look forward to meeting you at some point during the Festival. Bi Ann Gan Teip. The Spleodar Festival Committee
TO BOOk WOrkshOP and evenT TickeTs: Tel: 067 34400 or visit www.spleodar.ie The Box Office is located at Nenagh Arts Centre, Town Hall, Banba Square.
Booking info Tickets for all events and workshops will go on sale from the 16th October 2013. Patrons are advised that tickets must be paid for at the time of booking.
FesTival BOx OFFice: Nenagh Arts Centre, Town Hall, Banba Square. Tel: 067 34400
Terms & cOndiTiOns FOr BOOking: No refunds, except in the event of a cancellation of a performance or event. Each event/workshop has a maximum capacity set and the festival/artist cannot due to health and safety offer any additional spaces once the maximum number of tickets is sold.
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Please book early for workshops and events to avoid disappointment. Make sure the performance or workshop you are attending is suitable for your child’s age – if it’s not, your child will not really enjoy it. Please ensure your child is suitably prepared for workshops, for example: loose comfortable clothing for active/performance based workshops. Visual art workshops may be messy! Places will only be kept for five minutes before the beginning of the workshops, then places will be given to people waiting. Age limit and participant numbers will be strictly adhered to. In the interest of safety for all children please ensure you sign your child in and out of all workshops (leaving your contact details) The festival operates a child protection policy. This policy is available to view on request and on our website. Fireworks event: admission fee is on entry. Most of all Enjoy the festival!
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The Lives of Birds
28th October - 15th november. nenagh arts centre. adm: Free
Lynn Kenny is based in Killaloe, East Clare, and has been practising as an artist for 16 years since graduating from The National College of Art and Design in Fine Art Embroidery in 1996. With an interest in the humour and character that comes from humanising animals, her method of work allows her to illustrate these characters in a unique way. The playfulness in her work usually brings a smile or a laugh through the image itself or the titles, which regularly have double meanings. The birds in ‘The Lives of Birds’ have become motifs representing various stages in our lives or people in our lives. Lynn has devised her own unique signature technique of working with materials which combines her love of stitch, fabrics, paint and recycled papers. She uses stitch to draw, combine, embellish and attach various materials together to create interesting images. www.lynnkenny.com
monday 28th October Spleodar presents the fabulous Fidget Feet in Nenagh Arts Centre
The eLves and The shoemaker
12.00pm - 1.30pm and 3.30pm - 5.00pm. ages: 4 - 10 nenagh arts centre. Tickets: €10.00 per child (includes performance and workshop) €5.00 per adult
Meet Herman and Daisy, they want to make shoes for your feet. But they owe so much money they barely can eat. Don’t worry though, because magic is always just around the corner. The Elves are here to help! And sometimes the answers are right above your head. Fidget Feet’s The Elves & The Shoemaker is immersive storytelling with music and aerial circus for children and their family. There is no stage, you will join them inside their workshop and actually help them to make the best pair of shoes ever made. This show is supported by The Arts Council, The Backstage Theatre, Longford and The Source Arts Centre, Thurles.
herman, daisy and The elves need yOu! After the main performance, the children in the audience will have the opportunity to fly! There will be a thirty minute aerial workshop supervised by the Fidget Feet cast and crew where children will learn some basic moves and lifts on Aerial Cocoons. This is an fun easy and safe introduction to aerial performance for young children with their adults.
‘one direcTion’ Themed hiP hoP dance WorkshoP 10.00am - 11.00am. ages: 4 - 6 11.15am - 12.15pm. ages: 7 – 12 2.30pm - 3.30pm. ages: 7 – 12 The new institute, Friar st. Tickets: €5.00
Do you love One Direction? Do you Love to Dance? Then come along and join Urban Kicks choreographer Dee Dempsey for a fun-filled day of hip-hop moves to a mash-up of your favourite One Direction songs. Dee trained in the Broadway Dance Centre in New York City, along side choreographers for both Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber. So if you want to dance like the Stars, this is where it’s at! Please wear comfortable clothing and shoewear for the Dance workshops!
cúL crafTs Le eiLÍs
11.30am - 1.00pm. ages: 3 - 5 conradh na gaeilge – dun mhuire, Pearse st., (opposite Jkc’s). Tickets: €5.00
An arts and crafts class for the leanaí beaga with Eilís Ui Thuathaigh. Create Hallowe’en Crafts using lots of different materials. This is a bi-lingual workshop with Eilís and gives young participants the chance to learn about basic shapes and colours as gaeilge. Sponsored by Conradh Na Gaeilge
nenagh casTLe Tour
Nenagh Castle is available for FREE guided tours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 2pm
Tuesday 29th October
fidgeT feeT aeriaL WorkshoPs 10.00am - 11.30am and 12.00pm - 1.30pm. ages: 8+ nenagh arts centre. Tickets: €5.00
Have you ever wanted to be a circus performer? Here’s your chance! You will learn all the basic aerial techniques to hang, twist, balance and swing on the cocoons. This is a fun class for people who have never tried aerial before or who have only limited experience.
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2.30pm - 3.30pm. ages: 4 – 8 nenagh arts centre. Tickets: €5.00 - each child must be accompanied by an adult Help your child to learn to fly in this circus workshop. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to take part in an aerial workshop with Fidget Feet, Ireland’s leading aerial dance theatre company. Discover what it feels like to fly through the air as Chantal McCormick, Fidget Feet’s artistic director, teaches you some simple (and safe) circus tricks using an aerial cocoon. You’ll struggle to keep your feet on the ground afterwards! Please wear comfortable clothing. Strictly one adult per child.
Púca PuPPeTs PresenTs BéirÍn Beag BuÍ 2.00pm - 2.45pm and 4.45pm - 5.30pm. ages: 3 – 7 nenagh arts centre. Tickets: €5.00
Béirín Beag Buí, Púca Puppets’ Little Yellow Bear, invites you to join him in making cosy beds and teddies to hang in the moon and then to watch his bed time story film before heading off home to sleep. Bring your favourite teddy, pillow and wear your pyjamas if you like.
creePy comPosers music WorkshoP
12.00pm - 1.00pm. ages: 5 - 7 2.30pm - 3.30pm. ages: 7 - 12 conradh na gaeilge – dun mhuire, Pearse st., (opposite Jkc’s). Tickets: €5.00 Explore the world of the contemporary composer through a Hallowe’en themed music class. Activities include singing, drumming and creating an original piece. This workshop includes listening, performing and composing, while being introduced to recording techniques.
Wednesday 30th October
dreamTrain
11.30am - 12.15pm and 2.00pm - 2.45pm. ages: 2 - 4. nenagh library. Tickets: Tickets are free of charge and available 15 minutes before each show on a 1st come, 1st serve basis in the venue. Please nOTe limiTed availaBiliTy FOr each shOW
Dreamtrain is a performance for 2 - 4 year olds created by Acting Up! with the support of the EU Smallsize Seed Fund. Dreamtrain is a journey through the night with the problemsolving Dreamtrain driver, all set to the tune of ‘Mornington Ride’. Guess where the train will stop, who we will meet there and how we get back home to the night sky! This show includes a performance and art activity. Co-funded by Tipperary Libraries
LiTTLe BigToP: circus skiLLs WorkshoPs 10.00am - 11.00am. ages: 4 – 6 11.30am - 1.00pm. ages: 7 – 9 2.00pm - 3.30pm. ages: 10 - 12 nenagh arts centre. Tickets: €5.00
Have a go at juggling, hat manipulation, plate spinning and more in these fun circus sessions facilitated by Little Bigtop.
comic Book WorkshoPs WiTh aLan corBeTT 10.00am - 11.30am. ages: 8 - 12 nenagh heritage centre. Tickets: €5.00
This workshop will give children the chance to create their own unique characters, storyline and comic book. 12.00pm - 1.00pm. ages: 4 – 6 nenagh heritage centre. Tickets: €5.00 This workshop is focused on cartooning and a step by step guide to drawing monsters such as Frankenstein and Dracula.
Thursday 31st October
haunTed Tour
11.30am. ages: under 7’s | 12.45pm. ages: 7+ 2.00pm. ages: under 7’s | 3.15pm. ages: 7+ nenagh heritage centre. Tickets: €5.00
Countess Caroline the 14th has been put under a spell and she needs your help. Can you unlock the spell and release the curse that has been
Countess Caroline the 14th has been put under a spell and she needs Countess Caroline the 14th has been put under a spell and she needs your help. Can you unlock the spell and release the curse that has been your help. Can you unlock the spell and release the curse that has been cast upon her sweet shop? Join actress Joanne Quinn on the haunted tour cast upon her sweet shop? Join actress Joanne Quinn on the haunted tour of Nenagh’s Heritage Centre. of Nenagh’s Heritage Centre.
PrinT WorkshoPs PrinT WorkshoPs WiTh WiTh suzannah suzannah o’reiLLy o’reiLLy nenagh arts centre. Tickets: €5.00 nenagh arts centre. Tickets: €5.00
Suzannah O’Reilly is an artist/printmaker based in North Tipperary and is a member of Suzannah O’Reilly is an artist/printmaker based in North Tipperary and is a member of Limerick Printmakers. Limerick Printmakers. 10.00am - 11.30am. ages: 9 - 11 10.00am - 11.30am. ages: 9 - 11 Discover the printing process using lino and colour to make Discover the printing process using lino and colour to make your own relief and lino prints. your own relief and lino prints. 12.00pm - 1.30pm. ages: 12 - 14 12.00pm - 1.30pm. ages: 12 - 14 Prepare to experiment with ink and a printing press using Prepare to experiment with ink and a printing press using colour and paper to make your own artists prints. colour and paper to make your own artists prints. 2.30pm - 3.30pm. ages: 5 - 8 2.30pm - 3.30pm. ages: 5 - 8 Ink it up in this fun printmaking workshop for Hallowe’en. Ink it up in this fun printmaking workshop for Hallowe’en.
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Come and visit the mobile planetarium which is designed to explore science Come and visit the mobile planetarium which is designed to explore science and astronomy in a fun interactive way. We have two shows to choose from: and astronomy in a fun interactive way. We have two shows to choose from:
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Times: 10am, 11am, 12pm (each show lasts approx. 24 minutes). Times: 10am, 11am, 12pm (each show lasts approx. 24 minutes). ages: 6+. Tickets: €5.00 ages: 6+. Tickets: €5.00 In Dynamic Earth, the audience dives below the ocean surface and into In Dynamic Earth, the audience dives below the ocean surface and into a swarm of microscopic organisms that hold the key to our climate. The a swarm of microscopic organisms that hold the key to our climate. The audience finds itself in the middle of schools of JACKFISH and HAMMERHEAD audience finds itself in the middle of schools of JACKFISH and HAMMERHEAD SHARKS, before rubbing shoulders with an enormous HUMPBACK WHALE. SHARKS, before rubbing shoulders with an enormous HUMPBACK WHALE.
enchanTed reeF (kaluOka’hina) enchanTed reeF (kaluOka’hina)
Times: 2pm, 3pm and 4pm (each show lasts 32 minutes). Times: 2pm, 3pm and 4pm (each show lasts 32 minutes). ages: all. Tickets: €5.00 ages: all. Tickets: €5.00 The vastness of our planet’s oceans guard unimaginable secrets. One of its most precious is The vastness of our planet’s oceans guard unimaginable secrets. One of its most precious is “Kaluoka’hina”, the enchanted reef whose magic protects it against humans finding it. “Kaluoka’hina”, the enchanted reef whose magic protects it against humans finding it. Please arrive 5 minutes before the show, so everyone can get into the dome by starting time Please arrive 5 minutes before the show, so everyone can get into the dome by starting time
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7.30pm. ages: all. Éire Óg gaa complex. Tickets: €2.00 per person 7.30pm. ages: all. Éire Óg gaa complex. Tickets: €2.00 per person
Hallowe’en is a special time in Nenagh, when the ghosts and ghouls Hallowe’en is a special time in Nenagh, when the ghosts and ghouls come out to play. You and they are welcome to our annual fireworks come out to play. You and they are welcome to our annual fireworks spectacular. Come dressed up in your best Hallowe’en costume and spectacular. Come dressed up in your best Hallowe’en costume and make sure the family are suitably gruesome too. make sure the family are suitably gruesome too.
Our appreciation goes to the following who offer support before and during the Festival: Éire Óg GAA Complex, Nenagh Celtic Soccer Club, Tipperary Libraries, Nenagh Arts Centre, The Revenue Commissioners, North Tipperary Civil Defence, Nenagh Heritage Centre, Conradh Na Gaeilge, An Garda Síochána, North Tipperary County Council’s Arts Office and all our Volunteers.
Bookings: TeL 067 34400 Or in person from Nenagh Arts Centre, Town Hall, Banba Square, Nenagh. Tickets available online: www.spleodar.ie