Children’s Arts Festival 201520 Jul to 15 Aug

For Kids aged 18 months - 16 years and their Grown-Ups

FREE Kids’ Arts Zone toLearn, Engage and Play

Enjoy spending time discovering new, inspiring ideas and resources in our drop-in anytime Arts Zone. Dress up, twirl and play with our props box and costumes. Dive into your very own digital art world on the iPad. Or maybe just curl up in our armchair and enjoy a good read together.

The Light RoomGallery One

To infinity and beyond. React to the hypnotic triggering power of light and movement in our immersive, multi-sensory Bahar Yurukoglu and Alexander Calder inspired gallery. Explore whimsical floating canopies of Perspex mobiles, light projections and mesmerising mirrors that seem to multiply and stretch forever and ever. Inhabit the space and cast your own rays of light by playing with the bright colours, bold lines and geometric patterns.

Date20 Jul - 15 Aug

The Dark RoomGallery Two

Turn artist in the Diamanté Zone. Take control of the vintage projectors and create a myriad of refracting art installations. Become a star in our Retrovision life size TV set and create your very own shadow puppet show. Experience glow-tastic ultra violet adventure in the UV Zone.

Finally pay a visit to the optical fun House of Mirrors where all is definitely not as it seems.

Specially commissioned by ISLAND Arts Centre this FREE exhibition is crafted for families by local artists Laura Nelson & Leo Boyd and produced by ArtsEkta. There is no need to book but children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Light Fantastic! Children’s Interactive Exhibition

Enter our dazzling neon visual experiences designed for families to creatively explore, interact

together and play with the properties of light.

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THE ARTS ARE CONTAGIOUS.PASS THIS ON!

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ISLAND Community Arts is offering community/voluntary groups working with children in the Lisburn and Castlereagh area the chance to enjoy a festival workshop, delivered free over the summer months.

All workshops will be arranged at a time to suit your group (subject to availability) and workshops can take place either in your own community or at ISLAND Arts Centre. For workshops at ISLAND Arts Centre, free minibus transport will be included. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first served basis.

For more information, or to register, please contact:Lesley Wilson, Community Arts Officer, on T: 028 92 509509 orE: Lesley.Wilson@lisburn.gov.uk

Shine a Light on your CommunityAdd a little Light Fantastic! to your group’s summer activities by registering to have ISLAND’s festival artists come to you.

TimeMon - Fri 9.30am - 9.30pmSat 9.30am - 4.30pm

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Week Long Arts Activity Camps

• Interactive Kids’ Exhibition

• Festival Light Bites Workshops

• Festival Comes to Your Community

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All AgesAge

18 mths -5 yrs

Times10.30 - 11.30am & 12 - 1pm

Cost£6 per child per workshop. (Max of 3 children can attend per accompanying Grown-Up, who joins the fun for FREE).

Make every night a starry night in your home. This is galaxy of fun. Create tea light holders hand built by your big hands and little hands from porcelain. Poke, squidge and work with different textures and your favourite patterns. Our expert ceramicist, Andrea will be on hand to help. So the experience is hassle free.

Your one-of-a-kind votive can be collected one week later after it has been kiln fired. Ready to shine brightly in your home.

Times2 - 4pm

Cost£25 per workshop for a family of 3. (Must include 1 adult. Additional spaces £8 per person subject to availability).

Your littlest rays of sunshine will love this sunny introduction to the performing arts. The upbeat event is lovingly crafted just for babies and toddlers by the ISLAND in association with Tiny Nelson Productions.

Gigglers and wrigglers will enjoy the music and movement led by specialised Early Years practitioners. Watch in awe as your little choreographer’s moves become shaped by professional dancers into dance routines. Lots of exciting props, sensory games and colourful lighting will add to the feel-good factor meaning it’s fun for grown-ups too.

Project shadows, throw shapes and prisms of colour through light on giant 8ft shadow screens. Try your hands at singing and signing your favourite lullaby or simply drift off on cloud nine to your favourite story amongst the bubbles.

Sat 1 & 8 AugLullaby Lights

Festival Light Bites

Sat 1 & 8 Aug

Twinkle, Twinkle Tea Lights Family Time to Shine Pottery Workshop

COME TO LIGHT!

Arts Weeks provide immersive arts experiences that put young people firmly in the spotlight. They are led by energetic professional artists and performers who specialise in working with children and young people. Classes are grouped into small appropriate age bands and are individually tailored so that no two days are the same.

Age

4 - 16YearsLet’s Shine

Arts Activity Weeks

27 - 31 JulSwitched On

Ignite your imagination. Experiment with art techniques inspired by famous artists including Pablo Picasso and Kurt Pio on the many facets of light. Try a whole range of materials, textures and colour in fun and highly unusual ways. Create your alter ego with luminous face paints, have fun dressing up in our special glow in the dark costumes and shimmer under ultra violet light. How does Wire Face Sculptures and Bubblicious Print-making sound as a starter?

Create, design and turn your ideas into action through group and solo projects. You’ll be so switched on and busy that if you blink you’ll miss something.

Ranging from teaching technical skills, open-ended experimentation to capturing light bulb moments. This week is all about your imagination being firmly in the spotlight. Join like-minded creative sparks to create, design, capture and inspire with never a dull moment. Invent epic pop up stories to perform in our super-sized light box theatre inspired by artist, author and illustrator Jan Pienkowski. Create a beautiful explosion of neon technicolor creations with action painting à la Jackson Pollock. Explore the bling art of Keith Haring using prism reflections to create 3D self-portraits. Construct through clever use of fantasy film, kinetic mobile structures inspired by sculptor Alexander Calder.

Imagine your very own professional theatre company, theatre and dance studio at your finger-tips. We’ll switch on and light up the ISLAND with your bright ideas and energy. You, and the new friends you will make, will be at the heart of everything we do. The creative process will include drama, dance and music. No experience is necessary just lots of enthusiasm.

Develop and learn contemporary and musical theatre techniques that build strength in your voice and develops your confidence in singing and performance. Choreograph your own expressive and exciting dance routine and bring your own script to life, live on stage.

3 - 7 AugLight Bulbs

10 - 14 AugLeading Lights

Helpful NotesBest to dress the children for mess and in comfortable clothing. Remember to provide healthy snacks, packed lunch and refreshments.

The full day nature of the programme may not be suitable for very young children who are not used to full-time nursery care.

Time10am - 4pm

Cost£70 per child per week, £5 off for each additional week booked. £65 per child for two or more children from the same family.

Optional Festival Extended HoursMon - Fri 9 - 10am & 4 - 5pm

Cost: £25 per child per week subject to demand so please request at time of booking.

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Switched On Mon 27 - Fri 31 Jul

Light Bulbs Mon 3 - Fri 7 Aug

Leading Lights Mon 10 - Fri 14 Aug

PhoneT: 028 92 509509OnlineISLANDArtsCentre.comIn PersonISLAND Arts Centre, The Island, Lisburn

Booking Information

ISLAND’s Box Office is open 9.30am – 9.30pm Mon – Fri and 10am – 4.30pm Sat. Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays.

ISLAND Arts Centre is closed 11 – 18 Jul inclusive. For festival queries during this period E: arts.info@island.lisburn.gov.uk.

Please note that Festival bookings are non-refundable. When the box office is busy, telephone and email bookings will be processed in order of receipt. With all bookings, we cannot guarantee a place on your chosen activity. Thank you in advance for your patience.

Booking FeesFree for online transactions.Telephone: £1.00 per transactionCounter Sales: 50p per transaction If you have any access requirements, the above charge will be waived.

Ticket CollectionPrint your ticket at home or collect at the Box Office for FREE. There is a 50p/booking charge for all tickets forwarded by post.

Age RecommendationsTo optimise your child’s festival fun please respect the ages recommendations listed for all events.

AccessWe want everyone to enjoy their experience of the festival so if you, or anyone in your party has any special requirements or relevant pre-existing medical conditions, please let us know at time of booking on T: 028 92 509509.

Every effort has been made to ensure that dates, ticket prices and other information contained in this brochure are correct at time of printing. We reserve the right to make changes to the published programme of events. All illustrations are for display purposes only.

Bookings for the Festival go live for ISLAND Kids’ Members at 9.30am on Tues 30 Jun 2015 before public release at 9.30am on Thur 2 Jul 2015.

Festival participants requiring additional support can bring an adult carer/assistant free to any workshop. Simply call Lesley Wilson on T: 028 92 509509 or E: Lesley.Wilson@lisburn.gov.uk to discuss your needs.

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