Riverbank Arts Centre, Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare

Be inspired by St. Brigid and unleash your creative side at this celebratory day of inclusive family events.

Wet Felting Making with Tamzen Lundy

Making a spring inspired picture bookmark. Let your kids enjoy the sensory craft of wet felt making. This active craft is the oldest form of textile making in the world. It involves soap, water and wool fibre as well as lots of rubbing and rolling. Many children enjoy the sensory experience of “messy play” and seeing the change from fibre to felt is magical and helps kids gain an insight into how processes can change materials. They will go away with their own bookmarks, creating spring scenes – little pictures to keep and treasure.

Times: 12pm & 2pm (70 min)

Entry: Free but booking essential

Tickets: Available now (https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873651350/events)

Age suitability: Ages 7-12

Moving Words with Selma Daniels

Sit down, not for long though! Open your listening ears, your seeing eyes and get ready to enter a world where a wicked fairy and a giant come to life to try to scare you. Will Finn the warrior of the Fianna let them loose?

We will all soon get up and move our greatest warrior moves, fly like a fairy, or hunt in the darkest forest. Wherever our imagination takes us we will dance it with fun games for the whole family.

‘Moving words’ is a story-time with live dance performance event for young audience that combines the art of contemporary dance with reading of selected picture book, with aim of making live dance performance accessible to a wider audience. This event provides the community the experience of an dance performance integrate with a an inclusive and specially tailored movement workshop. This event is recommended for children from 6 to 8 years.

Times: 10am, 11.30am, 1pm

Entry: Free but booking essential. Please book a ticket for each child and accompanying adult.

Age suitability: 6-8

Tickets: Available now (https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873651350)

Strongwomen Science

StrongWomen Science is a circus science show for children and families starring two women scientists turned circus performers. Aoife Raleigh is an engineer, Maria Corcoran an environmental scientist.

Ever wanted to know how you balance a chair on your chin, if you can juggle liquid, or how circus performers eat fire? StrongWomen Aoife and Maria reveal the scientific secrets behind their astounding tricks. In a fun, lively and fast-paced family circus performance, find out how jugglers, acrobats and hula hoop artists use science to create their amazing acts. StrongWomen Science doesn’t only illustrate scientific facts. It seeks to promote enquiry, inventiveness and accessibility in science, making it open to all, in particular young women and girls. In addition to demonstrating scientific principles in fun and accessible ways, it looks at the worth of failure and the power of teamwork, both shared by science and circus.

Times: 6pm

Entry: Free but booking essential

Tickets: Available 12 now (https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873651368)

Age suitability: Ages 4 +