Roll up, Roll up! RoolaBoola 2008, the Linenhall Arts Centre’s fun-packed 11th annual arts festival for young people, is on its way with a packed programme of quality shows, events and workshops, as set out in all its glory in the pulsating RoolaBoola brochure (available from the Linenhall, or on the new-look Linenhall website www.thelinenhall.com )
For this year’s RoolaBoola, some of the finest of international children’s theatre will be appearing at the Linenhall Arts Centre, with NIE’s brave and uplifting story of wartime displacement The End of Everything Ever, La Società della Civetta’s charming sensory eco-show Droplets, Lyngo Theatre’s captivating retelling of Hansel and Gretel, and Shona Reppe’s magical puppetry in Olga Volt. And that’s far from all! Cahoots NI presents a fantastical flea circus experience, The Flea Pit, musicians Emer Mayock and Robbie Harris open up the world of Traditional music in The Session, Tom Meskell’s The Ant Farm presents a strange and mysterious world of wonder, while Fables, Tales and Tattlers gives a hilarious new take on the world of fairy tales.
And there’s much more besides. Encouraging creativity is a central part of RoolaBoola, and this year we’re offering a whole range of exciting arts workshops and drop-in sessions for hands-on experience in a wide variety of disciplines, giving young people from 3-12 years a chance to sample a range of arts activities singing and rhyming through music and drama to 2-D and 3-D visual arts making. The workshops are under the guidance of a wide range of experienced arts practitioners, offering a quality arts experience for all participants.
While the RoolaBoola festival action comes to a climax over the October Bank Holiday weekend (October 25 to 27 ), there’s a whole schools programme taking place over the previous week, plus your very own art exhibition, My RoolaBoola, in the Linenhall café from October 20. Add to that the free Lough Lannagh Lights lakeside firework finale on Bank Holiday Monday (October 27 ), and you have the makings of another brilliant RoolaBoola experience - a magical, fun-filled brew for the kids and the rest of the family too! RoolaBoola 2008 is booking now. Tel: 094 9028886. Don’t miss out on the magic!
