The Baboró International Arts Festival for Children has opened in Co Galway with events across theatres, galleries and schools.
Both Irish and international artists are taking part in activities such as dance troupes, circus acts, visual arts performances, book readings and interactive events across venues in both the city and county.
The digital and music projection at Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsaigh and Galway City Museum, Tiny Mutiny, features young artists from Rosmuc and Claddagh National School who are taking a stand for a child-led cultural space in the West of Ireland.
The Galway Arts Centre features an interactive exhibition entitled Widden Ar Geels (The Community Speaks), which celebrates the stories and traditions of the Traveller community.
The Baboró International Arts Festival for Children has opened in Galway with over 50 events taking place across theatres, galleries and schools. There are plenty of free visual arts and interactive activities as well! @TeresaMannion was there for news2day! @BaboroGalway #Baboró pic.twitter.com/UiNcIAlSda
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Artists Leanne McDonagh and Oein DeBhairduin will celebrate the stories and oral traditions of the Irish Traveller community, also known as Mincéirí.
The O'Donoghue Theatre at the University of Galway will stage the show Tiébélé, a mixed race production which showcases the ancestral traditions of women from a village in West Africa.
Théâtre de la Guimbarde combines poetry and plastic, soil and song, organic matter and manmade materials and links the ancestral gestures of these African women to toddlers and their first attempts to draw.
The Sleep that Ceased to Settle by Graffiti Theatre sees Úna Ní Bhriain and Bob Kelly play daughter and father in a play about grief at the loss of Joanie's mother.
The theatre production Rothar, by Branar, is set in a bike shop and follows the adventure of young cyclists around the world and makes its return to the festival by popular demand.
Executive Artistic Director Aislinn Ó hEocha said that she looked forward to welcoming people back to artistic spaces.
"It has been a tough few years for us all and the festival will bring us together again to collectively experience art in all its forms, encouraging us to gasp, laugh and clap together as only live art can," she said.
The Baboró festival runs until Sunday, 23 October.
