Events Archive: Ages 8-12

Dublin Dance Festival and The Ark present a children's dance show for ages 6+ from Balletto di Roma (Italy)

On Easter Monday, we are excited to be heading to St Stephen's Green to be part of RTÉ's Cruinniú na Cásca events.

Children aged 7+ could win the chance to have their portrait drawn by one of Ireland's leading portrait artists! In partnership with St Patrick's Festival

Forget the mobile phone, why not draw or paint your own selfie? Artist Jole Bortoli helps you explore different ways and styles to create your self portrait in this creative workshop

This creative workshop focuses on developing drawing and observational skills, and is strongly aligned with the drawing, paint and colour strand of the visual arts curriculum.

Children are the focus of our portrait gallery, with a collection of 12 portraits by acclaimed Irish artist Brian Maguire alongside a range of self-portraits drawn by children.

Cartoon Saloon, the creators of Oscar nominated Song of the Sea return to The Ark with a fun workshop to introduce their brand-new animated feature film The Breadwinner.

Make your own Lego movie in this hands-on workshop with Brick Flicks.

Come join Caoimhe Doyle and Jean McGrath in an inspiring and fun Foley workshop looking at the often surprising ways that sound effects are is produced for film.

Learn to use a range of fun household objects to create music as you form your own family folk band for an afternoon!