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Creative Hubs: Marvellous Beasts and their Fantastic Homes 11 - 19 Jul 2023

As part of the Children's Art in Libraries Creative Hubs Summer Programme in Ballyfermot, Cabra and Coolock Libraries, we have created a series of creative events that will keep all the family entertained!

Creative Hubs is a Dublin City Council Arts Office and Libraries initiative delivered by The Ark.

You can book one or both parts of the following workshops directly through the libraries:

Cabra Library:
Part 1 Tue 11 Jul @ 12pm (ages 5-7) & 2pm (ages 8-12)
Part 2 Wed 12 Jul @ 12pm (ages 5-7) & 2pm (ages 8-12)
Call 01 222 8317 or email cabralibrary@dublincity.ie

Coolock Library:
Part 1 Thu 13 Jul @ 12pm (ages 5-7) & 2pm (ages 8-12)
Part 2 Fri 14 Jul @ 12pm (ages 5-7) & 2pm (ages 8-12)
Call 01 222 8490 or email coolocklibrary@dublincity.ie

Ballyfermot Library:
Part 1 Tue 18 Jul @ 12pm (ages 5-7) & 2pm (ages 8-12)
Part 2 Wed 19 Jul @ 12pm (ages 5-7) & 2pm (ages 8-12)
Call 01 222 8422 or email ballyfermotlibrary@dublincity.ie

Marvellous Beasts and their Fantastic Homes

Part 1

Join illustrator Duffy Mooney-Sheppard in this imaginative drawing workshop. Come play drawing games to invent your own fantastical beasts. Inspired by real and imaginary animals, we will chop and change and add and take away until you have created something quite unusual and very unique. Spend time discovering what it eats and how it lives. In part two we will invent a landscape and home for your creature to live in.

Part 2

Inspired by the needs of your unique creature invented in part one, we will draw a home for your creature or creatures to live in. Is it vegetarian or a carnivore? Maybe it eats pineapples or bugs or stars? Does it like to live on land, sky or sea? Let’s find out how your creature spends its days. By the end of the workshop, you will have composed an image telling the story of your marvellous beast and its fantastical home.