Cóir na Coille - Woodland Choir - VISUAL

VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art &
The George Bernard Shaw Theatre

Cóir na Coille - Woodland Choir

If we listened closely, could we hear an oak tree sing? Are the birds and the mushrooms in the forest harmonizing?

3rd January | 11:30am - 12:30pm

Admission: €5 per child

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Join musician Ríona Sally Hartman for a playful creative music-making workshop for 5 - 7 year olds and their grown-ups. Together, we’ll explore musical improvisation and mark making inspired by the woodlands. In the workshops together we will become an impromptu forest choir, using our voices, and natural materials like twigs and leaves, to bring the trees’ stories to life. Then we'll document our sounds with mark making and create a large scale graphic representation of our voices together. A joyful, hands-on adventure in sound, nature, mark making and creativity!

This worlkshop is for children and their adults to make collaboratively. Children cannot be dropped off.

Ríona Sally Hartman is an Irish musician who specialises in making music with, and for, children of all ages and abilities. Her focus is on child lead, inclusive, process driven, neuroaffirmative music making.

Ríona is musical director of The National Concert Hall’s Education and Community Outreach ensemble (also known as the Echo band). Sometimes she writes music for children’s TV for example music education show Bígí ag Ceol (RTÉ), and Maddie and Triggs (RTÉ, BBC). Ríona regularly work with organisations such as The Ark, Dublin City Council, and many arts centres and libraries across the country.

Ríona is currently generously supported by the Arts Council.

https://www.rionasallyhartman.com/

Tickets can be purchased online, in person or over the phone at Box Office. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Wheelchair users and any group over 8 persons should book tickets directly through Box Office. Further Terms and Conditions can be found atvisualcarlow.ie/visit/booking-information.

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