Family & children's events at The Dock

Winter market Sat 12th & Sun 13th Dec, 12 noon - 5pm, FREE Get all your Christmas goodies in a toasty festive atmosphere! In perfect time for your Christmas shopping we will host our traditional Winter Market featuring an exciting mix of local fine art and design, affordable artisan crafts, delicious cuisine, mulled wine, roasted chestnuts and more. There will be workshops, live music, winter wonderland treats and more! There will also be a special menu of Winter Warmer Drinks for kids and adults in our cafe throughout the weekend and vintage Christmas film clips showing in the theatre!

This will be a great day out for the whole family with something for everyone.

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BOOK TICKETS Box Office: 071 965 0828 Open from 10am - 6pm, Monday to Saturday www.thedock.ie The Dock, St Georges Terrace, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

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Families and children bABY & TODDLER FAMILY MORNINGS Tue 6th, 20th Oct / 3rd, 17th Nov / 8th Dec 11am - 12.30pm, €3 per child, Max 10 babies & toddlers Open to toddlers and their minders, this morning is aimed at developing creativity and sociability of young ones under five years old. The group will meet every second Tuesday. This morning of play, fun and art will encourage stimulated play for toddlers (and chat for adults). Throughout the weeks the babies, toddlers and parents will have a chance to play and create with the help of various artists. Everyone is welcome to attend this morning for toddlers, minders and family members. Places will be limited to 10 toddlers and one minder per child.

stop motion workshop

Elves & the shoemaker Tue 15th Dec, 10am - 12pm, €5 School Group (Teachers Free) €7 Child / Adult We have a lovely Christmas treat for little and slightly bigger ones aged 3 - 11 years. Banyan Theatre bring your their gentle and playful adaptation of the Brothers Grim classic fairy tale, the Elves and The Shoemaker. There was once a poor shoemaker, who worked very hard, but still he could not earn enough to live upon. All he had in the world was gone, he only had just enough leather to make one last pair of shoes....Just when he thinks all is lost, help comes in a much unexpected way.

wednesday gallery tours The Dock will be offering guided tours of our galleries on Wednesday afternoons. Educational tours will be designed to examine aspects of the school curriculum. If your school, group or course would like a guided tour of the works on show in the gallery we are delighted to meet with you and talk you through the current exhibition. As always admission to the galleries is free, but booking for a guided group tour is essential. A workshop can be arranged in conjunction with a tour at an additional cost.

with artist naomi draper Tue 27th Oct, 11am - 1pm, €10, Age 8 - 12 years Tell your tale and bring it to life in this stop motion animation workshop.

Using accessible and simple technology, children get to explore the basic techniques needed to develop and create their own animation together from storyboard to moving images. Stop motion animation has a long history in film. It is often used to show objects moving as if by magic!

Characters in films such as Wallace and Gromit, Coraline, the Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie are all made with stop motion animation.

Kids pumpkin carving workshop Fri 30th Oct , 11am - 12pm, €3 per child from 5 years Great fun for kids to carve a super cool and scary lantern for Halloween. Bring your own pumpkin, hallowed out in advance - that will save you a lot of time in the morning. Fancy dress optional!

CALL OUT TO SCHOOLS FOR 1916 PROJECTS Hugely important to Leitrim is the 100th year of the proclamation of the Republic. There are a number of national call-outs inviting young people and schools to get involved in the celebrations. Primary and post-primary schools are being encouraged by The Department of Education and Skills to develop ideas through oral history, literature, drama, music and art. To illustrate the changing face of Ireland school children are also being asked to trace their family tree back to 1916.

Wherever in the world that might bring stories from, The Dock is keen to support schools to realise their projects in the theatre and community spaces here over the course of March 2016.

For further information and booking for all workshops and events www.thedock.ie or 071 9650828