In Loughboy Library, Junior Einsteins will deliver a DNA Banana Split Workshop: We want children to discover that DNA is vital for all living beings – even plants. It is important for inheritance, coding for proteins and the genetic instruction guide for life and its processes.
Help us harvest wool by deconstructing unwanted jumpers and learn how to make your very own shoe lace. Highly recommended for its therapeutic effects!
Through movement and games this workshop will explore some elemental ideas of physics. Playing with dynamics and kinematics, we will discover together how to identify and understand some basic principles of physics which occur in our daily world.
Through movement and games this workshop will explore some elemental ideas of physics. Playing with dynamics and kinematics, we will discover together how to identify and understand some basic principles of physics which occur in our daily world.
Bring along some of your unwanted clothes or household textiles and we will show you how to turn them into reusable bunting
Through movement and games this workshop will explore some elemental ideas of physics. Playing with dynamics and kinematics, we will discover together how to identify and understand some basic principles of physics which occur in our daily world.
Textile Repair Demonstration - Learn all the tips and tricks needed to patch a hole
Standup comedy show featuring Sean Marshall (MC), Chris O'Neill, Edmund Carlton, Warren McIntyre, Mark Moloney, Dave Keeshan, Diane O'Connor
Darn It Session - Bring your knits and learn how to hide a moth hole or how to enjoy the age old technique of darning
Visible Mending - Learn about the traditional Japanese mending technique, Sashiko and be inspired by the visible mending technique to use your repairs as an opportunity to make your clothes more beautiful.
Talk about community climate action through reuse and repair, and sustainable fashion.
Mary Conroy will guide the group to make their own books. They will first look at the 14th Century, Red Book of Ossory exhibition and will look at how information technology has changed over the centuries from simple pen and ink on vellum to letterpress on paper.
