Explore the art of comics and learn how to tell a complete story in just a few panels! Learn how to craft concise and impactful narratives, design characters, and master the essentials of comic storytelling. Whether you’re new to comics or looking to improve your skills, you’ll leave with your own unique short story comic
Explore the art of comics and learn how to tell a complete story in just a few panels! Learn how to craft concise and impactful narratives, design characters, and master the essentials of comic storytelling. Whether you’re new to comics or looking to improve your skills, you’ll leave with your own unique short story comic
Sketchbook Club is a monthly event that encourages fun and playful art-making whilst also building a community of new, old, professional or hobby artists! The goal is to provide a safe space to create art in a relaxed environment. Make some art, make a friend, or just unwind on a Thursday evening. All art materials
In this workshop artist Kate Escolin will share with you her techniques for creating diary-style comics and using the art of comic creation as a tool for self-care. Combining creativity, emotions and personal well-being in a mix of drawing comics and journaling, this method of expression can help you balance your state of mind, express
Designed especially for children, participants will be encouraged to visualise and create drawings about what makes them happy, what they might like to do more of, or achieve in 2026. We will then get creative make colourful poster prints together! Children will be guided by the artist to transfer their drawings to foam, carving out
Designed especially for children, participants will be encouraged to visualise and create drawings about what makes them happy, what they might like to do more of, or achieve in 2026. We will then get creative make colourful poster prints together! Children will be guided by the artist to transfer their drawings to foam, carving out
Join local artist Johnny Tierney for this workshop which invites participants to respond creatively to a live musical performance. Participants will be guided through a series of artistic exercises to the music of Bach, which will be followed by an open musical improvisation for freestyle art-making. No experience necessary, just a willingness to be creative!
Join us for two relaxed and paced online creative writing workshops designed to support people with Long Covid (as well as other isolating health conditions such as ME/CFS). No writing experience necessary - just a pen, paper and willingness to participate. For the January workshop you will need your phone with a photo of something/somewhere
Join visual artist Martina McDonald for an evening of mark-making with mixed media. In this fun workshop participants will be encouraged to experiment and play with art materials such as paint, pastels, chalks, markers and more. The practice of mark making is simple, fun and process focussed. Martina will guide participants through a range of
Rosán Sensory Adventures, led by creative sensory artist and educator Phillida Eves, make accessible, immersive, musical, movement and theatrical experiences with and for children and young people with additional needs. Rosán is passionate about giving the audience a voice in the creative process, agency in expressing themselves through the creative arts, and putting them at
Candlelit Tales are a group of storytellers who have been working with Irish mythology since 2014. We have developed an energetic, interactive workshop, using game-based learning to highlight the skills needed for Storytelling for Kildare County Council’s Brigid, Spirit of Kildare Festival. We at Candlelit Tales believe in the power of storytelling and mythology. Human
Join us for this fun and creative clay workshop for kids! In this hands-on experience children will have the opportunity to shape, mould, and design their very own clay creations. Guided by visual artist Marta Golubowska, they will learn basic clay techniques such as coiling, pinching, and sculpting, while exploring their imagination and enhancing their
Join us for this fun and creative clay workshop for kids! In this hands-on experience children will have the opportunity to shape, mould, and design their very own clay creations. Guided by visual artist Marta Golubowska, they will learn basic clay techniques such as coiling, pinching, and sculpting, while exploring their imagination and enhancing their
Join us for two relaxed and paced online creative writing workshops designed to support people with Long Covid (as well as other isolating health conditions such as ME/CFS). No writing experience necessary - just a pen, paper and willingness to participate. For the January workshop you will need your phone with a photo of something/somewhere
