Baboró International Arts Festival for Children is looking for volunteers to help bring its wonderful programme to life next month.
Come October, Baboró will delight children of all ages with an incredible array of theatre, dance, art and more, and it takes a lot of hands to ensure that all of these visitors to Galway get the best possible experience.
Since Baboró’s foundation in 1997, volunteers have helped to inspire children to engage with the world through their experience of the arts.
Now in its 27th year, the annual festival reaches thousands of children across the city and county.
Volunteers are invited to apply for this year’s festival, taking place from 13 – 22 October, 2023. Volunteers will be based in different venues throughout the city, helping to create a positive Baboró experience for audiences.
Volunteering during the festival is also a wonderful way to meet a great bunch of people, with many returning to volunteer year after year.
For more information on volunteering, contact the Baboró’s Festival Team Coordinator, Elena, at team@baboro.ie. or at www.baboro.ie.
Playful and Thought Provoking Programme
The 2023 Baboró programme promises to provide a magical experience for children of all ages and interests, along with their families.
Highlights include Druid Lane, a sensory experience for babies and their grown-ups, full of visual poetry, live music, and movement.
In this gentle interactive performance, the audience is invited to explore the universe in order to find their place in it. People and objects are in constant motion as they seek balance and harmony amongst the chaos.
Back on campus at the University of Galway, an immersive, multi-sensory dance theatre performance titled ‘Making Waves’ has been made especially for children aged 8-13 years with mild to complex needs.
The audience members are seated in pods representing boats on stage, which enables everyone to become part of the adventure. This performance is non verbal and suitable for wheelchair users.
Have you ever wondered how your child sees you? Well, the answer might lie within the ‘I See You Like This’ exhibition.
With our ever-growing appetite to document our lives through photos and selfies, children are often the reluctant subjects of adults’ cameras – asked to smile, look natural and come in closer.
In I See You Like This, Australian artist Jessica Wilson, flips the camera around giving the children control while their significant adults become their subjects.
Those are just a few of the many, many incredible events coming to like in the 2023 Baboró Children’s Arts Festival.
