The Ark, Dublin. Documenting Early Years Arts Practice 2013
Created in response to the Arts Councils brief, The Ark was awarded a grant to document it's works with Early Years audiences to inform the development of an Arts Council Policy on Early Childhood Arts development in Ireland and to document and disseminate examples of good practice in this area through our early years programming at The Ark. Artists Thomas Johnston [music], Joanna Parkes [drama] and Orla Kelly [visual arts] led workshops at The Ark in early 2013, during these programmes we interviewed the artists' response to the work in terms of impact, experience and a critique of their own practice. The documentation also focused on the process, methods, interactions and collaborations employed by artists delivering the work. Children, parents and teachers also participated in the filming.
The Ark is a unique, purpose-built cultural centre in the heart of Dublin's Temple Bar, where children aged 2 -12 can explore theatre, music, literature, art, film, dance and more.
The Secret of Q at The Ark, Dublin
As long as you stay inside, nothing can go wrong... Renowned Dutch theatre company Het Filiaal brings a clever, playful and inventive show about family, courage and asking questions.
G is ten and has never been outside. That's just the safest thing to do, says Q. He's the boss of the town where G lives with her father, mother and grandfather. As long as you stay inside, nothing can go wrong. Those are Q's rules, and everyone keeps them - until M's grandfather remembers something and suddenly disappears. For the first time in her life, G breaks the rules and goes outside: looking for both her grandfather and the secret of Q ...
A spectacular show, with cameras, puppets, models, and projection, this exciting thriller for young and old will take your breath away!
Strange Feathers at The Ark
From 4-5 November 2017, we are delighted to welcome Fidget Feet to The Ark for the first time with this gorgeous aerial dance show for ages 2-7.
This is an engaging and humorous interactive, non-verbal show, specifically designed and created for young children. See for full details.
Strange Feathers is Produced by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance (Ireland), Bird & Bat (Iceland) & Riverbank Arts Centre (Ireland)
Put Yourself in the Picture at The Ark
The Ark have invited some of Ireland's leading portrait artists to be part of 'Put Yourself in the Picture' and you could win the chance to be drawn by them! For Ages 7+
Every day an artist will draw portraits of a few lucky children in the portrait area where visitors will be able to watch these portrait sessions in action. Confirmed artists include: Brian Maguire, Blaise Smith, Conor Walton, PJ Lynch & Una Sealy. Further names to be announced.
To be in with a chance of winning a portrait session, just complete an application form at
Closing date for entries is 5pm on Tue 1 March.
The Ark Children's Council present It's a Right!
To mark Universal Children's Day 2016 on 20th November, The Ark Children's Council have created a short film in response to the United Nation’s Charter on the Rights of the Child.
The film premiered for the first time on Thursday 17 November as part of 'Seen & Heard: 21 Years for Children' a one day public forum presented by The Ark and Children’s Rights Alliance at The Ark. It will also be screened on the big screen in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar on Sunday 20 November from 4pm-9pm to mark Universal Children’s Day.
The film was funded by The Ark and Dublin City Council and led by The Ark Children’s Council made up of 15 children from neighbourhood primary schools in Dublin’s inner city working with Macullagh films. The Children’s Council members were joined by other children to participate in a workshop under the supervision of The Ark Artist-In-Residence, Shaun Dunne
ARK Seminar: The Critical making of an Irish/English Diasporic identity
This Seminar was presented on 12th February 2013 at NICVA, Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
The Here and There of Things: The Critical making of an Irish/English Diasporic identity
In this seminar, John Given (narrativeworks.co.uk) will explore one Irish family's experience of emigration using biographical narrative. Through a digital collage of family photographs, music, video and poetry, the project creates a unique storytrack through which memories of their own family's story are evoked.
Cruinniú na nÓg at The Ark - 23 June 2018
Check out this video of our 'Cruinniú na nÓg' celebrations, taking place on 23 June 2018.
For Dublin City Council's 'Cruinniú na nÓg' celebrations, The Ark Children's Council presented two shows full of work-in-progress snippets of theatre, music and film being created for children. We also worked with city-greening experts Green Edge who collaborated with children from local a schools and our family audiences to create a brand-new outside space at The Ark, full of art and plants, with the ambition of creating bird-friendly habitats here in Temple Bar.
On Saturday 23 June, the day of Cruinniú na nÓg, we revealed the results of all of this work to children and families who explored the building, created their own artworks, planted seeds and created nests, bug hotels and bird feeders to add to our garden or take home with them.
The theatre was also full for the two 'Still Loading...' shows, with artists performing some of their early ideas and material for the shows they are developing and got to engage with the audiences about this work and what the children watching thought.
All of these events and work were part of Dublin City Council's Cruinniú na nÓg, supported by Creative Ireland and RTÉ. For more details on the events, go to:
Naming our Festival - The Ark Children's Council
Today, to coincide with Universal Children’s Day, The Ark Children’s Council unveil the name of The Ark’s new Festival of Children which was chosen from names submitted by children from accross Ireland.
Recently the call went out for children from across Ireland to submit their ideas for the name of a new children’s festival. The final decision was made by The Ark’s Children’s Council (35 children from across the Dublin area) who shortlisted, discussed and then voted on what they felt was the best title from the suggestions made.
The brand-new festival will be the first of its kind in Ireland as a festival created for children – by children! This means that children will be integral to the planning and decision-making in creating the festival, which organisers hope will include a children’s parade, shows and workshop activities. Taking place next summer, the festival will coincide with Cruinniú na nÓg, Ireland’s national day of creativity for children and young people, and it will be a celebration of art, culture and children’s rights – ensuring that children are seen and heard across Dublin.
A Most Peculiar Wintry Thing at The Ark this December
The Ark and Music Network present a brand new festive music show exploring the magic and mystery of Winter. At The Ark, Dublin 22-29 Nov & 13-21 Dec
Find out more at:
With a dynamic blend of original music, improvisation and audience interaction, this brand new festive music show by composer Brian Irvine has been commissioned and specially created for children, their schools and families.
The Temple Bar in Temple Bar
See how fast the girl moved when she realised that she was in front of a camera.
Temple Bar is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. Unlike the areas surrounding it, Temple Bar has preserved its medieval street pattern, with many narrow cobbled streets. It is Dublin's cultural quarter and has a lively nightlife that is popular with tourists. Temple Bar is in the postcode Dublin 2 (D2), and has an estimated population of 3,000.
The area is the location of many Irish cultural institutions, including the Irish Photography Centre (incorporating the Dublin Institute of Photography, the National Photographic Archives and the Gallery of Photography), the Ark Children's Cultural Centre, the Irish Film Institute, incorporating the Irish film archive, the Temple Bar Music Centre, the Arthouse Multimedia Centre, Temple Bar Gallery and Studio, the Project Arts Centre, the Gaiety School of Acting, the Irish Stock Exchange and the Central Bank of Ireland.
After dark, the area is a major centre for nightlife, with many tourist-focused nightclubs, restaurants and bars. Pubs in the area include The Porterhouse, the Oliver St. John Gogarty, the Turk's Head, the Temple Bar, Czech Inn (formerly Isolde's Tower), the Quays Bar, the MEZZ, the Foggy Dew and Eamonn Doran's, Purty Kitchen, as well as the newly flourishing Bayfire. Two new squares have been created in recent years — Meetinghouse Square and Temple Bar Square. Meetinghouse Square has been used for outdoor film screenings in the summer months. Since summer 2004, Meetinghouse Square is also home to the Speaker's Square project, which is similar to Speakers' Corner in London.
Meetinghouse Square is home to the Temple Bar Food Market every Saturday. The Cow's Lane Market is a fashion and design market which takes place on Cow's Lane every Saturday. The Temple Bar Book Market is held on Saturdays and Sundays in Temple Bar Square.
In July 2005, visiting American singer Aimee Mann described her shock at encountering overflowing pubs, drunks, urine stains and pools of vomit
Ireland's Last Stand at Dublin 1309AD
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- Must be sent on a battle that must be won in order for campaign to continue
- Must be from an unmodded Total War campaign except Thrones of Britannia
- Can be a deliberate set up
- Must be interesting to play out
If you want to send me your last stand campaigns email it here. totalwarlegend@gmail.com
If you want to try this battle for yourself you can find it through this link.
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Jeramee, Hartleby & Oooglemore at The Ark
3 Characters - 3 Words. It's not what you say - it's how you say it!
The Ark welcomes London's Unicorn Theatre to Ireland for the first time with a theatre show for ages 3+. Revelling in delightful innocence and glorious stupidity, 'Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore' is a surprising and surreal encounter with three people who have a lot to say but only three words with which to say it.
The Unicorn is the UK's leading professional theatre for young audiences, dedicated to inspiring and invigorating young people of all ages, perspectives and abilities, and empowering them to explore the world – on their own terms – through theatre.
Written by Gary Owen. Directed by Tim Crouch.
Peat | A New Play for Children by Kate Heffernan
The Ark presents the world premiere of a brand new theatre show for ages 8+ by Kate Heffernan. Directed by Tim Crouch.
How far down is yesterday?
On the edge of a town, in the middle of a bog, half way between a school and a housing estate, Rayy and Jo have come to dig a hole. Peat is the story of the things they bury, and the things they find.
it is a story of friendship, loss, and finding our place in the world.
Find out more at
The Ark would like to acknowledge the support of the Arts Council of Ireland
Peat by Kate Heffernan
Directed by Tim Crouch
Set & Costume Design – Lian Bell
Sound Design – Slavek Kwi
Lighting Design – Franco Bistoni
Cast
Curtis-Lee Ashqar
Kwaku Fortune
Music: Little Idea (Scott Holmes). This song is provided under Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0”.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Live At The Helix In Dublin...
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Music video by Celtic Woman performing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. (C) 2013 Celtic Woman Limited Under Exclusive Lincence To Manhattan Records
Dublin Gospel Choir - The Ark (LIVE video clip at Electric Picnic 2010)
Talking to the Taoiseach by The Ark Children's Council
Universal Children’s Day takes place on 20 November each year. This day is an opportunity to give children a voice and to celebrate their rights. To mark 2017's day, The Ark Children's Council set out to gather together questions from children aged 2-12 across Ireland which they would like to ask the Taoiseach. This video reveals their selected questions and the process that they went through to get them.
12Yrs pt 1 Anniversary C & S Noah ARK Church Galway Ireland SUNDAY 2019 HD 720p
12Yrs pt 1 Anniversary C & S Noah ARK Church Galway Ireland SUNDAY 2019 - HD 720p
What Music is... by children from Rutland National School, Dublin
We asked some of the children at Rutland National School what music means to them - and this is what they had to say!
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The students of 1960s Rutland Street National School, Dublin became famous for the legendary 'Give Up your Aul Sins' recordings. On these tapes the children told a story in their own unique way. Today, the school’s current students and The Ark have chosen to tell their stories in a very different way – through an original rap which they created with rapper GMC.
Renowned rapper GMC spent a day with children aged 9-11 from 4th and 5th Class in their school recently, helping them write, create and record their rap. The children were invited to write their thoughts about music and what it meant to them and their lives. The words are their own, the voices are theirs and the result is this rap.
The children and GMC wrote this rap to mark the upcoming Popular Music Week at The Ark, from 24-31 October, where children ages 2+ can explore, experience and create music.
Over the mid-term, The Ark in Temple Bar will celebrate all things pop with gigs, workshops and music jams for all ages. Among the events will be workshops with GMC where anyone can try their hand at making their own rap (Funky Raps & Rhymes Workshops on 24 Oct – full details below).
The Ark and Music
As Ireland’s only dedicated cultural centre for children, The Ark in Temple Bar is at the forefront of commissioning and presenting new artistic work for children and families. Music programming in the next three months includes the third of our annual 'Popular Music Week' along with two of our music commissions being staged around the country. 'Tracks in the Snow', a brand new festive music show with acclaimed Irish band The Henry Girls runs at The Ark throughout December. Last year’s smash-hit Christmas show 'A Most Peculiar Wintry Thing' returns with a tour of six venues in the north of Ireland this winter. These are part of The Ark's commitment to commissioning exciting new music experiences for children.
Looking back at 'Right Here, Right Now! The Ark's Festival of Children' 2019
Running 13-16 June 2019, the inaugural Right Here Right Now! coincided with Cruinniú na nÓg 2019 and was funded by Creative Ireland and The Arts Council.
Right Here Right Now! was a celebration of art, culture and children’s rights created for, by and about children.
In this video, Evie & Billy from The Ark Children's Council talk us through their festival highlights and the role that children played in the planning, curation and decision-making.
Redemption Song performed by The Ark Band
Performed on June 20, 2010 as a part of the concert series Sundays At The Scioto in Scioto Park, Dublin Ohio