Family Event at IMMA
29 Jan 2012
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Irish Museum of Modern Art
To mark the closing day of the exhibition Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other in the New Galleries, IMMA invites you to a literary afternoon for the whole family.
1.00pm in the Chapel
Look, No Cows by Children’s Laureate Dr. Siobhán Parkinson
To launch IMMA’s newly commissioned tour for children, Siobhán Parkinson will read from her trail Look, No Cows which visits her favourite artworks from IMMA’s Collection in the museum grounds. Families and the general public are welcome, and the new trail is available free of charge.
2.00pm to 4.00pm in the New Galleries
Explorer
IMMA’s regular Sunday family programme for children aged 4 to 10, will take place in the Rivane Neuenschwander exhibition. No booking required.
3.00pm in the Chapel
A Dramatic Reading from the Arabian Nights with Louis Lovett
The literary classic Arabian Nights is an important source of reference in Neuenschwander’s work. The stories, also known as One Thousand and One Nights, are a sprawling compilation of anonymous folk tales from the East.
Actor Louis Lovett will perform a dramatic reading.
To conclude the afternoon, you may wish to visit the Rivane Neuenschwander exhibition in the New Galleries for the last hour of viewing before it closes to the public for good.
Booking is essential: free tickets available at www.imma.ie/talksandlectures
Events
- Fables and Fairy Tales – Illustrations from the Collection
- Writing for children online course with Oisin McGann
- Beginning to Write Children's Fiction
- Write-a-rama with Sarah Webb
- Angst & Adventure: Workshop in Children's and Young Adult Fiction
- Forbairt Litríocht agus Chultúr na nÓg: An Dara Comhdháil
- What’s Your Story? with Roisin Meaney
- Beastly Drawings with Chris Judge
- Comicbook Creations with Maeve Clancy


