Visual Arts

Ages All

Alison MacCormaic

Alison MacCormaic - 2009 Brochure Artist

Alison MacCormaic has a long association with Baboró as part of the Arts Team. Here we get a glimpse of her own talents using felt, wool and soft materials to create the colourful images that grace the pages of this brochure

Venue	Judy Greene’s Design Concourse
Day	Mon 12th to Sat 17th 11.00am to 5.00pm

Róisín Coyle

Small Worlds

Galway Arts Centre joins Baboró in bringing Róisín Coyle to a selected school to work with children in creating interactive theatrical boxes that illustrate one specific moment in a story, a poem or a dream. This project is funded by Galway County Arts Office.

All Ages

Ruth Le Gear

Water That Sleeps

Galway Arts Centre presents this unique mixed media exhibition created especially for Baboró. Ideas about how water holds the memory of what has passed through it brought the artist to Iceland, where she believes glaciers, thawing out, reveal long lost memories and stories.

“I found a polar bear wandering around with a large block of ice on his back. He came on broken ice floes, on sleeping waters to the vast expanse of Iceland.” - Ruth Le Gear

Baboró Notes: This is one of those extraordinary experiences that can open doors into imagination, wonder and play. Bring a child and see what happens.

Janusz Korczak

Champion of the Child

Featuring drawings by Itzhak Belfer, an Israeli artist of international renown and one of the children saved by Korczak. Champion of the Child tells the moving and inspiring story of Janusz Korczak (1879-1942). A pioneer of children’s rights and a key influence on the 1979 UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, Korczak devoted his life to the rights and wellbeing of children, regardless of nationality or religion. The exhibition shows how his teachings on the treatment of children continue to resonate around the world today. It charts his efforts to protect children from the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto before his death in Treblinka concentration camp.

Baboró Notes: Seeing this exhibition is a profound experience and a gentle reminder to respect and value children everywhere and to hear their voice.

Additional materials supplied by Amnesty International and the Ombudsman for Children’s Office
Acknowledgements: Jewish Museum London