We’re delighted to share some wonderful international arts news as two companies with long standing connections to Baboró are taking their work to world stages in Australia and the US in 2026.
Baboró would like to extend our very best wishes to Branar as they begin their tour of their show Rothar, which opens at Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival today! Rothar was produced in association with Baboró International Arts Festival for Children and the Drama Department at the University of Galway as part of Creative Europe's Mapping Project.
Meanwhile, Antarctica! by Rosán Sensory Adventures, originally commissioned by Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, will first travel to the Lincoln Center in New York as part of the Big Umbrella Festival, before heading to the Sydney Opera House in July.
‘Artists will be supported to make exciting, innovative work for children and young people’, is one of Baboró’s strategic goals. Seeing work invested in and premiered at Baboró reach audiences on some of the world’s most prestigious stages is incredibly exciting. A huge congratulations to all the artists, creatives and collaborators involved! We can’t wait to follow these journeys and cheer you on from home in Galway.
Baboró has enjoyed collaborative relationships with both companies for many years, helping to establish Galway as a hub for the creation of innovative work for young audiences.
Branar is one of Ireland’s leading theatre companies making work for children. Based in the West of Ireland, Branar is renowned for creating highly imaginative and beautiful work.
Established in 2001, Branar has created over 20 shows in that time. It works closely with an ensemble of exceptional artists and collaboratively with a number of creative partners, including The Ark, Baboró, NIE (England), Starcatchers (Scotland), Teater Refleksion (Denmark) and many leading Irish arts centres and festivals.
The company tours nationally and internationally, bringing its work with equal enthusiasm to leading arts venues such as the South Bank Centre, London as to a local school in Galway. Branar is committed to reaching its audience, wherever they are.
Rosán Sensory Adventures, led by Phillida Eves, makes work with multidisciplinary artists, creating and presenting accessible, immersive, musical, movement and theatrical experiences with and for Autistic children and young people with intellectual learning disabilities.
Phillida, the Artistic Director of Rosán Sensory Adventures, is a creative sensory artist and educator who is passionate about giving the audience a voice in the creative process and agency in expressing themselves through the creative arts. Phillida, and the artists she works with, develop the work with the children and young people, who are at the heart of the collaborative process.
