WICKLOW ARTS FESTIVAL 2010 - THIS WEEKEND, 27TH - 30TH MAY!

Issued 24th May 2010

It’s not long now until the annual Wicklow Arts Festival gets underway with an array of great events that the whole family can enjoy. The festivities begin on Thursday 27th May when the local secondary schools will be opening their ‘Recycling Art Project’ in Wicklow Town County Buildings, a result of months of hard work by students and art teachers. With the support of the Co. Wicklow Environmental Office and Arts Office, the students have taken the festival’s theme of ‘Sustainability’ and created a fantastic variety of artworks. Everyone is welcome to the opening.

The theme continues with a story time and plant a seed session in the library followed later by readings of the shortlisted entries to the Young Writers Poetry Competition. The winner will be decided by popular vote on the night, so make sure to come along and vote for your favourite. The competition is still open, so any budding writers still have time to send in their poems. Another competition winner will also be announced when the WOW Design A Logo winning entry will be unveiled at An Tairseach Ecology Centre where all entries will be on display.

A great way for the older and younger generation to get together and get creative is the ‘Poetry for All’ workshop and for some outdoor fun drop in to the Community Garden. Bachelors Walk will be a hive of activity when the festival tent hosts the art workshop with RTE’s Don Conroy and the puppet show ‘The Chinese Princess and the Cricket’ plus there will also be circus fun, ongoing crafts and lots of tasty treats at the market.

Other festival events feature a kids film club, chalk art attack and sand sculpture at Brittas Bay to name a few. For teenagers , Eco-Unesco will be hosting two workshops and there’ll be a chance to see up and coming performers vying for top prize in the Battle of the Bands.

To find out more about all the activities, pick up a programme or look up the website www.wicklowartsfestival.ie  Be part of the Art!