Bantry / Sunday 7 – Saturday 13 July - West Cork Music

Children’s FestivalThursday 11 July, 14.30 / Maritime Hotel / €5BEAST QUEST!A very special event for children aged 7 – 12Calling all valiant Beast Quest fans! Help the good wizardAduro, in this interactive event, to solve cryptic puzzles andfree the beasts from Malvel’s evil spell and participate in a BeastQuest Tournament ... Also get a sneak peek of Adam Blade’snew series, Sea Quest! Deep in the water lurks a new breed ofBeast ...Exclusive Beast Quest and Sea Quest goodies for everycontestant!*Adam Blade will not appear at this eventSaturday 13 July, 14.30/ St Brendan’s School HALL / €5Chrissie GittinsA Poetry event for children aged 6 – 11Trapped wasps, sweet-smelling pirates, and embarrassing dads:anything is possible in poetry. Come and hear one of thebrightest children’s poets, fresh from CBeebies Poetry Pie andThe Rhyme Rocket.‘Chrissie Gittins knows just what words can do: she makes themdance, sing, sit still for a moment and then leap across the page withjoy!’ Ian McMillan(See bio p 42)STORIES, DANCE & DRAMAWORKSHOP with Gillian PerdueAge Range: 5 - 8 years / 15 children MAXMonday – Wednesday 8 – 10 July,10.00 – 12.00 Bantry Library / FREEThis workshop will combine storytelling withdance and drama activities and is energetic andnoisy! Wear something comfortable that you canmove in and be ready for some fun!Gillian Perdue is a writer and primary teacherbased in Dublin. Her first book, Adam’s Starlingwon the Eilis Dillon Prize in the Bisto BookAwards for that year. She is the author of anumber of Pandas in the O’Brien Press series ofthe same name, featuring the brave and fearlesscharacter, Conor, who does his own thing, nomatter what! In an alternate reality, she alsoruns ‘dancesteps’, a Dance school based inRathfarnham. This ensures that she spends herdays writing, dancing and teaching all the funsubjects and generally upsetting the peace!41