This year's festival features a new puppetry show and a 20-year update of a local film.
The Bualadh Bos Children's Festival will be returning for its 11th edition from October 1st to 11th, bringing theatre, dance, music, film, and workshops to the Lime Tree Theatre and the Bell Table.
Speaking on Live 95's Limerick Today, festival curator Liam McCarthy said, "It's a really special two weeks in the cultural calendar where a lot of our cultural institutions here in Limerick open their doors and we really prioritise our youngest, our younger citizens."
"A live performance in an era of digital media and everything else, it's a really, really, really special thing. And it brings together communities."
Joanne Beirne, former producer with Branar, brings a new wordless show, 'Leaves,' to the Lime Tree Theatre that uses tabletop puppetry to tell the story of "an oak tree in its last year of life and a new sapling."
The play reflects the relationship between the two as that of "a grandparent and a grandchild relationship" and explores themes of connection, drawing inspiration from the way "the connections between the trees underneath, like in terms of the roots... support one another."
Monica Spencer from The GAFF is presenting 'Revisiting the Banshee', a new film that revisits the original 20-year-old documentary 'The Banshee Lives in the Handball Alley'.
The original captured local schoolchildren sharing Limerick folklore and superstitions, and Monica describes it as a time capsule, saying, "If you want to capture how pure Limerick is... that kind of footage has to be in there."
The new film, by artists Michael Fortune and Aileen Lambert, involves a new group of children from the same local schools. "It is every bit, if not better, than the original. We're very, very excited for everyone to come and see it."
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To listen to the full Limerick Today interview, click here.
