* All activities are outdoors so dress for the weather*

Wear your wellies! - Bring a picnic.

Disclaimer: Adults are responsible for their children at all times.

Hope it Rains!

Join us for a free outdoor play day celebrating bad weather! IS é lá na báistí lá na bpáistí!

We at Hope it Rains | Soineann nó Doineann are inviting children and families across Galway county and city to join our Weatherplay project to invent new ways to have fun in the wind and rain - and we’re kicking off in Rinville Park with a free bad-weather play day!

There will be lots going on to give you plenty of inspiration for playing outdoors in (and with) the wind and rain. We’ll have rain-painting, bad weather bingo, mud kitchens, adventure-play, forest-school, kite flying, weather wanders, puddle-jumping, build your own water-blaster, and much more!

Learn from play experts, artists and activists about the importance of outdoor and risky play, and how we can create more outdoor play opportunities for children in Galway. Join Hilary O’Shaughnessy (Playable City UK), Eimear Dolan and Ann Mallaghan (Galway County Council), Peter Boland (Insurance Reform Ireland), Kerry Walker (Down to Earth Forest School & Forest Therapy Galway) and others in conversation with Hope it Rains | Soineann nó Doineann artistic director Ríonach Ní Néill and Weatherplay artist Michelle Browne.

So get out your wellies and raincoat and... Hope it Rains!

Hope It Rains | Soineann nó Doineann is created by Ríonach Ní Néill, produced by Ciotóg & Milestone Inventive, and commissioned by Galway 2020, European Capital of Culture.

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LÁ MÓR SPRAOI SA DOINEANN!

IS é lá na báistí lá na bpáistí!

Tá HOPE IT RAINS|SOINEANN NÓ DOINEANN ag tabhairt cuireadh do ghasúir agus tuismitheoirí na Gaillimhe páirt a ghlacadh i dtionscnamh WeatherPlay. Beimid ag obair in éineacht le chéile chun cluichí agus fearais a chumadh a bhaineann súp agus spraoi as an ngaoth agus an bháisteach.

In éineacht le Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, táimid ag seoladh Weatherplay ag lá mór spraoi sa doineann i bPáirc Rinn Mhíl - agus ba mhór againn bhur gcomhluadar!

Beimid ag péinteáil leis an bháisteach, ag imirt Bingo na Doininne, ag spraoi sa phludach, ag eitleogaíocht, ag imirt cluichí eachtraíochta, ag tógáil canóin uisce – agus iliomad eile. Tá súil againn go spreagfar sibh chun spraoi féin spéir – fiú nuair a thiteann an tóin aisti!

Beidh saineolaithe spraoi, ealaíontóirí agus gníomhaithe ag caint linn faoi cén fáth agus conas deiseanna spraoi faoin aer a chothú ar mhaithe le páistí na Gaillimhe. Beidh Hilary O’Shaughnessy (Playable City UK), Eimear Dolan and Ann Mallaghan (Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe), Peter Boland (Insurance Reform Ireland), Kerry Walker (Down to Earth Forest School & Forest Therapy Galway) agus daoine nach iad i gcomhrá le Ríonach Ní Néill, stiúrthóir Hope it Rains | Soineann nó Doineann agus ealaíontóir Weatherplay Michelle Browne.

Caith ort do chóta agus buataisí báistí agus tar amach linn ag spraoi faoin spéir – táimid ag tnúth leis an mbáisteach!

Tá Hope It Rains | Soineann nó Doineann cruthaithe ag Ríonach Ní Néill, á léiriú ag Ciotóg & Milestone Inventive, agus coimisiúnaithe ag Gaillimh 2020, Príomhchathair Chultúir na hEorpa.