The Room of Joy

The Room of Joy

An unforgettable celebration of language, culture and traditional games with Fernanda Ferrati. For families with children 3 to 8 years old

By Mother Tongues

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Thursday, June 13 · 3:30 - 5pm GMT+1

Location

Adamstown Community Centre

Station Road Lucan Ireland

About this event

Get ready for an unforgettable celebration of language, culture and traditional games with Mother Tongues’ “The Room of Joy”.
Join us at the Adamstown Community Centre, and turn up the fun during Cruinniú na nÓg 2024!

Discover a world of creativity and connection as families come together to share an artistic and fun experience. With our art-based workshops, unleash your imagination and create memories that last a lifetime. From traditional games to sensory adventures and collective art projects, artist Fernanda Ferrari will create a weekend of delight.

During the workshop, families will collaborate to create traditional games from various cultures using recycled and accessible art materials. Parents are encouraged to actively participate in the creative process with their children to strengthen familial bonds. This will also be a safe and non-judgmental space for families to speak their home languages and, therefore, celebrate multilingualism.

For families with children 3 to 8 years old.

The project advocates for increased outdoor play to counterbalance the prevalence of screen time in children’s lives.

Funded by Cruinniú na nÓg South Dublin - Creative Ireland

Organized by

Mother Tongues

Mother Tongues is a social enterprise working to promote multilingualism and intercultural dialogue in Ireland.

Since our foundation in 2017 we have inspired many schools, libraries and community organisations to embrace multilingualism and act as catalysts for change, showing that Ireland welcomes all linguistic and cultural identities, and inspiring future generations of bilingual and multilingual children.

Our goal is to inspire everyone in society to be open to linguistic and cultural diversity and value the benefits that multilingualism brings to individuals, communities and to our society as a whole. Children can reach their full potential by developing English alongside Irish and their family language, but to do so they need parents who are motivated to keep up their mother tongue, teachers who are positive about every language and a society that welcomes linguistic diversity in all its forms.

This is why the projects we develop at Mother Tongues focus on children, by offering them opportunities to develop their language skills, parents, giving them the confidence to transmit their language to their children and teachers, enhancing their awareness of linguistically responsive practice. We work all over Ireland and collaborate with many organisations in the delivery of our programmes.

Free