Baboró International Arts Festival for Children

Baboró International Arts Festival for Children Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Ireland's flagship festival for children & families.

Applications are still open to apply for our Children's Panel 🙌Baboró is looking for children who will be starting 4th c...
13/05/2026

Applications are still open to apply for our Children's Panel 🙌

Baboró is looking for children who will be starting 4th class in September 2026 to join our Children’s Panel.

The Baboró Children's Panel is a platform for young people in Galway city and county to feel welcome, heard, represented and supported in their creativity. From September to June, the panel meets once a month to take part in fun creative workshops. They also spend a day attending shows and events at our October festival, experiencing Baboró 'behind-the-scenes'.

Apply through link below before May 24:
https://www.baboro.ie/news-events/apply-childrens-panel-2026

Our Children's Panel is supported by the Ombudsman for Children's Office.

Just before our festival preparations ramp up over the summer, we take a moment to look back on all we did last year, an...
01/05/2026

Just before our festival preparations ramp up over the summer, we take a moment to look back on all we did last year, and all those who helped make it possible.

2025 was a particularly busy year for Baboró as we delivered several creative projects in schools and communities throughout Galway, in addition to our annual international festival. These projects allowed us to reach more children and deepen our engagement with them, their parents and community.

Thank you to our brilliant Children’s Panel, artists, volunteers and Board of Trustees. And to the teachers, parents, guardians and of course children who bring our work to life!

🔗 Learn more about our impact in 2025 on www.baboro.ie.

‼️Applications close Wednesday, May 6‼️Calling diverse creatives from across Ireland to discover the professional realm ...
29/04/2026

‼️Applications close Wednesday, May 6‼️

Calling diverse creatives from across Ireland to discover the professional realm of arts for young people 🎉

Baboró invites you to apply to our 3-day paid mentorship programme during the Baboró festival in Galway, October 2026 🗓️

This initiative aims to encourage both emerging and established artists who are interested in making work for children to experience Baboró International Arts Festival for Children in an immersive and rewarding way 🙌🏻

🔗 Apply on www.baboro.ie/news-events

Join Artist & Programme Coordinator Rachel for an opportunity to connect with Baboró and other artists in Ireland's Art ...
28/04/2026

Join Artist & Programme Coordinator Rachel for an opportunity to connect with Baboró and other artists in Ireland's Art for Young Audiences sector. This is an opportunity for our community to connect, share experiences and learn more about the industry and best practice.

We invite artists, creatives, arts workers and anyone else interested in the Art for Young Audiences sector in Ireland to join us. Whether you're just starting out or have been making work for ages, have only just heard of Baboró or are a GROW alumni, you're welcome to hop online for the chats and a proverbial (or literal) cuppa.

🕰️When: Thursday 30 April, 12pm - 1pm
📍Where: Online - invite will be sent on RSVP
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScl6KDOKeOgrJgLZhun_NzGTQX8v9BxckfP4D-bGpEQUHJ8Zg/viewform

Baboró is looking for children who will be starting 4th class in September 2026 to join our Children’s Panel.The Baboró ...
21/04/2026

Baboró is looking for children who will be starting 4th class in September 2026 to join our Children’s Panel.

The Baboró Children's Panel is a platform for young people in Galway city and county to feel welcome, heard, represented and supported in their creativity. From September to June, the panel meets once a month to take part in fun creative workshops. They also spend a day attending shows and events at our October festival, experiencing Baboró 'behind-the-scenes'.

Apply through link below before May 24:
https://www.baboro.ie/news-events/apply-childrens-panel-2026

Our Children's Panel is supported by the Ombudsman for Children's Office.

Calling diverse creatives from across Ireland to discover the professional realm of arts for young people 🎉Baboró invite...
08/04/2026

Calling diverse creatives from across Ireland to discover the professional realm of arts for young people 🎉

Baboró invites you to apply to our 3-day paid mentorship programme during the Baboró festival in Galway, October 2026 🗓️

This initiative aims to encourage both emerging and established artists who are interested in making work for children to experience Baboró International Arts Festival for Children in an immersive and rewarding way 🙌🏻

🔗 Find out more in our news section on baboro.ie - link in bio

If you were unable to make it to our professional talks at the 2025 festival, you can listen back to them now! 🎧 Three t...
12/03/2026

If you were unable to make it to our professional talks at the 2025 festival, you can listen back to them now! 🎧

Three talks from the festival were recorded, each with Irish and international artists and practitioners, for conversations on the touring of work to schools, compelling circus performances and an arts in education residency 🎪

These episodes will be of interest to artists, educators and parents - anyone passionate about creativity for children ♥️

Listen through the link in or bio, on our website baboro.ie or subscribe to the Baboró podcast on Spotify, Apple or your preferred app ✨

Join Our Team: Outreach Manager 🙌 Baboró is seeking a creative and enthusiastic person to join our ambitious team in Gal...
04/03/2026

Join Our Team: Outreach Manager 🙌

Baboró is seeking a creative and enthusiastic person to join our ambitious team in Galway. This is an exciting role informed by our current strategy that is key to the realisation of Baboró’s ongoing mission to put creativity at the heart of every childhood by improving the accessibility and inclusivity of our annual festival and year round programmes.

This is a dynamic role which offers excellent opportunities to develop unique skills and areas of interest. The successful candidate will bring their own creative practice to the work whilst building on Baboró outreach work to date.

🔹 This is a part-time position (3/3.5 days a week)
🔹 Galway based role

🗓️ Deadline: Sunday 29th March, midnight
📩 Please send a cover letter setting out why you feel you are suitable for this position (2 pages max) along with your current CV (2 pages max) to [email protected].

🔗 More Information on the role can be found on the Baboró website and through our bio.

We look forward to welcoming a friendly, empathetic, resourceful and well organised person with a passion for the arts for children and young people to the team!

Thank you to Minister Patrick O’Donovan TD for meeting with Baboró last week. Our Executive Artistic Director, Aislinn Ó...
04/03/2026

Thank you to Minister Patrick O’Donovan TD for meeting with Baboró last week.

Our Executive Artistic Director, Aislinn Ó hEocha and Board Chair, Dani Gill joined John Connolly TD to brief the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport on the significant positive impact of our annual festival and year-round arts initiatives as well as plans for our 30th edition in October.

We are grateful to the Minister for his time and ongoing support.

We are delighted to welcome Kate Costello to the Baboró Board! 🙌Kate Costello is a Marketing Director who runs her own b...
15/01/2026

We are delighted to welcome Kate Costello to the Baboró Board! 🙌

Kate Costello is a Marketing Director who runs her own business, Narrator & Co. Based on the west coast, Narrator & Co is a creative consultancy telling stories for independent brands. Kate has always had a passion for the arts and originally trained as a theatre director and she now brings this unique sensibility to creative brands. She has worked on innovative digital campaigns for some of the world’s leading luxury brands, including Burberry, Augustinus Bader, Ermenegildo Zegna and Hunter Boots.

Over the past few years, she has worked with some of Ireland’s foremost independent lifestyle brands and creative organisations to tell the story of their unique creative heritage and identity.

We are absolutely thrilled to have Kate’s expertise, insight and creativity as part of our board as we look ahead to 2026 and prepare to celebrate 30 years of Baboró.

We’re delighted to share some wonderful international arts news as two companies with long standing connections to Babor...
14/01/2026

We’re delighted to share some wonderful international arts news as two companies with long standing connections to Baboró are taking their work to world stages in Australia and the US in 2026 🌟

Baboró would like to extend our very best wishes to Branar as they begin their tour of their show Rothar, which opens at Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival today!

And to, Antarctica! by Rosán Sensory Adventures, who will travel to the Lincoln Center in New York as part of the Big Umbrella Festival, before heading to the Sydney Opera House in July.

‘Artists will be supported to make exciting, innovative work for children and young people’, is one of Baboró’s strategic goals. Seeing work invested in and premiered at Baboró reach audiences on some of the world’s most prestigious stages is incredibly exciting.

A huge congratulations to all the artists, creatives and collaborators involved! We can’t wait to follow these journeys and cheer you on from home in Galway 👏❤️

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Augustine Court, St Augustine St
Galway
H91NCK3

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm

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