Bring along your little one to this interactive, hands-on session with Lucy Hill and Orla Kelly that will explore Dublin city and how their ‘loved stuff’ and ‘treasures’ travel with them around town. Add to Lucy’s growing collection of young children’s sweet, silly and surprising things they form attachments too. Explore the city-scape with Orla who will support little ones to make visual the whimsy of their experience, for example, the cracks in the pavement, the scale of hills and houses, the influence of light and shadows and all things buzzy and busy.

Parents must stay and play

Session lasts for 45 mins.

Dr Lucy Hill was awarded her PhD in art education from NCAD in 2021. Her Ph.D. project had an early year’s visual arts focus and was runner-up in the Peter Lang Young Scholars publication award. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art Education at Dublin City University in the School of Arts Education and Movement and was the inaugural Early Years Artist in Residence at The Ark in 2018.

Órla Kelly is a visual artist, creative educationalist and arts manager with a specific practice that focuses on working with and for early years children, aiming to stimulate and scaffold the naturally creative, poetic, philosophical and curious intelligences of the young child. She is the director of Early Childhood Creativity, an initiative that promotes creative thinking, exploration and activity in early years children and their parents through her own work and the synergy of a variety of arts organisations and amazing independent artists working in theatre, music and across the visual arts.

Presented in partnership with URBAN96 Academy and Dublin City Council.