The Ark: Forest of Fun – Online Early Years Dance Workshop for children aged 2-4 and their grown-ups.

Join dance artist Monica Muñoz and discover animals who live in the forest in this joyful online dance workshop. Put on your wellies! We are going on a movement journey to discover who lives in the forest. It's been raining there so it might be muddy! Let's find some busy bugs, sleepy bears, flapping owls and sly foxes. Do they have arms and legs like us? How do they move around? Do they like to hide in the trees? Do they wriggle inside the flowers? Or do they even roll in the mud? We will jump, roll, squash, slide and spin. We will also find out how we can build a simple dance forest landscape using everyday materials in our homes. For this you will need:

1. A pair of wellies if you have them.
2. A few woolly jumpers of any kind (forest colours like brown and green are good but any colours you have will be fine).
3. Paper plates (5 or 6 would be perfect. Maybe you have some left over from a birthday party?)

If you don't have any of these things, don't worry – we can simply use our imaginations instead. This delightful interactive dance workshop invites little ones and their grown-ups to enjoy imagining and moving together. So if you're a parent, grandparent, uncle, aunty, godparent or carer, join us with a 2-4 year old to enjoy the moves of the forest animals from your very own home.

Requirements for Participation

• Computer/Tablet/Phone with internet access for Zoom – placed on a table at children's eye level.
• A clear floor area of about 8 paces square – free of movable furniture and all other hard objects.
• The best floor surfaces are carpet, lino or wood.
• For safety reasons dancing on ceramic kitchen tiles or concrete is to be avoided.
• Children and adults should wear: Tracksuit, leggings & t-shirt | Bare feet or trainers as preferred | No jewellery.

Important: A parent or adult in the family must actively engage in the workshop with their child and be present in the room throughout the workshop.

The Ark: Forest of Fun workshop will be delivered using the Zoom video call software. This will be a private Zoom session which will only be accessed by those booked into the workshop, the artist and The Ark's staff. The session will be recorded for the safety and security of all participants, however this recording will not be shared publicly and will be deleted within 30 days.

Booking information
Tickets: €10 per child | €8.50* | 20% off for Members
Dates: Friday 7^th August @ 10.15am & 11.45am
Duration: Approx. 25 minutes
Age Range: 2-4

*The Concession price is available for Children accompanying third-level students, senior citizens and those in receipt of social security. Concession tickets can only be booked directly through the box office by emailing [email protected].