Baboró to get bigger thanks to Small Size

By Kernan Andrews

The Baboró children’s festival has joined the Italian based Small Size organisation, a European network of cultural organisations which works in the area of the arts for toddlers to six-year-olds.

This is an international cultural coup for Baboró, securing the festival a prominent place with other key cultural organisations in Europe like the Tate Modern and the Southbank Centre, which were previous recipients of funding under this programme.

Baboró is one of the 11 partners in this project, and these supports will help the festival programme more work for the naught to six age group over the next five years, as well as continuing its mentoring and encouragement of emerging companies in Ireland, and particularly in Galway.

Through its networking, Small Size aims to promote an awareness of the significance of performing arts for early childhood with objectives that include increasing children’s creative potential along with the comparison of different European cultural traditions.

Small Size also aims to give value to projects and events that support the development of training and educational programmes for early years educators and artists, and for producers and artists creating productions for the early childhood audiences through widening opportunities for research and collaboration.

“This is a fantastic achievement for Baboró and allows us to become part of an international cultural forum,” said Baboró manager Teenagh Cunningham. “A five-year project allows us to think ‘big’, giving us the time to work on the long term, to set up processes and see the results, to plant seeds and watch them grow.”

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