Taking your Group to a Festival Event

Making dreamcatchers, Festival 2003

Schools have great opportunities to stimulate learning and provide artistic experience for their pupils through the Belfast Children's Festival. Whether a workshop or performance, these trips encourage children's critical appraisal, observation and listening skills and promote visual literacy and imaginative thinking. They also introduce children to the many public venues and buildings that form part of their cultural entitlement in Northern Ireland.

Support for schools

Young at Art directs special support to schools attending the festival with special booking arrangements, free direct mail, heavily discounted tickets (around 50% off all ticket prices), group rates and free carers tickets. These services are available to all schools, PTAs and after-schools clubs for all events at all times during the festival. Additional services include::

• NEW!! Free Schools resource pack with pre- and post-show activities, links to the online resource Toolbox and curriculum links. Free to download below.
• The Friendship Fund for schools and groups experiencing hardship, Young at Art will provide a further 50% ticket discount or transport support.

To make a group booking for the Belfast Children's Festival 2010

Simply download the advance booking form at the bottom of this page (available from January 2010) and return to;

Young at Art 15Church Street, belfast, BT1 1PG

Or fax your form to; 02890243042

Full details of all events will be in the festival brochure or online. Details of relevant curriculum links are in the Schools resource pack free to download below. Information and directions for all venues are available on the website or from the box office.