Helium presents The Rhyming Room at The Model

Friday 26th August

On Friday August 26th, puppeteer Helene Hugel and musician Sean Callagy will be staging The Rhyming Room at The Model, Sligo, a work-in-progress interactive performance for children under 3 years and their parents. Helene and Sean will use music, play, and puppets to bring songs and nursery rhymes to life.

Phone or text Helene to book a place: 087 780 9887. Time to be confirmed on booking.

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The inspiration for The Rhyming Room comes from the play sessions that Helene and Sean undertook as part of the Infant Imaginings project with the HSE Early Intervention Team’s parent and toddler group in Sligo this year. Infant Imaginings is an early years arts and health project produced by Helium, children’s arts and health. The project aims to promote relaxation, communication and learning between babies, toddlers and their parents through music, performance, puppetry and the visual arts. The emphasis in the current phase of the project is on providing creative play experiences for toddlers with developmental delays or toddlers at risk of developmental delay and also on building on-going relationships between the artists, the families, and staff involved.

A key focus of Infant Imaginings is to develop arts experiences which parents can reproduce in the home environment and the artists leave behind a kit of props, puppets and Sean’s acoustic CD of nursery rhymes for this purpose. Helene and Sean will bring the project to the parent and toddler group in Leitrim for four months from September. Infant Imaginings is produced by Helium in partnership with the HSE Early Intervention Teams in Sligo and Leitrim and was made possible with help from the Arts Council, the Community Foundation for Ireland, the National Lottery through the HSE and Social Entrepreneurs Ireland. Helium wishes to extend its thanks to The Model for providing the development space for The Rhyming Room.

Please contact info@helium.ie for further information.