Story-Time and Story Swap

As part of Sligo Children’s Book Festival, come along to our Story-time & Story Swap, on Sunday 3rd March from 1pm to 3pm, relax and bring your favourite book and as many as you like (or your not so favourite books!!) and swap it for another, in The Model’s specially

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The Book Factory @ The Model: Live Update

‘Wow, only two seesions are over and the energy has been exploding out of the card board walls of our fantastic Book Factory. Described as, ‘the best day ever’ by one of the kids they have been ‘oooo-ing’ and ‘aaaa-ing’ all morning with the surprise boxes of fun colours, scissors

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The Storytellers Trail

As an exciting part of Sligo’s inaugural children’s Book festival. Follow the free ‘STORYTELLERS TRAIL’ around Sligo Café‘s this Saturday, 02 March. It will kick off at 10.30am at CAFÉ FLEUR, where you can enjoy a morning treat with an exciting performance & story from our intrepid storytelling duo. Then

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TY students go behind the scenes at Isabel Nolan’s exhibition

During the week, Liam and I (Wacky) have been helping out with some of the preparations for the Model’s next big exhibition called, ‘A Hole Into The Future’ by Isabel Nolan. This exhibition features many great pieces of Isabel’s work including many sculptural pieces of art. Most of her work

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Sue Morris – Departure points

“We travel to not only see new places … but to see ourselves as something other, to shed our skins of deeply engrained habits…And what do we find at that magical destination? Our old selves, no doubt” (Private Territory by Rolandus Rasauskas) While I may not have discovered a new

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Launch night of Double Vision, an exhibition by Young Curators

It is a rare opportunity for young people to get in real contact with an art collection, gain experience working as a curator and to learn about collections and collecting. This is what the Sligo/Antrim Young Curators cross boarder project did. The group curated an interactive social history exhibition; which

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