Family Poetry Fest 2024
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Fun for all the family with featured poet, best-selling children’s author Lucinda Jacob, young local poets and musicians.

Creative art activities, games, and an open mic for children and young adults. Look out for the wonderful raven animation created by 1st class students in Skerries.

• Venue: Floraville (or the Skerries Community Centre if the weather is inclement!)
• Date and time: Saturday / Dé Sathairn 14/09/2024, 2 to 4 pm
• Bilingual, live music by young local musicians.
• Free event. Just come along! You can register on Eventbrite to receive an email reminder.
• No unaccompanied children.

This event is part of our BIG POETRY DAY OUT | Lá Mór Filíochta!
The festival events for the BIG POETRY DAY OUT / Lá Mór Filíochta are timed so that you can come to Skerries by train or bus, spend the day enjoying the Fingal Poetry Festival events all over town and leave after the last event of a fun and refreshing day, enveloped in sea air, poetry, music and art…

The last train from Skerries leaves at 10.29 pm (subject to timetable changes coming in late August), and there is a bus to Dublin at 11.27 pm from Strand Street.

Lucinda Jacob

Lucinda Jacob is an award-winning Irish writer and creative writing facilitator who writes poetry and stories for children as well as scripts for children’s TV and Radio.

Her books include Hopscotch in the Sky (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill), Climate SOS! and Guzzler’s Party (illustrated by Alan Nolan).

I Am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere, edited with Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko, won the An Post Children’s Book of the Year (Senior) 2024.