Ireland's flagship Children's Festival, Baboro is celebrating its thirteenth year. This year's festival, which runs from Monday 12 to Sunday 18 October, is peppered with performances for children, teenagers and adults and anyone with a sense of creative curiosity. Over the last 12 years, Baboro's remarkable journey has helped to explore what the arts mean for children and arts practitioners internationally and at home.

To mark the festival's journey into its thirteenth year, Baboro will feature 13 stunning companies in 13 special venues across Galway.

Baboro 2009 explores a wealth of astonishing international performances featuring Italy, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, the UK, The Netherlands and Northern Ireland. It also welcomes a record-breaking selection of performances and collaborations from Irish companies. Expect something mesmerizing for all the family from the magical worlds of spectacle, theatre, opera, dance, music, visual arts, circus, puppetry, storytelling, readings, poetry, master-classes, a documentary exhibition, drumming circles and speed dating for teachers!

Baboro – festival coups and highlights
• Dutch dance pioneers Introdans for Youth present Black & White especially for Baboro - including dance pieces from the repertoire of internationally famed choreographers, Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon and William Forsythe, Robert Battle and Fernando Melo.
• Documentary Exhibition Champion of the Child tells the moving and inspiring story of Janusz Korczak (1879 -1942). A pioneer of children's rights and a key influence on the 1979 UN Convention on the Rights of a child, Korczak devoted his life to the rights and wellbeing of children, regardless of nationality or religion.
• La Baracca return due to popular demand from Italy with E poi…cadono! for one to four year olds that explores the magic of image, movement, light and sound with exquisite beauty and grace.
• The Musician, a chilling, horror opera, from Cahoots NI in Northern Ireland. The Musician reinvents the tale of the Pied Piper. With magic, dance and its very own orchestra, The Musician is written and composed by Conor Mitchell (recent collaborator with Pet Shops Boys and the Peter Hall Company).
• Circus INcognitus - a Baboro first. Jamie Adkins (pictured) from Canada (of Cirque Éloize & Cirque du Soleil) presents a pulsating and poetic feat involving slackwire, juggling and astounding acrobatics.
• ShakaBang – featuring Dermot Carmody and Morgan C Jones (International Improv & Newstalk's The Emergency) have created a hilarious live music and comedy show - There's a Snail in the Garden.
• Macnas will present The Explorer, a journey maker's story on the streets, in a house, garage warehouse on the moon or in a tree house in Galway.

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