CDYSB pop up art exhibition 03/03/2023

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HISTORY

 The ‘Alice in Blanchardstown’ Project was a tribute to Alice in wonderland which in 2015 celebrated its 150^th Anniversary of publication. The Reverend Charles Dodgson, a shy and reserved maths professor better known as Lewis Carrol wrote the original story in 1862. Its main character was inspired by real life Alice Lidell the daughter of the Dean of Christ church college which Carrol worked in. Carrol asked John Tenniel, an illustrator who work for punch magazine at the time, to illustrate the book and the rest is history.

PROJECT

work on ‘Alice in Blanchardstown’ began in summer 2017 as part of a summer project. Funding for the materials was successfully applied for from the 'Creative Ireland' grant scheme managed by the local Council. this allowed for the contination of the work in school.

  

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 Transition year students got busy from September 2017 putting together characters, cards and props for display in a parade.

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ONE BOOK 

A ‘One Book One Community’ element to the project, for this was used a version written by Susie Linn and illustrated by Alexandra Ball with a lot of help we found enough copies to get around the five schools who participated in the project. The book having been published itself to mark 150 years of Alice makes the story accessible to younger generation.

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First full dress rehearsal 

One Freezing cold day in March

                           

 

The project was a pleasure to work on, for further info on it you can click here to go to the facebook page.