Art facilitator Sheena Bleakney will be working with children from The Frank Gillen Centre, Divis, to bring a story of ‘bugs’ to life in a colourful stage performance! Sheena has been creating a wonderful story with the children using words and drawings to illustrate bug characters. These characters will have a very important message to convey to their audience about social diversity and bullying.
Venue : Crescent Arts Centre (Date and Time TBC so watch this space!) Here’s a sample of their work so far…..’A Bug’s Story’


Some bugs are short, some bugs are tall
some have got 8 legs, some none at all
some fat and round, a juicy snack for a cat
some long and lean and totally flat
some bugs are red, some in your bed
some in your soup or even in your head…
i like the bugs that have the boggly eyes
or the ones that glow in the dark, now thats a surprise!
i like the ones that are furry and crawl
and the ones that made Ms Muffet bawl and bawl
but there’s one little bug that had a hard time
for he wasn’t pretty, and the others were unkind
‘hey, you’ said the butterfly as she spread her wings
‘where are your colours? you plain little thing’
‘oi, you’ said the snail with his house on his back
‘you are very useless, a dwelling you lack’
‘meh’ said the ladybird, counting her spots
‘what do you do all day, if you can’t play dot to dot?’
the teasing went on for a day and a night
and the little woodlouse had lost all his fight
he felt all alone in a big bad world
so he scuttled off into a corner, around himself he curled.
and so the next day, the sun shone bright
out popped the caterpillars, the beetles and the bees took flight
each had a purpose, each had a tool
the woodlouse felt like a bit of a fool.
but the next thing that happened was totally crazy…..