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Temple Bar Tradfest:Full marks to the organisers of this weekend's Temple Bar Tradfest for broadening out the range of events and for having a full and very varied children's programme.

Dublin’s urban farm at Airfield in Dundrum is coming to town – or some of it at least. Farmer Eamon is bringing goats, sheep, hens and calves into Temple Bar (at the bottom of Cows Lane, naturally!). Visit them between noon and 4pm, today and tomorrow, and ask Eamon any question you like about how to keep these animals and what’s it like to be an urban farmer.

Today at the Ark, the children’s cultural centre, learn how to make a wool angel (12.30pm to 1.45pm), a St Brigid’s Cross (2pm to 2.45pm), or some butter (3pm to 3.45pm).

At Fownes Street, the Siamsa Cois Life (fun beside the Liffey) stage will feature young performers from all over the country, including music and dance schools as well as professional sean nós performers. From 12.30pm today and tomorrow.

Throughout the weekend, street performers will be wandering through the area.

Watch out for a pair of leaping salmon (who dance their way through the streets); two fiddling foxes, a quartet of giant trad musicians and the amazing stilt-walking swans.

* templebartrad.com