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The National Youth Council of Ireland’s Arts Programme is a partnership approach to promoting and developing youth arts in Ireland.

Youth arts can broadly be defined as young people taking part voluntarily in creative, cultural or expressive activity outside of the formal education process. It can encompass participation and appreciation, as well as engagement with arts work specifically created by, with or for young people.

Art in Their Lives, A Policy on Young People and the Arts. National Youth Council of Ireland (2003-2007)

"Where words fail, music speaks"
- Hans Christian Anderson

Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs 
Funded by the Arts Council