We know that access to the Arts Is important for Young People, but why?
In this next series of blogs we have asked individuals from a broad spectrum of organisations to discuss a piece of research or writing that they feel highlights the importance of Young People’s engagement with the Arts.
Our first contributor, Dirk Van Damme, from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) discusses their 2013 publication Art for Arts Sake?
A skills perspective on arts (education)
In our third funding blog, Seóna Ní Bhriain, head of the Children, Young People and Education Department in the Arts Council, discusses the role and priorities that the Arts Council have when it comes to assessing funding applications for children and young people.
In this blog, Anne O'Gorman, Senior Project Officer for Youth Arts in NYCI, shares her thoughts on funding applications based on her experience with the Artist in Youth Work Residency Scheme, which the programme administers on behalf of the Arts Council.
In 2015, NYAP’s Youth Arts Blog will be asking a series of funders about why and how they fund Arts Programmes for young people.
In this our first funding blog of 2015, Jordan Campbell from the Ireland Funds discusses some of the recent programmes that they have funded and gives us an insight into just what the Ireland Funds are looking for in a funding application.
