Over the summer I worked with a group on the Stepping up Project. The group of young people were involved with Youth Work Ireland Tipperary in Tipp Town.
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18 October, 2017I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of working collaboratively with artist Siobhan Mc Gibbons and the group from CAHMS Day hospital. Our final Goal of the project was to create a collaborative exhibition that would bring together the different personalities and styles of each artist.
ln my opinion, we certainly achieved this, despite the fact we had no means of communication with the other group. We couldn't meet or talk to each other - in order to preserve our own identities and to show how they relate to the external world and surroundings that we live in.
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If you look up 100 Francis Street on Google maps, you'll see Liz O'Connor sitting outside. Liz is the heart and soul of the Liberties Breakfast & After School Club. This is a place with a face, although its places and faces are shifting, as it had to move here from its previous premises down the street and, each school year, different kids come and go.
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Over the last three years my work has focused on two letters written during the week of the Easter Rising 1916. The work has taken many different forms and will be finishing as a piece of community street performance created in collaboration the Youth Project in St Andrews Resource Centre.
One element of the project was to work with young people to look at how Ireland today relates to the Proclamation that was written 100 years ago.
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27 April, 2016Hiya to the youth work fraternity!
Here is my tuppence worth, on my experience of delivering arts based programmes and why I think it is an important methodology for working with young people:
A lot of people will react to the mention of the arts like herself in the cartoon above, sometimes it isn’t taken too seriously and quite often one is met with “ oh that arty farty stuff, sure they’re all a bit airy fairy”. I never allowed such thinking to prevent me delivering programmes.
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14 April, 2016What is the value of the Arts in a Youth Work Context? Over the next four blogs the “Talk About Youth“ Project will profile their work for us, discussing in the process their response to this fundamental question.
I am currently working as a Youth Worker in the ‘Talk About Youth Project’ which is housed in St Andrews Resource Centre, Pearse Street. I have worked in the youth project for the past 8 years, however, I have been in the field for the past 20 years. I have always recognised the power of Youth Arts and its use within the youth sector.
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15 April, 2015Why do I work with children through the arts?
I work with children and young people through the arts for two reasons: first, it’s an area and methodology in which I’m deeply interested in and relatively skilled; second, many of the benefits that children experience from engaging in a creative process overlap with the outcomes we hope to generate through our direct work with them.
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23 March, 2015Why deliver Arts Programmes for young people? For this series of blogs, we decided to ask some experienced youth workers, who are at the coal face of youth work, to discuss both their rationale and motivation for trying to engage the young people in the Arts.
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30 March, 2015In this blog, Youth Worker Emma O’Brien, discusses her motivation for delivering arts programmes with young people, also explaining in the process, the importance of defining roles when engaging an artist to work with young people in a youth work context.
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3 November, 2014In this, our second blog in the International Exchange series, Nisse Koltz from Station Next in Denmark, discusses the value of meaningful international exchange to both his organization and its students.