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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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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30 March, 2016Across the globe, educators, scientists, musicians and artists have been collaborating in the development of innovative ways to engage young people with the natural world. The use of music, art, creative writing and poetry has been employed to encourage full sensory engagement with environmental education. A fundamental premise of this approach is that greater sensitivity to the environment and a more integrated grasp of scientific knowledge can be developed in young people through artistic activities.
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14 December, 2015Brigitta describes her experience of Intergenerational work and explains just how important she feels it is for local communities to deliver programmes that pro-actively make connections between different generations of people.
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14 December, 2016Have you ever thought about the benefits that Intergenerational work could bring to the young people in your group? The next two blogs, profile a long term intergenerational programme of work that has been delivered by The Sligo Arts Service since 1998.
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25 August, 2015Following on from last week’s blog, this second reflection developed by youth workers and artists in Cork as part of the Creativity and Change programme is on the role of creativity in contributing to the competences, values, attitudes and characteristics we want to nurture in ourselves and others to grow as global citizens.
The reflections were not just theory. Thirty people immersed themselves in creativity, reflection and connection to each other. The following reflections emerge from this shared experience.
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30 July, 2015
In this blog, Jessica Carson shares some of the questions she uses to reflect on her work, what motivates and inspires her, and how to decide into which projects to invest her passion:
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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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20 November, 2014Where can you find one hundred egg boxes… or a thousand buttons… or any of the other things that show up on the list of requirements for a craft project or from the artist you’ve been lucky enough to contract for your project with young people?
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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.