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Young person’s Perspective

  • Erin Gormley
    18 October, 2017

    I 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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  • Conor Heffernan - Sing and Shine Project

    In this blog, Conor Heffernan tells us about being inside the Sing and Shine Project  (a health, wellbeing project developed by Aspiro which took place in Carlow).

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    Desmond Brothers Productions
    12 November, 2014

    Our third blog in the international exchange series, sees brothers and film makers, Cian and Jack Desmond, talking exchanges, the Give+Take programme and even the odd TV programme!

    Young Filmmakers, Desmond Bros Productions, Cork.

    In January, I received word from our friends at Fresh Film Festival that Give + Take was back, and yes, I was invited. This was good news. Last year was highly enjoyable and educative, and I definitely got a lot out of the experience.

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    Galway Community Circus

    Blue Hanley is a tutor with Galway Community Circus. She is 21 and from Galway.She is a NUI Galway student of Irish, Psychology and Theatre, who works as circus tutor, performer, theatre front of house staff, scholar and general circusser.
    Often appears in random countries. Drinker of tea, reader of books, doer of things

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  • Karen Kelly, Aspiro Youth Choir
    26 June, 2014

     

    Choir is the second art form that we have chosen to profile in this blog series, examining how young people in arts groups have made the transition from being a member to becoming a leader. In the following two blogs, Artistic Director Mary Amond O’Brien and ex-member and leader Karen Kelly of Aspiro in Carlow, discuss work, the ongoing development of their group and of course the role that they now play within it.

     

    That Little Extra

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  • Fionn McNeill
    21 May, 2014

     

    My name is Fionn McNeill, I am 16 years old and I one of the oldest attending members of Company B, the all-male contemporary Dance Group.

     

    When I was younger, I tried to get myself involved in sport to keep fit and active. Sport seemed to be the only thing that guys did in their spare time and being good at sport always seemed to make you popular. But no matter how many different sports I tried (or how good I was at them), I just never seemed to enjoy them that much.

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    Jen Hesnan, Arts Facilitator

    In this, her first blog, artist and musician Jen Hesnan reflects on the personalities and influences that inspired and gently encouraged her to become a community arts facilitator, highlighting the significant impact that exposure to quality arts experiences had on her life as a young person growing up in Galway.

     

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