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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Outcome 1: Active and healthy, physical and mental well-being
Objective 1 Young people enjoy a healthy lifestyle, in particular with regard to their physical, mental and sexual health and well-being.
Objective 2 Young people benefit from involvement in recreational and cultural opportunities including youth work, arts, and sports.
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6 June, 2015In this blog, as the ‘Sing and Shine’ programme draws to a close, we talk to Mary Amond O’Brien about the positive impact that this project has had on the young people participating.
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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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30 October, 2014In this our first blog from Fresh Film Festival, Festival Manager, Ciarda Tobin, discusses the value of international collaboration and exchange in celebrating and developing the work of young film makers.
Fresh Film Festival is a national film festival for filmmakers aged 7 to 18. Encouraging young people to make films is what we are all about. Earlier this year, we celebrated our 18th festival in the company of young filmmakers from Belgium, The Netherlands, Wales, Denmark, Croatia, Greece, USA and Hungary.
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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 -
20 August, 2014
Circus is the third art form that we are profiling in this blog series, examining how young people in arts groups have made the transition from being a member to becoming a leader. Here Ulla Hokkanen, Circus Director at Galway Community Circus and ex-member and leader Blue Hanley, discuss their love for their art form, why they do what they do and plans for the future.
Ulla Hokkanen
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7 July, 2014
I was very happily teaching piano in Bennekerry primary school in Carlow, when Trudi Shannon the principal approached me about forming a school choir. I had some experience of singing in choirs and could sing well, but I had never thought about leading one.
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21 May, 2014My 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.