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Relationships

Relationships are an effective mechanism for getting young people involved in positive activities through valued personal relationships with peers, adults or siblings. A beneficial change in young people’s relationships with other adults through their participation in positive activities can be transferred to academic learning and may lead to better outcomes.

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    Ciarda Tobin - Fresh Film Festival
    30 October, 2014

    In 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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    Dave Kelly
    16 September, 2014

    In this, our final blog, in the series examining how young people in arts groups have made the transition from being a member to becoming a leader, Youth Theatre Professional David Kelly, charts his journey from a school production in Ballymun to the Artistic Directorship of Dublin Youth Theatre.

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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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    Galway Community Circus
    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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    Mary Amond O Brien
    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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  • 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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    Canal Communities Youth Service
    28 April, 2014

    The Artist

    Joe Coveney

    Joseph Coveney has a B.A. in Fine Art Painting from N.C.A.D and an M.A in Sculpture from Winchester School of Art. Since 2007 he has divided his time between attending international residencies, exhibiting and working with groups of young people. In 2013 he was awarded a scholarship to The Domus Academy in Milan and is currently working towards an M.A in Product Design.

     

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    Canal Communities Youth Service
    16 April, 2014

    In this series of blogs from Bluebell Youth Project, we hear the perspectives of both Artist and Youth Worker as they discuss both the low and high points of a year -long residency.

    Blog 1

    The Youth Work Perspective

    Bronagh O’Neill

     

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    John Johnston, Artist Educator
    24 February, 2014

     

    Sometimes even the most straight forward arts process with young people can end up saying some pretty remarkable things. In this, his third blog John Johnston discusses the importance of meaningful engagement with young people and the outcomes that may emerge.

     

     

    Little Publics

     

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