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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Resilience and determination
Resilience and determination – If society intervenes early enough, it can improve cognitive and socio-emotional abilities and the health of disadvantaged children. Effective early interventions can promote schooling, reduce crime, foster workforce productivity and reduce teenage pregnancy. Self-discipline has been highlighted as a vital factor in building academic achievement, significantly better than IQ.
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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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26 June, 2014Choir 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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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.
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28 April, 2014The 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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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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9 April, 2014Comic Strip Blogs
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be asking a number of artists to discuss and describe their work using the fun and familiar format of comic strips.
In this, our first in the series of Comic Strip Blogs , artist Maeve Clancy discusses her practice and highlights the techniques that she feels are important to employ when delivering work with young people.
