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‘Tea & Technique’ - Working with an Artist in Youth Work Settings with Nichola Mooney: Rialto Youth Project

In the third of this four-part professional development series, NYCI’s Arts Programme will facilitate a conversation between Nichola Mooney, youth worker and Fiona Whelan, artist, who have been working together with young people from Rialto Youth Project in Dublin for eight years. For the first hour of the session, Nichola and Fiona will discuss their most recent work as part of What's the Story? Collective focusing particularly on  the relationship between artists, youth workers and young people, the collaborative process and the issues that emerged when the art work was taken outside of a local context. They will also talk about issues of sustainability in an art project and will identify the key features of their long term collaboration. For more information, see www.section8.ie

Date: Thursday 1st December 2011, 10.55-12.30 (approx)

Outline of session

10.55-11.00: Participants log-in to ADOBE Connect (pre registration required - tom@nyci.ie)

11.00-12.00: Main presentation from Nichola Mooney and Fiona Whelan

12.00-12.30: Q&A facilitated by Anne O’Gorman, NYCI

Location: Online                                       

To register to take part in this workshop please email: tom@nyci.ie. An ADOBE Connect weblink will then be circulated in advance for you to access on the day.

Youth arts can broadly be defined as young people taking part voluntarily in creative, cultural or expressive activity outside of the formal education process. It can encompass participation and appreciation, as well as engagement with arts work specifically created by, with or for young people.

Art in Their Lives, A Policy on Young People and the Arts. National Youth Council of Ireland (2003-2007)

"Where words fail, music speaks"
- Hans Christian Anderson