Youth Arts Programme

<p>Voice work is a great tool to build confidence. Max Hafler will give you the tools to engage a youth group in a fun, lively project that will enhance their confidence in their own voice. This workshop day is a nuts and bolts map to creating a piece in which voice and sound will be a significant component, though there will also be an emphasis on freeing the body in order to make speech freer and easier.</p><p><strong>Date:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 09:00</p><p><strong>Training</strong></p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This workshop will help you understand your voice as one of the major building blocks of communicating, primarily through using the body to find means of expression</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The workshop will be rooted in team-work, connecting with peers and working together that can then be transferred to your own youth work setting.</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Participants will come away with practical skills in expression, rhythm, diction, and breathing in particular, so they can apply many elements of this workshop to their own youth work setting.</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Freeing the voice and learning how to use it is such a crucial element of the way we communicate and helps with a whole range of life situations.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Training Day in Detail</strong></p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The first part of the day will explore your own voice and how you can encourage more openness in working with breath, diction, resonance, words and phrases and how we feel about them.</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The second block of the day will explore how you encourage your young people through fun and accessible exercises to make a piece through with rhythm and writing a few sentences about a theme.</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The third block of time is focussed on how you as a facilitator can develop and improve their pieces perhaps even for a small scale performance.</p><p><strong>Tutor, Max Hafler</strong>&nbsp;is a voice, devising and acting teacher who specialises in the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. He has taught voice and acting to youth theatre (including leading a national workshop programme to youth theatre across the country for three years)&nbsp; and has developed voice programmes for a wide variety of student groups, youth theatre, and particular needs groups like the Blue Teapots and the DPOC. His book aimed at teachers and youth workers,<em>Teaching Voice,</em>&nbsp;published by Nick Hern Books will be available in June.</p><p><strong>Booking Link:&nbsp;</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/getting-started-in-voice-tickets-2272799203... area:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Arts</p>

<p>Drama for Dialogue is a structured drama programme which youth workers will be introduced to and given the expertise to deliver. The 2 day training will give participants the skills and confidence to engage a youth group through drama methods on issues that are of concern to them and work out solutions for change. During the training participants will have the opportunity to step out of the programme, reflect on the drama methods and examine how they may include it in their own work practice.</p><p>This programme can be run in your organisation or with a group of workers from different projects within your area/organisation.</p><p>Participants will be given resource material which will support them in their work after the training.&nbsp; In addition, mentoring support will be offered to participants by the NYCI tutor Niamh Dillon.</p><p><strong><em>'The fact that the class was student led made a difference. We learnt useful things because we were talking about our stuff.' Young participant’s comment on the programme.</em></strong></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Cost €400</strong>&nbsp; (2 day training for 8-20 youth workers)</p><p><strong>For more information contact Niamh Dillon at NYCI&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:Niamh@nyci.ie">Niamh@nyci.ie</a>&nbsp;01-4784122.</strong></p>

<p>New Laureate na nÓg to be announced on 17 May</p><p>The fourth Laureate na nÓg will be announced at a special reception in the Arts Council on 17 May.</p><p>Laureate na nÓg is an exciting initiative established in 2010 to honour a significant children's writer or illustrator while also recognising the role and importance of literature for children.</p><p>The first Laureate na nÓg was Siobhán Parkinson, followed by Niamh Sharkey and most recently Eoin Colfer. Over the course of his laureateship, Eoin led a nationwide storytelling tour with Once Upon a Place, bringing stories to children all over Ireland, while also commissioning an anthology of stories and poems for children.</p><p>Following an extensive selection process, the fourth person to be awarded this unique honour will be announced at a special reception in the Arts Council on 17 May.</p><p>The new Laureate will hold the position for two years and will participate in selected events and initiatives all across the country.&nbsp;<br><br>Further details will be available at&nbsp;<a href="http://newsletter.artscouncil.ie/1l49nd2csdk-1xmqf0b5lh?a=6&amp;p=502164... 17 May.<br><br><em>Laureate na nÓg is an initiative of the Arts Council with the support of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Children's Books Ireland, Poetry Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.</em></p>

<p>PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is a joint initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that invites the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on the <strong>themes of migration, diversity and social inclusion</strong>. By supporting the distribution of youth-produced media, PLURAL+ recognizes youth as powerful agents of positive social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions.</p><p>The PLURAL+ Video Festival is for youth. Anyone can enter the Video Festival as long as they are maximum of 25 years old at the time of production of the video. &nbsp;All entries must be received by Midnight (New York City Time, GMT -5hours) on May 29, 2016!&nbsp;</p><p>Your video should be about migration, diversity and social inclusion – three things that are very important in our globalizing world. The PLURAL+ Video Festival wants to know&nbsp;what you think about things like migrant integration, inclusiveness, identity, diversity, human rights and social unity.</p><p>PLURAL+ encourages creativity in submissions for the Video Festival. Your video can be done in any style or genre – animation, documentary, drama, music video, comedy etc. – whatever you decide best represents what you think about migration, diversity and social inclusion.</p><p>Videos must be between 1 and 5 minutes long, including title and end credits. Any submissions falling outside of this time restraint will not be considered.</p><p>Check out the <u><a href="http://pluralplus.unaoc.org/" target="_blank">Plural+ website</a></u> to learn more. &nbsp;Click here to <u><a href="http://pluralplus.unaoc.org/plural-entry-form/" target="_blank">Submit a Video</a></u> or see the <u><a href="http://pluralplus.unaoc.org/submit/rules/" target="_blank">Rules and Regulations</a></u>.</p>