Youth Arts Toolkit – Value For Money and Policy – Communication Skills

October 18, 2016

The Condition of Others

I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of working collaboratively with artist Siobhan Mc Gibbons and the group from CAHMS Day hospital. Our final Goal of the project […]
May 13, 2016

Connecting our Past and Present

    Over the last three years my work has focused on two letters written during the week of the Easter Rising 1916. The work has […]
April 27, 2016

Why the Arts are Important!

Hiya to the youth work fraternity! Here is my tuppence worth, on my experience of delivering arts based programmes and why I think it is an […]
April 12, 2016

Talk About Youth Project, St Andrews Resource Centre

What is the value of the Arts in a Youth Work Context? Over the next four blogs the “Talk About Youth“ Project will profile their work […]
September 3, 2015

A Skills Perspective on Arts Education

We know that access to the Arts is important for Young People, but why? In this next series of blogs we have asked individuals from a […]
August 25, 2015

Why is Creativity Important and What Does it Contribute?

If you’ve landed on this page, you may also be interested in the SPARK Youth Arts Festival, taking place from February 20th – 24th!   Following […]
July 30, 2015

Taking Time to Reflect

In this blog, Jessica Carson shares some of the questions she uses to reflect on her work, what motivates and inspires her, and how to decide […]
November 12, 2014

A Youth Perspective

Our third blog in the international exchange series, sees brothers and film makers, Cian and Jack Desmond, talking exchanges, the Give+Take programme and even the odd […]
November 3, 2014

International Collaboration – Station Next

In this, our second blog in the International Exchange series, Nisse Koltz from Station Next in Denmark, discusses the value of meaningful international exchange to both […]