Youth Arts Toolkit – National Youth Strategy – Outcome 5

November 15, 2016

Stepping Up Project

Over the summer I worked with a group on the Stepping up Project. The group of young people were involved with Youth Work Ireland Tipperary in […]
September 19, 2016

A view from our perspective

First Timers… It was our first time experience for both of us in getting involved in an Art Project with young people, here is a brief […]
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 […]
March 21, 2016

The role of the Arts in Environmental Education

Across the globe, educators, scientists, musicians and artists have been collaborating in the development of innovative ways to engage young people with the natural world. The […]
January 18, 2016

My Culture, My London

In a recent speech to a delegation of London teachers, our Chair Professor Maggie Atkinson, former Children’s Commissioner for England, talked about culture being ‘done unto’ […]
December 14, 2015

Intergenerational Youth Arts Practice II

Brigitta describes her experience of Intergenerational work and explains just how important she feels it is for local communities to deliver programmes that pro-actively make connections […]
December 14, 2015

Intergenerational Youth Arts Practice – Part 1

Have you ever thought about the benefits that Intergenerational work could bring to the young people in your group? The next two blogs, profile a long […]
August 18, 2015

Creativity, Resilience and Global Citizenship

In January of this year my colleague Nora Furlong and I hosted a programme in CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in collaboration with Youth […]