Youth Arts Toolkit

April 20, 2018

Introducing Visual Art

Introduction Using Art in Youth Work provides opportunities to encourage creativity and self-expression.  It presents new challenges and can expose people to new and exciting art forms. […]
March 15, 2018

Evaluating outcomes: How to use ‘Capturing Magic’

A Practical Guide to using NYCI’s ‘Capturing Magic’ – a tool for evaluating outcomes in youth arts projects in line with the National Quality Standards Framework […]
February 13, 2018

Capturing Magic: A Tool for Evaluating Outcomes in Youth Arts Projects

This resource will help you measure the outcomes of your youth arts project. This set of scales is specially designed to provide a series of observable behaviours in a group of young people taking part in an arts project.

October 18, 2017

What did I learn on the Certificate in Youth Arts?

The NUI Certificate in Youth Arts course gave me a lot of practical tools which I have brought into my own youth work practice. I have […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 30, 2016

The Condition of Others

The condition of others was a collaborative project between the Red Bird Youth Collective and two specially set up groups; Purple Lemon Oblivion and The Silent […]
September 19, 2016

Red Bird Youth Collective

Red Bird Youth Collective was fortunate to receive funding over two phases in 2015 for NYCI’s Artist in Youth Work Residency. NYCI had been on Galway […]
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 […]