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Creativity & Change: CIT Accredited Award now open for applications

Date posted: 14 June 2017

The Creativity & Change CIT Level 9 Accredited Special Purpose Award is now open for applications for the 2017/18 academic year. The programme targets educators, text to replace with change-makers, activists, artists, community workers, adult educators, youth workers, volunteers and anyone who is interested in how creative engagement can nurture global citizenship and empathic action around local and global justice themes.

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Event

Gamelan Spréacha Geala events in West Cork this June

Date posted: 12 June 2017

Image shown: Gamelan set

West Cork’s newly formed Gamelan Spréacha Geala, text to replace with (translating as ‘Bright Sparks’ Gamelan) will be part of two events in June 2017, which are free and open to all ages. The gamelan is a spectacular set of tuned bronze percussion instruments played by an ensemble of up to 20 musicians. A ‘chamber version’ of Gamelan Spréacha Geala will be visiting The Clonakilty Organic Arts Festival on 18 June and there will be an open workshop and performance on Wednesday 21 June to celebrate World Music Day. Read More

News

Thursday’s Child

Date posted: 9 June 2017

Image shown: The launch of 'Thursday’s Child' by Liz McCue at Waterford Healing Arts Trust on 8 June with (l-r) Claire Meaney, Acting Arts Director, Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT), Dr Sean Leavey, Consultant Nephrologist, University Hospital Waterford, author Liz McCue and artist Philip Cullen.

Renal dialysis patient Liz McCue was described as ‘a pioneer in the work she has done’ by Dr Sean Leavey, text to replace with Consultant Nephrologist at University Hospital Waterford, as he officially launched her autobiography Thursday’s Child – Stories of survival from a feisty renal warrior, at Waterford Healing Arts Trust on 8 June 2017.   Read More

Opportunity

Children’s Hospital Group Public Art Programme – Call for Expressions of Interest in Research and Development Phase

Date posted: 9 June 2017

Image shown: Model of the new children’s hospital

The Children’s Hospital Group (CHG) invites Expressions of Interest from experienced artists to enter into a phase of Research and Development between August and October 2017 leading to proposals for a range of ambitious artworks that will be integrated into the new children’s hospital public realm spaces and its Paediatric Outpatient and Urgent Care Centres. Read More

Event

The Public Age Meeting House

Date posted: 8 June 2017

Image shown: The Public Age Project

Public Age is a project commissioned by the dlrCountyCouncil / HSE Arts and Health Partnership that reveals the importance of well-designed public space to the health and wellbeing of positive ageing. On 10 June 2017, text to replace with  The Decorators (a UK based design practice) and artist Joe Coveney invite you to think and talk about how you relate to public space as you grow older within Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County. This is a special event coinciding with the UCD Festival 2017. Read More

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