Arts + Health

Student Placements – Cork County Arts & Library Service (REF 002)

The Arts & Health Student Training Portal provides student artists with volunteer placement opportunities to support and learn from a professional artist on an existing arts programme with a health or social care service. The goal is to provide live industry experience to students interested in participatory arts practice with healthcare communities.

The pilot initiative is taking place in Cork City and County in the academic year 2024/25. Placements are available to students across all artforms attending MTU (Cork campuses) and Cork College of FET.

The Arts & Health Student Training Portal is a partnership between HSE Cork Kerry Community Healthcare, artsandhealth.ie, Cork Education and Training Board, Munster Technological University, and participating cultural providers in Cork.

REF 002: Cork County Arts & Library Service

Placement Provider
The Arts Service works with artists, organisations, participants and audiences of all ages throughout the county of Cork. The service facilitates funding and also directly programmes projects, events and activities in all art forms.

The Arts Service is one of the partners on the Arts for Health Partnership Programme, West Cork. It also coordinates concerts in Community Hospitals and Nursing Homes across the county for older people, their families and healthcare staff to enjoy. In 2023, the Arts Service worked with Creative Ireland to pilot a social prescription programme across the county.

Website: https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/arts

Programme
Participatory and audience-based programming for adults in healthcare and community settings

Location of Service
All of Cork County

Artform Area
Visual Arts, Music, Literature, Arts Administration

Healthcare Service
Older People – Residential Care
Older People – Day Care
Health & Wellbeing
Staff Wellbeing

Programme Description
The Arts Service provides a range of participatory and audience-based programming for adults in healthcare settings throughout the county.

The service also runs ‘Make or Break’, a programme for organisations across Cork and Kerry to provide creative workshops for employees, with the aim of boosting mental health and wellbeing.

Healthcare Hoolies focus on providing high quality music concerts in healthcare settings. There are also a range of visual art and literature workshop programme opportunities in libraries with the aim of supporting mental health and wellbeing.

Placement Details

Duration
Flexible: January – end of May, with a greater concentration of events in May for the Bealtaine Festival.

Format
Flexible:
Bi-Weekly Sessions (two sessions per week)
Weekly Sessions
Fortnightly Sessions
Once off sessions

Length of Session
Average engagement time with participants: 45 – 90 minutes

Online training required in advance of placement
Vulnerable adult safeguarding

In-person training provided during placement
Induction

Stipend for Lunch
Yes

Stipend for Travel 
Yes

Placement Supervisor
Maeve Mulrennan, Assistant Arts Officer

Deadline for applications: Monday 16 December at 5pm 

Placements are available for students across the art forms listed above.

Notification process

Students will receive an email notification that their submission has been received.

Cork County Arts Service will confirm if your placement has been provisionally been accepted by Thursday 19 December 2024.

Students must then notify their education placement co-ordinator.

Please note that once provisionally accepted, a student will be required to submit additional information to the placement provider, including referee details. The placement will officially be confirmed following an in-person interview.

Student Criteria

Students must fulfil the following criteria:

  • Applicants must be over 18
  • Applicants must be attending Munster Technological University (Cork campuses) or Cork College of FET in the academic year 2024/25
  • This placement is for student artists across all artforms – the focus of these placements is on participatory methodologies and workplace practices rather than artistic discipline.

How to Apply

Please fill out the online Expression of Interest (EOI) Form “Students Placements in Arts & Health”:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JDDVPTS

Please include the reference number for this placement: 002 

Applicants will be required to upload their CV to the online EOI form.

Queries
If you have queries in relation to this placement, please contact Maeve Mulrennan, Assistant Arts Officer with the reference number (002): maeve.mulrennan@corkcoco.ie

If you have queries in relation to the EOI submission form, please contact: info@artsandhealth.ie

We aim to make the application process accessible to all students. If you require additional support in applying for this placement, please email info@artsandhealth.ie

Image courtesy of Cork County Arts & Library Service

Take part! WHO Survey on the role of the arts and arts therapies in supporting youth mental health

The Jameel Arts & Health Lab, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, is embarking on a series of arts and health policy briefs to synthesize evidence and share examples of how engaging in the arts contribute to health and wellbeing across the lifespan and across settings.

The next policy brief will focus on the role of the arts and arts therapies in supporting youth mental health. The brief will include a review of literature, case examples, and expert perspectives.

Be a part of the process by sharing examples of artistic projects and relevant resources that may be included in the policy brief.

This open call is an invitation for everyone — artists, creative arts therapists, health practitioners and cultural workers far and wide.

The deadline to complete the form is 30 November 2024.

Complete the form here: https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aV3zeDITvH9eNUy

Call for Project Co-ordinator: Shared Island Creative Health & Wellbeing Project

Creative Ireland Kerry within Kerry County Council is seeking a project co-ordinator to deliver Weaving Worlds Together, a Shared Island Creative Health and Wellbeing Project. The project is being delivered in collaboration with the Family Resource Centres National Forum, The Healthy Living Centre Alliance in Northern Ireland and HSE South West.

Kerry County Council wish to contract an experienced project co-ordinator to lead this new creative initiative on a 30+ hours per week basis in early 2025. There is a requirement to front load hours to establish the project. The expected contact hours will be reduced to 20+ hours per week for approx. 40 weeks in 2025.

The Project Co-ordinator role will operate as a contract of service between the contractor and Creative Ireland Kerry. Work on this project will require flexibility and travel between County Kerry and Northern Ireland across a number of centres.

Remuneration 
The total budget for the contract of services will not exceed €25,000 exclusive of VAT but inclusive of any other expenses incurred in connection with the delivery of services. Submissions are sought for this contract of service with quotes of daily rates and hours provided.

Project Description 
The focus of Weaving Worlds Together is the preservation of traditional Irish crafts on the island of Ireland. Key to this project is providing opportunities for members of our communities, North and South, to support their health and wellbeing through opportunities to engage with creativity in their community and through a North/South collaboration. It is targeted at people who are engaging with Social Prescribing Services.

Social Prescribing endeavours to support people with issues such as social isolation, anxiety, loneliness, and inactivity, which negatively affect health and wellbeing. It offers a holistic approach to these issues through empowerment, achieved through engagement in meaningful social activities and community participation. Linking with creativity enables improved health and wellbeing. The clients from each centre will be service users of their social prescribing services. The social prescribing staff will liaise with and support their service users to partake in the programme.

The project will have a focus on traditional Irish craft work including but not limited to: basket weaving/willow weaving, ceramics, textiles, woodworking, knitting/crochet, and crafts from Traveller culture. The pieces created will build up to an exhibition that can tour Kerry and Northern counties.

The project endeavours to build on the culture of traditional Irish crafts and highlight the significant role they played in bringing communities together. The project should reflect that in modern times these crafts can reduce social isolation and boost mental wellbeing while sharing the heritage of Ireland as a whole island in the practice of making together.

How to Apply
Download the project brief which includes role specification and the application process: https://www.artsandhealth.ie/assets/uploads/2024/11/Project-Coordinator-RFQ-Creative-Health-and-Wellbeing-Shared-Island-project.pdf

Deadline for applications 
Submissions must be emailed to arts@kerrycoco.ie by 5pm on 4 December 2024 with the subject line ‘Project Coordinator – Weaving Worlds Together’.

arts.kerrycoco.ie

Project artists sought for Ignite cross-border community programme

Arts Care, Northern Ireland’s leading Arts in Health organisation, is seeking three artists for the Ignite Community Programme, a four-year social innovation programme which will take place across Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland.

Project Background & Overview 
Arts Care delivers a wide range of participatory and commissioned arts programmes to people of all ages in health and social care and community settings across Northern Ireland.

The Ignite Community Programme is a four-year social innovation programme led by Young Social Innovators (YSI), supported by the PEACEPLUS Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). The Ignite Community Programme aims to enable young people to drive and own innovations that will make a real difference in tackling inequality and creating new connections across communities.

Arts Care’s element of the project is utilising the arts as a platform for this. The project will be delivered across the six counties of Northern Ireland and the border counties of The Republic of Ireland.

Key aspects of the role:

  • The key role of the Project Artist will be to facilitate groups of young people including delivering a series of art projects in line with the YSI social innovation framework. This can be in the artist’s chosen art form, including but not limited to visual art, music, dance, creative writing, drama and multidisciplinary arts.
  • Design and deliver artistic taster sessions and master classes for young people through project partners.
  • Undertake YSI Youth Leader training in order to deliver the project curriculum.
  • Work towards a showcase of art or performance related to their social innovation with each cohort of young people.
  • Work with the Project Officer to plan and deliver a series of artistic showcases.
  • Work closely with the Project Officer to coordinate the logistics and administration around the sessions, including booking venues, ordering materials and fostering good relationships and communication with youth leaders and partners.
  • Ensure the accurate maintenance and compilation of monitoring records for both quantitative and qualitative data, including expenditures.
  • Collate feedback from each cohort of young people and compile for evaluation.
  • Contribute to the upkeep and curation of Arts Care’s Creative Space / Gallery as a key venue for Ignite Community youth activity.

Essential Criteria

  • Hold a third level qualification relevant to the post and have two years’ experience facilitating art sessions with young people. This could encompass various artforms.
  • OR Have a minimum of five years’ experience facilitating art sessions for young people. This could encompass various artforms.
  • AND Hold a current driving licence (valid in the UK) and have access to a car. *

*This criterion will be waived in the case of an applicant with a disability which debars them from driving a car, but who is able to make suitable alternative arrangements which enables them to perform the full range of duties associated with the post.

Desirable Criteria
Experience working within a budget and keeping accurate monitoring records.

Salary
£27,200 pro rata (with incremental increase each year for the 4-year project)

Part Time 
18.75 hours per week for duration of the 4-year project. The post holder may be required to adopt a flexible working pattern outside of regular office hours to meet the programme’s delivery needs.

Location
There will be a requirement to travel to deliver the Ignite Programme across Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of The Republic of Ireland including at the base in Connswater Shopping Centre. Travel costs will be provided.

Responsible to: 
Project Officer, Ignite Community Programme

Closing date
29 November 2024 at 5pm.
Applications submitted after this deadline will not be accepted.

HOW TO APPLY

Expressions of Interest must include the following:

  • A covering letter (maximum 500 words) explaining why you are suitable for this role and why it appeals to you.
  • A CV demonstrating your experience directly relevant to this role, details of two referees and any notice period from current employment.
  • Images/sound clips and or videos and descriptions of at least two previous relevant projects (two images/ pieces of footage).
  • All the above should be uploaded on the Survey Monkey link provided below:

Ignite Community Programme Project Artist Application Survey

At the initial stage of the selection process the candidate will be asked to facilitate an arts workshop. Successful candidates will then be invited to an interview.

Please note that should a large number of applicants meet the criteria for this post Arts Care reserves the right to limit the number of interviews offered to those who best meet the essential and desirable criteria.

https://www.artscare.co.uk/project-artist-ignite

New Report Highlights Potential of Singing on Wellbeing of Young Refugees

Sing Up Foundation has published a new report, ‘Then the dream started to be more’: Singing and Music-Making with Refugee Children and Unaccompanied Minors: Insights From Research and Practice.

This report is a literature review, thematic analysis of interviews and collection of case studies commissioned by Sing Up Foundation from a team led by Dr Hala Jaber with Dr Fran Garry and Professor Helen Phelan from the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

This report carefully considers the very challenging lives of refugee children and unaccompanied minors whilst highlighting the impact of singing and music-making. It makes recommendations which have been used to create a three-year project to further grow this work.

The report is available for download from the Sing Up Foundation website:  https://www.singupfoundation.org/exploring-effective-practice/singing-with-young-refugees

Report Outcomes 

Alongside learnings from an extensive literature review, the researchers conducted interviews with several organisations working in this field including Fairbeats, Music Action International, Surrey Arts, Together Productions and international partners working in refugee camps that had been involved with the British Council’s World Voice project.

From these interviews, a picture emerged of the challenges of this work, the need for facilitators to be well-trained and supported, the importance of carefully curated safe musical spaces and the great outcomes that this work can bring about in the lives of these very vulnerable young people.

In terms of the benefits of singing and music-making, the literature review found that this activity has the potential to support many activities that can influence a young refugee’s life such as supporting social cohesion and language acquisition. The interviews further established the ability for these singing and music-making sessions to support the children’s mental health and wellbeing by supporting them to feel free, be part of something, feel valued, feel safe and create outlets for their energy.

The report also explores the wide-ranging circumstances and contexts of the lives of these young refugees, which can range from living in camps in unsafe and unstable conditions, to seeking asylum and living in more protected environments but still under a cloud of uncertainty, to having full refugee status with access to education, housing and a full range of support.

All of these external circumstances can have an effect on these young children’s lives and their ability to access and engage with music-making activity. Given these contexts, the report highlights the need for music leaders and facilitators to have appropriate training to deliver these sessions and to have psychological support to deal with and manage the effect that working in these environments can have on their own lives.

Notably, the title of the report comes directly from a quote from a participant and as the report concludes, “For many people caught up in the realities of living as a refugee, daily survival requires high levels of engagement and energy. Finding space to be creative and expressive within this context helps connect memories of the past with the ability to imagine a future, to move beyond the momentary to the possible. As one participant noted: ‘Then the dream started to be more’.”

Recommendations from the report

With all the complexities and contexts within which singing and music-making occur in this research, no singular approach can be identified as ‘best’. Best practice, in this context, is presented as what people and publications have identified as most effective, viable, ethical and enriching.

Four key recommendations to support best practice extrapolated from this work include:

  • The need for appropriate training and resources to support those working with refugee and migrant young people.
  • Informed and considered creation of the music space/workshop.
  • Psychological support for facilitators.
  • Support and resources for evaluation and research.

Three key recommendations for further research include:

  • The inclusion of children’s voices in longitudinal research.
  • The development of a user-friendly evaluation framework for organisations.
  • Supporting the development of networks and interdisciplinary partnerships for further research, training and capacity building.

The report also determines that “Building an evidence base for best practice in music and singing programmes for refugee children and unaccompanied minors is essential to ethical, sustainable and creative delivery. This report offers an insight into current and best practice and a springboard into future, shared work and research.”

Three-year action research project

Building upon the report and its learnings, the Sing Up Foundation has developed a longitudinal three-year action research project with Surrey Arts that will make major strides in building and disseminating a model for vocal work with young refugees and unaccompanied minors in the UK and beyond and are currently seeking funds to support the project.

This project will also aim to create training and resources, an evaluation toolkit to support music organisations in their work, a network to connect facilitators and research featuring the voices of the children themselves.

www.singupfoundation.org

Earthly Delights: New exhibition opens at University Hospital Waterford

Earthly Delights is a new exhibition by artist Paul McCloskey at University Hospital Waterford. Vibrant and full of colour, this collection of paintings is already lifting spirits and bringing a smile to the faces of patients, staff and visitors to the hospital. On display on the corridor leading to the Outpatients Department at UHW, the exhibition runs until 5 January 2025.

The exhibition programme at UHW is part of the Waterford Healing Arts programme, which is managed by Réalta, the national resource organisation for arts + health in Ireland.

Drawing on the artist’s surroundings, spiritual beliefs, imagination, memory and emotion, the vivid paintings in the Earthly Delights collection are also deeply influenced by the unique Irish landscape. As Paul McCloskey explains “the varied and stunning Irish landscape, coupled with our unsettled weather and often fleeting and mottled light, inspire me greatly.”

The collection is also enriched by the artist’s process of artistic creation, which allows him to remain in the moment as he paints, offering a cathartic pause from the day-to-day realities of life.

For further details about the exhibition, contact Aisling Kennedy, Réalta:
aisling.kennedy@realta.ie /051-842664

www.waterfordhealingarts.com

Detail from A New Earth by Paul McCloskey

Artist Paul McCloskey in his studio, 2024

Paul McCloskey

Based in County Wexford, Paul McCloskey is originally from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. Involved in visual art education for over 30 years, Paul attended the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and De Montfort University in the UK, where he received his Master’s Degree in Fine Art in 2010.

Paul has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, throughout the UK, Europe and the US. His work is held in many private and public collections including the Office of Public Works State Art Collection, the Osten Art Collection, the Gallery of Drawing Macedonia, Monaghan and Wexford County Council art collections, Ulster Hospital Belfast and RTE.

He was the 2016 recipient of the international jury’s Special Award at the Osten Biennial of Drawing/Works on Paper in Skopje, Macedonia, and five of his works are now in the permanent World Gallery of Drawing Collection of the Museum of Drawing/Works on Paper. In 2018, Paul was shortlisted for the London Contemporary Art Award and was awarded the Materials Bursary Award.

Dance classes for people with Dementia and Parkinson’s, Well-Dance for Older Adults: Dance Theatre of Ireland

Dance Theatre of Ireland aims to increase access to and participation in dance, including for those who might not participate otherwise. Based in South Dublin, DTI provides a number of award-winning dance for health programmes, both in person and online, for older people and those living with Parkinson’s and Dementia. Classes take place on a weekly basis and the online programmes are free for participants.

Dancing Well with Parkinson’s – Live classes
Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dún Laoghaire
Fridays, 12.30-1.30pm

A programme of weekly creative dance classes for people with Parkinson’s in partnership with Move4Parkinsons and supported by the HSE National Lottery Fund. DTI is part of the international Dance for PD programme, a worldwide movement to improve the lives of those living with Parkinson’s.

If you or someone you know wishes to attend, email info@dancetheatreireland.com or ring 01 280 3455 for a place.

Dancing Well with Parkinson’s – Online 
Fridays, 11am-12noon, FREE

This is a modern dance classes for People with Parkinson’s and their care partners. Focusing on musicality, rhythm, expression, connection and joy, this one hour “do as you are able” activity promotes freedom of movement and creativity.

Email info@dancetheatreireland.com or ring 01 280 3455 for a place.

Movement to Music inclusive of Dementia 
Holy Family Parish Centre, Kill Avenue, Dún Laoghaire
Wednesdays, 1:45-3:15pm

An in-person gentle dance class inclusive of people with dementia and families / care partners. DTI is part of the HSE Living Well with Dementia CHO 6 programme, a community-based project that supports people with dementia to continue to live at home and participate in their own community.

Email Mary Spain mspain@livingwellwithdementia.ie or 086 041 8450 for a place.

Well-Dance for Ages 55+ 
Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dún Laoghaire
Wednesdays, 11am-12noon

Well-Dance is an award-winning modern dance programme developed by Dance Theatre of Ireland Artistic Directors and co-founders Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick.

A one-hour dance experience for people age 55+, Well-Dance is an uplifting, extremely popular modern dance class which seamlessly transports you to a very joyful place, whilst improving breathing, balance, fluidity, flexibility and strength – all to great music.

For information email info@dancetheatreireland.com or ring 01 280 3455.

Well-Dance at Home for Ages 55+
Online via Zoom, FREE 

Tuesdays 11am-12pm (Experienced)
Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30pm (Experienced)
Thursdays 11am-12pm (Beginners and Improvers)

This online dance class can be done whilst standing or sitting,  it’s a “do as you’re able” experience. Supported by The Arts Council, the HSE and DLRCC.

Email info@dancetheatreireland.com or ring 01 280 3455 for a place.

Heart of the Matter – Vintage Youth Ensemble 
dlr LexIcon Studio Theatre
Saturday 30 November, 3pm & 4:30pm

Vintage Youth Ensemble, DTI’s Seniors Dance Performance Ensemble, will bring their new production Heart of the Matter to dlr LexIcon.

Taking inspiration from Carl Sagan’s The Pale Blue Dot, Vintage Youth’s new work, directed by DTI Artistic Directors Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick, will explore nature and climate change informed by the life experiences of the ensemble.

Vintage Youth Ensemble is an open group of older adults who came together as an outgrowth of DTI’s Well-Dance for Seniors modern dance classes. Since 2015 they have created and performed many original dance works in theatres and for public events and festivals.

Book tickets: Heart of the Matter, Vintage Youth & DTI | Eventbrite

www.dancetheatreireland.com

Checking In 2024: Online gathering for the arts and health community

Réalta, the national organisation dedicated to developing arts + health in Ireland, is hosting an online gathering of the arts and health community in Ireland on Tuesday 12 November.

Supported by the Arts Council and the HSE, Checking In is designed to showcase examples of some of the most creative and innovative work devised by leading arts and health practitioners in the post-pandemic era.

Open to healthcare professionals, arts practitioners and anyone interested in learning more about the exciting field of arts and health, Checking In is free but advance registration is essential.

Register Here



EVENT OUTLINE

Part 1 (11am-12pm)
Musical Warm-up with Sandra Collins, Healing Sounds musician with Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts, followed by leading examples of current arts + health practice, including:

  • Dandelion Clocks: Public Art at Children’s Health Ireland, with Mary Grehan, Public Art Curator
  • Hearth: Visual artist and musician Breda Mayock presents a project bringing art into the homes of isolated older adults in County Mayo
  • The Power of Drama: Theatre and film maker Gillian Grattan shares her practice on the Iontas Arts and Mental Health Programme in Waterford
  • What’s going on? Alex Cothren and Tully Barnett from Flinder’s University, South Australia spotlight the latest arts and health projects from around the world

Part 2 (12-1pm)
Following a short break, all attendees who wish to do so will have the opportunity to ‘Meet the Presenters’ to continue the conversation with a speaker of their choice, and to network with their peers, in virtual break-out rooms.

“We are thrilled to present some beautiful examples of arts and health projects taking place in Ireland and internationally and hope that these will inspire attendees in their practice. Our arts and health community in Ireland is made up of extraordinary people who demonstrate on a daily basis their passion and commitment to support people who are unwell, and their healthcare staff, in new and creative ways.  This feels like a lovely time of year for us to take time out for ourselves to listen, to share and to be rejuvenated. Join us for a special morning dedicated to arts and health!” – Claire Meaney, Director of Réalta

Checking In follows the hugely successful Arts + Health: Check Up Check In event last October in Dublin. The next in-person Check Up Check In returns to its traditional date in the calendar year and will take place in April 2025.

Réalta encompasses artsandhealth.ie, the national resource website, and the Waterford Healing Arts programme, and is funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.

realta.ie

Helium Arts is Seeking a Volunteer Services Manager

Helium Arts is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised Volunteer Services Manager to deliver an efficient and effective volunteer support network for Helium Arts.

The volunteer network will enable the organisation to support children and young people living with lifelong physical health conditions to participate in creative activities and workshops led by professional artists in an encouraging, supportive, inclusive and fun environment.

Role Description 
The Volunteer Services Manager is a new role in the organisation and will support the organisation in its next phase of scale and growth. The successful candidate will form part of the management structure.

This role will support the charity through a strategic period of gradual scaling, successfully growing our volunteer programme across five hubs across the country. This is an excellent opportunity to join a team at an exciting point in the organisation’s development where the successful candidate will be making a huge and varied contribution to the work of Helium Arts.

The Volunteer Services Manager requires excellent managerial, leadership, and problem solving skills, with an ability to strongly advocate for the children we support. The manager will be flexible and capable of managing competing priorities within their workload and will have a robust knowledge of volunteering in Ireland.

Deadline for Applications: Wednesday 20 November 2024 at 12pm.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a first round interview on Zoom during the week beginning 25 November, with some candidates being invited to a second round interview in person in Mullingar during the week beginning 2 December.

Please request a full job description and information on the application process by emailing hr@helium.ie with VOLUNTEER SERVICES MANAGER in the subject line.

Helium Arts is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourages applications from all sections of the community under all ten grounds as set out in their Equality Commitment & Policy.

Helium Arts’ Recruitment Privacy Notice – available here.

Helium Arts

Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency.

www.helium.ie

Helium Arts is Seeking Creative Producers: Creative Health Programme

Helium Arts invites applications from professional Creative Producers who work across artforms with a strong collaborative practice to join a newly created Helium Arts Creative Producer Panel.

Creative Producers will be contracted on a project-to-project freelance basis over the next two years, to showcase elements of Helium’s Creative Health Programme across Ireland.

Role Description 
The role of a Creative Producer is to deliver exhibitions and events that showcase Helium’s collaborative arts programmes which are responsive to the needs and vision of children and young people with lifelong physical conditions and additional needs, including disabilities. Producers should have a genuine interest in building supportive relationships and a working understanding of inclusive arts practice relevant to the needs of participants.

Deadline for applications: Friday 3 January 2025, at 2pm.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an online interview in January 2025.  Please request a full brief and application form by emailing hr@helium.ie with CREATIVE PRODUCER in the subject line.

Helium Arts is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourages applications from all sections of the community under all ten grounds as set out in their Equality Commitment & Policy.

Helium Arts’ Recruitment Privacy Notice – available here

Helium Arts

Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency.

www.helium.ie

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