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Case Studies (26 results)
Case Studies
Tiny theatre adventures for babies and children with complex needs at hospital bedsides in Dublin
Theatre maker Anna Newell ignites the imagination of our youngest audiences through responsive, multisensory theatre adventures. Since autumn 2023, Anna has been bringing bedside performances to babies and children with complex needs in Dublin hospitals, as part of an ongoing collaboration with Children's Health Ireland.
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DL. BRIDGE Inclusive Dance Club
Inclusive Dance Club is a creative dance project for children and young people with additional needs, exploring dance with a team of professional dance artists in a calm and safe environment. The project forms part of DL.BRIDGE, a Dance Limerick programme led by choreographer Katy Hewison.
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A Bright Light
A Bright Light was a collaborative book project with children of families who foster, about their experiences of having foster siblings. The project was a partnership between Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership and the Foster Care Resource Service Sligo, Leitrim, and West Cavan Area. Creative sessions with children and young people from families who foster took place in 2022 in Sligo.
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Common Ground
Participatory artist and maker Ciara Harrison worked with a group of young people who access the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Waterford. During the summer of 2022, they embroidered, painted, wrote, and explored many different craft and artistic mediums together.
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Aoife’s Clown Doctors Spreading Smiles
Aoife’s Clown Doctors are based on the original Patch Adams, a doctor who found humour to be an integral part of children's wellbeing in hospital. Today our clown doctors are professional actors trained to work in healthcare settings, carrying out clown rounds in CHI Crumlin, CHI Temple Street and University Hospital Galway.
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Storytelling Residency at University Hospital Waterford
Joe Brennan was Waterford Healing Arts Trust’s Artist in Residence for 2021 at University Hospital Waterford. The residency focused on staff engagement due to Covid restrictions, offering storytelling online and outdoors. Changing circumstances during the residency also enabled Joe to tell stories at the bedside on the Paediatric Ward.
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Helium Arts Teen Remote Programme
During the pandemic Helium Arts' remote pilot programme offered connection and creative engagement for teenagers with long-term health conditions across Ireland who were more isolated than usual. Helium’s vision is for a long-term programme that reaches teenagers living rurally across Ireland.
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The Balloon Tree
The Balloon Tree is a pair of sculptures by artist Róisín de Buitléar commissioned by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) for its new Outpatient and Urgent Centre at Connolly Hospital and its Emergency Care facility at Tallaght University Hospital.
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1000 Days
1000 Days is a collaborative project between specialist health musicians Dr Rosalind Hawley and Mark Fisher, and spoken word artist Keisha Thompson, sharing stories of children, family, staff and musicians' experiences of health, music and hospitalisation through music and spoken word.
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Our Stories
Our Stories was developed as a creative response to the coming together of the three Dublin Paediatric Hospitals and in preparation for the move into the new children’s hospital, which is currently being built.
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A Bird at My Window and Other Stories
A Bird at My Window and Other Stories is a project by artists Sarah Fuller and Manuela Corbari for children and their families in hospital settings developed for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture.
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Off the Wall
Off the Wall is a series of artworks by Alan Dunne at Children's Health Ireland (CHI) Connolly. The artworks were inspired by drawings created by some of the children and young people who visited the centre in 2020, along with conversations the artist conducted with CHI Connolly staff.
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OurVision OurVoice ‘20
A multimedia project devised by artist Rosaleen Heavin in response to Covid-19 restrictions. Delivered online, the project explores experiences of lockdown and isolation with participants from Longford/Westmeath Adult Mental Health Services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
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Summer Stars online art programme
Teenagers with cystic fibrosis face barriers when it comes to connecting and conversing with each other: due to cross-infection issues, they cannot be in the same physical space. Helium Arts established the Summer Stars online art programme in spring 2019 to support these connections and create a space for the development of creative skills.
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Waiting for Me
Waiting for Me is a collaborative visual arts and health project exploring the experience of waiting in an active creative space in the Paediatric Outpatients Area of South Tipperary General Hospital.
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Le Pont des Arts (The Bridge of Arts)
Le Pont des Arts is a non-profit artistic company working in the paediatric departments of Brussels’ main hospitals. For 21 years, six artists (currently a singer, a musician, a dancer, a storyteller, a juggler and a visual artist) have been performing weekly in children’s rooms.
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OFFSET
OFFSET was an intergenerational print project in 2019 involving participants in Paediatrics and Care for the Elderly at Galway University Hospitals and staff from the wider hospital community.
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Soothing Sounds
Soothing Sounds is a music project that took place in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Tallaght University Hospital. Musician in residence Sophie Lee conducted interactive bedside music sessions with patients for 20 weeks between September 2018 and March 2019.
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Pop Up Picnic
Pop Up Picnic is an immersive, multi-sensory performance project for young children with complex needs developed and produced by Helium Arts. Created in partnership with the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation in 2016 for families in the home, the project has now being adapted for public audiences.
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Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing
Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing in Waterford celebrates the health benefits of participation in the arts and features a programme of free, fun, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages, across all artforms.
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Songbirds
Songbirds is a music project with nonverbal children and young people with complex health and communication needs at The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
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Cloudlands
Cloudlands is an artist in residence programme for teenagers in hospital led by Helium Arts. Artists Rachel Tynan, Emma Fisher and Eszter Némethi worked in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital respectively between 2012 and 2015.
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Bouncing Away
Bouncing Away is a children’s collaborative book project about resilience and mental health, funded by HSE Northwest. The project culminated in the publication of a children’s mental health book – the first of its kind in Ireland.
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Seasons of the Sun
Seasons of the Sun was a Music Residency at Robin House Children’s Hospice, Balloch, Scotland.
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Encounters, Triskel@St.Finbarr’s
Encounters was a collaboration between Triskel Arts Centre and St. Finbarr’s Hospital, a multidisciplinary hospital site. The collaboration formed part of the arts and health strand of Cork EU Capital of Culture 2005.
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The Puppet Portal Project
The Puppet Portal Project merged the areas of art, technology and health, in order to facilitate children in hospital to create interactive puppetry performances in four acute hospitals (Dublin, Limerick and Sligo), over a five-month period.
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Aoife’s Clown Doctors Ireland
Aoife’s Clown Doctors provide professional clowning entertainment to children in Ireland’s hospital wards, to momentarily offer an escape from the stress and anxiety of the hospital setting for all family members, through laughter and games.
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Waterford Healing Arts
Waterford Healing Arts is Ireland’s longest established arts and health organisation, founded in 1993 at University Hospital Waterford (UHW).
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Children’s Health Ireland
The new children’s hospital will be a world-class facility to look after children and young people from all over Ireland who have complicated and serious illnesses and who are in need of specialist and complex care.
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Helium Arts
Helium Arts: • supports a dynamic, child-friendly, family centred, holistic approach to children’s medical provision, within community, primary, and acute healthcare contexts.
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Music & Health Ireland
Music & Health Ireland (formerly Kids Classics) is a not for profit limited company that delivers high quality professional music workshops, performances and music participation opportunities in the heart of healthcare, education and community settings nationally regardless of a person’s social, economic or medical circumstance.
Perspectives (5 results)
Perspectives
The Stepping Stones Project: Moving with care through uncertainty
For young people who have experienced trauma, nurturing a safe space for creativity to unfold requires particular care and sensitivity. Art therapist Claire Flahavan and artist Emma Finucane brought their specific areas of expertise, and mutually supportive ways of working, to the Stepping Stones project at The Alders Unit, a therapeutic service for children and adolescents affected by sexual abuse. Claire reflects on their collaboration with young service users to create permanent artworks for the Unit’s new home at CHI-Tallaght.
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Teen Spirit: Music adventures in the lockdown era
Davina Flaherty is a singer-songwriter and musician from Galway. A member of CanTeen Ireland, the national young people’s cancer support group, Davina has been taking part in an online music project since summer 2020 led by musicians Seán Carpio and Ríona Sally Hartman.
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Inhale Hope, Exhale Pain
Susannah Hall, Joint Head of GOSH Arts, reflects on The Temporary Tattoo Parlour at Great Ormond Street Hospital, developed by artist Davina Drummond with adolescent patients.
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Culture and the arts in mental health innovation: Young people want and need more than ‘traditional’ ‘treatments’
Dr. Katherine Taylor, a clinical psychologist, advocates for arts-led interventions within child and adolescent mental health as an empowering, safe and cost-effective approach in fostering positive and sustainable change in a young person’s recovery journey.
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Blood and Ink
Ben Murnane is a writer who lives in Wicklow and suffers from a rare genetic disorder, Fanconi anaemia. He describes how creativity helped him cope with his disease, and discusses a new film project involving teenagers with chronic illnesses.
Videos (3 results)
Videos
Moments of Light – Creative Engagement with Children in Health Contexts
Sarah Fuller and Yvonne Cullivan, Artists with Helium Arts, discuss their experiences of working with children and young people through the arts in healthcare settings in Galway.
Videos
A Bird At My Window and Other Stories
Transforming the bedsides of young patients into miniature theatre spaces, Sarah Fuller and Manuela Corbari share an enchanting collection of stories where the natural and human worlds are intertwined.
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The Soothsayers’ Sounds of Superpowers
Teenagers with experience of cancer from CanTeen Ireland joined forces with composer and multi-instrumentalist Sean Carpio to form The Soothsayers.
Guidelines (3 results)
Guidelines
Our Duty to Care (PDF)
The principles of good practice for the protection of children and young people.
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Guidelines for the protection and welfare of children and young people in the arts sector (PDF)
A document to assist arts organisations in the development of their own individual child protection and welfare policies and procedures.
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Guidelines for taking and using images of children and young people in the arts sector
Guidelines for arts organisations and artists working as arts practitioners, facilitators or tutors, on making, recording and using images of children and young people.
Research & Evaluation (5 results)
Research & Evaluation
Social Return on Investment study of the Helium Arts Creative Health Hub Programme
Helium Arts is the national children's arts and health organisation. This Social Return on Investment study covers Helium's work over a two-year period (2019 - 2020). The research found that the social value of Helium's work is worth almost twice as much as the funding it receives based on the outcomes achieved for stakeholders.
Research & Evaluation
Vocal Beats: External Evaluation Report 2020
Vocal Beats is a hospital-ward-based music project led by rb&hArts for children and young people aged 0-25 years old at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
Research & Evaluation
The Bare Necessities of Life – Reactions to Kids’ Classics Live Music in a Children’s Hospital in Ireland
An independent evaluation documenting the evidence of the impact of Kids’ Classics music activities in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin.
Research & Evaluation
RNCM Medical Notes Project at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
A report on the outcomes of the Medical Notes Project for children, families, musicians and staff at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
Research & Evaluation
REFLECT Lab Co-mentoring: North West Evaluation
An evaluation of REFLECT Lab, a professional development opportunity led by Helium Arts for artists and healthcare professionals working with children in the North West.
Articles & Documentation (1 results)
News (45 results)
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Launch of ROAM – Supporting wellbeing and social connection in Cork City
ROAM Cork will launch on 29 May, an arts exhibition and temporary trail between Mayfield and Knocknaheeny.
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Welcome to the Neighbourhood – A Point in Time Exhibition hosted by CHI Arts in Health Programme
Since November 2024, photographic artist Liadh Connolly has been engaging three groups of transition year students in Dublin 12 in a project called Welcome to the Neighbourhood.
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The Colossus – An intergenerational exploration of loss and bereavement by suicide
The Colossus is a socially engaged art project exploring North Clondalkin’s unspoken and unacknowledged oral histories related to loss and bereavement by suicide – colossal things of enormous size and importance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Student Placement
Student Placement – Helium Arts Out Patients Programme in Cork (REF 001)
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.
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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.
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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.
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Helium Arts is Seeking Visual Artists: Children’s Creative Health Programme
Helium Arts invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to deliver their Creative Health Programme in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick and surrounding counties as well as online.
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Call for Tenders – Creative Lead for EPIC Arts Project with Children in Care
EPIC, Empowering People in Care, is seeking a Creative Lead for Know Your Rights in Care, a participative arts project with children and young people in care.
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The HSE publishes Safe Harbour: An illustrated storybook for children bereaved by suicide
Safe Harbour is a free illustrated story book for children who have been bereaved by suicide. Published by the HSE in June 2024, Safe Harbour is written by Patricia Forde – Ireland's Laureate na nÓg – and illustrated by visual artist Bronagh Lee.
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Helium Arts to host week-long celebration from 11-15 June at the Naughton Institute in Dublin
Come join us as we celebrate! To mark our launch in Dublin and to celebrate our first five years delivering impactful, creative programmes, Helium Arts is hosting a week-long celebration from 11 - 15 June at the Naughton Institute (the former Science Gallery) at Trinity College Dublin on Pearse Street, including a launch event on June 11th.
Opportunity
CHI Opportunity for Artists – Welcome to the Neighbourhood
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts in Health Programme is seeking to engage an artist / artists to work with young people in Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 on the creation of a body of artwork to be shown as part of their exhibition programme in the concourse of the new children’s hospital in Rialto.
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Talk: Collaborative approaches with orchestras in children’s hospices (in-person and online)
St Columba’s Hospice Care in Edinburgh is continuing its series of talks on the Arts in Palliative Care with an exploration of music engagement in children’s hospice settings on 26 April.
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Call for Artist Facilitator: Early Years Pilot Arts Project in Leitrim
Leitrim County Council Arts Office, in collaboration with the Healthy Leitrim Breastfeeding Programme, is launching an Early Years Pilot Arts Project.
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Bedtime Adventures – An enchanting dreamscape for children with lifelong health conditions
Bedtime Adventures is an enchanting interactive dreamscape for children aged six and under with lifelong health conditions and/or additional needs.
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Call for volunteers to work with professional artists on Helium Arts’ Creative Health Programme
Helium Arts, the children's arts and health organisation, is seeking volunteers to work with professional artists to support the creativity of children and teenagers on its 2024 Creative Health Programme.
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Cruinniú na nÓg 2024 – Dublin City Council Open Call
Dublin City Council is seeking proposals from children and young people, artists/creative practitioners, professional bodies, cultural organisations, and neighbourhood communities/organisations to be part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2024, the national day of free creativity for children and young people.
Opportunity
Visual artist sought for Helium Arts’ Outpatients Programme in Dublin
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a multi-disciplinary visual artist with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice with children and young people to join their Outpatients Programme in Dublin.
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Free creative workshops for children with physical health conditions
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is inviting children and young people (ages 6-15) with lifelong physical health conditions to explore their creativity this autumn.
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Helium Arts is seeking to employ a visual artist (part-time) in Dublin
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking to employ a professional, multi-disciplinary visual artist with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice to support delivery of their Creative Health Programme in Dublin.
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Music in Mind: NCH workshops for young people with kidney disease
Are you a young person with end stage kidney disease who would like to have fun exploring your musical ability.
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Creative Interruptions: Moving arts in healthcare from pilot to mainstream
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Arts in Health Programme is hosting a panel discussion for Culture Night reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of embedding excellent long-term arts practice into healthcare settings.
Opportunity
Vacancy: Youth Participation and Engagement Coordinator with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking an experienced and well-organised Youth Participation and Engagement Coordinator to develop and coordinate youth voice and influence in Helium Arts and beyond, in the context of arts and health, to support the advancement of the organisation’s Strategic Goals for 2023-2027.
Opportunity
CHI Arts in Health Programme: Call for Expressions of Interest
The CHI Arts in Health programme is seeking expressions of interest from artists / designers / makers / creative collectives to apply to complete a research and development process which will lead to a comprehensive proposal for a permanent artwork for the New Children’s Hospital.
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Summer Camps 2023 with Helium Arts
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health charity, is hosting free summer art camps specially designed for children and young people (aged 8-15) living with a lifelong physical health condition.
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Helium Arts is seeking three new board members
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is seeking three new board members in the areas of Arts and Culture, Philanthropy and Fund Development, and Healthcare Policy and Management.
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Call for visual artists: Online Creative Health Programme with Helium Arts
Helium Arts invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to deliver their Creative Health Programme to young people online.
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Baboró artist opportunity: Primary school project exploring the impact of the arts on young children
Baboró International Arts Festival for Children invites Galway-based multidisciplinary artists to apply for Creating Space, a long-term project exploring the impact of the creative arts on young children's emotional and social health and wellbeing.
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Call for Musicians: Soothing Sounds Music Programme at Tallaght University Hospital and CHI at Tallaght
Arts & Health at Tallaght University Hospital in collaboration with Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght are inviting musicians to apply to be a Musician in Healthcare in TUH and CHI at Tallaght.
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Helium Arts: Call for artists in Cork and Kerry
Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health organisation, invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists to join Helium's Artist Panel as Associate Artists.
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Helium Arts February mid-term camps for children with physical health conditions
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is hosting free art workshops this mid-term to support children aged 8-12 with lifelong physical health conditions in living life to the full.
Opportunity
Call for artists with experience of inclusive arts programming – dlr Arts Office Artist Panel
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office is looking for artists / facilitators from all artform areas with experience devising and delivering workshops, to potentially work as part of dlr Lexicon Gallery’s Learning Programme and / or Youth Creative Engagement Programme.
Opportunity
Helium Arts Seeks an Operations Coordinator
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.
News
Mapping Arts and Health Across the Midlands: New Research Report
Mapping Arts and Health Across the Midlands is a new research report published by the Arts Office of Laois County Council and partner organisations Offaly County Council Arts Office, Westmeath County Council Arts Office, Anam Beo, Helium Arts, Music Generation (Offaly/Westmeath) and Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT).
Opportunity
Job Opportunities with Helium Arts: Hospital Programme Coordinator, Remote Programme Coordinator
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.
Opportunity
Helium Arts is seeking a Programme and Operations Manager (Deputy CEO)
Helium Arts is seeking a motivated, experienced and highly organised senior manager to lead both the Programme and Operations functions of the organisation and to deputise for the CEO when required.
Opportunity
Helium Arts seeks visual artists in various regions to join Artist Panel
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, invites applications from professional, multi-disciplinary visual artists with a strong collaborative and inclusive arts practice working with children and young people, including children with disabilities, to join their Artist Panel as Associate Artists.
In Conversation
Video – Moments of Light: Creative Engagement with Children in Health Contexts
Sarah Fuller and Yvonne Cullivan, Artists with Helium Arts, discuss their experiences of working with children and young people through the arts in healthcare settings in Galway.
Opportunity
Call for applicants: Voices of Culture – Youth, Mental Health and Culture
Voices Of Culture is a structured dialogue between the cultural sector in the European Union and the European Commission.
Event
In Conversation: Moments of Light – agency and connection though creative engagement with children and young people in health contexts
Join us on 28 June for an online conversation exploring arts for children in healthcare contexts.
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Helium Arts’ Summer Showcases in Cork, Limerick and Galway
Helium Arts, the national children's arts and health organisation, is hosting a series of exhibitions across Ireland this summer featuring artworks created by children who participated in Helium's recent spring programme.
Opportunity
Children’s Health Ireland seeks Arts in Health Programme Administrator Grade IV
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) is seeking to recruit an Arts in Health Programme Administrator to provide administrative assistance to the Arts in Health Programme.
News
Material Language: Reflections on an arts and health practice by Ciara Harrison
Arts and health practice often involves engaging with people who are far from home and familiar spaces: encounters by the hospital bedside, in a communal room with others we have never have met, or increasingly in the virtual realm where we try to read each other across a screen of faces.
