Applications Open for Creativity and Change at MTU

Creativity & Change is accepting applications for their 2023-2024 course, which begins in September. This part-time, 20 credit certificate at level 9 offers participants the opportunity to explore Global Citizenship Education, immersing themselves in arts-based practices that connect their heads, hearts and hands, to learn about and take action for global justice, while developing skills to nurture fellow changemakers.

What you can expect from the programme:

• Participate in a transformative experience in global citizenship education
• Examine your place in our interconnected, rapidly-changing and unequal world
• Explore issues affecting the world and make connections between local and global
• Reflect on the values, actions and behaviours of global citizens
• Develop skills in facilitating meaningful dialogue, collaborative arts processes and transformative learning
• Boost your creative confidence through participating in workshops including movement, theatre and street art
• Put your learning and passion into practice to engage others on a journey of transformation and growth as global citizens
• Build a toolkit of exercises to design and facilitate learning processes to nurture global citizenship
• Apply Design Thinking to develop creative actions in imaginative learning environments
• Connect your passions to take action for change
• Recognise that small actions can have big impacts
• Plug into a network of people passionate about creativity, learning and changemaking

Supported by Irish Aid, Department of Justice, the course will be of interest to artists, activists, youth & community educators, volunteers and all those who are interested in collaboration and the transformative power of art. They especially welcome applicants from minority groups facing barriers to accessing education, who can apply to avail of fully funded places under their Amplifying Voices scheme.

For further information and to apply visit: https://www.cit.ie/course/CRACRCH9