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Blog 2 – Lorna Watkins, Visual Artist and TAP+ Tutor
In her second blog post of the series, artist Lorna Watkins talks about her project with Youthreach and MSLETB in Sewing and Sustainability in Sligo, Carrick on Shannon and Mohill.
19/10/2023
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Blog 1 – Lorna Watkins, Visual Artist and TAP+ Tutor
In the first of her blog post series, artist Lorna Watkins talks about her thoughts and experiences on her TAP placement.
28/9/2023
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Blog 4 – Coláiste Muire (Ennis) and Scoil Mhuire (Ennistymon), Co. Clare
Rounding off the guest blog series from the teachers and students from Coláiste Muire and Scoil Mhuire in Co. Clare, student Niamh Lynch of Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon, recalls how her class experienced collaboration in action as part of the Keystone project.
24/8/2023
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Blog 3 – Coláiste Muire (Ennis) and Scoil Mhuire (Ennistymon), Co. Clare
In this third blog about the Keystone project, Mary Fahy, teacher at Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon recalls some of the challenges faced by her 5th year students and the processes to overcome them.
31/7/2023
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Blog 2 – Coláiste Muire (Ennis) and Scoil Mhuire (Ennistymon), Co. Clare
Continuing the guest blog series with the teachers and students from Coláiste Muire and Scoil Mhuire in Co. Clare, student Aoibheann Roughan of Coláiste Muire, Ennis, recounts one of her favourite experiences from the Keystone project.
27/6/2023
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Blog 1 – Coláiste Muire (Ennis) and Scoil Mhuire (Ennistymon), Co. Clare
In the first in a new guest blog series, teacher Aidan Power talks about building a collective with the 5th Year class of Colaiste Muire, Ennis who participated in the Keystone project along with students from Scoil Mhuire, Ennistymon.
30/5/2023
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Blog 1: Mark Ball, Theatre-maker & Artistic Director of Super Paua
In the first blog in a new series from Mark Ball, Theatre-maker and Artistic Director of Super Paua, we learn about how the voice of the child can be centred in our work. Over the course of their series Mark will reflect on how the voices of young people influences their work.
23/1/2023
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Blog 4 – Vera McGrath, Visual Artist, Researcher & Former Primary Teacher
In the fourth and final blog in the series from visual artist, researcher and former teacher Vera McGrath, Vera continues on the theme of 'the voice of the child', how this can take many forms. “The more approaches we are open to adopting, the more appropriate and nuanced our responses to children’s voices will be”.
25/10/2022
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Blog 3 – Vera McGrath, Visual Artist, Researcher & Former Primary Teacher
In the third blog in the series from visual artist, researcher and former teacher Vera McGrath, Vera reflects on the panel discussion at the Portal Spring Regional Day
27/9/2022
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Blog 2 – Vera McGrath, Visual Artist, Researcher & Former Primary Teacher
In the second blog in the series from visual artist, researcher and former teacher Vera McGrath, Vera shares how she witnesses an exchanging of roles in her role as Action Research with the International Teacher-Artist Partnership (I-TAP-PD) PD Programme. "“There’s an artist and a teacher in all of us.” But it’s really no surprise".
24/8/2022
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Blog 1 – Vera McGrath, Visual Artist, Researcher & Former Primary Teacher
In this new series from artist and former teacher Vera McGrath she elucidates on some of the many insights she has gleaned in her time as a TAP team member, and how she found the courage to voice her desire to transition from teacher to artist.
25/7/2022
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Blog 4 – Marc Mac Lochlainn, Executive Artistic Director of Branar Téatar do Pháistí
To the Stage This month in Branar we are focusing on preparing for the live presentation of YOU’LL…
27/6/2022
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Blog 3 – Marc Mac Lochlainn, Executive Artistic Director of Branar Téatar do Pháistí
In his 3rd blog in the series, Marc shares with us details of the engagement element of ‘You’ll see…’, Branar's adaptation of Ulysses by James Joyce, for children age 7+
31/5/2022
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Blog 2 – Marc Mac Lochlainn, Executive Artistic Director of Branar Téatar do Pháistí
Ulysses, Ulysses 2.2 - This month in Branar we have been working on adapting Ulysses by James Joyce for…
29/4/2022
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Blog 1 – Marc Mac Lochlainn, Executive Artistic Director of Branar Téatar do Pháistí
In the first blog in the new series from Marc Mac Lochlainn, we learn about how Branar will be celebrating its 21st anniversary creating arts experiences for young citizens aged 0- 12 years.
30/3/2022
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Blog 4 – Dr Francesca La Morgia, Founder and Director of Mother Tongues
In the fourth and final blog in her series Dr Francesca La Morgia shares with us practical tools and ideas that you can use and adapt to your environment to embark on a multilingual journey!
31/1/2022
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Blog 3 – Dr Francesca La Morgia, Founder and Director of Mother Tongues
Building and touring the Interactive Museum of Languages for Young Audiences There is a widespread belief that multilingualism…
21/12/2021
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Blog 2 – Dr Francesca La Morgia, Founder and Director of Mother Tongues
In the 2nd blog in her series Dr Francesca La Morgia explores the creative potential of multilingualism and shares with us her reflections on the 'Language Explorers' initiative.
23/11/2021
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Blog 1 – Dr Francesca La Morgia, Founder and Director of Mother Tongues
In the first blog in the new series from Dr Francesca La Morgia, we learn how her children's experience in school sparked the idea for Mother Tongues with the goal of supporting parents and teachers in making the most of the linguistic and cultural diversity that is already present in children’s lives.
21/10/2021
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Blog 4 – Third Class Pupils, Scoil Mhichil Naofa, Co. Kildare
Mapping Outside: We went outside straight away to do some artwork. Tunde gave us a clipboard with two sheets of paper and explained what to do.
22/9/2021
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Blog 3 – Third Class Pupils, Scoil Mhichil Naofa, Co. Kildare
The following blog post has been written by 14 third class students from Scoil Mhichil Naofa, Athy, Co. Kildare. They have been partaking in a Teacher–Artist Partnership (TAP) project with artist Tunde Toth and class teacher Ms. Hourigan.
18/8/2021
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Blog 2 – Third Class Pupils, Scoil Mhichil Naofa, Co. Kildare
Discussion led our project On our first face to face session with our artist, we had a discussion…
21/7/2021
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Blog 1 – Third Class Pupils, Scoil Mhichil Naofa, Co. Kildare
The beginning… Our project started in March during lockdown. We met our artist Tunde for the first time…
30/6/2021
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Blog 4 – Anna Newell, Theatre Maker for Early Years & Children with Complex Needs
And Now….? The unforeseen adventures that were created by being forced to re-invent, re-imagine, to find ways to…
24/5/2021
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Blog 3 – Anna Newell, Theatre Maker for Early Years & Children with Complex Needs
Respond. Re-Imagine. Re-Connect. The next chapter of my theatre adventures last summer was a re-imagining (or in fact…
20/4/2021
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Blog 2 – Anna Newell, Theatre Maker for Early Years and Children with Complex Needs
In the second blog in her series, theatre maker Anna Newell shares with us how she kept a live connection with her audiences last summer; "Our hearts soared and I’d be lying if I said we didn’t shed a tear or two of hard-won joy and hope".
30/3/2021
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Blog 1 – Anna Newell, Theatre Maker for Early Years & Children with Complex Needs
What. How. Why. I remember really vividly where I was on 12th March 2020. I was visiting the…
19/2/2021
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Blog 4 – Jennifer Buggie, Teacher & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
Growing during Closing October, falling leaves and creeping numbers. It was a month of growing in a season…
29/10/2020
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Blog 3 – Jennifer Buggie, Teacher & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
It’s lovely to do something with our hands, other than sanitise. Returning to school felt different this year…
30/9/2020
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Blog 2 – Jennifer Buggie, Teacher & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
“I believe that two lines of poetry can save a life”, Paula Meehan As a teenager my wonderful…
24/8/2020
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Blog 1 – Jennifer Buggie, Teacher & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
Becoming and Understanding Through Partnership…Teachers, Artists, Children “Art is a fundamental human enterprise…In making art we make ourselves….
27/7/2020
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Blog 4 – Kate Wilson, Artist & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
Online collaborations, TAP’s new online course and ‘busting the myth of the solo artist’ I have been very…
29/6/2020
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Blog 3 – Kate Wilson, Artist & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
Finding rhythm in life and work and remembering John McGahern Whilst the Magnetise project is…
12/5/2020
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Frank Monahan Architect & Cultural Producer – Blog No. 4
Frank is an Irish designer /cultural…
9/4/2020
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Blog 2 – Kate Wilson, Artist & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
A Call for Home Magnetise 2020 and collaborative practice in lockdown In these unnerving times of isolation, connecting through…
30/3/2020
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Blog 1 – Kate Wilson, Artist & Lead Facilitator on the TAP Design Team
Diversity and Every Duck is Different In October last year I was invited to attend the
25/2/2020
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Blog 4 – Liz Coman, Assistant Arts Officer Dublin City Council & VTS Facilitator
“Observation is more than one thing – we use our eyes to analyse an image, and…
31/10/2019
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Guest Blogger: Joan Whelan, Chairperson of the Irish Forest School Association – Blog No.4
The Irish Forest…
30/9/2019
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Blog 3 – Liz Coman, Assistant Arts Officer Dublin City Council & VTS Facilitator
“We Are Mirrors” – Erasmus+ Permission to Wonder A Conversation with Visual Artist, Kathryn Maguire Visual Thinking Strategies…
28/8/2019
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Blog 4 – Sinéad Ní Bhrádaigh, Creative Schools Coordinator and Teacher
Reflecting on the first year of Creative Schools Alongside the workshops that we held during May and June,…
21/8/2019
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Guest Blogger: Ciara Gallagher Creativity & Change programme participant – Blog No. 4
Ciara has a…
31/7/2019
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Blog 4 – Yvonne Cullivan Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Visual Artist
In this new series artist and educator Yvonne Cullivan talks about her experiences working as an associate for Creative Schools and her creative processes.
29/7/2019
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Guest Blogger: Frank Monahan Architect & Cultural Producer – Blog No. 3
Frank is an Irish designer /cultural…
26/7/2019
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Blog 3 – Sinéad Ní Bhrádaigh, Creative Schools Coordinator and Teacher
In full Swing School days in May and especially June are incredibly busy. It always seems to creep…
17/7/2019
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Guest Blogger: Angie Kinsella, Irish Forest School Association – Blog No.3
The Irish Forest…
26/6/2019
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Blog 3 – Yvonne Cullivan Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Visual Artist
In this new series artist and educator Yvonne Cullivan talks about her experiences working as an associate for Creative Schools and her creative processes.
26/6/2019
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Blog 2 – Liz Coman, Assistant Arts Officer Dublin City Council & VTS Facilitator
Stepping Back – Erasmus+ Permission to Wonder in a Post Primary School Art Room A conversation with Anne…
25/6/2019
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Guest Blogger: Fiona Lawton Creative Schools Coordinator & Teacher – Blog No. 4
Fiona…
17/6/2019
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Blog 2 – Sinéad Ní Bhrádaigh Creative Schools Coordinator and Teacher
Getting the Show on the Road This second part of the process, putting together a programme of events…
29/5/2019
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Guest Blogger: Lucy Elvis Director of Curo & Visual Arts Curator – Blog No. 2
Lucy Elvis is…
29/5/2019
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Blog 1 – Liz Coman, Assistant Arts Officer Dublin City Council & VTS Facilitator
Setting the Scene for Erasmus+ Permission to Wonder My first encounter with Visual Thinking Strategies was at the…
27/5/2019
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Blog 2 – Yvonne Cullivan Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Visual Artist
In this new series artist and educator Yvonne Cullivan talks about her experiences working as an associate for Creative Schools and her creative processes.
27/5/2019
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Guest Blogger: Frank Monahan Architect & Cultural Producer – Blog No. 2
Frank is an…
27/5/2019
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Guest Blogger: Kerry Walker, Irish Forest School Association – Blog No.2
The…
27/5/2019
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Blog 1 – Sinéad Ní Bhrádaigh, Creative Schools Coordinator and Teacher
Creative Schools: An Exciting New Journey Our school was delighted to hear about this new Creative Schools initiative…
30/4/2019
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Guest Blogger: Frank Monahan Architect & Cultural Producer – Blog No. 1
Frank is an…
30/4/2019
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Guest Blogger: Lucy Elvis Director of Curo & Visual Arts Curator – Blog No. 1
Lucy Elvis is…
30/4/2019
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Guest Blogger: Claire Murphy, Irish Forest School Association – Blog No.1
The Irish Forest School Association (IFSA) was founded…
24/4/2019
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Blog 1 – Yvonne Cullivan Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Visual Artist
In this new series artist and educator Yvonne Cullivan talks about her experiences working as an associate for Creative Schools and her creative processes.
24/4/2019
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Guest Blogger: Fiona Lawton Creative Schools Coordinator & Teacher – Blog No. 3
Fiona…
27/3/2019
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Guest Blogger: Ciara Gallagher Creativity and Change programme participant – Blog No. 3
27/3/2019
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Blog 4 – Naomi Cahill Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Director of Bespoke Productions
Creative Schools: An Insight into the Creative Schools Project: Barryoe National School – Blog 4 My schools are…
21/3/2019
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Guest Blogger: Fiona Lawton Creative Schools Coordinator & Teacher – Blog No. 2
Fiona…
26/2/2019
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Blog 3 – Naomi Cahill Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Director of Bespoke Productions
Creative Schools: New Beginnings in 2019 – Blog 3 Step Two: ‘Develop’ 2019 has been great so far with…
30/1/2019
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Guest Blogger: Fiona Lawton Creative Schools Coordinator & Teacher – Blog No. 1
30/1/2019
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Blog 4 – Chris McCambridge, Special Educational Needs Teacher, Virtually There
Christopher McCambridge is…
29/1/2019
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Guest Blogger: Ciara Gallagher Creativity and Change programme participant – Blog No. 2
24/1/2019
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Guest Blogger: Ciara Gallagher Creativity and Change programme participant – Blog No. 1
19/12/2018
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Blog 2 – Naomi Cahill Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Director of Bespoke Productions
Creative Schools: The Journey Continues – Blog 2 Creative Schools Coordinators: In every Creative…
19/12/2018
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Blog 1 – Naomi Cahill Creative Associate for Creative Schools & Director of Bespoke Productions
Creative Schools: The Start of the Journey – Blog 1 Creative Schools is a pilot initiative of the…
29/11/2018
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Blog 3 – Chris McCambridge, Special Educational Needs Teacher, Virtually There
Christopher McCambridge is…
20/11/2018
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Blog 4 – Muireann Ahern & Louis Lovett, Joint Artistic Director Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern is…
24/10/2018
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Blog 4 – Róisin O’Donnell Young Playwrights’ Programme
Róisin O’Donnell is a 19 year old leaving cert survivor…
22/10/2018
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Blog 3 – Jessica O’Brien, Young Playwright Programme
Jessica O’ Brien is…
25/9/2018
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Blog 2 – Róisin O’Donnell Young Playwright Programme
Róisin O’Donnell is a 19 year old leaving cert survivor…
22/8/2018
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Blog 3 – Muireann Ahern & Louis Lovett, Joint Artistic Director Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern is…
31/7/2018
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Blog 1 – Jessica O’Brien, Young Playwright Programme
Jessica O’ Brien is…
26/7/2018
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Blog 4 – Dan Colley, Dramaturg & Director of Collapsing Horse Theatre
In this new series artist and director Dan Colley talks about The Rights Museum arts project in Dublin.
29/6/2018
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Blog 2 – Muireann Ahern, Joint Artistic Director Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern is…
25/6/2018
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Blog 1 – Muireann Ahern & Louis Lovett, Joint Artistic Director of Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern is…
31/5/2018
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Blog 3: Kevin Gaffney Artist & Filmmaker
Primary School Links School Links is a programme run by Dr. Michael Flannery which brings students from local…
30/5/2018
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Blog 3 – Dan Colley, Dramaturg & Director of Collapsing Horse Theatre
In this new series artist and director Dan Colley talks about The Rights Museum arts project in Dublin.
30/4/2018
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Blog 2: Kevin Gaffney Artist & Filmmaker
Diorama construction and collaborative filmmaking In the first semester of my residency at the Marino…
30/4/2018
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Blog 1: Kevin Gaffney Artist & Filmmaker
Art on Campus In September I began my role as artist-in-residence at the Marino Institute…
26/3/2018
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Blog 2 – Chris McCambridge, Special Educational Needs Teacher, Virtually There
Christopher McCambridge is…
26/3/2018
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Blog 2 – Dan Colley, Dramaturg & Director of Collapsing Horse Theatre
In this new series artist and director Dan Colley talks about The Rights Museum arts project in Dublin.
27/2/2018
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Blog 1 – Chris McCambridge, Special Educational Needs Teacher, Virtually There
Christopher McCambridge is…
31/1/2018
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Blog 1 – Dan Colley, Dramaturg & Director of Collapsing Horse Theatre
In this new series artist and director Dan Colley talks about The Rights Museum arts project in Dublin.
30/1/2018
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Blog 4 – Máire O’Higgins – Teacher
Blog 4 – December 2017 It is six months since we finished the Reimagining Education showcase and exhibition…
20/12/2017
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Blog 4 – Julie Forrester, Visual Artist
In her final blog post of the series, visual artist Julie Forrester talks about her response to an invitation to lead a workshop.
14/12/2017
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Blog 4 – Tom Dalton, Artist & Arts Worker
A Walk In The Park: Art And Ecology
29/11/2017
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Blog 4 – Milica Atanackovic, Training & Practice Manager Early Childhood Ireland
The Art of Storytelling “People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way…
28/11/2017
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Blog 4 – Claire Halpin, Visual Artist, Curator & Arts Educator
Blog 4: Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Creativity in the Classroom So after my mini rant in the last Blog…
13/11/2017
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Blog 3 – Tom Dalton, Artist & Arts Worker
Collaborative Mural Project at Terrence McSwiney Community School, Cork The Kabin Studio at Knocknaheeny is a much loved…
18/10/2017
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Blog 4 – Jean Tormey: Interview with Assistant Curator Lucy McDonald
Blog 4: Interview with Assistant Curator Lucy McDonald In my final blog post I’d like to focus on…
13/10/2017
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Blog 3 – Claire Halpin, Visual Artist, Curator & Arts Educator
Back to School! Back to School! I have never quite got over the mild dull back to school…
27/9/2017
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Blog 3 – Julie Forrester, Visual Artist
In the third blog post of the series, visual artist Julie Forrester talks about her creative work with teachers, as part of their Continuing Professional Development.
7/9/2017
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Blog 3 – Jean Tormey, Curator Early Years & Families at Tate Modern & Tate Britain
Blog 3 – EYF programme In this penultimate blog post I’d like to talk about what we currently…
4/9/2017
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Guest Blogger: Vicky Donnelly, Education Coordinator at Galway One World Centre
Exploring Refuge and Migration Issues With Young Children: notes from Baboro’s Primary In-Career Course, Drama Tools for…
28/8/2017
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Blog 1 – Deirdre Sullivan is a writer and SEN teacher
Guest Blog CPD Course at The Ark I signed up for a five-day CPD course…
28/8/2017
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Guest Blogger, Leanne Troy, Primary School Teacher
I am very enthusiastic about visual art and its impact on education. I challenge myself to try…
24/8/2017
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Blog 2 – Tom Dalton, Artist & Arts Worker
‘Parting Memories’: St. Patrick’s Girls National School Mural Making the move from Primary to Secondary School can be…
24/8/2017
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Blog 2 – Claire Halpin, Visual Artist, Curator & Arts Educator
Visual Thinking Strategies with DCC Neighbourhood Schools – St.Mary’s N.S, Fairview In my last blog post I outlined…
21/8/2017
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Blog 3 – Milica Atanackovic, Training & Practice Manager Early Childhood Ireland
Creativity through materials, space and time ‘There is no substitute for exploration, unconstrained by rules or expectations when…
21/8/2017
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Blog 1 – Éadaoin Quinn on the Creative Writing Course at The Ark
Creative Writing Summer Course in The Ark This course sounded like just what I was…
9/8/2017
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Blog 2 – Jean Tormey, Curator Early Years & Families at Tate Modern & Tate Britain
Blog Post 2: This post looks at some of the key parallels between the Reggio Emilia philosophy and…
27/7/2017
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Blog 2 – Carmel Brennan, Head of Practice Early Childhood Ireland
The art of play is the art of living life to the full. I’m a huge fan of…
27/7/2017
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Blog 1 – Carmel Brennan, Head of Practice Early Childhood Ireland
Living Art with Young Children ‘Accepting – or at least acknowledging all the children offer is…
4/7/2017
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Blog 1 – Jean Tormey, Curator Early Years & Families at Tate Modern & Tate Britain
Inspiration for Tate’s EYF programme – the Reggio Emilia approach “The child is not a…
28/6/2017
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Call Out to Teachers on Summer Courses for our Guest Blogger Series
Are you a teacher in Primary or Post-Primary education? Are you doing a summer course this…
20/6/2017
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Blog 1 – Tom Dalton, Artist & Arts Worker
“What I Do When I Feel Blue” The teenage years and early adulthood can be particularly tricky times…
20/6/2017
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Blog 1 – Claire Halpin, Visual Artist, Curator & Arts Educator
As a visual artist, curator and arts educator I work on many different projects across different contexts…
19/6/2017
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Blog 2 – Julie Forrester, Visual Artist
In the second of her blog series, visual artist Julie Forrester talks about celebrating the art of drawing, reflecting on her childhood memories of making art.
15/6/2017
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Blog 1 – Julie Forrester, Visual Artist
In this new blog series, visual artist Julie Forrester talks about her work with teacher and children on the Virtually There project.
29/5/2017
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Blog 3: Kieran Gallagher, Post-Primary Art Teacher
How I balance work as an Artist-Teacher: To be an art teacher in any given day or class…
15/5/2017
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Blog 4 – Tadhg Crowley, Projects Adviser
The Certificate in Contemporary Living (CCL) is a two-year education programme for people with intellectual disabilities designed…
6/4/2017
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Blog 3 – Tadhg Crowley, Curator of Education
At the time when the Glucksman first began to incorporate projects and events for Primary School Teachers…
3/4/2017
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Blog 2 – Kate Heffernan, Writer
Peat began as an impulse to explore a story and a history for a specific audience, and…
27/3/2017
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Blog 2 – Tadhg Crowley, Curator of Education
As we enter the teenage years we begin to gain a little more freedom. This new found…
23/3/2017
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Blog 3 – Kotryna Knystautaite assisted by Hannah Murphy and Aoife Craddock, Student Select Exhibition
The Day Has Arrived! The countdown had stopped. The day had finally arrived. It was the day of the…
22/3/2017
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Blog 1 – Kate Heffernan, Writer
On the east coast, right on the edge of Ireland, there is a bog known as The…
21/3/2017
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Blog 1 – Tadhg Crowley, Curator of Education
When as an earnest 14-year-old, I stood with my family and friends in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cork…
16/3/2017
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Blog 4 – Carmel Broderick, Primary School Teacher, Virtually There Project
We as teachers are becoming preoccupied with generating art which looks well on a display board and…
22/2/2017
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Blog 2: Kieran Gallagher, Post-Primary Art Teacher
In the 2nd blog in his series art teacher Kieran Gallagher continues to share updates from his class room and discusses the challenges of adapting to the senior cycle art syllabus changes.
30/1/2017
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Blog 3 – Carmel Broderick, Virtually There Project, Primary School Teacher
Virtually There Project with Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership Virtually There began with a gathering of…
30/1/2017
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Blog 3 – Máire O’Higgins, Teacher
Thursday 26th January 2017 Planning is crucial when engaging with partners. However, to paraphrase the poet Robert Burns,…
30/1/2017
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Blog 2 – Kotryna Knystautaite, Student Select Exhibition
The Arrival The excitement has become a constant buzzing feeling…
22/12/2016
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Blog 2 – Lucy Hill, Artist in Residence, Virtually There Project
First Virtual Visit As part of our training before the project with the children began, Carmel (my project…
20/12/2016
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Blog 2 – Máire O’Higgins, Teacher
Tuesday 8th November A potential new partner for our project – a writer in residence…. We have had a…
20/12/2016
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Blog 1 – Máire O’Higgins, Teacher
October 25th 2016 I have the good fortune of working in a variety of jobs within my permanent…
30/11/2016
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Blog 1 – Kotryna Knystautaite & Niamh Woods, Student Select Exhibition
Student Blog – No. 1 Nearing the middle of our Transition Year, our art teachers, Kieran Gallagher (St….
30/11/2016
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Blog 1 – Lucy Hill, Artist in Residence, Virtually There Project
Artist in Residence with the Kids’ Own, Virtually There Project Our project began when we met on our…
30/11/2016
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Blog 1: Kieran Gallagher, Post-Primary Art Teacher
In the first blog in this series from post-primary art teacher Kieran Gallagher we learn about the projects Kieran and his students have been collaborating on.
27/10/2016