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Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office is focussed on developing provision for young people both within formal education contexts and within the community. We seek to provide access to high-quality, innovative, exciting and engaging programmes for children and young people, to encourage early engagement in the arts and to cultivate deeper appreciation. We work with key partners in the education sector, local stakeholders and community organisations to deliver a range of creative programmes to enrich the lives of young people. We also create opportunities to enable young people to co-create programmes ensuring that their voices and at the core of developments and to promote their ownership. Many of our programmes are long term and multi-faceted as we recognise the benefits delivering long-term, relevant, sustainable, growth oriented programmes.

Current long term provision tailored to the needs of children and young people include:

 

 

Over 37% of Kildare’s total population are aged 0-24 year. This is the highest rate in the State. Kildare County Council has an overarching commitment to continue to develop both existing provision for children and young people and education partnerships aimed at building capacity in the sector in the county.

Kildare County Council Arts Service offers a range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Kildare. The Arts Service constantly evaluates and reviews its programme in response to needs from schools.

Supports include:

Purpose of Dublin City Council Arts Office

The Arts are a unique and fundamental part of Dublin’s identity. Dublin City Arts Office ensures that the arts remain as a vital part of living, working and visiting the capital City. Leading, developing and working in partnership we support artists, arts organisations, the city communities to deliver quality arts, and experiences that contribute to Dublin’s cultural life and its reputation as a modern vibrant city, rich in art and heritage.

Arts, Education and Learning Policy

The Arts, Education and Learning Policy was passed by Council in November 2016. It is for the citizens of Dublin, acknowledging that each Dubliner has a right to practice and participate in appropriate and equal cultural and artistic activity and learning. It is a key document for scaffolding our approach to questions around where our responsibilities lie in addressing realistically, what resources we have as an Arts Office; what resources we can generate through strategic partnership; how might we be informed about barriers and needs directly by children and young people and their stakeholders.

Dublin City Arts Service: Arts and Education Learning Policy (.pdf)

Policy Action, No 5

Explore And research opportunities for arts in education and the role of the city as partner with formal education in response to the National Arts in Education Charter (2013).

Supports include:

  1. Long-term partnerships, in targeted neighbourhoods, that embed localised arts in education models of practice.
  2. Large-Scale Artistic Commissions (including per cent for art)
  3. Innovative Training and Mobility for Educators and Artists
  4. National Initiatives in Arts In Education e.g. Teacher Artist Partnership Programme
  5. Early Childhood Arts – Commissioning and Artists in Residence Programme at Local And Regional level
  6. Funding through Dublin City Annual Arts Grants
  7. Information and Advice about arts provision and practice happening in Dublin city

 

Current Programmes of work with schools and early childhood services are:

 

South Dublin County Council Arts Office provides a service that supports the development of creative people and communities through the arts. Provision and support of high quality arts experiences are central to the service. This is realised through research, programmes, events, grants and awards and the development of on-line and off-line resources.

Supports include:

  1. Artistic Commissions (including per cent for art)
  2. National Initiatives in Arts In Education e.g. Teacher Artist Partnership Programme
  3. Early Childhood Arts – Commissioning and Artist development
  4. Funding through South Dublin County Arts Grants and Creative Ireland Schools Cultural Awards
  5. Information and Advice about arts provision and practice 

Current programmes of work with schools and early childhood services are:

Kerry County Council Arts Service seeks to foster greater levels of engagement in the arts, and to support a high standard of practice in the arts throughout the County of Kerry for its people. The Arts Service vision for the arts is based on four core values: Quality, Access, Inclusion and Sustainability.

The Arts Service prioritises spend on arts activities that reflect these core values. Three key strategic areas for prioritisation include

Supports include:

The principal aim of the Cork City Council Arts Office is to act as a central platform for the cultural vitality of Cork city. We believe that the existence of a vibrant creative community, along with supporting equality of access to the arts for all Cork citizens, is exceedingly important to the wider “wellbeing” of this city. To do this we work with artists, cultural groups, art facilities and numerous other individuals to ensure access to the arts for all residents and visitors to Cork city.

Our current programmes around arts in education are:

Music Generation Cork City, an innovative and progressive community education programme, which delivers music educational experiences in a diverse range of music genres to 2000 children in their own communities throughout Cork city.

The Composers in the Classroom scheme is an initiative which brings professional composers and musicians into the classroom as part of a special curriculum devised for transition year music students and their teachers. Cork Choral Festival are the cultural partner, and the scheme runs with Cork County Council.  The scheme has been highly successful in encouraging and assisting students, many with little or no musical training, in their musical creativity and experimentation. The residency culminates in a seminar held as part of the Cork International Choral Festival, where student get the chance to perform their compositions and listen to the composition of other schools in the scheme.

The Unfinished of Poetry is a creative writing in school programme which began its life in 2005 when Cork was designated European Capital of Culture. During Cork 2005 the library staff conceived the idea to have a book by young people that continued beyond the City of Culture Year. The project became ‘The Unfinished Book’ and involves creative writing workshops  in local libraries with students of Cork schools each year working with professional writers and poets from Cork. The students work is published in a book which is then launched. These workshops foster creative, personal and educational development and support participants in gaining new insights into the creative art of poetry writing. The project is an arts office and Cork City Libraries schools programme managed by O’Bhéal.

Tools of the Trade is an art project that explores childhood creativity and interesting places of work created and delivered by artists, Leah Murphy and Susie Walsh. Each year, children taking part have the chance to see behind closed doors in three varied and interesting places of work in Cork city. Introductory workshops are given where the children are shown tools that are in everyday use in these particular workplaces as a starting point. In a series of fun, interactive and educational art workshops, the children then create artworks inspired by the specific activities encountered in each place of work. ‘Tools of the Trade’ is supported by the Creative Ireland Programme, an all of government five year initiative, from 2017 to 2022, which places creativity at the centre of public policy.

The Arts in Context Award aims to provide opportunities for artists and community groups to work together to realise arts projects. This award supports projects that take place in community contexts such as; schools, hospitals, community care settings, youth clubs, prisons, community centre’s, clubs etc. Artists and the group must plan the project together.  There is an annual call that opens in September and closes mid November for projects to run in the following year.  Further information can be found at www.corkcity.ie/en/ council-services/services/ arts-culture-heritage/arts- office/funding-opportunities1. html

Arts in Education initiatives include the Artists in Schools scheme and a Music Education scheme

Mr. Ian McDonagh, Arts Officer, Cork County Council Library and Arts Services, Floor 3, County Library Building, Carrigrohane Road, Cork
(021) 4346210

ianmcdonagh@corkcoco.ie
www.corkcoco.ie/arts

Waterford City & County Council Arts Service runs an extensive Arts In Education programme and has done so since the mid 1990’s.

Currently, this programme is run across the Primary and Secondary Schools network and within community contexts.

This provision from early years to young adulthood aims to expose young people to the arts and to provide high quality experiences across all art forms.

Working with partners in the community, education sector and specific arts organizations we offer a range of interventions. The young people also have a strong voice in this provision to shape various programmes and in some instances to be part of the organizing and decision making processes.

We have a long term relationship with Waterford Youth Arts, Lismore Castle Arts and Education Centres to assist with our programme. Currently we offer and/or assist with :

-Artist in Residence in Primary Schools and the TAP partnership
–Artifice – Transition Year Visual Arts Project with Lismore Castle Arts
–The LIT, Young Writers Festival, Waterford
–Waterford Music Generation
-Summer in the City Schools Engagement Programme
-Architect in Residence in Schools with the Waterford Festival of Architecture
-Traditional Music for teenagers in association with Comhlucht Forbartha na nDéise

 

 

Overview of Arts in Education Programme

The Living Arts Project was established in 2013 as a long term visual arts educational scheme. The aim of this project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art.

Over the course of a fifteen-week programme, each artist will bring their own unique styles, talents and disciplines to the participating schools, encouraging pupils to think beyond the classroom and respond visually to the world around them. So far 4 different artists and assistants have taken part in the programme and over 20 schools across Co. Wexford have benefited.

This year with Creative Ireland funding the following will take place:

The Arts Office is responsible for arts provision in the county and has a dedicated Youth Arts Programme

Ms Sinead Dowling, Arts Officer, County Buildings, Athy Road, Carlow
(059) 9170301

sdowling@carlowcoco.ie
www.carlow.ie/all-council-services/arts

Limerick City and County Council Culture and Arts Department

The Department is responsible for the delivery of the Limerick Cultural Strategy which includes actions on arts in education.

Our principal document is the Limerick Cultural Strategy. The Limerick Cultural Strategy is an integrated set of choices that will pave the way for effective planning to achieve change through cultural engagement.

Within that document object 6 is as follows;

To engage citizens through involvement in culture

Cultural organisations in Limerick have demonstrated a distinct expertise in their participatory approaches to creative and artistic work. Active engagement and participation in cultural activity has the potential to bring about transformative change to individuals and communities. We aim to achieve this in the following ways:

 

There are two other strategic documents which also deliver on Arts in Education. The first is the Framework Agreement with the Arts Council that include the following strategic objectives;

1. Supporting Artists and Key Strategic Organisations

2. Rural Arts and Excellence

3. Young People, Children and Education

4. Festivals and Events

 

The second is the Culture and Creativity Strategy for Limerick as part of Creative Ireland. There are five strategic actions within this document;

1. Future Creators: Children and young people

2. Creative Minds: Nurturing and supporting artists and other creators

3. Creative Springboard:  Fostering creative and cultural innovation

4. People, Places, Networks: Enhancing our local cultural and creative infrastructure

5. Creative Screens:  A focus on film and coding

6. Creative Citizens: People creating and accessing culture on their doorstep

Laois County Council Arts Service are committed to work with others, including the Department of Education and Skills, to support the provision of excellent arts experiences for children and young people.  Building on existing provision our arts programme supports opportunities and experiences for learning, creativity and developing skills in a range of art form.

Laois County Council Arts Service offers a wide range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Laois

Supports include:

 

Offaly County Council Arts Service is committed to developing and sustaining young people’s arts provision for Offaly through the Arts Office Youth Programme. The Arts Office strategic policy has been to focus specific attention on how young people participate in the arts, which allow young people to shine individually and as ensembles, and to be a source of their own ingenuity and creativity. We believe that facilitating projects in which young people can freely and safely be expressive, is investment into their capacity to be confident independent and innovative thinkers. We do this by programming both within schools and in partnership with other agencies and arts organisations to deliver programmes such as the Hullabaloo! Children’s Arts Festival, Cruinniú na nóg, the Mini Movies programme, Music Generation Offaly/Westmeath programme in schools.

Programming and partnership opportunities also arise from our Creative Ireland programme, the Percent for Art programme and the partnership between the Arts Offices of Offaly, Laois and the Laois/Offaly Education and Training Board.

The arts play an important role in society, contributing to the quality of life of communities, local economies, the expression of local identity and the vibrant cultural life of the county. The Tipperary Arts Service strives to broaden and deepen access to the arts and to develop strategies for sustainable engagement, creating an environment where the arts and creativity can thrive. A core focus of the County Arts Programme is to ensure access for children and young people to the arts and to assist young people in developing a language of creativity through engagement in arts activity and with practicing artists across a broad range of settings.

Our current programmes for children and young people include:

Tipperary Artist in Primary School Scheme – the Tipperary Artist in Primary Schools Scheme has supported 47 artist in residence projects in primary schools in Tipperary since 2015. The aim of this scheme is to give pupils in schools all over the county the opportunity to work with a professional artist on a once-off unique project to be originated and planned between the artist and the school. Artists from any artistic discipline may apply with a school. The school and the artist work together to propose a unique application under the scheme; there is a call for applications annually. Contact time is 50 hours per project. Projects across a range of artistic disciplines ranging from theatre to visual arts and music to storytelling will take place in Tipperary schools during 2019.

The Second Level Print in Schools Exhibition – Tipperary Arts Office offers secondary schools in the Tipperary administrative area the opportunity to borrow and display an exhibition of thirty two contemporary prints by Irish artists. The prints from twenty two artists include works by Cecil King, Alice Hanratty, Patrick Hickey, Gene Lambert, Suzannah O’Reilly and Des McMahon. Print mediums include monoprint, relief print, etching, silkscreen, lithograph, collograph, and dry point. An informative exhibition catalogue for educational purposes is included with the print exhibition. A one day printmaking workshop in the school/ venue is also available as part of this opportunity. The prints are specially packed for easy handling and transport. Teachers and schools, venues and organisations can arrange to borrow the exhibition by contacting the Tipperary Arts Office. This initiative offers teachers a contemporary, practical resource while also introducing artists, materials and processes to students. Schools are open to use the resource as they wish and as is practical for them, their spaces and resources.

Music Generation Tipperary: Tipperary is among five new counties in Ireland to participate in the most recent phase of development of Music Generation. Over the coming years, Music Generation Tipperary will offer new opportunities for hundreds of children and young people ages 0 to 18 to access high-quality, subsidised vocal and instrumental tuition in their local communities. Initiated by Music Network in 2010, Music Generation is Ireland’s National Music Education Programme, co-funded by U2, The Ireland Funds, the Department of Education and Skills and Local Music Education Partnerships (LMEPs). Locally, Music Generation Tipperary will be led by Tipperary Education and Training Board (ETB) in partnership with Tipperary County Council. Planning for the roll-out of Music Generation Tipperary is currently underway, which involves recruitment of a Music Generation Development Officer to oversee programme development.
Music Generation Tipperary’s goal will be to develop a range of affordable and accessible ways for children and young people to engage in performance music education. This will include the coordination of music tuition services within the county, working in partnership with schools, community music groups and tuition centres in the formation of choirs, ensembles, access programmes, composition projects, songwriting initiatives and more, across a broad range of musical genres and styles.

The arts venues in Tipperary are key providers of programming for children and young people in the county. The Source Arts Centre, Thurles; Nenagh Arts Centre, The Tipperary Excel Arts Centre in Tipperary Town and the South Tipperary Arts Centre and Tipperary County Museum in Clonmel all run a range of engagement programmes and provide opportunites for young people, children and their families to engage with the arts.

Tipperary County Council also provides support to a range of festivals and events which deliver strong programme strands for children and young people in Tipperary. www.whatsonintipp.ie lists festivals taking place in Tipperary. Spleodar, Nenagh’s Haloween Arts Festival is a children’s arts festival which delivers high quality arts experiences that are curated specifically for children and young people during the Halloween mid-term break annually. Full programme http://spleodar.ie

The Tipperary Youth Theatre provides opportunities for non-formal youth engagement. Established by the Tipperary Arts Office, Tipperary Youth Theatre was developed in Thurles in 1999 and in Nenagh in 2007 to provide a platform for engagement with theatre for young people in the 13-17 age group. Both Youth Theatres now have a long history of presenting an annual production and training programme which is youth led and youth centred and are managed by The Source Arts Centre in Thurles and Nenagh Arts Centre.

Tipperary Dance Platform (TDP) is a platform for dance, dedicated to the enrichment and stimulation of dance in Tipperary. The activities of Tipperary Dance Platform are co-ordinated around three main strands: The TDP International Dance Festival, engagement with the community and the provision of resources for dance artists and the professional dance sector. Based from the Tipperary Excel Arts Centre in Tipperary Town, the Tipperary Dance Platform works with local schools through dance residency programmes and invitations to attend performances during the TDP International Dance Festival.

The Tipperary Arts Office also has a Percussion Instrument Collection which is available on loan to schools and community groups. Please contact the arts office for further information.

The Clare County Council Arts Service Artists in Schools programme is designed to create opportunities for artists and schools to work together over a specific duration of time. We support and fund projects that are innovative, unique and that foster creativity; skills development and an introduction to the language used in art making. We also encourage projects that introduce children to experience the cross disciplinary nature of the arts, projects which connect ideas and art making to other subjects e.g. history, science, the environment, local, national and global cultures and traditions.

The Artists Residency programme currently has two strands: Arts Space and Arts Days. The scheme is open to artists from any artistic discipline including visual arts and crafts, music, dance, drama, literature, film, architecture, photography, and new media.

2018/19 flagship projects include a year-long artist residency with artist, Shona MacGillivray and St. Anne’s Special School and a Spoken Word Poetry Project with transition year students.

The Artists in Schools Programme also supports and develops.

Galway County Council Arts Service offers a range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Galway. The Arts Service constantly evaluates and reviews its programme in response to needs from schools. Our aim is to offer children the opportunity to work with a professional artist on a once-off project in visual arts, dance, literature, drama, music, photography, film, etc.

Supports include:

The Arts Service engages with a range of artforms in contexts including young people, children, education and socially engaged art

Mr James Harold, Arts Officer, Galway City Council Arts Service, City Hall, College Road, Galway
(091)536546

jharrold@galwaycity.ie
www.galwaycity.ie/pobal-cultur/arts-office-information/

Participation and access are fundamental to Meath County Council Arts Service strategy in providing high quality arts experiences for children and young people across the county. Aligned to Pillars 1 & 2 of the Creative Ireland Programme, Meath County Arts Office currently deliver a number of child and young person focussed programmes across a range of experiences and art forms.

 

Louth County Council Arts Service is responsible for arts provision in the county and has a dedicated Community and Education Programme.

Over 35% of County Louth’s total population are aged 0-24 year. Louth County Council is committed to continue development of existing and provision of new resources for children and young people and education partnerships aimed at building capacity in the sector in the county.

Louth County Council Arts Service offers a range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Louth.

Supports include:

The individual is at the heart of any programme delivered by Roscommon County Council and the arts programme is no different.

One of the four priorities of the Roscommon County Council Arts Plan is ‘Children and Young People’. Through art, children and young people can create something that, until that point, was only imagined, creating visual manifestations of abstract ideas. Exposure to the arts through drawing, painting, music, song, theatre and dance can help in the development of multiple skills and capacities such as persistence, collaboration, creative thinking, motivation and problem solving.

Roscommon County Council will continue to promote access to the arts for children and young people so that they have the opportunity to experience high quality arts in a non-formal setting as creators, participants, spectators and critics. Successful programmes such as the Roscommon County Youth Theatre and the Roscommon County Youth Orchestra will be strengthened and developed as will the children’s literary programmes and the artists in schools programmes.  New programmes, projects and arts-related activities in pre, primary and post primary schools will be introduced to ensure that programmes are current, innovative and contemporary.

Our current programmes include Artist in Schools Programme, Artists in Pre/Play/After Schools, Arts School Takeover, ‘Pop Up Poetry for Lil’ Peeps’, Writers in Post Primary Schools Programme, Bookworms Children’s Festival, Music Generation, Roscommon County Youth Orchestra, Roscommon County Youth Theatre, Cruinniu na nOg, Children’s Art in Libraries Programme and Teacher Artist Partnership Programme with Carrick on Shannon and Athlone Education Centres.

Mayo County Council Arts Service works with youth agencies, educational organisations and venues to increase access to and engagement with and for young people.

Mayo Arts service programmes an annual Excel Youth Arts Programme, provides a vibrant Youth Theatre, are a founding partner of Music Generation Mayo and have a schools exhibition programme. As part of the Mayo County Council Strategic Arts Plan 2018 – 2022 consultation, an online survey specifically for young people was developed and circulated. This garnered a positive response and generated new actions in the Arts Plan.

Mayo Youth Theatre

Mayo Youth Theatre (MYT) is an initiative of Mayo County Council, set up in 1999. It is based in Ballina and provides opportunities for young people to engage in theatre making activity, covering all aspects of the genre.

MYT involves continued development of quality youth theatre in partnership with Youth Theatre Ireland and Ballina Arts Centre. Masterclasses are provided with external expert facilitators and Youth Theatre Ireland. MYT participants are encouraged and facilitated to see professional productions and have also availed of Youth Theatre Ireland Go See YT funding and participants have been part of the annual National Youth Festival and have secured places on the National Youth Theatre Ensemble and Young Critics Programme.

Excel Youth Arts Programme

Mayo Arts Service Excel Youth Arts Programme is an annual county-wide programme of events for young people aged 13 -19 years. Excel provides an opportunity for young people to explore their creativity, gain skills in various art forms and encounter practicing artists.

Schools Exhibition

The existing Schools’ Exhibition Programme allows a school to borrow a number of paintings from the Mayo County Council Collection for a school term. There are two exhibitions available, both of which have been collated especially for use in primary schools and a teachers and students pack is also available. This Schools exhibition will be revised to include a broader spectrum of art work and practices, as committed to in the new Arts Plan.

Music Generation Mayo

Music Generation Mayo, of which Mayo Arts Service is a founding partner, provides performance music education opportunities for children and young people in Mayo. The establishment of a Music Instrument Bank was one of the core strategic aims of the partnership in its original music development plan for Mayo. The inclusion of this resource was directly influenced by a consultation with young people who specifically cited lack of access to instruments as being a key challenge in furthering their musical development. Music Generation Mayo provides wide-ranging opportunities for children and young people to develop as music performers through increased access to subsidised general and specialist tuition. The programme also supports the development of music related activities e.g. sound recording, stage management, documentation and promotion of events.

Creative Schools

Mayo Arts Service is a member of the Creative Ireland Culture Team in Mayo County Council and committed to engaging with and supporting the work of Creative Associates and schools participating in the Creative Schools Initiative.

Mayo Artsquad

Established in 1997 with FÁS support, Mayo County Council’s Artsquad has continued to provide excellent training in community arts skills for fifteen participants annually. The participants on Artsquad come from a wide variety of backgrounds and work with groups including schools and youth groups from all communities, providing workshops, training and street theatre. Mayo Artsquad also works extensively with festivals throughout the county.

Other opportunities

Other opportunities for this target audience present themselves through residencies, public art schemes etc., and all are utilised when appropriate. For example, the Writer in Residence Programme often includes a writer working with a school/youth group/ young people to develop work collaboratively.

Children and young people are a principal priority of Leitrim County Council’s arts programme and a key component of its arts strategy for the forthcoming five year period. Leitrim County Council Arts Service provides a range of services and opportunities to children and young people in pre, primary and secondary schools in Leitrim and through extra-curricular programmes, festivals and events.

Supports include:

The Arts Office is responsible for arts provision in the county

Fergus Kennedy, Arts Officer, Longford County Arts Office, Aras an Chontae, Great Water Street, Longford

086 851759
fkennedy@longfordcoco.ie
http://www.longfordcoco.ie/arts_office.html
http://www.virtualwriter.ie/

Westmeath County Arts Office provides support for the professional, voluntary, community and amateur arts sectors in Westmeath and provides information and advice to the community on arts-related issues.

Since the development of the Arts Office in Westmeath in 2001, the County Council has expanded its support for and contribution to the arts in County Westmeath. The County Arts Office aims to promote access, appreciation, awareness and enjoyment of the arts for all citizens of County Westmeath and also aims to stimulate interest in and promote the knowledge and appreciation of the Arts throughout the County.

Services Offered

 

Cavan County Council Arts Service is the local government agency charged with leading the development of the arts in the county. We advocate the importance and value of the arts and promote their practice and development. We advise government and others on the arts as required by the Arts Act 2003. We invest public monies allocated by government in supporting artists and arts organisations to make work of excellence and in other actions consistent with our remit.

We work in partnership with the Arts Council, Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and with other government departments as well as agencies and organisations within and beyond the cultural sector.

Cavan Arts Service with Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB) and Cavan and Monaghan County Council through Local Arts and Education Partnership are aiming to enhance opportunities for children and young people through The Arts in Education Charter.

The objectives are:

Cavan Arts Office are working with CMETB Lead partner and Monaghan County Council and Music Generation head office to develop performance music and promote music education for children and young people in counties Cavan and Monaghan.

Through Peace IV Cavan Youth Arts Lab, Cavan Arts Service provides specialist youth arts programmes for young people to make exciting work in theatre, dance, music, drama and visual art, creating profound cultural memory.

Monaghan County Council Arts Service recognises the potential of the arts as a tool to enhance the wellbeing of students in our education system and add value to the core curriculum through engagement with professional artists. Promoting the arts in education has the potential to create a lasting legacy for our younger generation. In recent times this important work received a critical boost through the development of the National Charter for Arts & Education. The charter was adopted by the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. It has been adopted at local level by the Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (ETB) to meet identified needs. An Arts in Education Officer has been appointed and an Arts in Education Partnership has established to advance this agenda. Monaghan County Council is a partner in this initiative.

Our objectives are to increase opportunities for engagement in the arts by both the communities and pupils in schools and we take a long-term strategic view in planning for and investing in the arts for children and young people. We have put in place strategic partnership agreements with relevant local agencies for jointly planned and funded initiatives to extend and expand arts outreach opportunities.
We promote and support involvement in the arts by children and young people in the following ways:

The commitment in the Creative Ireland Programme is that by 2022 every child should have the opportunity in accessing tuition or engagement in music, drama, art and coding. Creative Monaghan will support and collaborate, where feasible, with the Arts in Education Charter and The Creative Youth Plans through strategic local partnerships and alliances.

Sligo County Arts Service works in partnership with key stakeholders to deliver a high quality arts service for the people of Sligo and to promote greater public involvement in the arts in a wide range of settings. The Arts Service also works with the arts community to promote culture and creativity as an expression of contemporary Sligo at national and international level.

Sligo Arts Service provides opportunities for children and young people to participate in arts and creativity to enable self-expression, enhance learning and further the exploration of personal and social identity as they grow and develop. Programmes which are specifically delivered in schools are as follows:

Primary Colours is an exciting children’s arts education programme developed around the visual arts curriculum delivered by a panel of practising artists. The programme works with Sligo Primary Schools. 3rd -6th class students and their teachers are invited to take part in a specially curated gallery exhibition tour/workshop followed by school based workshops. Primary Colours enriches the primary school visual arts curriculum through workshops, exhibitions and teachers packs. These packs and further information can be down loaded from www.primarycolourssligo.ie.

Music Generation Sligo delivers a range of long-term music education projects for children and young people as part of a national Music Generation programme initiated by Music Network, co-funded by U2, The Ireland Funds, The Department of Education & Skills and Sligo Music Education Partnership. MGS is managed and funded locally by Mayo Sligo Leitrim ETB, Sligo County Council, Sligo Education Centre, Sligo County Childcare Committee, Cranmore Regeneration and the local music sector. Since 2011, MGS has developed programmes to address access to instrumental and vocal tuition and performance by children and young people in their own communities.​ The programme reaches approximately 4000 children annually. Discovering Music is delivered to almost 3000 children and young people including childcare, pre-school, primary school and post primary school. The programme is developed and delivered by progessional musicians to support and enhance the music curriculum, working in partnership with teachers.

Sligo Arts Service is a member of the Creative Ireland Culture Team in Sligo County Council and committed to engaging with and supporting the work of Creative Associates and schools participating in the Creative Schools Initiative. Sligo Arts Service works closely with Sligo Education Centre in planning for and delivering the above programmes as well as TAP – the Department of Education’s Teacher Artist Partnership CPD Programme.

The Arts Office is responsible for arts provision in the county and has a comprehensive Arts-in-Schools Programme in South and South West Donegal

Mr. Traolach O’Fionnan, Arts Officer, Rosemount, Letterkenny
074 9121968

traolach@donegalcoco.ie
http://www.donegalcoco.ie/culture/arts office

Fingal is defined by its rural, urban and suburban landscape, culturally diverse communities and a significant youth population, of which 30% is younger than 18 years of age.

Fingal County Council Arts Office has made cultural provision in their annual arts budget for children and young people since its inception in 1994.  The dedicated Youth & Education Officer post was established in 2005 and the first Youth & Education Policy passed by council in 2010.

Fingal Arts Office 2018 – 2025

Our Strategic Goals

We have determined four areas of work that we will focus on in the lifetime of our new County Arts Plan 2018 – 2025.  By concentrating on these areas we will be true to our purpose and realise our mission and vision, so advancing Fingal as an exceptional county to live in, work or visit.

Making SPACE for art

Through investment in infrastructure and in the creation of opportunity we will have ensured a place for the arts in peoples’ lives.

Connecting PEOPLE and IDEAS

People are confidently and imaginatively coming together through the arts.

Enabling EXCELLENCE

Fingal is known for its great artists and art.

Developing OUR CAPACITY

Fingal County Council and its Arts Office have the knowledge, skills and resources to deliver this plan.

The Youth & Education Programme

The Youth & Education Programme works across art forms and engages with both formal and non-formal education sectors. The programme has propelled the development of arts and education at local level by:

 

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council recognises the importance of life-long learning and the positive impact that early intervention has to address education inequality. Cultural education aids the vision of the Council’s Development Plan for the County to possess the best quality of residential life by 2022.

In line with this vision dlr Arts Office supports and funds a range of arts in learning contexts for early years children, primary school children and young people.

Services and supports include:

Arts in Education initiatives include the Thinking Visual programme for secondary schools

Jenny Sherwin – Arts Officer
The Arts Office, County Buildings,
Whitegates,
Wicklow Town,
Co. Wicklow.

wao@wicklowcoco.ie.
0404 20155

www.wicklow.ie/arts-office


!!!! Kilkenny County Arts Service

Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office is focussed on developing provision for young people both within formal education contexts and within the community. We seek to provide access to high-quality, innovative, exciting and engaging programmes for children and young people, to encourage early engagement in the arts and to cultivate deeper appreciation. We work with key partners in the education sector, local stakeholders and community organisations to deliver a range of creative programmes to enrich the lives of young people. We also create opportunities to enable young people to co-create programmes ensuring that their voices and at the core of developments and to promote their ownership. Many of our programmes are long term and multi-faceted as we recognise the benefits delivering long-term, relevant, sustainable, growth oriented programmes.

Current long term provision tailored to the needs of children and young people include:

 

 

!!!! Kildare County Council Arts Service

Over 37% of Kildare’s total population are aged 0-24 year. This is the highest rate in the State. Kildare County Council has an overarching commitment to continue to develop both existing provision for children and young people and education partnerships aimed at building capacity in the sector in the county.

Kildare County Council Arts Service offers a range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Kildare. The Arts Service constantly evaluates and reviews its programme in response to needs from schools.

Supports include:

!!!! Dublin City Council Arts Service

Purpose of Dublin City Council Arts Office

The Arts are a unique and fundamental part of Dublin’s identity. Dublin City Arts Office ensures that the arts remain as a vital part of living, working and visiting the capital City. Leading, developing and working in partnership we support artists, arts organisations, the city communities to deliver quality arts, and experiences that contribute to Dublin’s cultural life and its reputation as a modern vibrant city, rich in art and heritage.

Arts, Education and Learning Policy

The Arts, Education and Learning Policy was passed by Council in November 2016. It is for the citizens of Dublin, acknowledging that each Dubliner has a right to practice and participate in appropriate and equal cultural and artistic activity and learning. It is a key document for scaffolding our approach to questions around where our responsibilities lie in addressing realistically, what resources we have as an Arts Office; what resources we can generate through strategic partnership; how might we be informed about barriers and needs directly by children and young people and their stakeholders.

Dublin City Arts Service: Arts and Education Learning Policy (.pdf)

Policy Action, No 5

Explore And research opportunities for arts in education and the role of the city as partner with formal education in response to the National Arts in Education Charter (2013).

Supports include:

  1. Long-term partnerships, in targeted neighbourhoods, that embed localised arts in education models of practice.
  2. Large-Scale Artistic Commissions (including per cent for art)
  3. Innovative Training and Mobility for Educators and Artists
  4. National Initiatives in Arts In Education e.g. Teacher Artist Partnership Programme
  5. Early Childhood Arts – Commissioning and Artists in Residence Programme at Local And Regional level
  6. Funding through Dublin City Annual Arts Grants
  7. Information and Advice about arts provision and practice happening in Dublin city

 

Current Programmes of work with schools and early childhood services are:

 

!!!! South Dublin County Arts Office

South Dublin County Council Arts Office provides a service that supports the development of creative people and communities through the arts. Provision and support of high quality arts experiences are central to the service. This is realised through research, programmes, events, grants and awards and the development of on-line and off-line resources.

Supports include:

  1. Artistic Commissions (including per cent for art)
  2. National Initiatives in Arts In Education e.g. Teacher Artist Partnership Programme
  3. Early Childhood Arts – Commissioning and Artist development
  4. Funding through South Dublin County Arts Grants and Creative Ireland Schools Cultural Awards
  5. Information and Advice about arts provision and practice 

Current programmes of work with schools and early childhood services are:

!!!! Kerry County Council Arts Service

Kerry County Council Arts Service seeks to foster greater levels of engagement in the arts, and to support a high standard of practice in the arts throughout the County of Kerry for its people. The Arts Service vision for the arts is based on four core values: Quality, Access, Inclusion and Sustainability.

The Arts Service prioritises spend on arts activities that reflect these core values. Three key strategic areas for prioritisation include

Supports include:

!!!! Cork City Council Arts Service

The principal aim of the Cork City Council Arts Office is to act as a central platform for the cultural vitality of Cork city. We believe that the existence of a vibrant creative community, along with supporting equality of access to the arts for all Cork citizens, is exceedingly important to the wider “wellbeing” of this city. To do this we work with artists, cultural groups, art facilities and numerous other individuals to ensure access to the arts for all residents and visitors to Cork city.

Our current programmes around arts in education are:

Music Generation Cork City, an innovative and progressive community education programme, which delivers music educational experiences in a diverse range of music genres to 2000 children in their own communities throughout Cork city.

The Composers in the Classroom scheme is an initiative which brings professional composers and musicians into the classroom as part of a special curriculum devised for transition year music students and their teachers. Cork Choral Festival are the cultural partner, and the scheme runs with Cork County Council.  The scheme has been highly successful in encouraging and assisting students, many with little or no musical training, in their musical creativity and experimentation. The residency culminates in a seminar held as part of the Cork International Choral Festival, where student get the chance to perform their compositions and listen to the composition of other schools in the scheme.

The Unfinished of Poetry is a creative writing in school programme which began its life in 2005 when Cork was designated European Capital of Culture. During Cork 2005 the library staff conceived the idea to have a book by young people that continued beyond the City of Culture Year. The project became ‘The Unfinished Book’ and involves creative writing workshops  in local libraries with students of Cork schools each year working with professional writers and poets from Cork. The students work is published in a book which is then launched. These workshops foster creative, personal and educational development and support participants in gaining new insights into the creative art of poetry writing. The project is an arts office and Cork City Libraries schools programme managed by O’Bhéal.

Tools of the Trade is an art project that explores childhood creativity and interesting places of work created and delivered by artists, Leah Murphy and Susie Walsh. Each year, children taking part have the chance to see behind closed doors in three varied and interesting places of work in Cork city. Introductory workshops are given where the children are shown tools that are in everyday use in these particular workplaces as a starting point. In a series of fun, interactive and educational art workshops, the children then create artworks inspired by the specific activities encountered in each place of work. ‘Tools of the Trade’ is supported by the Creative Ireland Programme, an all of government five year initiative, from 2017 to 2022, which places creativity at the centre of public policy.

The Arts in Context Award aims to provide opportunities for artists and community groups to work together to realise arts projects. This award supports projects that take place in community contexts such as; schools, hospitals, community care settings, youth clubs, prisons, community centre’s, clubs etc. Artists and the group must plan the project together.  There is an annual call that opens in September and closes mid November for projects to run in the following year.  Further information can be found at www.corkcity.ie/en/ council-services/services/ arts-culture-heritage/arts- office/funding-opportunities1. html

!!!! Cork County Council Arts Service

Arts in Education initiatives include the Artists in Schools scheme and a Music Education scheme

Mr. Ian McDonagh, Arts Officer, Cork County Council Library and Arts Services, Floor 3, County Library Building, Carrigrohane Road, Cork
(021) 4346210

ianmcdonagh@corkcoco.ie
www.corkcoco.ie/arts

!!!! Waterford City & County Council Arts Service

Waterford City & County Council Arts Service runs an extensive Arts In Education programme and has done so since the mid 1990’s.

Currently, this programme is run across the Primary and Secondary Schools network and within community contexts.

This provision from early years to young adulthood aims to expose young people to the arts and to provide high quality experiences across all art forms.

Working with partners in the community, education sector and specific arts organizations we offer a range of interventions. The young people also have a strong voice in this provision to shape various programmes and in some instances to be part of the organizing and decision making processes.

We have a long term relationship with Waterford Youth Arts, Lismore Castle Arts and Education Centres to assist with our programme. Currently we offer and/or assist with :

-Artist in Residence in Primary Schools and the TAP partnership
–Artifice – Transition Year Visual Arts Project with Lismore Castle Arts
–The LIT, Young Writers Festival, Waterford
–Waterford Music Generation
-Summer in the City Schools Engagement Programme
-Architect in Residence in Schools with the Waterford Festival of Architecture
-Traditional Music for teenagers in association with Comhlucht Forbartha na nDéise

 

 

!!!! Wexford County Council Arts Service

Overview of Arts in Education Programme

The Living Arts Project was established in 2013 as a long term visual arts educational scheme. The aim of this project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art.

Over the course of a fifteen-week programme, each artist will bring their own unique styles, talents and disciplines to the participating schools, encouraging pupils to think beyond the classroom and respond visually to the world around them. So far 4 different artists and assistants have taken part in the programme and over 20 schools across Co. Wexford have benefited.

This year with Creative Ireland funding the following will take place:

!!!! Carlow County Council Arts Service

The Arts Office is responsible for arts provision in the county and has a dedicated Youth Arts Programme

Ms Sinead Dowling, Arts Officer, County Buildings, Athy Road, Carlow
(059) 9170301

sdowling@carlowcoco.ie
www.carlow.ie/all-council-services/arts

!!!! Limerick City and County Council Arts Service

Limerick City and County Council Culture and Arts Department

The Department is responsible for the delivery of the Limerick Cultural Strategy which includes actions on arts in education.

Our principal document is the Limerick Cultural Strategy. The Limerick Cultural Strategy is an integrated set of choices that will pave the way for effective planning to achieve change through cultural engagement.

Within that document object 6 is as follows;

To engage citizens through involvement in culture

Cultural organisations in Limerick have demonstrated a distinct expertise in their participatory approaches to creative and artistic work. Active engagement and participation in cultural activity has the potential to bring about transformative change to individuals and communities. We aim to achieve this in the following ways:

 

There are two other strategic documents which also deliver on Arts in Education. The first is the Framework Agreement with the Arts Council that include the following strategic objectives;

1. Supporting Artists and Key Strategic Organisations

2. Rural Arts and Excellence

3. Young People, Children and Education

4. Festivals and Events

 

The second is the Culture and Creativity Strategy for Limerick as part of Creative Ireland. There are five strategic actions within this document;

1. Future Creators: Children and young people

2. Creative Minds: Nurturing and supporting artists and other creators

3. Creative Springboard:  Fostering creative and cultural innovation

4. People, Places, Networks: Enhancing our local cultural and creative infrastructure

5. Creative Screens:  A focus on film and coding

6. Creative Citizens: People creating and accessing culture on their doorstep

!!!! Laois County Council Arts Service

Laois County Council Arts Service are committed to work with others, including the Department of Education and Skills, to support the provision of excellent arts experiences for children and young people.  Building on existing provision our arts programme supports opportunities and experiences for learning, creativity and developing skills in a range of art form.

Laois County Council Arts Service offers a wide range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Laois

Supports include:

 

!!!! Offaly County Council Arts Service

Offaly County Council Arts Service is committed to developing and sustaining young people’s arts provision for Offaly through the Arts Office Youth Programme. The Arts Office strategic policy has been to focus specific attention on how young people participate in the arts, which allow young people to shine individually and as ensembles, and to be a source of their own ingenuity and creativity. We believe that facilitating projects in which young people can freely and safely be expressive, is investment into their capacity to be confident independent and innovative thinkers. We do this by programming both within schools and in partnership with other agencies and arts organisations to deliver programmes such as the Hullabaloo! Children’s Arts Festival, Cruinniú na nóg, the Mini Movies programme, Music Generation Offaly/Westmeath programme in schools.

Programming and partnership opportunities also arise from our Creative Ireland programme, the Percent for Art programme and the partnership between the Arts Offices of Offaly, Laois and the Laois/Offaly Education and Training Board.

!!!! Tipperary County Council Arts Service

The arts play an important role in society, contributing to the quality of life of communities, local economies, the expression of local identity and the vibrant cultural life of the county. The Tipperary Arts Service strives to broaden and deepen access to the arts and to develop strategies for sustainable engagement, creating an environment where the arts and creativity can thrive. A core focus of the County Arts Programme is to ensure access for children and young people to the arts and to assist young people in developing a language of creativity through engagement in arts activity and with practicing artists across a broad range of settings.

Our current programmes for children and young people include:

Tipperary Artist in Primary School Scheme – the Tipperary Artist in Primary Schools Scheme has supported 47 artist in residence projects in primary schools in Tipperary since 2015. The aim of this scheme is to give pupils in schools all over the county the opportunity to work with a professional artist on a once-off unique project to be originated and planned between the artist and the school. Artists from any artistic discipline may apply with a school. The school and the artist work together to propose a unique application under the scheme; there is a call for applications annually. Contact time is 50 hours per project. Projects across a range of artistic disciplines ranging from theatre to visual arts and music to storytelling will take place in Tipperary schools during 2019.

The Second Level Print in Schools Exhibition – Tipperary Arts Office offers secondary schools in the Tipperary administrative area the opportunity to borrow and display an exhibition of thirty two contemporary prints by Irish artists. The prints from twenty two artists include works by Cecil King, Alice Hanratty, Patrick Hickey, Gene Lambert, Suzannah O’Reilly and Des McMahon. Print mediums include monoprint, relief print, etching, silkscreen, lithograph, collograph, and dry point. An informative exhibition catalogue for educational purposes is included with the print exhibition. A one day printmaking workshop in the school/ venue is also available as part of this opportunity. The prints are specially packed for easy handling and transport. Teachers and schools, venues and organisations can arrange to borrow the exhibition by contacting the Tipperary Arts Office. This initiative offers teachers a contemporary, practical resource while also introducing artists, materials and processes to students. Schools are open to use the resource as they wish and as is practical for them, their spaces and resources.

Music Generation Tipperary: Tipperary is among five new counties in Ireland to participate in the most recent phase of development of Music Generation. Over the coming years, Music Generation Tipperary will offer new opportunities for hundreds of children and young people ages 0 to 18 to access high-quality, subsidised vocal and instrumental tuition in their local communities. Initiated by Music Network in 2010, Music Generation is Ireland’s National Music Education Programme, co-funded by U2, The Ireland Funds, the Department of Education and Skills and Local Music Education Partnerships (LMEPs). Locally, Music Generation Tipperary will be led by Tipperary Education and Training Board (ETB) in partnership with Tipperary County Council. Planning for the roll-out of Music Generation Tipperary is currently underway, which involves recruitment of a Music Generation Development Officer to oversee programme development.
Music Generation Tipperary’s goal will be to develop a range of affordable and accessible ways for children and young people to engage in performance music education. This will include the coordination of music tuition services within the county, working in partnership with schools, community music groups and tuition centres in the formation of choirs, ensembles, access programmes, composition projects, songwriting initiatives and more, across a broad range of musical genres and styles.

The arts venues in Tipperary are key providers of programming for children and young people in the county. The Source Arts Centre, Thurles; Nenagh Arts Centre, The Tipperary Excel Arts Centre in Tipperary Town and the South Tipperary Arts Centre and Tipperary County Museum in Clonmel all run a range of engagement programmes and provide opportunites for young people, children and their families to engage with the arts.

Tipperary County Council also provides support to a range of festivals and events which deliver strong programme strands for children and young people in Tipperary. www.whatsonintipp.ie lists festivals taking place in Tipperary. Spleodar, Nenagh’s Haloween Arts Festival is a children’s arts festival which delivers high quality arts experiences that are curated specifically for children and young people during the Halloween mid-term break annually. Full programme http://spleodar.ie

The Tipperary Youth Theatre provides opportunities for non-formal youth engagement. Established by the Tipperary Arts Office, Tipperary Youth Theatre was developed in Thurles in 1999 and in Nenagh in 2007 to provide a platform for engagement with theatre for young people in the 13-17 age group. Both Youth Theatres now have a long history of presenting an annual production and training programme which is youth led and youth centred and are managed by The Source Arts Centre in Thurles and Nenagh Arts Centre.

Tipperary Dance Platform (TDP) is a platform for dance, dedicated to the enrichment and stimulation of dance in Tipperary. The activities of Tipperary Dance Platform are co-ordinated around three main strands: The TDP International Dance Festival, engagement with the community and the provision of resources for dance artists and the professional dance sector. Based from the Tipperary Excel Arts Centre in Tipperary Town, the Tipperary Dance Platform works with local schools through dance residency programmes and invitations to attend performances during the TDP International Dance Festival.

The Tipperary Arts Office also has a Percussion Instrument Collection which is available on loan to schools and community groups. Please contact the arts office for further information.

!!!! Clare County Council Arts Service

The Clare County Council Arts Service Artists in Schools programme is designed to create opportunities for artists and schools to work together over a specific duration of time. We support and fund projects that are innovative, unique and that foster creativity; skills development and an introduction to the language used in art making. We also encourage projects that introduce children to experience the cross disciplinary nature of the arts, projects which connect ideas and art making to other subjects e.g. history, science, the environment, local, national and global cultures and traditions.

The Artists Residency programme currently has two strands: Arts Space and Arts Days. The scheme is open to artists from any artistic discipline including visual arts and crafts, music, dance, drama, literature, film, architecture, photography, and new media.

2018/19 flagship projects include a year-long artist residency with artist, Shona MacGillivray and St. Anne’s Special School and a Spoken Word Poetry Project with transition year students.

The Artists in Schools Programme also supports and develops.

!!!! Galway County Council Arts Office

Galway County Council Arts Service offers a range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Galway. The Arts Service constantly evaluates and reviews its programme in response to needs from schools. Our aim is to offer children the opportunity to work with a professional artist on a once-off project in visual arts, dance, literature, drama, music, photography, film, etc.

Supports include:

!!!! Galway City Council Arts Service

The Arts Service engages with a range of artforms in contexts including young people, children, education and socially engaged art

Mr James Harold, Arts Officer, Galway City Council Arts Service, City Hall, College Road, Galway
(091)536546

jharrold@galwaycity.ie
www.galwaycity.ie/pobal-cultur/arts-office-information/

!!!! Meath County Council Arts Service

Participation and access are fundamental to Meath County Council Arts Service strategy in providing high quality arts experiences for children and young people across the county. Aligned to Pillars 1 & 2 of the Creative Ireland Programme, Meath County Arts Office currently deliver a number of child and young person focussed programmes across a range of experiences and art forms.

 

!!!! Louth County Council Arts Service

Louth County Council Arts Service is responsible for arts provision in the county and has a dedicated Community and Education Programme.

Over 35% of County Louth’s total population are aged 0-24 year. Louth County Council is committed to continue development of existing and provision of new resources for children and young people and education partnerships aimed at building capacity in the sector in the county.

Louth County Council Arts Service offers a range of services and opportunities to primary and secondary schools in Co Louth.

Supports include:

!!!! Roscommon County Council Arts Service

The individual is at the heart of any programme delivered by Roscommon County Council and the arts programme is no different.

One of the four priorities of the Roscommon County Council Arts Plan is ‘Children and Young People’. Through art, children and young people can create something that, until that point, was only imagined, creating visual manifestations of abstract ideas. Exposure to the arts through drawing, painting, music, song, theatre and dance can help in the development of multiple skills and capacities such as persistence, collaboration, creative thinking, motivation and problem solving.

Roscommon County Council will continue to promote access to the arts for children and young people so that they have the opportunity to experience high quality arts in a non-formal setting as creators, participants, spectators and critics. Successful programmes such as the Roscommon County Youth Theatre and the Roscommon County Youth Orchestra will be strengthened and developed as will the children’s literary programmes and the artists in schools programmes.  New programmes, projects and arts-related activities in pre, primary and post primary schools will be introduced to ensure that programmes are current, innovative and contemporary.

Our current programmes include Artist in Schools Programme, Artists in Pre/Play/After Schools, Arts School Takeover, ‘Pop Up Poetry for Lil’ Peeps’, Writers in Post Primary Schools Programme, Bookworms Children’s Festival, Music Generation, Roscommon County Youth Orchestra, Roscommon County Youth Theatre, Cruinniu na nOg, Children’s Art in Libraries Programme and Teacher Artist Partnership Programme with Carrick on Shannon and Athlone Education Centres.

!!!! Mayo County Council Arts Service

Mayo County Council Arts Service works with youth agencies, educational organisations and venues to increase access to and engagement with and for young people.

Mayo Arts service programmes an annual Excel Youth Arts Programme, provides a vibrant Youth Theatre, are a founding partner of Music Generation Mayo and have a schools exhibition programme. As part of the Mayo County Council Strategic Arts Plan 2018 – 2022 consultation, an online survey specifically for young people was developed and circulated. This garnered a positive response and generated new actions in the Arts Plan.

Mayo Youth Theatre

Mayo Youth Theatre (MYT) is an initiative of Mayo County Council, set up in 1999. It is based in Ballina and provides opportunities for young people to engage in theatre making activity, covering all aspects of the genre.

MYT involves continued development of quality youth theatre in partnership with Youth Theatre Ireland and Ballina Arts Centre. Masterclasses are provided with external expert facilitators and Youth Theatre Ireland. MYT participants are encouraged and facilitated to see professional productions and have also availed of Youth Theatre Ireland Go See YT funding and participants have been part of the annual National Youth Festival and have secured places on the National Youth Theatre Ensemble and Young Critics Programme.

Excel Youth Arts Programme

Mayo Arts Service Excel Youth Arts Programme is an annual county-wide programme of events for young people aged 13 -19 years. Excel provides an opportunity for young people to explore their creativity, gain skills in various art forms and encounter practicing artists.

Schools Exhibition

The existing Schools’ Exhibition Programme allows a school to borrow a number of paintings from the Mayo County Council Collection for a school term. There are two exhibitions available, both of which have been collated especially for use in primary schools and a teachers and students pack is also available. This Schools exhibition will be revised to include a broader spectrum of art work and practices, as committed to in the new Arts Plan.

Music Generation Mayo

Music Generation Mayo, of which Mayo Arts Service is a founding partner, provides performance music education opportunities for children and young people in Mayo. The establishment of a Music Instrument Bank was one of the core strategic aims of the partnership in its original music development plan for Mayo. The inclusion of this resource was directly influenced by a consultation with young people who specifically cited lack of access to instruments as being a key challenge in furthering their musical development. Music Generation Mayo provides wide-ranging opportunities for children and young people to develop as music performers through increased access to subsidised general and specialist tuition. The programme also supports the development of music related activities e.g. sound recording, stage management, documentation and promotion of events.

Creative Schools

Mayo Arts Service is a member of the Creative Ireland Culture Team in Mayo County Council and committed to engaging with and supporting the work of Creative Associates and schools participating in the Creative Schools Initiative.

Mayo Artsquad

Established in 1997 with FÁS support, Mayo County Council’s Artsquad has continued to provide excellent training in community arts skills for fifteen participants annually. The participants on Artsquad come from a wide variety of backgrounds and work with groups including schools and youth groups from all communities, providing workshops, training and street theatre. Mayo Artsquad also works extensively with festivals throughout the county.

Other opportunities

Other opportunities for this target audience present themselves through residencies, public art schemes etc., and all are utilised when appropriate. For example, the Writer in Residence Programme often includes a writer working with a school/youth group/ young people to develop work collaboratively.

!!!! Leitrim County Council Arts Service

Children and young people are a principal priority of Leitrim County Council’s arts programme and a key component of its arts strategy for the forthcoming five year period. Leitrim County Council Arts Service provides a range of services and opportunities to children and young people in pre, primary and secondary schools in Leitrim and through extra-curricular programmes, festivals and events.

Supports include:

!!!! Longford County Council Arts Service

The Arts Office is responsible for arts provision in the county

Fergus Kennedy, Arts Officer, Longford County Arts Office, Aras an Chontae, Great Water Street, Longford

086 851759
fkennedy@longfordcoco.ie
http://www.longfordcoco.ie/arts_office.html
http://www.virtualwriter.ie/

!!!! Westmeath County Arts Office

Westmeath County Arts Office provides support for the professional, voluntary, community and amateur arts sectors in Westmeath and provides information and advice to the community on arts-related issues.

Since the development of the Arts Office in Westmeath in 2001, the County Council has expanded its support for and contribution to the arts in County Westmeath. The County Arts Office aims to promote access, appreciation, awareness and enjoyment of the arts for all citizens of County Westmeath and also aims to stimulate interest in and promote the knowledge and appreciation of the Arts throughout the County.

Services Offered

 

!!!! Cavan County Council Arts Service

Cavan County Council Arts Service is the local government agency charged with leading the development of the arts in the county. We advocate the importance and value of the arts and promote their practice and development. We advise government and others on the arts as required by the Arts Act 2003. We invest public monies allocated by government in supporting artists and arts organisations to make work of excellence and in other actions consistent with our remit.

We work in partnership with the Arts Council, Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and with other government departments as well as agencies and organisations within and beyond the cultural sector.

Cavan Arts Service with Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB) and Cavan and Monaghan County Council through Local Arts and Education Partnership are aiming to enhance opportunities for children and young people through The Arts in Education Charter.

The objectives are:

Cavan Arts Office are working with CMETB Lead partner and Monaghan County Council and Music Generation head office to develop performance music and promote music education for children and young people in counties Cavan and Monaghan.

Through Peace IV Cavan Youth Arts Lab, Cavan Arts Service provides specialist youth arts programmes for young people to make exciting work in theatre, dance, music, drama and visual art, creating profound cultural memory.

!!!! Monaghan County Council Arts Service

Monaghan County Council Arts Service recognises the potential of the arts as a tool to enhance the wellbeing of students in our education system and add value to the core curriculum through engagement with professional artists. Promoting the arts in education has the potential to create a lasting legacy for our younger generation. In recent times this important work received a critical boost through the development of the National Charter for Arts & Education. The charter was adopted by the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. It has been adopted at local level by the Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (ETB) to meet identified needs. An Arts in Education Officer has been appointed and an Arts in Education Partnership has established to advance this agenda. Monaghan County Council is a partner in this initiative.

Our objectives are to increase opportunities for engagement in the arts by both the communities and pupils in schools and we take a long-term strategic view in planning for and investing in the arts for children and young people. We have put in place strategic partnership agreements with relevant local agencies for jointly planned and funded initiatives to extend and expand arts outreach opportunities.
We promote and support involvement in the arts by children and young people in the following ways:

The commitment in the Creative Ireland Programme is that by 2022 every child should have the opportunity in accessing tuition or engagement in music, drama, art and coding. Creative Monaghan will support and collaborate, where feasible, with the Arts in Education Charter and The Creative Youth Plans through strategic local partnerships and alliances.

!!!! Sligo County Council Arts Service

Sligo County Arts Service works in partnership with key stakeholders to deliver a high quality arts service for the people of Sligo and to promote greater public involvement in the arts in a wide range of settings. The Arts Service also works with the arts community to promote culture and creativity as an expression of contemporary Sligo at national and international level.

Sligo Arts Service provides opportunities for children and young people to participate in arts and creativity to enable self-expression, enhance learning and further the exploration of personal and social identity as they grow and develop. Programmes which are specifically delivered in schools are as follows:

Primary Colours is an exciting children’s arts education programme developed around the visual arts curriculum delivered by a panel of practising artists. The programme works with Sligo Primary Schools. 3rd -6th class students and their teachers are invited to take part in a specially curated gallery exhibition tour/workshop followed by school based workshops. Primary Colours enriches the primary school visual arts curriculum through workshops, exhibitions and teachers packs. These packs and further information can be down loaded from www.primarycolourssligo.ie.

Music Generation Sligo delivers a range of long-term music education projects for children and young people as part of a national Music Generation programme initiated by Music Network, co-funded by U2, The Ireland Funds, The Department of Education & Skills and Sligo Music Education Partnership. MGS is managed and funded locally by Mayo Sligo Leitrim ETB, Sligo County Council, Sligo Education Centre, Sligo County Childcare Committee, Cranmore Regeneration and the local music sector. Since 2011, MGS has developed programmes to address access to instrumental and vocal tuition and performance by children and young people in their own communities.​ The programme reaches approximately 4000 children annually. Discovering Music is delivered to almost 3000 children and young people including childcare, pre-school, primary school and post primary school. The programme is developed and delivered by progessional musicians to support and enhance the music curriculum, working in partnership with teachers.

Sligo Arts Service is a member of the Creative Ireland Culture Team in Sligo County Council and committed to engaging with and supporting the work of Creative Associates and schools participating in the Creative Schools Initiative. Sligo Arts Service works closely with Sligo Education Centre in planning for and delivering the above programmes as well as TAP – the Department of Education’s Teacher Artist Partnership CPD Programme.

!!!! Donegal County Council Arts Service

The Arts Office is responsible for arts provision in the county and has a comprehensive Arts-in-Schools Programme in South and South West Donegal

Mr. Traolach O’Fionnan, Arts Officer, Rosemount, Letterkenny
074 9121968

traolach@donegalcoco.ie
http://www.donegalcoco.ie/culture/arts office

!!!! Fingal County Council Arts Office

Fingal is defined by its rural, urban and suburban landscape, culturally diverse communities and a significant youth population, of which 30% is younger than 18 years of age.

Fingal County Council Arts Office has made cultural provision in their annual arts budget for children and young people since its inception in 1994.  The dedicated Youth & Education Officer post was established in 2005 and the first Youth & Education Policy passed by council in 2010.

Fingal Arts Office 2018 – 2025

Our Strategic Goals

We have determined four areas of work that we will focus on in the lifetime of our new County Arts Plan 2018 – 2025.  By concentrating on these areas we will be true to our purpose and realise our mission and vision, so advancing Fingal as an exceptional county to live in, work or visit.

Making SPACE for art

Through investment in infrastructure and in the creation of opportunity we will have ensured a place for the arts in peoples’ lives.

Connecting PEOPLE and IDEAS

People are confidently and imaginatively coming together through the arts.

Enabling EXCELLENCE

Fingal is known for its great artists and art.

Developing OUR CAPACITY

Fingal County Council and its Arts Office have the knowledge, skills and resources to deliver this plan.

The Youth & Education Programme

The Youth & Education Programme works across art forms and engages with both formal and non-formal education sectors. The programme has propelled the development of arts and education at local level by:

 

!!!! Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Arts Office

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council recognises the importance of life-long learning and the positive impact that early intervention has to address education inequality. Cultural education aids the vision of the Council’s Development Plan for the County to possess the best quality of residential life by 2022.

In line with this vision dlr Arts Office supports and funds a range of arts in learning contexts for early years children, primary school children and young people.

Services and supports include:

!!!! Wicklow Arts Office

Arts in Education initiatives include the Thinking Visual programme for secondary schools

Jenny Sherwin – Arts Officer
The Arts Office, County Buildings,
Whitegates,
Wicklow Town,
Co. Wicklow.

wao@wicklowcoco.ie.
0404 20155

www.wicklow.ie/arts-office