Students and Staff of Marino College, Dublin 3 – Cathy French & Robin Stewart

The following blog posts have been written by the Students and Staff of Marino College, Dublin 3. They will share the story of Marino College’s ‘Creative Minds Festival of Art and Culture’. Find out all about their journey from initial ideas to realising their dream of arranging an Arts and Culture Festival for the community, by the community.

Marino College is a small City of Dublin ETB school. They are plurilingual (37 languages!), non-denominational and DEIS. The schools catchment area is a vibrant and rapidly evolving multicultural part of Dublin North East Inner City.

Under the leadership of Irish teacher Joan Lyne (now also a Teacher Creative Associate with the Arts Council), in 2022 Marino College became a Creative School.

In 2023 Marino College, together with various local schools and organisations joined a Creative Clusters scheme. The project is one of the recipients of the 2024 Arts in Education Portal Documentation Award read the announcement here.

This second instalment is written by Megi, Ayanna and Izabela, 2nd year students at Marino College.