!!!! Opportunity for Teachers: Oide Creativity Summer Workshops 2026
Oide Creativity and Creative Ireland
Dates: June 2026
Creative Ireland programme and Oide Creativity have announced a series of professional development summer workshops for teachers to support engagement with the arts and learning.
Creative Workshops include:
Plein Air Painting – acrylic painting workshop in collaboration with painter Sheila Richardson
Dates: Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th June 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (both days)
Venue: Hunt Museum, Rutland St, Prior’s-Land, Limerick, V94 EV8A
Writing for the Stage and Screen – in collaboration with award-winning screenwriter and theatre director Jeda de Brí.
Available in Dublin and Cork
Date: Tuesday 2nd June 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Military Rd, Dublin 8, D08 FW31
Date: Thursday 4th June 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Cork Education and Support Centre
Let’s Dance – in collaboration with acrobat and circus performer Danae Wollen and dance artist Aoibhinn O’Dea
Dates: Friday 12th June 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Draíocht, The Blanchardstown Centre, Co. Dublin, D15 RYX6
Creative Critiquing – A text to performance workshop in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre and Phil Kingston.
Dates: Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th June 2026
Times: Day 1 Workshop 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Performance of The Whiteheaded Boy at the Abbey Theatre 7:30 p.m.
Day 2 Workshop 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Venues: Drumcondra Education Centre, DCU St. Patrick’s Campus, Dublin and Abbey Theatre, 26 Lower Abbey St., Dublin
Hands-On Ceramics – Processes, Surface Design and Kiln Care in collaboration with Kinsale Pottery and ceramist Adrian Wistreich
Date: Thursday 4th and Friday 5th June 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Kinsale Pottery, Olcote, Ballinacurra, Kinsale P17 HE24
Visit Oide Creativity for full list of summer courses: creativity.oide.ie
View the summer programme here.
!!!! Opportunity for Schools: Oide Creativity Play in a Day 2025
Oide Creativity
Application Deadline: 24 January 2025
Oide Creativity and The Creative Ireland Programme are pleased to invite schools to apply for Play in a Day, an initiative developed by Oide Creativity for post-primary schools.
Play in a Day provides an exciting opportunity for a teacher and a professional drama facilitator to:
- collaborate and learn from each other as they co-design and co-facilitate a one-day practical drama workshop with a class of junior cycle students,
- incorporate the voice of the student in the design process,
- guide students through a collaborative and creative process, culminating in a devised play.
How is Play in a Day structured?
- A 90-minute online evening introduction for the participating teacher.
- One in-person full day of co-design with the participating teacher and assigned drama facilitator. Venue to be confirmed. (Substitution cover provided for the
teacher). - One in-school full day practical drama workshop with class group, participating teacher and drama facilitator. (Substitution cover provided for the teacher).
- A 90-minute online evening reflection event.
Application procedure
- Application deadline Friday 24th January 2025.
- Schools notified by Tuesday 4th February 2025.
- Play in a Day will take place between February and April 2025.
Apply on creativity.oide.ie
Places are strictly limited.
!!!! Opportunity for Teachers: Oide Music Sessions 2025
Oide Music Sessions 2025
Various dates January – May 2025
Oide Music have released dates for a series of professional learning events for Music Teachers.
Senior Cycle Composing
This event offers Music teachers the opportunity to consider an integrated pedagogical approach to the teaching and learning of melody and harmony with their Leaving Certificate Music students.
In Person: 25 January, Dublin West E.C, 10.15am – 1pm
8 February, Limerick E.C, 10.15am – 1pm
ResponsibAI
Utilising the UNESCO AI curricula framework, this event interrogates practical pedagogical approaches for integrating AI responsibly and effectively in the Music classroom.
Online: 25 February, 7pm – 8pm
Effective Planning in the Second-Level Music Classroom
This interactive workshop, for all teachers of Music, shares learning about second-level Music curricula, and explores pedagogic strategies and planning considerations for effective learning and teaching.
Online: 11 March, 7pm – 8.30pm
There’s No Business Like Show Business Inside and Outside the Classroom
This workshop considers how the learning inherent in putting on a school musical can be relevant to the learning inside the Music classroom. Through a panel discussion, teachers share effective and efficient practices, learning and supports about producing a musical both inside and outside the classroom.
Online: 7 May, 7pm – 8.30pm
For more information and registration, click here: oide.ie/post-primary-news/music-sessions-2025/