TAP+ Summer Course & Residency: Call Out for Artists & Creative Practitioners

Department of Education

Deadline: Friday 7th June 2024

Announcing a wonderful opportunity for artists and creative practitioners of all disciplines to broaden their practice through Teacher Artist Partnership+ (TAP+) professional development and in-school residency programme.

Develop creative partnerships with teachers and children. Receive funded training and residencies that bring the arts and creativity to children all over Ireland through TAP+, an initiative of Creative Youth 2023-27 under Creative Ireland and led by the Department of Education.

TAP+ Overview

TAP+ 2024 Artist Call-Out flyer

• TAP+ Summer Course running 1st to 5th July 2024 in your local Education Support Centre
  – Fully paid training to support artists and creative practitioners to work in primary and special schools
• TAP+ In-school Residencies
  – Bringing learning into practice through creative partnership with teachers and children
  – Funded 20-hour residencies in the school year 2024/25
  – Access to the BLAST register of creative practitioners to deliver in-school residencies

Artists / Creative Practitioners apply for TAP+  via expressions of interest addressed to the Director of Tralee Education Support Centre submitted to artsineducation@traleeesc.ie no later than 5pm on Friday 7th  June 2024. Expressions of interest should be in the form of a letter of max 600 words, accompanied by a CV or short bio with links to images or samples of relevant work.

For further information and the requirements for applying, please visit: https://www.edcentretralee.ie/teacher-artist-partnership.html