Opportunity for Schools: VISUAL Collective Transition Year Programme 2025

VISUAL Carlow
Deadline: 12 September 2025

Transition Year Work Experience Programme in VISUAL Carlow is now open for applications for autumn 2025. The VISUAL Collective Transition Year Programme runs from 26 September – 2 December 2025.

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes at an arts centre? Would you like to find out more about how galleries and theatres work, to decide if a career in the arts is for you? Would you like to develop your own event at VISUAL with a group of peers?

In this transition year work experience programme you will get the opportunity to:

• Be brought behind the scenes at VISUAL to meet with artists, theatre makers, performers, technicians and more.
• Develop an understanding of how to pursue further education and a career in the arts, learning from people who work in the arts!
• Meet and learn from invited guest speakers in a range of workshops. You will learn how they developed their careers in the arts, gaining first-hand information relevant to real-world work experience.
• Gain experience as an artist in making your own art across a range of different approaches (visual art, performance, music, etc.).
• Work as a group to develop an event in December 2025. This event will showcase work you make throughout the programme and will give you the opportunity to become a part of cultural programming at VISUAL Carlow!
• Assist the team at VISUAL with programmed events and festivals.
• Become familiar with the artworks in the current exhibitions and explore the processes involved in their making.
• Advise the team about what future transition year students would want from a work experience programme, making your mark for future generations of transition year students.

For more information on the VISUAL Collective Transition Year Programme and how to apply, follow this link: visualcarlow.ie/whats-on/visual-collective