!!!! Call out for Artists & Creative Practitioners for Kids’ Own Artist Panel
Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership
Closing Date: 29 June 2026
Kids’ Own is currently seeking to update their artist panel and is inviting expressions of interest from artists, writers, illustrators, musicians, performers, and creative practitioners interested in collaborative arts practice with children and young people.
This is a paid opportunity for practitioners working in socially engaged, child-centred creative practice. The panel will inform opportunities for future projects taking place over the next three years across the island of Ireland.
Kids’ Own works nationally across schools, communities, libraries, early years settings, and other cultural contexts, creating ambitious collaborative projects that foreground children’s voices, creativity, and agency.
Applications are welcome from practitioners at all career stages. Mentoring and support will be available for early-career artists and for practitioners who are new to collaborative practice with children and young people.
For full details, eligibility criteria, artist rates, and to apply, please click the link below.
Submission Deadline: Monday 29 June 2026
If you would like to make a submission in a different format, for example aurally or through another medium, please get in touch via email to Acting CEO, Emma Kavanagh emma@kidsown.ie.
!!!! TADA! Exhibition Coming to Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare
Kids Own
Kids’ Own is delighted to announce that TADA! — a curated archival exhibition celebrating 28 years of collaborative book-making projects with children and young people is coming to Riverbank Arts Centre in Kildare on September 6th 2025. This follows its most recent showing at Ballina Civic Centre, bringing the creativity, cultural rights, and stories of diverse young communities to new audiences.
Over almost three decades, Kids’ Own has worked collaboratively with children across Ireland, asking questions, sparking curiosity, and giving space for their ideas to grow. TADA! was originally developed by a group of young people through online workshops with Kids’ Own Associate Artist and curator Vanya Lambrecht Ward. Drawing from our rich archive of original art, writing, and publications, they identified four main themes — play, people, place, and pondering — and selected work reflecting these ideas.
The exhibition features a vibrant mix of framed and unframed portraits and landscapes in drawing, print, collage, and painting; large sculptural cardboard cut-outs; and handmade books from Kids’ Own’s earliest collaborations. Interactive spaces invite visitors to explore portraiture, printmaking, collage, and reading, offering a hands-on experience for all ages.
By touring TADA! to venues nationwide, Kids’ Own continues its mission to ensure children’s creativity is visible and valued in public cultural spaces, and to share the voices and visions of young people with communities across Ireland.
Venue: Children’s Gallery, Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare
Dates: Saturday 6 September – Saturday 1 November
Opening Hours: Monday–Friday 9:30am–5pm | Saturday 10am–4pm
Admission: Free
Learn more about TADA! here: riverbank.ie/event/tada-an-exhibition-by-kids-own-publishing/