!!!! 2025 Portal Spring Regional Day – Programme Announced & Booking Now Open
Arts in Education Portal Spring Regional Day
Date: Saturday 17 May 2025
The Arts in Education Portal team is delighted to announce the full programme for our Spring Regional Day on Saturday 17 May at VISUAL Carlow. This event will showcase arts in education projects and creative practice in the South-East.
We invite teachers, artists, educators, arts managers and anyone with an interest in arts in education in Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and beyond to join us for this free event. We welcome regional audiences to connect with us during a series of events, where practitioners can learn more about the Portal and what it offers, tell us about their work, connect with the community at regional level, share practice and find out what opportunities or events are available in their local area.
The programme starts with two presentations in the morning: Learning at VISUAL: Artist-led approaches for working with children of school-age with Learning Curator Clare Breen; and Practical Podcasting with Creative Associate Artist Muireann Nic Cába showcasing podcasting as an engaging medium for young people.
In the afternoon, join us for some hands-on creativity with a choice between two exciting workshops. Come to Rooted in Art: A Kokedama Workshop with Agnieszka Krym where you will create your own kokedama, a moss-covered plant sculpture rooted in the Japanese tradition of botanical art. Alternatively, join Olana Kucher for Circular Fashion & Create Without Pollution: Youth Skills for Sustainable Fashion. These workshops promise to be interactive, fun and informative!
How to Book
Tickets for the 2025 Portal Spring Regional Day are free. It is essential to book in advance as capacity is limited. Book your place at: eventbrite.ie
ISL interpretation is available on request. If you would like to request ISL interpretation, please email events@artsineducation.ie by May 7th.
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Schedule
10:15 — Registration & coffee
11:00 — Welcome & introduction – The Portal: a brief introduction by Portal team.
11:15 — Presentation: Learning at VISUAL: Artist-led approaches for working with children of school-age with Learning Curator Clare Breen
11:45 — Presentation: Practical Podcasting with Creative Associate Artist Muireann Nic Cába.
12:15 — Q & A with panel of presenters
12:45 — Lunch & networking
13:45 – 15:00 — Parallel session – choice between two creative workshops:
Rooted in Art: A Kokedama Workshop with Agnieszka Krym
or
Circular Fashion & Create Without Pollution: Youth Skills for Sustainable Fashion with Olana Kucher.
!!!! School Tours & Workshops at VISUAL Carlow
VISUAL Carlow
until 15th May 2025
School tours and art-making workshops are available to book for primary school students of all ages.
Each season at VISUAL Carlow, students explore the exhibitions through conversation, playful enquiry and making.
Using methodologies and materials inspired by their current exhibitions, students are invited to work together to create different landscapes.
Students will explore shadow-outlining inspired by Deirdre O’Mahony’s paintings, birds-eye views inspired by Carol Rhodes’ constructed landscapes, and pirate egalitarianism inspired by Dominique White’s sculptural installation, to imagine and make drawings collaboratively.
During the tour and workshops, students will practice…
- Looking together: Students will be introduced to the current exhibitions with collectively exploration of observations and ideas.
- Hands-on making: The group will be invited to imagine themselves as pirates, an inspiring mode of collectiveness where everyone’s voice is heard and everyone makes their mark. Working collaboratively as equals in groups of 5, they will imagine new landscapes. Each group will be given a unique set of materials (e.g. sticks and chalk, stones and string, graphite and pencil) for image-making. The groups will be invited to begin to shape their landscapes by tracing shadows of stones and shadows of their limbs on large scale paper. These shapes will stimulate ideas for the material, physical and architectural composition of their landscapes.
- Sharing: Each group will come up with a name for their landscape and a brief description of how it was formed and what life it supports and what stories it holds. They will present their work to each other and will reflect together on the processes used and stories generated.
Availability:
- Tuesdays (10am & 12noon)
- Wednesdays (10am & 12noon)
- Thursdays (12noon)
Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: €50
Capacity: A maximum of 30 students*
Supervision: Teachers are asked to remain present for the duration of the workshop.
*Looking to book more than one tour or a group larger than 30? This can be accommodated via several options. Please contact VISUAL to discuss what will be best for your classes needs. Email Arlene Caffrey at learning@visualcarlow.ie