A day of free creativity for children and young people. Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth Plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people. The … Continue reading Cruinniú na nÓg is back
Twenty-one grants are to be allocated to a range of community groups, organisations and individuals from Creative Waterford funding. The successful applicants to the Creative Waterford Open Call 2021 scheme were notified of their grants at the end of April. Waterford City and County Council Culture Team manages this funding on behalf of Creative Ireland. … Continue reading Creative Waterford Open Call 2021 Grants Announced
The Dungarvan Art Trail is now on. Running from May through to September 2021, in various shop windows around Dungarvan County Waterford, the Arts Centre and Library throughout the coastal town. Dungarvan Art Trail is delighted to present The Vertigo Project by internationally acclaimed, locally based, dye transfer printer and artist Jean Curran. The Dungarvan Art … Continue reading Dungarvan Art Trail Now On
In September 2020, Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School in Waterford held the Mercy Creative Arts Bodhrán Workshops for 155 students. The bodhrán making workshop was facilitated by Michael Vignoles. Michael has been crafting uilleann pipes and bodhrán drums in his workshop in Claddagh, Galway for the past 25 years. After giving a brief history … Continue reading Mercy Creative Arts Bodhrán Workshops
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The Art Pollination project brought together the Waterford Sustainable Living Initiative (SLí), local visual artists Ania Wojewodka and Aga Krum and primary schools for a thematically diverse project using a global education workshop as a springboard to explore issues important both locally and globally such as waste, sustainability, pollination, plastics and the on-going threats to … Continue reading Art Pollination from the Waterford Sustainable Living Initiative