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Swedish born visual artist Jan Svenungsson linked in with us online from Berlin to talk about a key area of interest for him: "The Writing Artist"

Jan is interested in how the two alternative forms of expression (visual art and writing) may complement - or clash with - each other. The need to reflect on the relationship between an artist's use of text and the work per se becomes stronger by the day, with the rising demand on textual output in the education system and especially, the artist's PhD.

RÍONACH NÍ NÉILL gives a fascinating overview of some of her dance and choreography work, and the different ways in which children were involved in these pieces. 

We have selected some clips from yesterdays online talk delivered by Helene Hugel, artistic director of Helium and Siobhan Clancy, freelance community artist.

'Engaging collaborative arts practice with children in hospital'

This is the title of our next Online Talk which will take place on Tues 30th March, 2-3pm.

Helene Hugel, artistic director of Helium, and Siobhan Clancy, freelance community artist, will share their background, experiences and learning from working together on the Puppet Portal Project.

Like all the talks in the series, this is a free event.

To register now, click here.

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Attached are the two documents that will be discussed at our next  reading room on March 18th.

Please download the documents. The discussion will be focused around the following questions.

The position paper 'Defining and negotiating the artist's role when working with children and young people' was drawn up following a Practice.ie meeting at the National Concert Hall, in association with dlr Arts Office in which artists considered the following 3 questions in discussion groups:

How do we define ourselves?/ How do we articulate the value of what we do?

How do we document, extend and promote our work?

Considering new approaches/ What we do and how we're doing it?