Announcing the schedule for our peer-to-peer event for professional artists working with children & young people.
Practice.ie Peer-to-Peer Artist Day
Saturday 24th November,
Teach Dara, Kildare Town
Time: 10.00 - 4.00
Practice.ie in partnership with Kildare Arts Service is delighted to offer a Free Professional Learning Day for artists working with children and young people.
The aim of this event is to
• Provide opportunities for artists to meet together and share practice
• Explore approaches when working with children and young people
• Gain skills and confidence in promoting work online.
This event will be facilitated by Orla Kenny, Artist, Maree Hensey, and Artist Fionnuala Conway. If you are interested in attending this event please contact Orla Kenny or Jo Holmwood by email info@kidsown.ie, or by phone 071 91 24945.
Here is some information about the day...
Morning session
Who is in the room?
All participants will have the opportunity to share their work through short Pecha Kucha presentations.
Kildare Youth Hub - Developing an artistic vision
Kildare Assistant County Arts Officer, Eoghan Doyle, will make a presentation on the work that has gone on to date in developing the Kildare Youth Hub and will also outline Kildare Arts Service’s plans for youth arts activtivies / workshops and longer term programmes in 2013 and beyond. See below for more information...
Online promotion
Participants will go through a range of online applications that will support presentation of their work online. Artists will have the time to upload their own work and to create their own profile on Practice.ie. (For this session we are asking artists to bring your own laptop)
Lunch
Lunch will be provided on the day with thanks to Kildare Arts Service.
Afternoon Session
Artist Maree Hensey and Fionnuala Conway will collaborate together to lead a two-hour session that will explore our own approaches to working with children and young people.
Fionnuala Conway is a musician, composer and multimedia artist. With a background in music and music technology, she has worked as composer and performer on a number of theatre productions and produced work in a wide variety of forms, from traditional materials to interactive digital media, wearable technology, installations and theatre presentation, including Art of Decision and Urban Chameleon. She has been lecturing on the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies course at Trinity College, Dublin since 2002 and was appointed Course Director in 2006.
Maree Hensey is one of Ireland’s leading visual artists. Her practice encompasses drawing, sculpture and participatory art projects. She was born in Dublin in 1962. She studied at Galashiels College of Textiles, Scotland, graduating in 1991.
She has successfully completed several Site Specific Installations, Artist in Residence programmes and Community Based Participatory Art projects
It will be a fantastic day and we hope you can join us!
Kildare Youth Hub - Developing an artistic vision
In 2013, a dedicated youth space will open in Kildare town. The building, a 2000 square metre former school building, is being developed as a County Youth Hub. Partners involved in the project include local community groups. Foroige, HSE, Kildare Youth Service, Noname club, Gardai, Youth Work Ireland, NUIM, Catholic Youth Care and Kildare local authorites.
Kildare Assistant County Arts Officer, Eoghan Doyle, will make a presentation on the work that has gone on to date in developing the space and also outline Kildare Arts Service’s plans for youth arts activtivies / workshops and longer term programmes in 2013 and beyond.
Current facilities include, an arts room, AV theatre, large school hall, 2 science labs, and 14 classrooms. It is envisaged that the hub will also house a recording studio, dance studio and youth café. In 2013, Kildare Arts Service will also be looking for presentations / workshops opportunities from artists working with children and young people that could take place in the hub. This presentation will be a great opportunity for artists to gain an insight into this new exciting space for young people.
