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PAST PROGRAMMES


St Michaels Youth Project Ferrini Youth Club Mapping Project Mapping Project Image from 'Mapping Lives, Exploring Futures' publication


The Community in the Artist

This programme was about enabling opportunities for artists and community and youth groups to work together over an eighteen month period.
The artists and groups who participated in this programme were:
- Noeline Kavanagh with Fatima Groups United collaborated on a street theatre project called 'A Vision of Hope'
- Sally Anne Matthews in the wider Bluebell area collaborated on a quilting project
- Genevieve Harden with Bluebell Youth Project collaborated on a visual art project
- Niamh Lawlor with St Michael's Youth Project collaborated on a visual art and music project
- Enda O'Brien, film maker made a documentary film, 'A Culture of Change', on the process between artists and the groups they worked with. This film is available from Common Ground.


Children and Young People Provision

This programme was always about enabling young people and children to participate in the arts and engage with artists.
Some of the projects completed were as follows:
- Mapping Arts Project - Common Ground is a member of the steering group of this creative visual arts project which involved artists, youth workers and marginalised young people from the Canal Communities. A written report on this project was published in 2006. 'Mapping Lives, Exploring Futures' - A Record, Catalogue and Manual is available to buy through Common Ground and the Bookshop at Imma.
- Introduction to filmmaking with Ferrini Youth Club
- Hip Hop dance project with Bulfin Youth Club
- Djing with St Josephs Youth Club
- Public Art Programme with Rialto Environment Group
- Street Theatre Workshops
- Creative Arts workshops for the leaders of after school projects and homework clubs
- Summer Programme Development since summer 2002 with Dolphin House Community