Encounter Fest!

Pop online and or in person if you can, we'd love to have you with us. Encounter Fest! is a two-day FREE event taking place online on Thursday 17 October and in-person on Friday 18 October 2024 at The National Concert Hall in Dublin, organised by Encountering the...

Bandon Grammar School, Co. Cork 2024

Fifth/sixth year students from Bandon Grammar School worked with artist Shane O'Driscoll to create an exciting mural to give life to the bare concrete between the school and a new extension. The Creative Engagement Project 2024 not only taught them the skills needed...

Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork 2024

Fifth year students from Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown created oil portraits and displayed them at an Art Exhibition for their Creative Engagement Project 2024. Teacher: Linda Evans Artist: Aine Andrews

Rice College, Ennis, Co. Clare 2024

Rice College, Ennis Transition Year students created a beautiful mural with local Artist Rachel McManus Art Teacher: Clara Ryan Artist: Rachel McManus

St. Brigid’s Secondary School, Killarney, Co. Kerry 2024

St. Brigid's Secondary School Transition year and 5th year students hosted an art exhibition in Killarney to share their 2024 Creative Engagement Project 'Personal Reflections'. Teachers: Alice Quilter & Fiona Archibald Artist: Tracy Sexton

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Encounter Fest!

Encounter Fest!

Pop online and or in person if you can, we'd love to have you with us. Encounter Fest! is a two-day FREE event taking place online on Thursday 17 October and in-person on Friday 18 October 2024 at The National Concert Hall in Dublin, organised by Encountering the...

Rice College, Ennis, Co. Clare 2024

Rice College, Ennis, Co. Clare 2024

Rice College, Ennis Transition Year students created a beautiful mural with local Artist Rachel McManus Art Teacher: Clara Ryan Artist: Rachel McManus

St. Brigid’s Secondary School, Killarney, Co. Kerry 2024

St. Brigid’s Secondary School, Killarney, Co. Kerry 2024

St. Brigid's Secondary School Transition year and 5th year students hosted an art exhibition in Killarney to share their 2024 Creative Engagement Project 'Personal Reflections'. Teachers: Alice Quilter & Fiona Archibald Artist: Tracy Sexton

Intermediate School Killorglin, Co. Kerry 2024

Intermediate School Killorglin, Co. Kerry 2024

Transition Year students from the Intermediate School Killorglin, Co. Kerry have completed their Lino printing Creative Engagement Project 2024. Teacher: Rebekah Power Artist: Rochelle...

Glenamaddy Community School, Co. Galway 2024

Glenamaddy Community School, Co. Galway 2024

Transition Year students in Glenamaddy Community School have completed their Creative Engagement Project 2024. Inspiration for the project came from silhouette portraiture which was a big trend in the 18th and 19th centuries. Silhouettes were quick to produce and...

Recent News and Updates

Welcome back to all schools.

Creative Engagement Application Forms are now available to be filled in online. Please note there is no guarantee the programme will proceed this year as there is restructuring in NAPD. However we are optimistic that everything will proceed as normal.  We will know...

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Happy month of Brigid and Imbolc

Please send any images of projects to dermotcarney@napd.ie as they are developed so that I can post them. The second tranche of the funding does not come to me until the end of April. This will be sent to you once we have received the Evaluation Form which is on the...

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creative engagemet

It is an arts-in-education programme.  This entails an artist or artists coming into the school to work with the students. A creative engagement happens when a local artist or  arts  group comes into the school and imparts their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to the students.  This partnership has mutual benefits to both artist and school. Creative Engagement programme encompasses the arts in its broadest manifestation, from the visual arts to music, from theatre to dance and all the arts in between.

The Creative Engagement programme strives to encourage creativity, initiative and expression in our students and to complement curricular learning in the arts , heritage and culture.  NAPD envisions an education system energised through the arts and where creativity is a core activity in the post primary curriculum.   The NAPD Arts Culture and Heritage committee celebrates its twenty fourth anniversary this year 2023.  The Arts Culture and Heritage committee has been  administering the Creative Engagement programme in schools since 2005.