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Colaiste Muire Máthair, Galway
Transition year students and Service users of St. Joseph's Training Centre Ability West met once a week for 4 weeks to learn how to make the traditional Irish percussion instrument the Bodhrán. Participants started by gluing the wooden frame together, sanding the...
Ballinode Community College, Co. Sligo
Patterns of Place The students of ballinode community college created a ceramic tile installation, based on the the theme patterns in place, firstly they visited newgrange for inspiration and then developed individual designs based on their current personal...
Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy, Co. Cork
Musical Showcase Our project focused on offering a series of drama and dance workshops to Transition Year students, culminating in an end of term performance. Through this initiative, we aimed to encourage participation in artistic performance to build self...
Mercy Secondary School Inchicore, Dublin
Threads of Memory - Mixed Media Textile Project 5th Year Art students participated in a collaborative mixed-media textile project exploring the themes of Heritage and Tradition. Inspired by The Map by Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher, students explored ideas connected to...
Intermediate School Killorglin, Co. Kerry
Wooly Tales was developed with Wise Wool to explore sustainability, creativity, and local artistic collaboration. Second-year students, working across Art and Home Economics, learned needle-felting through hands-on workshops using wool as a traditional, renewable...
Lusk Community College, Dublin
A Place to Call Home: Future Visions Through the Lens This photography exhibition marks the culmination of a Creative Engagement Programme between LuskCC Fifth Year Art students and the Photo Museum Ireland. Through this collaboration, students investigate the Irish...
Ballincollig Community School, Co. Cork
As Ballincollig Community School celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026, their Creative Engagement Project provided a meaningful opportunity to mark the milestone in a lasting and creative way. A large-scale mural was developed collaboratively by students under the...
St. Mary’s Secondary School, Glasnevin, Co. Dublin
St. Mary's Secondary School in Glasnevin concentrated their Creative Engagement Project on Art & Climate. Art ProcessArt making led by our artist following her talk and demonstrations, took place indoors and outdoors using high quality, sustainable materials in a...
Catherine McAuley School, Limerick
Catherine McAuley School's Creative Engagement Project, "Brighter Together", was developed to enhance the school environment through a calm, welcoming mural featuring simple shapes and fauna. The design was selected with careful consideration of our special school...
Recent News and Updates
Application Forms
Applications are now being accepted for the 2025-2026 Academic year of Creative Engagement. Applications can be made online, https://www.napd.ie/committees/arts-culture
The closing date for Creative Engagement applications is October 19 2024.
The application form is on the website under FORMS. Once you have been accepted we will inform you by email. From this year successful applicants will have to send an online pre evaluation form and later a post evaluation form to Creative Youth. It is straight...
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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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.