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St. Mary’s Secondary School, Edenderry, Co. Offaly 2024
St. Mary's Secondary School, Edenderry, recently completed their Creative Engagement Project for 2024. A Visual Art group from Transition year in St. Mary’s have created a beautiful sculpture entitled ‘Brigid, Goddess and Saint’. Under the guidance of Miss Farrell,...
Millstreet Community School, Milstreet, Co. Cork 2024
Millstreet Community School Transition Year students created beautiful artwork for their Creative Engagement Project 2024. They worked so well under the direction of artist Tracy Sexton. Teacher: Sandra Moynihan Artist: Tracy...
Colaiste na Trocaire (Fainleog Campus), Rathkeale, Co. Limerick 2024
Colaiste na Trocaire (Fainleog Campus), Celebrating St Bridget Eco Art Creative Engagement Project, was designed to engage the students, mindfully and creatively, with gifts from the natural world. Each young person actively engaged with the process and shared...
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...
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
Schull Community College, Co. Cork 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
St Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway 2024
First year students in St Jarlath's College in Tuam enjoyed a felting workshop with artist Karena Ryan. Beautiful results. Teacher: Therese Kenny Artist: Karena Ryan
Recent News and Updates
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...
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...
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.