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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Cork Educate Together 2018

Cork Educate Together 2018

Cork Educate Together students have been working on their Creative Engagement 2018 Project - CE Ocean Plastics Project - to explore the ways in which plastic affects the ocean and the environment. They are going to do a beach clean in Ballycroneen and incorporate some...

Blakestown Community School, Blanchardstown 2018

Blakestown Community School, Blanchardstown 2018

Blakestown Community School, have their Creative Engagement 2018 Project well underway. "Using felt to raise awareness about Biodiversity as a way to look after our world." They have visited the Botanic Gardens for research and have had their first session in felting...

Loreto Community School, Co. Donegal 2018

Loreto Community School, Co. Donegal 2018

Loreto Community School, Milford, have undertaken creating wild honey bee huts with Boomtree Bees for their 2018 Creative Engagement Project. 10 bee hives were built by students in 2nd year and LCA. Students will now place them in the school grounds and local...

Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College, Galway 2018

Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College, Galway 2018

For their Creative Engagement Project 2018 Coláiste Mhuirlinne/ Merlin College have 12 first year students working on a creative writing program with a local author Dani Gill. They are running the course for seven weeks, and the students are going to produce a short...

ST. MARY’S SECONDARY SCHOOL, HOLY FAITH CONVENT, GLASNEVIN

ST. MARY’S SECONDARY SCHOOL, HOLY FAITH CONVENT, GLASNEVIN

St. Mary’s Secondary School’s Creative Engagement Project 2017 - STEAM CEP 'Models of Conceptual Change'. These photos reference their initial incubation workshop for their Project in THE LAB with Dr. Enda Carr and Artist Eleanor Phillips.   [gallery...

Christ Kings Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2018

Christ Kings Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2018

Christ Kings Girls' Secondary School Cork have their Creative Engagement Project 2018 well under way. They have done their plans and are now starting to paint onto the large boards. Their students are loving the work....

Portumna Community School, Galway 2018

Local G.A.A. Club provides inspiration for Portumna Community School’s production of their annual school show. On Thursday 14th of December, Portumna Community School hosted their annual show to a packed house and the audience were held spell bound from opening scene...

Recent News and Updates

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Many thanks to everyone for participating in Creative Engagement 2015-16. The booking forms for the annual Creative Engagement exhibition, in IMMA October 11, is on the website menu under Forms. Application Forms for Creative Engagement 2016-17 are also on the site...

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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.