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St. Michaels Secondary School, Finglas 2020
St. Michaels Secondary School, Finglas Transition Year students worked with artist Niamh Synnott on a Totem in their Art Garden. The theme for this years Creative Engagement Project was "positive mental health". [gallery...
Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2020
Hansfield Educate Together Secondary School collaborated with Artist Mona Atkinson for their Creative Engagement Project 2020. Mona led an online workshop with a class of 5th year students. The students explored the exciting alternative photography process of...
Loreto Community School, Milford, Co. Donegal 2020
Loreto Community School in Milford, Co. Donegal have completed their Creative Engagement Project 2020. They were delighted to have a visit from Minister Joe Mc Hugh who was delighted to get a chance to work with them on the project....
Colaiste Pobail Setanta, Clonee, Dublin 15 2020
Colaiste Pobail Setanta, Clonee had a different Creative Engagement experience this year due to Covid 19 but they still get to enjoy the great mural Garreth created for them. Artist: Garrett Joyce Teacher: Paul Hickey
Archbishop McHale College, Tuam, Co. Galway 2020
Archbishop McHale College in Tuam have worked hard to finish their Creative Engagement Project 2020.
North Monastery Secondary School CBS, Cork 2020
The North Monastery Secondary School, Cork have their Creative Engagement Project 2020 well underway. The class have now finished the spray painting panels based on the theme of UN Rights of the Child. These will be shown in The Glucksman Gallery in Cork from March...
Coláiste Éamann Rís, Cork 2020
Coláiste Éamann Rís, in Cork had their Creative Engagement Project 2020 well underway before the lockdown. Here are some photos of their screen printing with textile artist Anne Kiely. There is also a short video of a walk they took around the local area to gain...
Carlow Institute of Further Education and Training 2020
Carlow Institute of Further Education and Training, in association with the NAPD Creative Engagement Programme, were delighted to engage with Artist: Karen Hickey through Portrait painting. Part one of the Creative Engagement 2020 project encompassed the theme of...
Cork Educate Together Secondary School 2020
Cork Educate Together Secondary School connected back to nature with their 2020 Creative Engagement Project. Photos of the finished pieces were taken in the garden of Griffith College. Ms. O'Sullivan was the only one who could attend under the current circumstances....
Recent News and Updates
Nollaig Shona Daoibh
Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh. Have a Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year. Thanks for everything and enjoy the holidays.
Apologies, CE delays
Apologies to all but due to illness to the Arts Officer there are delays in getting information about Creative Engagement 2021-22 to applicants. We hope that this will improve over the next couple of weeks.
Welcome back
Welcome back to everyone. Some dates of interest. Completion of CE 2020-21 projects deadline extended to November 16. Applications for CE 2021-22 found under FORMS on this website. Deadline Oct 15. A new separate arts in education residency programme called BLAST (...
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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.