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Kinsale Community School, Co. Cork 2020
Kinsale Community School had great work done on their Creative Engagement Project 2020 before the schools closure. The project was based on designing and building a full size public seating installation for students in the school setting. The shape and design was...
Bremore Educate Together Secondary School, Co. Dublin 2020
Bremore Educate Together Secondary School thankfully got their Creative Engagement Project 2020 artist workshops completed before the school had to close because of Covid 19. Print artist Claire worked with their first year students to develop a series of intaglio...
Malahide Portmarnock Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2020
Malahide Portmarnock Educate Together Secondary School have their Creative Engagement Project 2020 underway. Students are working with glass artist Michelle O’Donnell to create a sculptural or suspended glass piece (the form will evolve through collaboration with the...
St. Nathy’s Secondary School, Roscommon 2020
St. Nathy's Secondary School, Roscommon are working on a recycled bottle top mural for their Creative Engagement Project 2020. Art teacher: Karen Munnelly
CBS Thurles
This Year under the Creative Engagement Programme 2020 the CBS Thurles turned to the Walls Project in Waterford. ...
St. Joseph’s Patrician College ‘The Bish’, Galway 2020
The well known Galway musician Seán Gavin lead a music workshop with students of St Joseph's College Bish for their Creative Engagement project 2020 with Teachers Caitríona Lee, musician/teacher Gráinne Cotter. The students also participated in a workshop with...
Banagher College, Co. Offaly 2020
Banagher College, Co. Offaly have their Creative Engagement Project 2020 well under way and hope to have it finished in the next few weeks. Teacher: Breed Hassett
The Abbey School, Tipperary 2020
The Abbey School, Tipperary have completed their Creative Engagement Project 2020. Their artist in residence was Lynn Kirkham .... she is a very talented lady who teaches sculpture (willow weaving). Her public sculptures can be seen at the Newbridge and Kildare exits...
Presentation Secondary School Warrenmount, Dublin 2020
The title of their Creative Engagement project this year is; Warrenmount Urban Garden Ceramic Installation For the Creative Engagement Project we are working with the Green School’s Committee to create a ceramic installation to compliment their urban garden. The focus...
Recent News and Updates
Creative Engagement 8th Annual Exhibition.
The Creative Engagement 8th Annual Exhibition will take place online March 4-6. The Minister of Tourism Culture Arts Gaeltacht Sport and Music , Catherine Martin TD, will formally open the exhibition. Invitations to view the exhibition will be sent to schools,...
Bliain Nua Fé Mhaise Daoibh
Bliain Nua Fé Mhaise Daoibh. Happy New Year. Thank you to everyone that Creative Engagement 2019-20 was completed in late November. Creative Engagement 2020-21 is now under way. As we are experiencing lockdown currently we will once again be adding extra time to...
Congratulations Catherine Martin TD and Norma Foley TD
Congratulations to Norma Foley TD in her new role as Minister of Education and Skills and to Catherine Martin TD in her new role as Minister for Media Tourism Arts Culture Sports and the Gaeltacht. Catherine is a past participant of the Creative Engagement...
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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.