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Malahide Portmarnock Educate Together Secondary School, Dublin 2024
Malahide Portmarnock ETSS students worked with artist Claire Henderson to create Monoprints for their Creative Engagement Project 2024. They drypoint engraved onto Tetra Paks to create their plates. Not only did they create beautiful art but they also found another...
Colaiste Muire Ballymote, Co Sligo 2024
Colaiste Muire Ballymote students created puppets with Artist Carmel Balfe for their Creative Engagement Project 2024. Teacher: Oonagh Mc Grath Artist: Carmel Balfe
Good Counsel College, New Ross, Co. Wexford 2024
The students of the Good Counsel College in New Ross really enjoyed their time working on their Creative Engagement animation Project. Working with set designer and artist Brian Norris was a great experience. Teacher: Emma Ryan Artist: Brian...
Ardscoil na Mara, Tramore, Co. Waterford 2024
Ardscoil na Mara 5th year students enjoyed their Creative Engagement Project experience painting landscapes with artist Declan O'Meara. They held an exhibition of their work in the Tramore Coastguard Cultural Centre.
St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway 2024
President John Kelly visits St. Jarlath's College, Tuam have completed their Creative Engagement Project. "We worked with the mosaic Artist Nathalie EI Baba with a 2nd year Art group. We looked at plans, discussed ideas and the processes involved in making...
Laurel Hill Secondary School, Limerick 2024
Laurel Hill Secondary School in Limerick have completed two print making workshops with Artist Declan O Meara. It was an amazing and creative experience for all. Artist: Declan O'Meara Teacher: Marie Madden
Coláiste Muire Máthair, Galway 2024
Here are a selection of photographs from our bodhran making workshop, held in the Pastoral Centre, Newtownsmith, Galway with TY's from Coláiste Muire Máthair Galway and adult service users of St Joseph's Training Centre Galway. The workshop took place over 4...
Presentation Secondary Mitchelstown, Co. Cork 2023
Presentation Secondary Mitchelstown have completed their Creative Engagement Mural Project 2023 This project was facilitated by the artist Gareth Joyce and completed by 10 TY students. The students brainstormed some initial ideas for the mural and came up with the...
St Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas 2023
St. Michael's Secondary School in Finglas have finished a beautiful Creative Engagement Project for 2023 talented Transition Year students worked with potter Pat Rafferty to create the the final Ceramic work about the essentiality of the Bees🐝 for...
Recent News and Updates
Creative Engagement 8th Annual Exhibition
Congratulations to all exhibitors at the recent exhibition. Click here to view our 2021 exhibition
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...
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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.