CWCAN Projects 2010
June Projects 2010
Group: Templeshannon C.D.P. Ltd
Facilitators: Boolavogue Textiles
Project: Children’s Summer Camp
The aim of the project is to re-animate the past through a two week programme of mixed media, arts and crafts based on local history and traditional crafts. The goal of the project is to provide summer activities to children in the disadvantaged area of Templeshannon, Enniscorthy. It’s hoped that the project will be fun, interesting and informative with a view of inspiring the youth and community interest in old crafts and local history, giving children and parents alike, a sense of solidarity and belonging.
Group: Rathangan Hall Committee
Facilitators: Patricia Howard
Project: Pottery Workshops for children aged 6 years to 13 years
The aim of the workshop is to provide a fun, tactile workshop for children in the area that is affordable and local. This workshop will take place over 3 days, 2 hours per day and the age group targeted is 6 years to 13 years.
Group: Ballymurn Community Group
Facilitators: Terence White
Project: Film-making/Scriptwriting/Drama
The aim of this project is to give young people aged between 11-16 years particularly those who maybe somewhat disadvantaged within society, the opportunity to acquire a new skill which they would not have had the opportunity to attain previously. This film-making workshop will run over 2 days and give the young people a chance to experience and work with film making equipment and also to write their own script, act it out and film it.
Group: Cottage Autism Network
Facilitators: Patrick Molitor & Roisin Markham
Project: Week long artist workshops
The focus of the summer project is to facilitate siblings to form relationships with there autistic siblings that will be benefiting them in the future. The project will run over a week with the age group targeted at 6 years up to 16 years. The week long project will consist of drama, games, music and visual art classes.
Group: AS We Are
Facilitators: Michael Fortune
Project: ‘Stop animation shorts’ workshops
The main aim of the group is to provide activities that will assist in the development of the communication and the social skills to provide opportunities for the children and young people to meet others with Asperger Syndrome. The 2 day long course in animation will enable participants to devise, script and shoot their own stop-animation film. The age group targeted is 6 years up to 12 years.
Group: AS We Are
Facilitators: Terence White
Project: 5 Day film making workshop
This 5 day film making project is for a group of children with Asperger Syndrome over the age of 10 years. The film making project would enable the participants to cooperate as a group in deciding, writing and producing their own work and this will in turn assist in the development of the communication and the social skills
August Projects 2010
Group: Acquired Brain Injury
Facilitators: Jennifer Byrne
Project: Percussion Workshops
The workshops aim to offer individuals with brain injuries a chance to express themselves in a creative manner through music and to interact and communicate creatively with peers, families and eventually the wider community. The workshops will run over 25 weeks and will end with a performance, informal get-together or series of photographs.
Group: HOPE
Facilitators: Suzanne Power
Project: Literature Project
This is a 24 week project split over two terms and will involve participants exploring their experiences of illness and care through writing. Each participant will leave the project with a personal journal given to them on week one detailing their 24 weeks of writing. The objectives of the project are to provide through written and spoken word support and help to the participants. The project will end with a reading session, where participants and family members can gather to listen to their work.
Group: SWWCDP
Facilitators: Myriad Dance Company
Project: Dance Project
The project will consist of 4 creative dance workshops with a group of primary school children from South West Wexford. The children will have the opportunity to learn dance in a positive, non-competitive and creative environment over the 4 days and at the end of the week a performance will be held.
Group: Ard Aoibhinn Day Care Centre
Facilitator: Myriad Dance Company
Project: Dance Project
The project will run over 11 weeks, the first 10 weeks will be developmental in nature responding to the creative and physical challenges and needs of the group. The final week will consist of joining together for fun and dance which will culminate in sharing of work for family and friends with a performance in the Wexford Opera House.
Group: Cuidiu (Irish Childbirth Trust)
Facilitators: Orla Bates
Project: Visual Art Workshop
The aim of this 14 week project is to engage children and their parents in a series of workshops that actively encourage participation in the understanding of visual arts starting from the context of play, thus exploring alternative ways of communication and encouraging ideas in a context which cultivates positive and intellectual development. The interactive format of the workshops aims also to simulate social interaction between parent and child, with others in the group and with the facilitators.
Group: County Wexford Community Workshop
Facilitators: Myriad Dance Company
Project: Dance Project
The project aim is to develop a community arts project in dance for people with disability who attend the County Wexford Community Workshop in Enniscorthy. The project will run over 16 weeks and will be divided into 2 stages. Stage 1 will be developmental and Stage 2 will be performance driven workshops including a visit to Wexford Opera House to see backstage and how a performance is put on. The project will finish with a performance at the community workshop.
Group: Alzheimer Society of Ireland
Facilitators: Helen McLean
Project: Visual Art Workshop
The 6 month project focus will be to design and create an artwork in collaboration with Alzheimer’s patients, their families and carer’s. The artwork will be created using a variety of media and materials collected together, it will be planned to accommodate all levels of ability. The artwork will be created in panels 2ft x 2ft this will create flexibility to allow the work to be exhibit in a selection of different venues.
Group: Enniscorthy Community Youth Group
Facilitators: Andi McGarry
Project: Visual Art Workshop
The 10 week project will consist in designing and creating a mixed media art wall in Enniscorthy Youth Project to mark the 1500 Anniversary of the town. A group of young people along with the artist will work together to create this art project. The aims of the project is to offer young people experiencing disadvantage the opportunity to get involved in a high quality artistic experience and to promote active participation in town festivities amongst the youth in the town, to celebrate their own culture and heritage.
October Projects 2010
Group: Ferns Community Centre
Facilitators: Dave Flynn
Project: Music Workshop
The project will hold a music school for 6 youth bands in the greater Ferns area targeting 15 to 23 year olds. The school will consist of skill assessment and appraisal, individual band mentoring, group technical sessions and workshops. This in turn will develop their musical skills in a professionally managed setting and under the guidance of experienced professional musicians and music industry professionals. A concert will be performed in the Ferns school to showcase the level of learning.
Group: Rosslare Harbour
Facilitators: Michael Fortune
Project: Film Workshop
This 12 week project aims to establish a community based web ‘television station’. It will provide residents with the necessary knowledge to use digital media and the internet to explore and present aspects of their lives. It will also produce a body of short films, video diaries etc. as a result of direct consultation and engagement with Rosslare Harbour residents. The project will launch in July 2011 in a local venue in conjunction with the Rosslare Harbour Festival.
Group: Irish Wheelchair Association
Facilitators: Michael Fortune
Project: Film Workshop
This project will focus on the individual and allows them the opportunity to address issues surrounding their own experience of physical disability and the perceptions of others in relation to it and them. Through 12 week workshops the group will produce a body pf short films and animations which will be presented on a purposely-designed DVD. A purposely-designed You Tube will be created for the completed works this will ensure that the films will reach a wide audience and be accessible to family and friends www.no-stopping-me-now.com . The project launch will be in June 2011.
