CRUINNIÚ na nÓg is Ireland’s national day of free creativity for children and young people and this year Creative Ireland and Kerry County Council are doing things differently with everything needed for a fantastic day of creativity is available Online.
“We are delighted to be working with wonderful artists, who are fully committed to their art forms and to sharing it with young people,” says Kate Kennelly, Arts Officer with Kerry County Council.
“These are very different circumstances to last year, and how we thought it would be this year. But children and young people need an outlet for their creativity, perhaps now more than ever, and online events make that possible.”
A number of art forms are represented in the Cruinniú na nÓg programme – dance, poetry, film and visual arts.
For DisDance, Catherine Young will curate a series of funupbeat on-line dance workshops in the run up to the day.
Via online Zoom workshops on Tues June 2nd and 9th, young people will learn a piece of choreography created from avariety of different dance styles and finally through a series ofimprovisation techniques will be encouraged to work towardsmaking their very own dance piece.
This will be an energetic fusion of contemporary dance, hip hop and Africandance styles led by Jade O’Connor.
Máire Holmes is leading a creative project called Present Day Poetry – Kerry.
She intends to have a poetry collection available to read online by the 13th June 2020. Budding poets,from the very young up to the age of eighteen are invited to write a poem and send it to arts@kerrycoco.ie.
Poets have a choice of three themes: MAKING: DOING: CREATING. The poem can be as long or as short as you want and the closing date for submission is June 1st.
Mieke Vanmechelen is running a Young Filmmakers Programme. With the permission of a parent or guardian send an email including your name, age and up to three sentences on an idea you have for a two minute film.
This can be very simple, it can be funny, about a real event or an imaginary one. Following the selection process we will contact you to let you know if you have been selected to participate. Get in touch with Mieke at info@miekevanmechelen.com
Me and the Moon will host an online workshop where children and young people will have the opportunity to make their own sketchbooks at home using basic materials.
Sketchbooks can be a tool in understanding and expressing feelings relating to current events, or just as a tool in escapism.
Different binding techniques, as well as ways of personalising each sketchbook to make it unique, will be explored.
This will be a learning experience and hopefully theworkshop will inspire young people to continue the practice of keeping a sketchbook for years to come.
For more details on all the above events, please email arts@kerrycoco.ie or call 066 7183541.