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Creative Child is a programme of direct contact creative experiences using arts-based engagement to explore and foster confidence, imaginative skills, and critical thinking skills with children.
The Creative Child programme began in 2013 and drew on previous work from 2011 - 2014 in developing drama and critical appraisal skills in children and the adults in their lives. Following subsequent years of both primary and secondary research, Creative Child has evolved into an extended engagement program, delivering a series of child led, process based, creative workshops combined with performance visits for children, their teachers and parents.
It directly supports key priorities in child development and education, bringing under-engaged children forward and increasing literacy, confidence, imagination and critical vocabulary. We do this by putting the child at the centre of what we do while investing heavily in a high level of training and preparation for our project artists and personnel.
The Creative Child project is part of Young at Art’s year round education programme. It is a fully funded project, working with schools from some of the most deprived areas in Belfast. In 2020 we worked with 15 Nursery schools across North, West, and East Belfast.
Creative Child Schools:
· Ballysillan Nursery
· Black Mountain Nursery
· Cliftonville Nursery
· Edenderry Nursery
· Glenbank Nursery
· Hobby Horse Playgroup
· Hope Nursery
· Knocknagoney Nursery
· Naíscoil Bheann Mhadagáin
· Naíscoil Mhic Reachtain
· Nettlefield Nursery
· Seaview Nursery
· Shaftesbury Nursery
· St. Matthew’s Nursery
· Tudor Lodge Nursery
Thanks to Funders and Supporters:
· Foras na Gaeilge
· Esme Mitchell Trust
· Community Arts, Culture, and Heritage Fund (CFNI)
And supported by Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich and The Strand Arts Centre.
Thanks also to past funders:
· ARN Foundation
· Foyle Foundation
· Lightbody Foundation
· NIE Networks Staff & Pensions Fund
· Thomas Devlin Community Arts Fund
· Victoria Homes Trust
· BBC Children in Need
Teachers and educational professionals may be interested in finding out more about the training that we offer - see here.