The Creative Ireland Programme Creative Youth Conference 2021 is being hosted online this year and comprises of three separate events in April and May, discussing questions surrounding provision of opportunities for creative engagement by young people both within the school and their community. The second conference in the series on Thursday 15th April focused on Creative Youth in the Community and provided an insight into the roll-out of the Creative Youth Plan to date.
Monica Spencer, Local Creative Youth Partnership Co-ordinator for Limerick and Clare, delivered a presentation at the conference focusing on the voice of the child and how it is integrated through the LCYP programme across both counties. Over 250 delegates from youth and cultural sectors, as well as from a range of Government departments, heard about some of the inspiring youth-led, creative programmes that continue to be delivered by the LCYP across the region. Listening to the stories of young children through play on the Loop Head Peninsula, a Summer Circus School in Southill, day trips to the Outdoor Education & Training Centre The Burren in collaboration with Music Generation Clare, and many more programmes enthralled those who signed up for the conference.
The final conference in the series takes place in May and will be opened by An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin TD. It will also include contributions from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, the Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’ Gorman TD.
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