Julie Forrester has begun work with the girls from the Mayfield Youth Cafe and their helpers Rachel Coffey and Brenda Stillwell. We have been talking about what we would like to do to celebrate our neighburhood. Imagining the Glen. Some of the girls haven’t been there yet and so we talked about what might be there and we looked at the Glen River booklet. We made a sculpture of the park coming out of the booklet and drew splishy splashy pictures of words, using inks made from Glen berries and oak galls, for things we might do to explore our connection with nature, the river and the Glen.

Here is a video of one of the girls:

feeling material into form

Creative Young Neighbourhoods is kindly supported by Cork City Council and Creative Ireland

Working and playing with young people at the Glen Foróige Drop in Club

Tom Doig, Annie Mar, and Brian Leach set up their stalls to introduce their projects fore Gleann a Phúca and share with the young people some of the creative skills and ideas behind their proposals.

See the blog for more about the day

Here is a slide show of the day as it unfolded sessiono1

and here is a demo of the instruments Adams Family

The Gleann a’ Phúca Outreach Programme is kindly supported by Cork Local Creative Youth Partnership, Creative Ireland, Cork City Council and Cork ETB

To see an exhibition curated by the young people click the link below

See Cruinniu na nÓg from 15th June 2024 here

“Creative Young Neighbourhoods” is supported by Cork City Council and Creative Ireland