New to this game so more will follow.
Currently....
Young at Art
Heading up the organisation that runs among other things, the Belfast Children's Festival. Over 50,000 children and adults a year are attending or taking part in one of its events. See more on the website.
Teaching & Mentoring
Working with the School of Creative Arts on their MA in Arts Management. I teach Strategic and Business Planning, Vision and Leadership. It's a good course, have a look.
Young at Art
Heading up the organisation that runs among other things, the Belfast Children's Festival. Over 50,000 children and adults a year are attending or taking part in one of its events. See more on the website.
Teaching & Mentoring
Working with the School of Creative Arts on their MA in Arts Management. I teach Strategic and Business Planning, Vision and Leadership. It's a good course, have a look.
Some things from the past....
Land of Giants - 2012
One of my favourite projects. Two and a half years, lots of partnerships and a big vision, it was one of the largest events outside London for the London 2012 Festival. It all concluded in one night, 18,000 people and over 500 people involved in performing and making it happen. There's an archive and edit of the final performance here.
Cardboard Cities 2010
A Young at Art project I was really attached to and which continues to tour out to different venues. I drew together artists Sinead Breathnach Cashell and Caragh O'Donnell and paired them with student architects from Queen's University Belfast. They worked in two schools - St Mary's PS on Hamill Street ad Blythefield PS, both schools in areas undergoing significant redevelopment. They explored construction, city planning and what the children felt needed to be in a city. From this an exhibition was designed that included some of the children's ideas (they included a mouse hotel and a hospital hotel for people who had to travel a long way to stay when they went to visit patients - they liked hotels). Every day the exhibition opened to anyone young or old who wanted to come and build/rebuild. In its initial outing, a shipyard was build which in turn became a rocket launchpad which in turn became a suspension bridge. It was democratic, engaging and also challenging - could you take down what someone else had built. Well of course....
Land of Giants - 2012
One of my favourite projects. Two and a half years, lots of partnerships and a big vision, it was one of the largest events outside London for the London 2012 Festival. It all concluded in one night, 18,000 people and over 500 people involved in performing and making it happen. There's an archive and edit of the final performance here.
Cardboard Cities 2010
A Young at Art project I was really attached to and which continues to tour out to different venues. I drew together artists Sinead Breathnach Cashell and Caragh O'Donnell and paired them with student architects from Queen's University Belfast. They worked in two schools - St Mary's PS on Hamill Street ad Blythefield PS, both schools in areas undergoing significant redevelopment. They explored construction, city planning and what the children felt needed to be in a city. From this an exhibition was designed that included some of the children's ideas (they included a mouse hotel and a hospital hotel for people who had to travel a long way to stay when they went to visit patients - they liked hotels). Every day the exhibition opened to anyone young or old who wanted to come and build/rebuild. In its initial outing, a shipyard was build which in turn became a rocket launchpad which in turn became a suspension bridge. It was democratic, engaging and also challenging - could you take down what someone else had built. Well of course....