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Ann's Shopping list

Oculus or Meta Quest 2 Headset 128gb is quite adequate.

Buy the elite strap for extra weight.

You should be able to get them for €250 or less.

If unavailable..

Buy Meta Quest 3 S 128gb (its a slightly cheaper version, but excellent) €339 Curries.

The case is €60. Its handy!

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Click here to download a list of Apps for Oculus that Ann recommends.

Here are links to find out more about a few apps we used/talked about at the workshop:

First Steps: First Steps on Meta Quest | Quest VR games | Meta Store (For Oculus Headsets)

Gravity Sketch: Home - Gravity Sketch

Open Brush: Open Brush (Free version of Tiltbrush)

Tilt Brush: Tilt Brush on Meta Quest | Quest VR games | Meta Store

Kingspray Graffiti: Kingspray Graffiti VR on Steam

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Gravity Sketch is an intuitive 3D design platform for cross-disciplinary teams to create, collaborate, and review in an entirely new way.

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You can explore it in 2D or in 3D with a VR Headset!

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Spatial - Create Immersive UGC, Virtual Classrooms, Experiential Marketing

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Join 2M+ creators & brands building and publishing social games, brand experiences, virtual learning, galleries, onboarding, & training. No-code + Unity-based tools. Web (No Download Required), Mobile, VR.

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Eco Quest VR - an exploration of your exhibition space!. Click to view.

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3D Object Capture with Photogrammetry  | Polycam

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3D Object Capture with Photogrammetry & Gaussian Splatting | Polycam

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Scan anything and bring digital 3D models into your fully cloud-hosted library. View, edit, and share your 3D models with friends and colleagues.

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Orla Matthews, STEAM Programme Manager at NYCI is offering a small grant to help youth workers who participated in our training workshop access a VR Headset. Click on the image above and complete the form by June 9th 2025 to apply.

Email Orla at orla@nyci.ie with any questions!

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Building our Exhibition Space - spatial.io

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Building our Exhibition Space - spatial.io

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Ann uses Spatial.io to build her 3D exhibition spaces!

You can access their toolkit of tools to get you started by clicking here.

You can access the Spatial You Tube channel for helpful videos by clicking here.

Or click here for a Spatial Youth Tube guide to creating your first gallery space!

Our 3D sketches from Gravity Sketch and our 3D objects from POLYCAM scans were uploaded to Spatial exhibition to share our work and enable others to experience it!

Time and tech was against us on the day, so Ann finished uploading to our gallery after the training!

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Spatial has the most fun collection of free online games. No download required. Play our beautifully crafted 3D games with friends on web, mobile, and VR.

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3D Sketching in response to our Sensory Maps!

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3D Sketching in response to our Sensory Maps!

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Ann uploaded sensory maps and objects to Gravity Sketch for each participant. We were invited to use the respond to our own work using the different tools available: choice of brush. colour, texture etc. What did the work feel like when we increased its size and experienced it in 3D?

Ann saved each piece for the exhibition. Click on the image reel to see some of the work!

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3D Sketching in response to Sensory Maps.mp4

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We got creative in the warehouse on Gravity Sketch! We tried using the controllers to draw in 3D!

We learned about the controller layout, moving, the brush library, sketching tools, the colour wheel, editing & deleting items! Click Here for Beginner Tutorial Videos from Gravity Sketch on You Tube

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Ann introduced each of the participants in turn to the VR Headsets with right and left hand controllers! We cast the screen of one of the Headsets to the wall so we could all engage with what was happening!

We tried First Steps, to help us take our first steps in VR, get to know the controllers and experience the Oculus VR Headset. You Tube hosts lots of different tutorials on First Steps!

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Ann also asked us to choose an object we liked / connected with / was part of our sensory map in the garden.

She created a 3D scan of an object with each person on her tablet using the POLYCAM app. (Polycam on iphone and Polycam on android )

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Everyone's sensory maps were so unique! Click on the image reel above to explore what we made.

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Ann invited us to make our own sensory map! She asked us to go to the garden and to:

find a place / a quadrant and place ourselves at the centre

pause and think about what we can smell, hear, see and feel there

take a sheet of paper and some materials and try to capture what you're experiencing in the garden in a sensory map

Click on the image reel above to see materials we used, including: A3 brown paper, clay, Indian ink with brushes or pipettes, oil pastels, graphite sticks, tracing paper etc.

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Ann introduced us to her work! She showed us some projects that she's involved in as an artist and also some projects where she has collaborated with young people in youth work settings! We got a great sense of the possibilities of introducing VR to our creative work with young people! Explore Ann's website to remind yourself of some of these Projects!

Ann gave us lots of tips and advice on using VR with young people in youth work settings. Click on the image above to download some of the key points we discussed!

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Tips for Using VR with Young People in Youth Work

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Ann Burns is a visual artist from North Cork, specializing in socially engaged practice, materiality, and digital media. Additionally, Ann works as an Active Inclusion Support Advisor for the Cork Education and Training Board.

Click on the image to visit Ann's website and find out all about her!

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Home | Ann Burns - Visual Artist /Researcher

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The Cork Youth Arts Hub joined artist Ann Burns on June 3rd for a collaborative & environmental exploration into the immersive world of 3D scanning and virtual reality!

This youth arts workshop supported youth workers and artists to gain practical and creative skills in the basic techniques of using VR technology as an exciting new educational tool. The workshop aimed to give youth workers an opportunity to create work engaging with local landscape, responding to nature through drawing, clay-work and photography, and transferring their creations into a VR landscape where scale, colour & sound can be re-imagined in an exciting new immersive setting.

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Francesca Castellano: visual artist, circus performer, costume designer and much much more!

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Francesca Castellano: visual artist, circus performer, costume designer and much much more!

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We worked with Francesca to create a Meditation Moss Garden! She showed us how this DIY project could add an artistic touch to your space and bring nature inside with rocks, plants, and some touchable moss to finish it off. We tried...

Using a glass container to create a perfect ecosystem, balancing & glueing our stones, creating a living miniature garden to ease daily stress and cleanse the air from pollutants, adding wild moss and small foliage & ferns!

Francesca is on the Cork ETB Tutor panel and is also Arts Co-ordinator for Cork Creates.

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We worked with Magdalena to explore sewing and make our own tote bags! (Magdalena also helped out some people who needed to repair / upcycle clothes they already had with them!). We tried...

Measuring and cutting; threading & using the sewing machine; sewing the seams & hems, making the straps

Magdalena is on the Cork ETB Tutor Panel!

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We worked with Maureen to explore printing, making some beautiful abstract prints and cards! We tried...

screen printing using the large frame, acrylic paint/ink & squeegee to register the print; using stencils, stencil brushes, acrylic paint and hand-made paper to make cards

Maureen is on the Cork ETB Tutor Panel!

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We worked with Stephen to transform raw wood into small Christmas decorations and snowmen! We got stuck into:

Choosing our piece of wood; marking out the shape we want to make; roughing out the shape and refining details using the lathe and tools; sanding and finishing; separating the final piece from the lathe!

Stephen is on the Cork ETB Tutor panel. Click on the padlet post below to see samples of the work he creates with young people and inspire some ideas!

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Funding opportunities for youth arts: padlet

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Funding opportunities for youth arts: padlet

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This padlet is a resource from NYCI's Developing Funding Applications for Youth Arts Training in March 2024. Rhona will update the padlet for NYCI's online training on this topic in March 2025! Keep an eye out in January on the NYCI website if you want to book for this free online training!

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NYCI - SPARK €300 Mini Grant Scheme - NOW OPEN!!!

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NYCI - SPARK €300 Mini Grant Scheme - NOW OPEN!!!

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Click to view the scheme details and apply!

2025 Deadline: Jan 22nd

Contact: Rhona at rhona@nyci.ie with any questions!

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SPARK €300 Mini-Grant Scheme - National Youth Council of Ireland

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Apply for the SPARK Mini Grant Scheme (€300) to support youth arts taster workshops for young people aged 10 to 25 in youth work settings!

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NYCI - Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme

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NYCI - Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme

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Click image to view the scheme details!

2025 Deadline: March 28th

Contact: Rhona at rhona@nyci.ie with any questions!

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Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme - National Youth Council of Ireland

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Apply for The Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme to promote innovative partnerships between youth work groups and artists!

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Caitriona Mac Naeidhe from Cork ETB talked to us all about accessing artists through Cork ETB Tutor hours. Some youth organisations (mostly city-based, a majority of these are UBU funded projects) have annual allocations of Cork ETB tutor hours for young people aged 10-24 years. This is administered by Cork ETB Youth Work Services: Caitriona.mcnaeidhe@corketb.ie

Caitriona also flagged other opportunities and grants - click on the Word Doc image to download her advice and information! Get in touch with her if you have any questions about accessing resources to fund youth arts / creative work though Youth Work Services at the ETB!

Caitriona Mac Naeidhe

Youth Officer, Youth Work Services

Cork Education & Training Board

t.  021 4856352

m. (086) 0666778

e.   Catriona.mcnaeidhe@corketb.ie

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Cork LCYP Funding:

Cork Local Creative Youth Partnership Grant Call Jan 2025

Jan 20th 2025: You are invited to apply for a youth-led, out-of-school, creative project grant from Cork Local Creative Youth Partnership for support of up to €1,000! Click on the image to view full details. The first grant adjudication will be held in February and then on a rolling deadline until funds are exhausted.

Application form: https://forms.office.com/e/ATWNs7sG0p

Contact:

Fiona Quinn, Cork LCYP Co-ordinator  Fiona.Quinn@Corketb.ie

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Cork Local Creative Youth Partnership Grant Call

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Click to view the 2nd pdf from Francesca's presentation with QR Codes that bring you to online resources!

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Click to view a pdf from Francesca's presentation with QR codes that bring you to online resources!

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Click on the image above to view/download Francesca's presentation all about Cork Creates, its projects, ways to get involved and online resources you can access!

CONTACTS

Francesca Castellano

Cork Creates Arts Coordinator

Gurranabraher/Churchfield UBU Youth Project (The Hut) CDYS

Email: Francesca@cdys.ie

Mobile: 087 1137852

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This activity-packed morning at The Hut in Cork City offered a range of activities with local artists and lots of info on how to fund artists in your youth project next year!

The event was delivered in partnership with Cork Creates, a city-wide youth arts project that young people and youth projects can engage with! We worked with:

Francesca Castellano: Cork Creates Arts Coordinator, visual artist, circus performer, costume designer & much more!

Maureen Clark: visual & textile artist

Stephen Pearson: woodturner

Magdalena Wroblewska: design & sewing

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Funding Opportunities & ways to bring artists to your youth work project!

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Funding Opportunities & ways to bring artists to your youth work project!

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We used...

Spray Paints: We used MTN 94 which you can buy in Vibes and Scribes or other shops/online. You can also buy water based MTN

Corriboard: We taped together large sheets of black corriboard to make a temporary wall. You can buy this at Cork Builders Providers or in other shops that have different sizes/weights and black & white versions.

White Card: We used A2 white card 160gsm from Evans Art Supplies but you can buy it in lots of local shops or online

Stencils - we used some ready made/previously used stencils in card or acetate

Net Curtains

Protective gear - gloves, masks, suits as needed

Scissors, craft knives & cutting boards

Masking tape

Laptops & projectors

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Click on the image to open the Miro Board and zoom in to read!

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Sign up | Miro | The Visual Workspace for Innovation

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Miro is a visual workspace for innovation where teams manage projects, design products, and build the future together. Join 60M+ users from around the world.

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Thanks to everyone for all their fab participation!

We finished off having a chat about how you could use street art with the young people in your setting.

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We sprayed the first layer of the stencil in white.

We sprayed the 2nd layer of the stencil in pink!

You could also add text to your wall! Using da.font.com, choose your stencil font, write your text, project it to the right size on the wall, draw around it on white card, cut it out to make a stencil and spray paint it where you want!

Or add some finer details using Posca pens!

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We took the 2 sheets of card down, got blades and cutting boards and then:

Cut out the first stencil of the overall image

Cut out the second stencil with the threshold shading by cutting out everything that had been black on the image. Make sure that white pieces are still connected to white pieces (you may have to leave a bridge)

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We taped large white card sheets together to make 2 large sheets and stuck them up on the wall on top of each other with masking tape. We cut a triangle into the 2 sheets so that we could match them up perfectly again later on.

We projected our edited image onto the card.

On the first layer, we traced the outline of the image on the card.

On the second layer of card, we traced the outline of the image again but this time also traced the black from the threshold adjustment (the sections that get cut-out on the stencil). You can use different colours for black and white lines if it helps! Remember that the white parts within the image will need to remain linked together in the stencil so you might need to adjust and create bridges that don't get cut out!

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On a laptop, we worked together to edit our image on www.pixlr.com

We removed the background (Background Remover)

Then on Pixlr Editor, we went to adjustment, then pressed threshold. We adjusted it until we were happy with the black / white balance (Pixlr Editor - remember there's a limit to the number of saves you can do on the free version)

We added a coloured background to a second layer - to make the black/white clearer when we projected the image

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As a group we decided to use the stencils by spraying around our cut-out shape with black spray paint.

We placed the stencils on our wall using masking tape to help us arrange them and stick them down to get a sharp image when spray painting

We took turns spraying around our stencils with black!

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We used craft knives / scissors and cutting mats to cut out our stencils!

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Back inside to make some stencils...

We projected the photos of our statues onto white card (stuck to the wall with masking tape!)

We traced around our photo with a marker

We made some of the projections bigger - sticking a few pages of white card together with masking tape to make bigger stencils!

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Spray Painting!

Helen & Molly took us through some basic tips for spraypainting. We chatted about spray paints, nozzles, surfaces (we were using corriboard), protecting ourselves when spraypainting and stencils

We all had a go spray painting! We played around with different colours, using stencils, spraying net curtains, writing words - to make a background inspired by our theme.

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We moved outside! We were asked to choose a word or phrase that communicated health & wellbeing. Then we were asked to use out bodies to make a freeze frame or statue to show that word/phrase.

Helen helped us to adjust some of our statues so that they would make good stencils!

We went around the circle, looking at each statue and seeing if we could guess what the word / phrase was that inspired it! Helen took a photo of each statue!

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www.dafont.com For downloading useful fonts

Has a stencil section that you can use for street art- the stencil fonts have bridges, for making sure parts of the letters connect when making stencils

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Rastorbator - a wall art generator useful for making paste-ups

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Wall art generator. Enlarges images to multiple pages, which you can then print and combine into huge posters.

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Helen introduced useful digital tools!

www.pixlr.com for editing images

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Helen outlined a boat on the floor with masking tape. Water levels were rising. We had to get on the boat but there was space for only 1 issue/SDG on that boat to keep it afloat! We debated which issue/SDG was most important and most deserving of a place on the boat!

We chose Health and Wellbeing

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Helen introduced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

We looked at the gallery of Dixit Cards spread out on the ground and chose a card that represented (for us) a cause or issue we cared about. We wrote that issue down on a post-it.

We shared our image and issue with the group and placed our post-it on the SDG board - choosing an SDG that felt like a good match for us.

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We did post-it portraits and introduced ourselves

Helen & Molly introduced themselves

We looked at Creativity & Change & Splattervan on the Miro board - check it out!

We talked about how/why Helen uses street art with young people

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Helen O'Keeffe: Helen spoke about the course the Creativity and Change course at MTU. Click on the image above for more info.

She also talked about the Splattervan project with Claire Coughlan: Splattervan | Facebook See the Miro board for more images and info on Helen and Claire's work!

Molly Sterling: Molly spoke about her work as a youth arts facilitator, exploring music with young people in youth work settings as well as her experience of courses like Creativity and Change the Certificate in Youth Arts!

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Certificate in Creativity and Change | Munster Technological University - MTU

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Street art is an engaging way for young people to gain confidence and self-determination. Through creating effective visual pieces, they become more connected to themselves and issues that affect them and are supported to develop their own individual voice. The artwork itself then goes on to inspire the audience young and old to take action and see the artists in a positive light.

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Our street art workshop was designed to support youth workers and artists to gain practical and creative skills in street arts techniques when working with young people. It was a practical, hands-on training that aimed to equip youth workers and artists with new skills and facilitation methods that support young people to use visual art for self-expression and advocacy.

We focused on building your creative toolkit in digital and socially engaged street arts, exploring techniques such as stencilling, spray painting and online tools.

Facilitators: Helen O'Keeffe & Molly Sterling

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Click on the Document above to download descriptions of the activities we took part in!

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Here are links to some other useful resources in evaluation and project management in case you want to dive further into this world!

Project Management T-Kit (SALTO)

Educational Evaluation in Youth Work T-Kit (SALTO)

Easy Consultation Toolkit, Shared Care Scotland (attached)

Evaluation Support Scotland Resource Bank

What do you Think? Creative Youth Consultation and Participation Toolkit ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network)

Blob Shop - Home of the Blob Tree Communication Tools. | blobshop You can also google blob tree for free alternative versions.

A Kit of Tools for Participative Research with Children, Young People and Adults (Evaluation Support Scotland)

Project Management T-Kit (SALTO)

Ideas in Action in Youth Work: In Theory (Centre for Effective Services)

NYCI’s Guide to Creating a Successful Youth Arts Residency

NYCI’s Guide to a Project Planning Framework

NYCI’s Guide to Drawing up an Artist’s Contract

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Pavel is a visual artist living in West Cork who has experience working in youth work settings. You can contact him at: portraitgarden@gmail.com

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STOP MOTION ANIMATION: I want to hold your hand

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STOP MOTION ANIMATION: I want to hold your hand

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In the morning session, we joined Rhona Dunnett from NYCI’s National Youth Arts Programme to explore evaluation in youth arts projects. Together we delved into the reasons we evaluate our work, the range of potential project outcomes for young people and the kind of evaluation tools/approaches we might use to investigate the outcomes of our youth arts projects.
After lunch, we got creative! We worked with artist Pavel Wroblewski to learn about how to use stop-motion animation to help capture and share important learning outcomes and experiences!

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Stop Motion Animation Workshop with Pavel Wroblewski

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Stop Motion Animation Workshop with Pavel Wroblewski

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This workshop was inspired by artist Pavel Wroblewski’s recent work with CDYS in Fermoy (click on the image to watch a video of their work).
We used our image gallery to select a picture that captured a moment of learning for us as youth workers/artists working with young people. We worked in pairs to build our stop motion animation skills and make short films that shared our own learning experiences!

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Favourite Moments of 2022 at CDYS Fermoy

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This is a great organisation with really useful evaluation resources for the community and voluntary sector. We looked at some videos introducing outcomes and indicators at the end of this Outcomes Approach page. The ESS support guides you can download from this page are also very clear and useful! There's a lot of ideas and approaches that you can adapt across this website - so if you find yourself developing your evaluation practice over the coming years, I'd say return to these pages and explore!

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ESS has always promoted an outcomes approach when it comes to self-evaluation because outcomes are about the difference that your organisation makes.

But we also understand that the outcomes approach can sometimes be tricky! Over many years we've developed loads of resources and held events on various outcomes topics - from defining outcomes, to setting outcomes, and mapping outcomes - just to name a few.

On this page we signpost to some of our work to support you in using the outcomes approach to evaluation. We aim to keep updating this page.

Resources

Report

Understanding different outcomes - personal, organisational, strategic

Webinar

Blogs

Other resources on mapping various outcomes

Framework

For general support in setting outcomes

ESS Support Guides

'Evaluation Explained' videos

Case Studies

Tweet Wall of the 'Outcomes everywhere but which are mine?' peer-learning online event in May 2021

Blog
Mapping personal outcomes to project-level outcomes
Shona Wells, ESS Training Officer talks about how she helps third sector organisations see a way to use personal outcomes to show the difference their service makes.

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Outcomes Approach - Evaluation Support Scotland

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Click download a pdf of the Capturing Magic evaluation resource from the NYCI website.

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Capturing Magic: A Tool for Evaluating Outcomes in Youth Arts Projects - National Youth Council of Ireland

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This resource will help you measure the outcomes of your youth arts project. This set of scales is specially designed to provide a series of observable behaviours in a group of young people taking part in an arts project.

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Click to download the powerpoint and access slides from the Creative Evaluation session!

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We created a story circle together, with each person contributing a few words or a phrase to progress a shared story.
We worked with our 'elements' groups again to create improvisations inspired by the story we had created. We shared our improvisations with each other and then reflected on what we had created and what we had seen in each other's work.

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Embodied Practice - interacting with our environment

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Embodied Practice - interacting with our environment

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Alison led some activities after lunch to get us back into the space and our bodies.

We each selected a beautiful, smooth, white stone and were asked to find a location in the Chapel Hill garden that we connected with. As we held our stones, we were invited to reflect on our thoughts and our connection to that location in the garden. We retuned to the room and, in our circle, took turns sitting on a central chair and sharing our thoughts from the experience or simply sitting if we didn't want to verbalise our thoughts. We reflected on the experience, the emotions that had arisen for people and shared a cleansing activity to help us move on.

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We explored the elements together - Water, Earth, Fire, Air.
Which elements did we identify with? We chose places in the room to represent each element. We moved through the space as our chosen element and then made our way to the assigned place. As a group, we discussed what the elements meant to us and what we associated with them.
In our element groups we planned short improvisations inspired by our chosen elements and shared them with the rest of the group. After each performance, we reflected on the improvisation that people had created.

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Relaxation, Breathwork and Vocal Warm-Ups

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Relaxation, Breathwork and Vocal Warm-Ups

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We unrolled the yoga mats and explored relaxation and breathwork. Alison led us through a series of activities to awaken our senses (beautiful lemon balm!) and to help us relax physically and mentally. We found our voice through vocal warm-ups and walked the space while humming and listening to the shared sounds we were creating. We sounded different when we re-introduced ourselves and our names in the circle after that experience.

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We came back together in our circle and said our names again - how did they sound by the end of the day?
We reflected together on the experience of the day and did some closing activities to help us evaluate. We wrote a word to reflect how we were feeling at the end of the workshop and shared with each other something we were seeking for ourselves beyond this shared experience at Chapel Hill.

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Word responses at end of Jun 15 workshop

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We started off by exploring how we felt about our upcoming day together and introduced ourselves to the group...

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Worde Responses at start of Jun 15 workshop

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The Cork Youth Arts Hub invited you to the beautiful Chapel Hill Art School to work with artist Alison Glennie. We escaped for a day of creative and mindful experiences. We hoped this creative retreat would support your wellbeing and re-charge your batteries as well as inspiring some new ideas for creative practice with young people.
The notes below capture a flavour of some of our activities together!

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Chapel Hill School of Art - Macroom, Co. Cork

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Chapel Hill School of Art was founded in 2020 by Joe Neeson and John Mc Cormack. The school is based in the historic Mercy Convent on Chapel Hill in Macroom, Co. Cork, designed by Architect John Pyne Hurley in 1860.

The Art School endeavours to engage with the community by offering social improvement through Art education while successively contributing to meaningful culture, heritage and celebration of the visual Arts in the area.

We offer a range of Art programmes for all ages from fun have-a-go creative opportunities to the Master class experience.

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Chapel Hill School of Art - Macroom, Co. Cork

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Chapel Hill School of Art was founded in 2020 by Joe Neeson and John Mc Cormack. The school is based in the historic Mercy Convent on Chapel Hill in Macroom, Co. Cork, designed by Architect John Pyne Hurley in 1860.

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Find out more about Alison Glennie's work through her website or social media!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alisonglennieartist

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alison_glennie/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUt8E-2YHIJkhh2Tb476hdg

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Actor and multidisciplinary artist: performance artist, drama facilitator, director - West Cork

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Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme

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Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme

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Many of you were asking about the Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme which is managed by NYCI. Click on the image above for the grant webpage with all the information and links you'll need!
Deadline is Friday, Mar 31st at 12pm

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Artist and Youth Work Residency Scheme - National Youth Council of Ireland

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Do you have a good idea for a youth arts project in your youth group but require the funding to work with an artist? The 2021 Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme is now open for applications! Apply now for the Youth Arts Explorer Grant €1500 or Youth Arts Full Grant €5000.

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The CORK LCYP is delighted to invite applications for their Youth Arts Bursary. Twenty bursaries worth €500 each will be awarded throughout Cork City and County. Click on the image to download bursary scheme information!

To apply:   Please complete and submit the short online application form: https://forms.office.com/e/kCwM0z76FK

Deadline: Rolling deadline until all 20 grants allocated

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We took out chairs and got chatting! Fiona kept us on track with her sharp time-keeping!
We swapped contacts, found out about each others' work and considered ways we could link together!