Creative Ireland is delighted to present Cruinniú na nÓg 2020 with over 460 creative things for young people to see and do on Saturday 13th June.
Due to social distancing restrictions brought about by Covid, Creative Ireland are hosting the whole event online.
Full details of Cruinniú na nÓg events are available here. These range from nationwide calls to action such as Céilí in the Kitchen and Let's Go Fly A Kite, to gentle poetry events for the under 4s with the Branar Theatre Company.
Here are just five of hundreds of creative ideas...
Tunes from Me Gaff
On Saturday June 13th, the day of Cruinniú na nÓg, the Irish Youth Music Awards will host a live stream on Dublin City Council's Arts Office Facebook page. Featuring four performers from Dublin City Council area, providing a spotlight on up and coming musicians. This stream will start at 3pm, so don’t forget to tune in for a gig you don’t even have to leave your house to attend!
Resilient/Resilience
Resilient/Resilience is a large-scale street art project for Cruinniú na nÓg 2020 under the guidance of acclaimed street artist & illustrator Joe Caslin.
The project explores and traces the positive idea of being, becoming and belonging to the theme of resilience. Young people from South Dublin will create a large scale exhibition in Rua Red's celebrated Gallery 1.
Their work will also be used to create a huge piece of street art which will, when circumstances allow, be installed on the outside wall of Rua Red visible to thousands of passers-by.
Listen: Joe Caslin talks Resilient/Resilience on RTÉ Arena
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Dancing From A Distance
Dance Ireland are delighted to produce an original film showcase for young dancers in Ireland for Cruinniú na nÓg 2020, created in the most unusual circumstances. Dancing from a Distance will feature up to 25 dancers who will each devise a dance solo across different locations, styles and circumstances throughout Ireland, capturing a unique moment in time to create a dance film. The results can be watched on RTÉ Culture from Saturday, 13th June.
Get Creative at home with ReCreate
ReCreate have a host of online creative workshops helping to inspire the whole family with what they can create with items around the house! These videos cover a range of themes to give you and your family ideas for different activities to take part in from the comfort and safety of your own home.
Whether you have access to ReCreate materials, or just working with items you have discovered around your house, these sessions are simple and easy to take part in. Find out more here.
Playful Puppetry with Anne Cradden
Join artist Anne Cradden to make some wonderful puppet characters that we can move with our hands! Using things that you can find at home, such as cardboard rolls, old clothes, and socks, she will show you how to make simple sock puppets for toddlers and kitchen-roll puppets for older children.
Kids can decorate their creation in any way they can think of, and then bring their characters to life in their own puppet theatre! Wild animals, aliens from Mars, wizards and witches, unicorns, princes and princesses, fairies and dragons, superheroes, even your teacher, the postman or your baby sister…who is going to star in your story?
All workshops will be posted to Draíocht's Facebook and YouTube channels, starting on Saturday 13th June 2020 and weekly thereafter.
Find out more about this year's Cruinniú na nÓg programme here.
