Concern Workshops

I'm planning a post later on the Concern development education workshops I facilitated around the country last month. I had a great bunch of Transition Year students in Galway, Dublin and Cork. This is an ongoing project aimed at raising awareness of global child exploitation. There are currently over 200 million children being used for labour in the world today.

Double Vision

Charlie's latest article is up on Double Vision, belatedly for reasons beyond my control etc. etc. I also haven't got around to my report on my Concern Workshops, which I'll try and have up in the next day or two. Back soon!

Concern Workshop Tomorrow

I'll be giving a workshop to transition year students tomorrow on the issue of child labour. It's a heavy issue, but I try to make it informative and with an emphasis on action (like many similar issues the sheer weight of it can be overwhelming). I'll post more on it tomorrow, hopefully I'll have some images ready as well.

Stagecraft Ireland for all your juggling needs!

Have to give a plug to me old muckers in Stagecraft Ireland. They've just launched their new website, and provide a range of corporate entertainment and education packages:

"Stagecraft Ireland provide a range of entertainment services for corporate events, night clubs, parties, festivals, childrens' events, etc. We run workshops aimed at fostering teamwork and problem-solving, invaluable for any organisation or circus, dance and percussion which are always great fun for kids.

Stagecraft shows can be theatrical, spectacular, fun, zany, atmospheric, comical, spooky, whatever you need! We design productions to suit all kinds of audiences and ages.

Ultraviolet light shows, interactive walkabout/stilt/unicycle characters, fire performances, cabaret style circus productions, workshops. Guaranteed to impress!"

I worked with these guys frequently last year at the Ryder Cup and the RDS Horse Show and they mesmerised their audiences. Stagecraft Ireland's contact details can be found here.

SPAN cartoons and about the Project

I've put all the SPAN cartoons together here. It's a good way of showing what I can do for documenting conferences and meetings.

SPAN (Strategic Planning Action Network - Réseau de Programmation Stratégique Active) is a “North-West Europe” Interreg III B inter-regional cooperation project. Eight partners from four regions in four European Union Member States are involved in SPAN.

The project has an overall budget of EUR 4 million, 60% of which is funded by ERDF, through the Interreg III B Community Initiative.

SPAN aims to develop innovative approaches to strategic planning for the benefit of all the partner regions and test them under actual conditions. The stress is placed on the participation of civil society in the planning of territorial interventions at regional, infra-regional and local levels. The project also aims to shed new light on relations between urban and rural areas, relations which could be put to better use in the future.

More Conference Cartoons

And just for good measure, here are a few more from the SPAN Conversations hosted by the Southside Partnership in Dublin:


If you would like to make an enquiry about having me at your meeting/conference, contact me here.

Even More Cartoons from the SPAN Conversations

Here are more cartoons from the recent SPAN Conversations, hosted by the Southside Partnership. The meeting was held in the Davenport Hotel, Merrion Square.

For further information on how I can help document your conference or meeting, click here.




More soon!

SPAN CONVERSATIONS Project Update

Here are some of the images from the SPAN meetings I posted about earlier. These are from the initial meetings in 2003/2004. My role in these meetings was to capture the themes and issues of the meetings, which were otherwise quite dominated by "Eurospeak"! This cartoons will feed into the reports that the Southside Partnership will draw up for the project's conclusion.





Looking at this last one, I wonder am I the first person to feature cow-pats on an official EU website?!

Moooooooore to follow!

Concern Youth Fora

In March I'll be facilitating the Concern Development Education Youth Fora on Child Labour. These are a series of workshops with transition year students from across Ireland. Child Labour is discussed using a variety of media, including drama, art, creative writing and puppetry.
The Fora have been running for the past two years and demand for places has lead to an increase in the number of workshops happening. This year they are taking place in Dublin, Galway, Cork and Wexford throughout March. If you are a student or teacher and would like to find out more, contact Lizzy Noone in Concern on (01) 417 7740 and check out the website www.stopchildlabour.net. I'll have more info when dates are confirmed.

SPAN CONVERSATIONS Project

photo: Dave Keegan

Before Christmas I was asked to record the themes and discussions of the Southside City Partnership's SPAN Conversations meeting in the Stilorgan Park Hotel. This is a European Project run by the Partnership in conjunction with the Geography Department of NUI, Maynooth and looks at identifying key areas of social disadvantage and the causes of them in the Dun Laoighaire/ Rathdown area. To my shame I've only got one cartoon from the meeting (I forgot my camera!) but I have another session with them this month and I'll get them then. This is one followed by work in a similar vein from previous conferences:




And I'll leave you with some images from the meeting:

photo: Dave Keegan

(You can see my work around the room in the background above)

photos: Dave Keegan

More soon!