A CREATIVE CLIMATE PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

For young people who care about the environment, this week-long summer programme offered a creative and fun way of exploring some of the challenges our communities face as sea levels rise in Dublin, Cork and Clare. Art is a powerful tool in communicating how we feel about the climate crisis, and to conjure a future we would like and feel hopeful about. Learning creative techniques like filmmaking, songwriting or visual art, going on field trips with experts working on flood responses across the county and collaborating on an art project that was presented as part of Dublin Fringe Festival September 2022.

This programme ran in partnership with Axis Ballymun (Dublin), The Everyman Theatre (Cork) and Glór Arts Centre (Clare) with support from The Arts Council’s YPCE Fund.

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Rising Tide Dublin Collective

On Friday 24th June 2022 the Rising Tide Dublin Collective gathered outside the Dáil to speak truth to power. Joining the Friday’s For Future Climate Strikers for an hour of protest the collective addressed the crowd with speeches and poems, and hand delivered boats decorated with their messages for government to Senator Pauline O’Reilly.

PHOTO CREDIT: STEVE O’CONNOR

On Friday 8th July 2022 the Rising Tide / Theatre Making and Citizenship Cork Group took to the stage at The Everyman Theatre and performed an original piece, written collaboratively and performed by the writers. The group also created a mandala using the Rising Tide boats and choreographed and shot a short spoken word piece about new hope emerging.

PHOTO CREDIT: DARRAGH KANE

Rising Tide Cork - TMACC Group

On Friday 15th July 2022 the Rising Tide Clare Group took over Glór Theatre in Ennis and performed an original song and poem, written collaboratively and performed by members of the collective. The group also created a stop motion film using the Rising Tide boats and choreographed and shot a short film to reflect the themes in the poem.

PHOTO CREDIT: MYRIAM RIAND