4 November 2008

Practice.ie

Practice.ie is an on-line collaborative research space reporting on artists' practice with children and young people currently in development by Kids' Own, in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland. The aim of this work is to validate artists practice working with children/young people, To share approaches and practice and to enhance artists practice working with children/young people.

3 November 2008

The Hammer Project

The Hammer Project



Hammer Youth Resource Centre
Agnes Street
Belfast BT13 1SH

Tel: 028 90249693

They offer a wide variety of facilities for local residents, including a main building, pavilion and football pitch. The centre caters for a range of ages and activities and offers courses in a number of areas, including computer and job skills.

This Extern children’s project works with 15 and 16-year-olds who have been excluded from formal education. It offers group work, formal qualifications and recreational activities.

They are one of four Digital Community project centres in Belfast. The project provides opportunities for computer training and community development. The group have a choose to run an art or music workshops. This year they choose art. I am facilitating this workshops with the aim to construct a wall piece. This will be located outside the community centre.