Early Years
Here at Graffiti, we believe and rejoice in the rights of the young to have access to artistic events, both as audience and participants. To this end, we have been developing our work to reach even the youngest members of our communities.
Through the BEAG Project (see below) with our funding partners Cork City Council, Cork County Council and the HSE, we investigated the practice of an integrated arts team. The findings of this research project (see full text of the report below) indicated very strongly that this was a successful, effective mode of practice with high aesthetic values and great potential for expansion. We look forward to developing this project further when funding allows.
We have also created links with Forbairt Naíonraí Teo. – bíonn ceardlanna á reachtáil againn freisin i gcomhar le FNT.
Since 2009 we have been working on the development of a piece of theatre for an Early Years audience. Blátha Bána/White Blossoms has emerged as an intensely poetic experience for the very young.
Inspired by a rich heritage of myths and stories, a landscape painted by the weather and the resonance of words and music, we have created a sensory piece of theatre which will enchant and delight the very young and their carers. Using poetic texts sung in English and as Gaeilge, tabharfaidh Blátha Bána/White Blossoms a lucht féachana óg ar thuras amharclainne atá físúil agus fileata. Fréamhaithe i saibhreas teanga agus suaimhneas timpeallachta, tá draíocht-dhráma ilchéadfaíoch cruthaithe againn a mheallfaidh páistí óga agus a gcúramóirí.
Blátha Bána/White Blossoms premieres in May 2012.