Art For Change: At Schools & Community Centres

Empowering young people to address issues affecting their wellbeing through arts-based, youth-led, civic action at schools & centres
About this Event

This June, eduSOIL / Design For Change NI is taking to schools and community organisations who want to be part of the acclaimed Design For Change global movement empowering +2 million young people to drive social action in +70 countries since 2010.

We ran a promo for 10 schools and community centres to book heavily subsidised sessions on-site. Due to the racist pogroms in Belfast since June 9th we have re-allocated our budget to be able to provide online psycosocial support instead, while ensuring the safety of our primarily immigrant team.

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We are still taking fully paid bookings to deliver this service at schools and community centres who want to bring in a ethnically diverse team of artists and creatives to engage their students and teachers in the Art For Change process.

We are empowering teachers and youth workers to foster Social & Emotional Learning, intercultural connections, & artivism with our Harvard University endorsed framework that enables young people to address issues affecting their mental health through a chosen art media that they share publicly to drive social change.

Groups (young people & teacher/youth worker mentor) who submit an artpiece and their story of change by September 15th, stand a chance to represent NI at the global celebration, Be The Change, Athens, Greece, Nov 26th - 29th where young changemakers from 25 + countries will present projects and share performances that showcase their country’s cultural heritage.

The programme also introduces participants to opportunities beyond Northern Ireland, including the global Be The Change Summit in Athens, Greece, where young people from over 30 countries will gather to share ideas and inspire change.

And closer to home, groups who complete and submit a project by July 7th, will be invited to display/ present their creation at our Art For Change Showcase, July 10th, 15:00 - 17:00 at Queen's University Belfast.

Schools/centres can book multi-awarded artist, Juanita Rea for one of the following onsite experiences:

• whole school/grade/group assembly/presentation (up to 60 min)
• pop-up Art For Change exhibition (variable)
• teacher/youth worker workshop (up to 90 min)
• student/young people workshop (up to 90 min)

The sessions will help participants to:

• discover the global Design For Change movement (that Art For Change is a part of) that has empowered 2 million children in 70+ countries to lead change
• enjoy learning about our globally recognised FIDS Framework — Feel, Imagine, Do, Share through our I CAN song and dance videos, and get a taste of how it is used to enable youth-led, civic action around the world since 2010.
• discover a youth-led project from our 2023 - 2025 Art For Change cohorts to know how young people in NI have taken action to address important social and community issues through creativity, storytelling and collaboration
• start to think about how they get involved further so the school /centre may be part of the global movement.
• co-create an original art piece using the Feel, Imagine, Do, Share framework (only during student or teacher workshops and only for a selection of art media)

We offer the following for schools and centres who want to go further and ensure they can be part our the local showcase and global celebration!

• Masterclasses at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) June 13th and 27th.
• Online community with weekly clinics to get support

For the 10 subsidised slots, schools/centres can book one experience or book all 4 to take place on a single day for it to be considered as a single booking. On-site delivery at centres are available July 12 - August 12th and at schools from September 1st onwards at full cost.

Delivered in partnership with Arts Council Northern Ireland, and Queen’s University Belfast School of Arts, English and Languages.

The programme is led by Juanita Rea, Visiting Scholar at the School of Arts, English and Languages, founder of eduSOIL and Director of Design For Change NI, South Africa and Sudan in collaboration with Prof Franziska Schroeder founder of Performance Without Barriers research group at SARC, the Centre For Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music at QUB.10 Subsidised Bookings - Available only until June 30th!

Since 2011 eduSOIL has supported 16,000 people in 12 countries. Since 2023, Art For Change has been delivered in NI partnership with Design For Change Global and with support from Arts Council Northern Ireland and Queen's University Belfast School of Arts, English and Languages (AEL)and the Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility Directorate.

10 Subsidised Bookings, until June 30th
We offer 10 schools and centres a chance to book subsidised sessions where artists fees are covered by our Arts Council NI grant . We request a donation to support eduSOIL CIC, which is currently fully volunteer-led and without no core funding or salaried staff. At a minimum. donations should cover travel expenses for volunteers travelling from Bangor to your venue; platform fees and a contribution to our team.

Full price bookings - ongoing availability
We offer schools and community centres a chance to book sessions at full price where contributions go towards the team and the organisation responsible for this work.