The teen participants were supported by Helium Artist Chelsea Canavan in collaboration with WiredFM Station Manager Ray Burke, co-facilitating artist Ciara Harrison, and An Cosán.
Helium Arts is a national award-winning charity which supports the social and emotional needs of children and young people with long-term health conditions through arts-based activities in hospital and community settings. Since 2009, 5,500 young people in eleven counties across Ireland have experienced the power of creativity through our arts programmes.
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Image Caption: These images were taken by participants as part of a micro/macro sound and image mapping challenge. Capturing their environment during lockdown with image and sounds. Later in the session a more developed version of this challenged emerged, challenging participants to map colour, size and sounds of their environment together, these can be found in 'The Gallery'.
ABOUT US
We are a group of teenagers who embarked on an exploratory response to the COVID-19 pandemic through Helium Arts’ Distance Creates Remote Programme.
Through online meet-ups and postal exchanges, we explored the spaces that exist within and between us using games, group storytelling, writing, digital recording tools and art making to produce this group website and podcast:
Space Between Us.
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Image Caption: This is a collage image created with pictures taken by the participants of their feet, POV, sky, and a surprise. They have chosen this as a form of self-representation on their website.
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Ciara, Participant
These [workshops] have given me a different way to get across what I am saying, I would never have thought to record a podcast...
it's a new way to express myself.
Ellen, Participant
Finding out we all had different experiences, but knew we were in the same circumstance, it made me feel... Okay [about lockdown].
Aoibhín, Participant
I'm finding it easier to talk... it's easier to express myself without getting to awkward or thinking of what to say.