Welcome – John Bissett (Chair, Rialto Youth Project) and Fiona Whelan (Artist) and
Introduction – Dr. Aine O’Brien, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts and Seminar Moderator
Maurice Devlin – Jean Monnet Professor & Director of the Centre for Youth Research & Development, Maynooth University
Title: Youth Work and the Arts: Continuity and Change
Kathleen Lynch – Professor of Equality Studies, School of Social Justice, UCD
Title: The Careless State: why we need radical egalitarian thinking in Ireland.
Q & A with Kathleen Lynch and Maurice Devlin
Professor Desmond Bell – Head of Academic Affairs and Research, NCAD
Title: The other sort of youth work in another sort of space
Katherine Atkinson – Professional Development, CREATE, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts.
Title: Representation in collaborative arts: Who tells whose story and how?
Fiona Whelan – Artist & Joint Course Coordinator, MA SEA(face), NCAD
Nichola Mooney – Community Youth Worker & Team Leader, Rialto Youth Project
Jim Lawlor – Manager, Rialto Youth Project
Michael Byrne – Youth Worker
Title: Performative readings (mis)readings of a shared practice
A performance based on excerpts from transcripts of conversations that have taken place in Rialto Youth Project over the last decade. The performance uses a form familiar to those involved in the work, which involves the re-enacting of another’s experience.
Q & A with all presenters
Discussion & Closing Remarks Dr. Aine O’Brien
Part 1
Part 2
Book Launch Introduction from Declan McGonagle, Director NCAD
Book Launch, Martin Drury, Strategic Development Director, the Arts Council
Speech by Fiona Whelan