News Archive 2016

The Council are settling in- We’re establishing a routine- And a lot of stuff is still happening in 2016! Here’s what we got up to in April!

The Ark, Ireland’s only dedicated cultural centre for children, is delighted to announce that it is involved in one of only three projects in Ireland to be awarded under Creative Europe Funding.

Our 'Faces in the Window' project is now complete and the faces of 264 of the Children of 2016 are now up in our windows. We did this as part of our free Put Yourself in the Picture programme to recreate a project that was done 21 years ago when we first opened.

So, we’re launched. The Ark now has a children’s council! The Ark now has an artist in residence! A lot is happening in 2016!

The Ark Children’s Council is made up of 15 children from 5th classes from schools in Dublin’s inner city. Led by Artist-in-Residence, Shaun Dunne, they will spend 2016 working together collaboratively to ensure their voices are included in future decision making at The Ark

As part of our 21st birthday, we want to find the children who were in one of our first projects...