{"id":34879,"date":"2025-03-22T03:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/middle-of-somewhere\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T03:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T03:03:06","slug":"middle-of-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/middle-of-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle of Somewhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Sparkcatchers! Jojo &amp; Midie will deliver \u2018Middle of Somewhere!\u2019 a weekly teenage socially engaged youth voice arts project over a six- week period in 3 rural communities in County Galway <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Corr na M\u00f3na, Glenamaddy and Portumna<\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"EN-IE\">. The young people will use arts to explore their lived experiences of what it is to be a teenager in rural Ireland in 2025. Sessions will commence in May and be completed by the end of July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Sparkcatchers! will explore how teenagers can use shared space in rural communities to connect, create, communicate and celebrate through a series of ArtS workshops. We will facilitate 6 weekly sessions offering participants the time and space to hang out, exchange stories, have music \u2018jams\u2019, and have fun.\u202f<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">These workshops will be open to all, inclusive and appropriate and capacity at sessions will be no more than 12 in line with Sparkcatchers! Child Protection Policy.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-IE\">The project will culminate in a celebration of their creations in their chosen medium(s) to be determined by the participants but inspired by the workshops and previously delivered projects by Sparkcatchers! Details coming soon!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">To get in touch with Sparkcathcers! and to learn more contact <\/span><a href=\"mailto:sparkcatchers.info@gmail.com\"><span>sparkcatchers.info@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span> or check out their<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sparkcatchers_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span> Instagram Page<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34880,"template":"","class_list":["post-34879","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Middle of Somewhere! - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sparkcatchers!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/middle-of-somewhere\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Middle of Somewhere! - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sparkcatchers! 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