Ourselves
In 2020 artists Rowena and Julie researched art software apps for tablets with a Creative Ireland Grant to help adapt their professional practices, seeking advocacy and an infrastructure for creative engagement within communities. The development of a digital platform and using technology with participants in a creative way will build digital literacy in a friendly environment for confidence, understanding and skills to adapt and reconnect.
Anam Beo provided the tablets and creative apps with prepared open themed projects for staff and participants to interpret and enjoy. The artistic outcomes was curated in participants own settings or viewed virtually. Reconnect is a model for arts delivery, up skilling artists, health care support workers, staff and participants in the use of creative apps.
We would like to thank Creative Ireland for supporting Conversations for YOUR Doorstep. Offaly County Council, The Community Foundation for Ireland RTE Comic Relief Fund with HSE Services for Older Persons & the Bank of Ireland Begin Together Back to Arts Fund supported by Business to Arts for Reconnect with The Irish Wheelchair Association. Reconnect is a focus on adaption, to deliver sessions with a digital arts toolkit & arts projects in a radically altered environment.
