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  • Anna Rosenfelder
  • Puppet Portal Project - hospital D

    Created 2009-04-22 by Anna Rosenfelder

    Location: Urban - Co. Dublin

    Duration: 2009-04-22 to 2009-12-02

Project Outline

The Puppet Portal Project is an arts in health and technology project, produced by Helium, a new arts in health company for children and young people. It is engaging 4 artists in 4 hospitals to establish an active and creative hub within each hospital community, facilitating a performing arts exchange between the hospitals. Contemporary puppetry techniques storytelling and technology will be used to create interactive, puppetry performances via the hospital web portal, Ait Eile, the online community for children in hospital. (www.aiteile.ie) . The aim of the project is to promote community and communication for children in hospital through a combined creativity and technological intervention, while creating new artistic work.

Project Details

  • Location: Urban
  • From date: 2009-04-22
  • To date: 2009-12-02
  • Length: 2 blocks of 10 weeks, with a break for July & August
  • Participants per session: 160
  • Participants in total: 1-8
  • Contact hours: 80
  • Age range of participants:
    15-18, 12-14, 8-11, 5-7
  • County(ies):
    Dublin
  • Related Organisation(s):
    Spiral Orchard, Independant evaluator, Kids` Own Publishing Partnership, Centre for Health and Informatics, Trinity College , Helium, performing arts in health , Spiral Orchard, Independant evaluator
  • Funding Bodies:
    Participating Hospitals and Trusts , HSE, HSE, Arts Council

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