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Forum held in Tallaght Community Arts | Infant Imaginings
2008-11-25

Forum held in Tallaght Community Arts

We organised a forum about the project on Oct 29th which was hosted by Tallaght Community Arts and chaired by it`s artistic director, Tony Fegan. This was a very important part of the project`s process. It allowed Jonathan Wilson, musician, and I, to share our experience of working with parents and very young children, the process, the outcomes, and our reflections so far. It also acted as a means for peers to comment, and feed into the process. It also created a space for dialogue and communication cross-sector, between artists, children`s theatre practitioners, professionals from health-care, and child-care fields. Within that shared space, we were able to locate the Infant Imaginings project into a wider, bigger picture, and debate about making art, the care of the child, and health of society.

Podcasts of the presentations and discussion, and a report on the outcomes will be available on www.tallaght-arts.ie