13 Jun Open Arts Workshops
On Tuesday 11th June 9 pupils from Ulidia were fortunate to be invited to take part in music and drama workshops run by Open Arts. Open Arts encourages disabled people to participate in the arts as artists, participants, audience and employees, by improving accessibility and creating equal opportunities, contributing to the principles of equality of opportunity and good relations. They promote the disability arts movement by enabling disabled people to create their own arts and work with people of all ages, from every disability background, in all art forms, throughout Northern Ireland.
The workshops were brilliantly facilitated by pupils from Mitchell House School in Belfast and funded by Children in Need.
Our pupils really enjoyed every minute of the day and made some new friends along the way.
Here is a quote from one of the Open Arts staff,
“Many thanks again for bringing your students along to Stranmillis today for our Peer Arts Project. They were a real credit to you and the school, and so beautifully sensitive to the Pupil-Leaders from Mitchell House School. I really hope your students got something out of the experience, that they learned some new things, and that they enjoyed themselves too. We certainly did!”
