COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY INITIATIVES – LOCAL AND NATIONAL
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| MA Music Therapy Clinical placements
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St Camillus’ Hospital (older age psychiatry), Limerick
The Park Nursing Home, Castletroy, Limerick Milford Hospice University Hospital Limerick Chronic Pain team University Hospital Limerick Ark Children’s Unit Enable Ireland Adult Services, Limerick St Clare’s and St Anne’s Special Schools, Ennis National Rehabilitation Unit, Dublin Meath Community Unit, Dublin Scoil na Naomh Uilig, Newbridge, Co Kildare Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, Offaly Service Tallaght Hospital older age ward Temple Street Children’s Hospital Crumlin Children’s Hospital Our Lady’s Hospice, Harolds Cross, Dublin Holy Child School, Dublin 1 Cope Foundation, Cork Sonas Special School, Cork Cork University Hospital Educate Together National School (autism unit), Wicklow St Michael’s House, Dublin Glenveagh Special School, Belfast Newbrook Lodge Nursing Home, Mullingar, Co WestMeath St Vincent’s Intellectual Disability Services, Cork
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Students on the MA Music Therapy programme engage with local communities throughout their training. Each student completes work placements (total 51 days) over two years. Many of these are in Limerick but there are also placements across the island of Ireland.
Student clinical placements involve working in special education, hospitals, nursing homes, residential facilities for adults with learning disabilities, mental health services and more. Although students are learning to be a music therapist they also contributie time and services to clients in the facility, under the supervision of an experienced therapist. Currently 19 students = 969 days this year over last 2 years |
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| MA Community Music
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The Learning Hub
Music Generation Limerick City The Redemptorist Centre of Music Milford National School. Milford National School, Castletroy, Limerick Mowlam Healthcare, Ballincollig Community Nursing Unit, Murphy’s Barracks, Ballincollig, Co Cork Music Generation Limerick City, Music Generation Creative Centre, 30 Cecil Street, Limerick (2 student placements)
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MA Community Music has a strong relationship with community groups in Limerick City and further afield. Every year our students undertake a placement and facilitate 12 hours of community music workshops, including the development of at least one original piece of music.
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| Professional Master of Education (Music) Placements 2017-2018
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Árdscoil Mhuire, Corbally, Limerick
St. Mary’s Secondary School, Convent of Mercy, Ballina, Co. Mayo Loreto Secondary School, Granges Road, Kilkenny Cnoc Mhuire, Granard, Co. Longford St. Caimin’s Community School, Tullyvarraga, Shannon, Co. Clare Roscommon Community School, Lisnamult, Roscommon John the Baptist Community School, Hospital, Co. Limerick Castletroy College, Newtown, Castletroy, Limerick Ardscoil Rís, North Circular Road Limerick St. Ailbe’s School, Rosanna Road, Tipperary Town Coláiste and Chroí Naofa, Carraig na bhFear, Chorcaí St. Brigid’s Secondary School, New Street, Killarney Thomond College, Moylish Park, Moylish, Limerick Creagh College, Carnew Road, Gorey, Wexford Ardscoil na Mara, Tramore, Co. Waterford
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Students on the Professional Master of Education (Music) programme are placed in schools both locally and nationally throughout their training. Each student completes school placements (total 90 days) over two years.
Student placements involve teaching the school curricula, extra-curricular music making, resource teaching and a variety of community music making activities. Each student is assigned to a cooperating teacher in their placement school. Students are currently training to implement the new Junior Cycle Music – well-being is integral in teaching this subject. This is reflected in the key skills which must be implemented by all teachers.
(Junior Cycle. Curriculum online Music. https://www.curriculumonline.ie/Junior-cycle/Junior-Cycle-Subjects/Music/Key-Skills. Accessed 21-2-2018) Currently 16 students = 1,440 days over last 2 years |
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| Irish World Music Cafe | Doras Luimni
CB1 gallery |
The Irish World Music Cafe is a community-based project which takes six times a year at the CB1 gallery in Limerick city. The cafe provides an open invitation to a social singing event with some light lunch refreshments. It is especially welcoming of new migrants and coincides with the end of English language classes offered by Doras Luimní in the same building. It features singing from around the world by UL students, newcomers to Ireland and long established Limerick musicians. It is coordinated by the Singing & Social Inclusion research cluster at the Irish World Academy. | |||||||||
| World Carnival | Presentation Primary School
Irish Chamber Orchestra Music Generation |
World Carnival is an educational project coordinated by the Irish World Academy and Presentation Primary School, in partnership with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Music Generation. Presentation primary school is one of the most multi-cultural schools in the city. The World Carnival programme facilitates the learning of songs from around the world and culminates in a ‘Meet the Musician’ day and a public performance for parents, friends and the wider community. It is coordinated by the Singing & Social Inclusion research cluster at the Irish World Academy. | |||||||||
| Irish Dance Community
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Various | Connections with many local groups in relation to dance and music performance and also in relation to Arts and Health. Dr Ni Bhriain established a dance school ( Scoil Ui Ruairc) active in Limerick since 1929 and embedded in the cultural fabric of the city. Students perform regularly at charity events locally and competitions and festivals nationally and internationally. Dance faculty also chair the Munster regional council of An Coimisiun le Rinci Gaelacha and act as PRO for the national organization, serve on the board of Dance Ireland and are active members of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann. The traditional dance department is actively connected to the dance and music communities from which our student population is drawn.
The Academy’s Irish Dance programmes have close connections with the Irish Dance community in Ireland and internationally, liaising with professional shows, dance development organisations, step and sean nós dance schools and celebrated Irish dance performers and choreographers. Many alumni have gone on to perform with internationally renowned shows. |
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| Step Dance and Parkinson’s Disease | Parkinson’s Disease Association
Active Retirement Ireland |
Dr Orfhlaith ni Bhriain works with the Parkinson’s Association and with Active Retirement Ireland conducting research on the benefits of social dance for these communities. This community engagement is directly related to teaching and research interests and expertise and links into the outreach connectivity which is one of the pillars of the Academy ethos.
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| MA Ritual Chant and Song fieldtrips | Glenstal Abbey | The MA Ritual Chant and Song has a close link with the Benedictine community at Glenstal Abbey, in the environs of the campus. Students visit the abbey approximately once a month in order to observe and participate in chant as a living practice. A number of the monks at Glenstal Abbey have completed the MA Ritual Chant and Song, and are now involved in delivering seminars to current students. | |||||||||
| ‘Sonas is Sláinte’
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University Hospital, Limerick Arts Committee | ‘Sonas is Sláinte’ is a joint initiative of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and University Hospital Limerick. Students perform live music 3 times each semester in the hospital reception area. | |||||||||
| Maoin Cheoil an Chláir | Co Clare various | In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee of County Clare and with the assistance of Clare County Council and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an Chláir (MCC) is a local cooperative model serving the needs of County Clare from its Ennis headquarters in the 18th-century Erasmus Smith School building owned by the Sisters of Mercy. MCC celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2014. With members of faculty from the Irish World Academy included on its board (Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Dr Jean Downey along with former board member Professor Helen Phelan), MCC enjoys a special relationship with the Academy. MCC Director Hans Boller is a graduate of the Academy’s MA Ritual Chant and Song programme. MCC is a member of the Clare Music Education Partnership, which was awarded €450,000 from Music Generation (funded by U2 and The Ireland Funds) in 2014. | |||||||||
| Contemporary Dance in Limerick | Dance Limerick | Since its inception, the contemporary dance programme at the Irish World Academy has sought to twin-track its activities with the professional contemporary dance energy in Limerick city. The emergence of Dance Limerick at the former Daghdha Space in St. John’s Square sets the scene for a new level of cooperative dance activity. The Irish World Academy is proud to be associated with Dance Limerick and looks forward to reclaiming the original spirit of contemporary dance cooperation in Limerick. | |||||||||
| Dance and Health Research, Arts Council funding 2018 | Dance Ireland
Tipperary County Council Arts Office Kerry County Council Arts Office Kildare County Council Arts Office |
In 2017 Dr Hilary Moss was commissioned, with colleagues from IWAMD, to research and develop a training course for dancers working in healthcare settings. This project involves consultation across the Irish dance network and will service users engaging in dance/health groups and services. | |||||||||
| Community Gamelan | Students, staff and wider community | The Irish World Academy and the University of Limerick Arts Offce established the Community Gamelan Ensemble in October 2017. The Community Gamelan Ensemble provides access for UL staff and members of the wider community to the Academy’s recently acquired set of beautiful Javanese musical instruments. | |||||||||
| Lunchtime concerts | Students, staff and wider community
Held at Academy and also at Allegro café |
Free lunchtime concerts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the academy. Wednesdays are alive to the sound of visiting school and community groups. For many it is their first time to perform in a university environment. | |||||||||
| Cruinniú
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Staff | Cruinniú, the Irish World Academy’s outreach initiative, sees staff from all walks of life at UL engaging in free weekly classes/sessions of Irish traditional music. |
Other
The Irish World Academy connects and collaborates with many traditional music festivals, locally, nationally and internationally. Students from the BA Irish Music and Dance are performing at Celtic Connections festival, Glasgow, in January 2018, as part of a collaboration with Glasgow Caledonian University – this performance will be broadcast live on Celtic Music Radio. In February, the Academy will be leading a UL representation, consisting of talks and performances, at the Gathering Festival, Killarney, held in the INEC – this initiative is entitled UL Connect. The Academy has had a very successful collaboration with the Inishowen International Folk Song and Ballad Seminar in Donegal for many years, sending song students to participate in the festival workshops and talks. The festival takes place in March each year. The Blas Summer School has partnered with the Willie Clancy Summer School to offer a joint, accredited summer school including a week at UL and a week in Miltown Malbay. The Academy has partnered with the Milwaukee Irish Fest, USA, for the past two years, sending students to participate in high-pro le performances and to give workshops in a number of different settings.
The Academy also works regularly with many arts centres and venues such as Glór in Ennis and the Irish Arts Centre, New York, in terms of performances and collaborations, such as the newly instigated series of lunchtime performances featuring the traditional arts at Glór. Academy staff interact with organisations and statutory bodies such as the Arts Council, the Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, attending meetings and organising events and seminars. The Academy greatly contributes towards student engagement across the UL campus, and enhances campus life through its diverse performances and events. Academy staff and students work closely with the International Education Division, Plassey Campus Centre and others to promote the University to those visiting the campus.