Young Americans Fund It Campaign

The Young Americans are an outreach performing arts tour that host three day music and performance workshops in schools and communities throughout the world. They have worked in many schools in Ireland. Colaiste Eoin has, in recognition of the importance of supporting and developing a love of the arts and of supporting the creative talent of all our students, invited The Young Americans to host their three day workshop in our school in February. Together with our sister CDETB school, Cabra CC and our feeder primary schools we are hoping to enable as many as 200-250 students from the age of 9 years to 18 years to engage in and enjoy this theatrical extravaganza. The hope is that this will compensate in a small way for the fact that we have no music teacher in our school and that our students do not get the opportunity to recognise their own artistic, musical and performance talent in school. Nor do they perhaps understand the value, the inclusivity and the positive power music and performance can have in their life.

The event is planned to happen on the 3rd, 4th and 5th February 2015. The final performance taking place on the evening of the 5th, time to be confirmed. We have been fundraising since September locally, have held a sponsored cycle, a coffee morning, a non uniform day and have appealed to our suppliers to fund a child on the project. We are also looking for a contribution from every child but this will be capped at €25.00 per child. The objective is to support as many children as we can to take part in this once in a lifetime event. The cost per students is €62 per student including their YA Tee shirt. We also need to feed and house in our own student homes the 46 Young Americans, for 4 nights. The money raised will be used to fund students attending and performing in the YA workshop. The more money raised the more students can participate.

We had a free taster workshop in November. The energy the Young Americans brought was tangible. The positive effect of the YA experience is hard to believe. Within minutes they had all 275 primary and post primary students and teachers dancing in the Gym. It was a joy to see the shy, the challenged and the disengaged student blossom with the Young Americans. The fun and the laughter they had that day was a true gift to all.

If you have the time please click on the link below and  have a look at our campaign video. The video shows how our students got on back in November when The Young Americans paid a brief visit to the school.

http://fundit.ie/project/funders/young-americans-performing-arts-workshop