ACCESS with Design Students go into the Community

WoW!! 'Working out Weaving' with local secondary schools and Community groups

Access with Design facilitated three creative and lively workshops at the Tory Top Road Library in Ballyphehane. As part of the Work Experience in-house programme it was the students' remit to share the skill of weaving with members from the local community. The Presentation Girls Secondary School and the Ballyphehane Craft Initiative took part in workshops on table-top weaving using recycled clothing and salvaged bed linen. The work produced was inspiring and the Access with Design students were thrilled with the results - most importantly all of the participants took away a new skill that we hope they will use in craft work in the future.

Hair Raising! - a wig-making day created pieces for the 17th century Restoration play 'She Stoops to Conquer'

Another interesting collaboration was the bringing together of two courses from Coláiste StiofáinNaofa . The Access with Design students organised and assisted in the wig making with the Theatre Production course for a day at the Tory Top Road Library. The buzz and energy was there from the offset and the groups worked well together using an array of materials to produce some really wacky results, as you can see in their up-coming production, 'She Stoops to Conquer'.