THE ARK

Our working partnership with the Ark, Europe’s first custom-designed cultural centre for children in Dublin, goes back to many years, in fact 1994 when the Ark was still a building site. Our first project was to design the Ark’s visual identity and subsequently all the programmes’ brochures up to 2003.

Around the year 2000, Jole Bortoli started to run workshops for children as part of the Ark’s visual art programme, which she still does, both in the Ark’s building and in the Outreach programmes.

 

Making hiStories

From January to June 2011 The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, and Irish Autism Action, in association with Art to Heart have delivered an art programme titled Making hiStories.

This innovative artistic project, which involved a small group of children, with a diagnosis of autism and their tutors, took place in Saplings School, Rathfarnham, Dublin.

The programme content was multidisciplinary in its approach with an emphasis on Visual Arts and Drama and was facilitated by Jole Bortoli, Art to Heart’s Director and Louis Lovett, Artistic Director of Theatre Lovett.