Caitríona Ennis in Juno and the Paycock as part of DruidO'Casey, photo by Ros Kavanagh.
Druid's Community and Education programme aims to deepen engagement with professional theatre within education and local community settings.
This award-winning commuity and education programme is focused on inclusion and access to the arts, community togetherness, and artistic and cultural expression.
The programme spans all of Druid’s programming activities, renewing the engagement with communities and schools throughout Galway and the West, as well as on touring locations.
The programme focuses on encouraging creativity in schools through direct engagement and free educational resources, and increasing public engagement with the arts by making theatre more accessible to all communities.
Community Groups
We regularly collaborate with community groups such as local amateur theatre collectives to deliver workshops or backstage tours for their members.
Please email info@druid.ie if you'd like to discuss these opportunities with us.
Primary Schools
Free educational resources for primary students that celebrate an extraordinary Galway writer, Lady Gregory, produced in conjunction with DruidGregory (2020).
Secondary Schools
Schools performances and free educational resources including a seven-part video interview series.
Delivered in conjunction with DruidO'Casey, Druid's groundbreaking 2023 production of Seán O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy comprising The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock.
A free online programme with one short poetry film every school day for 20 days, which began on Poetry Day Ireland, Thursday 28 April 2022.
An extension of the Coole Park Poetry Series 2020 and 2021.
Free access to the show recording of Sonya Kelly's celebrated play as well as educational resources for secondary students to explore the theatre-making and social issues behind the production.
Free educational resources for secondary students that celebrate the extraordinary Galway writer, Tom Murphy.
Free access to show recordings of DruidSynge, the first ever staging of John Millington Synge’s entire theatrical canon.
Recorded for RTÉ in 2005 by the award-winning Irish film and television production company Wildfire Films.
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Druid's Community and Education Programme is supported by The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
