Dates: Monday 21st – Friday 25th July 2025 | 10am – 4pm

An action packed drama and art summer camp for young people aged 8 – 12 years and 12 – 16 years

Five full days of creativity, fun, drama and art in VISUAL and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre. Experience drama and visual art with our professional artists and theatre makers. This is an opportunity to make, mess and meet new people. The week will end with a public exhibition and performance of work made during the Dreamtime Ireland summer camp at VISUAL, so friends and family can join us in celebrating each participant’s creativity.

You will learn new art techniques, practice connecting ideas together, grow confidence in storytelling, develop stage skills and collaborate with other creative young people!

Participants will be grouped according to age, (8-11yrs and 12+years).

Each day will be divided into morning and afternoon theatre and art sessions with a break for a packed lunch.

Numbers are limited so please book your place to avoid disappointment.

The Dreamtime Ireland summer camp will be fully supervised by the team at VISUAL. Facilitators are professional artists and theatre makers:

Mary Jo Gilligan is an artist and facilitator at VISUAL. She studied sculpture through a Fine Art BA at NCAD and holds an MA in Social Sculpture from Oxford Brookes University. She is very interested in the values we hold and that shape us, how imagination is both a huge inner space and a superpower for creative action in the world and how we tune into each other and our built and natural environments. She increasingly puts her creative energy into workshops and other learning contexts to explore art making and imagination with other people.

It will be possible to pay a deposit and pay the remainder of your booking in increments, please ask Box Office for support.