The Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools initiative aims to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children and young people’s lives.

Creative Associates are artists, creative practitioners and educators with an understanding of the arts and creativity and its potential to transform the lives of children and young people.

CSTV is a new initiative to bring the work of our Creative Associates right into your home while attendance at our schools is limited by the ongoing COVID-19 situation.

Each week a different Creative Associate will introduce a new lesson on YouTube. Each lesson will explore a new area of creativity, from photography, to dance, to drama, to music – depending on the speciality of the Creative Associate.

And we want you to share your creativity with us and show us what you've learned from each lesson.

You can send your work to the Creative Schools team using here: CSTV Submission Form.

Each week we'll show off all the creativity inspired by last week's lesson!

You can view all the episodes of CSTV on the Arts Council's YouTube channel.