ESC 12: Applied Theatre-Making

Name: ESC 12: Applied Theatre-Making
Start: 2025-09-01
End: 2026-08-31
Location: Newbridge, Ireland

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Ireland Culture Education European Voluntary Service Social work Culture Education +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Crooked House is a theatre-making organisation established in 1993 in Newbridge in County Kildare, Ireland. We make theatre with, for and by young people from the ages of 11 to 24. Participation in all our activities is free and open to anyone. Our work is inspired by tolerance, equality, social justice, compassion, and empathy. We aim to create theatre that is ambitious, challenging, aesthetically engaging, and relevant to our audiences. Our activities include weekly drama workshops, rehearsals and performances of plays; devising and making new performances; actor-training; research into theatre and young people; and international youth theatre projects. We run a small space in Newbridge where we work with over 100 young people weekly. We also travel to schools and youth projects in County Kildare every week to run free theatre programmes with young people. We have collaborated with European theatres since 2002 to develop educational and performance projects with groups of multi-cultural young people. We train young drama facilitators and leaders to work with youth groups on themes of social justice, equality, and human rights, wellbeing, and democratic processes. These themes are expressed through theatre workshops, devised performances, and plays. This work aims to promote positive mental health; increase citizenship abilities; promote equality and develop critical thinking.

💼 What the programme involves

This project is for one year. It is based in Newbridge, Ireland for young actors aged between 23 and 30. We accept 10 volunteers each year. We look for 5 EU and 5 non-EU volunteers. They work with our theatre company, providing free drama and film-making workshops to teenagers and groups in our community. They support all areas of the theatre company, from administration to directing plays. In return, the project will train the actors in the process of drama facilitation so that they can enhance their employability by gaining valuable new skills. Volunteers will facilitate theatre workshops with teenagers, refugees, women's groups and people with additional physical and intellectual needs. You MUST be an actor to be considered and you should be aged 23 to 30. ... IMPORTANT: In order to apply you MUST use the Google Drive Form here: https://forms.gle/HBLWVouKiNqA8DVJ6 This is the ONLY application method. For full information visit https://www.crookedhouse.ie/esc-project-12/

🏠 Accommodation on site

We host our volunteers mainly with families that we know. It is usually not possible, financially, to rent houses for volunteers only, as the cost is well beyond the budget that we receive, and we also must rent it for a full year.

🍲 Food

Volunteers receive an allowance monthly for food and expenses.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: You need to be an actor, and to understand acting techniques. You also need to be aged between 23 and 30. We positively encourage young actors who have one or more of the following criteria to apply: - You are LGBT - You are from a migrant background, or your family has migrated - You may be experiencing difficulties in your home society related to your beliefs, cultural identity, gender, religious background (including being atheist), or ethnicity - You should speak English to at least C2 level. - You are free for the whole year to take part.
Deadline: 31/01/2025 23:00

ℹ️ Additional information

Their travel costs to/from Ireland are covered, and if they need a visa we pay for this (travel and visa costs are limited to a budget).

Volunteers are trained in Drama Facilitation; Child Protection; and Devising Drama. Other opportunities for training arise every year, and most of them are free (youth studies, drama practices, acting, project management, directing etc).

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

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📅 Available sessions

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Deadline: 31/01/2025

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Ireland

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Greenwich Mean Time

Local time: 21:01 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Irish