Welcome

 

Welcome to Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts! Here you will find lots of information about who we are and what we do. If there's something that you can't find, do get in touch - we will be more than happy to help. You can visit us on  www.facebook.com/earlyyearsarts, www.twitter.com/earlyyearsart, email us on info@stickyfingersarts.co.uk, telephone us on +44 (0)28 3025 7885 or just pop into our office in Newry - Granite House, 31-35 Mary Street, Newry, Co. Down, BT34 2AA, Northern Ireland. Thank you!

Best wishes, the Sticky Fingers Team. 

 

March News

The Hill Street Public Art Project: Our City

Our City: Ballyholland PS: Image © Alan Cargo 2012

Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts has commissioned four visual artists to collaborate with primary school children on an integrated public art scheme for Hill Street, Newry. Artists Barry Linnane, Betty Newman Maguire, Alan Cargo, and Maree Hensey and Mark Ryan have just completed a series of collaborative research workshops with hundreds of students across Newry from Ballyholland P.S., Bunscoil an Iuir, St Peter's P.S. (Cloughreagh) and Mullaglass P.S.. Photos and blogs from this process are available on the Sticky Fingers Facebook page here. Work has now begun on the next stage of the project and we hope to see four new sculptures in place on Hill Street over the coming months. To follow the project as it progresses find us on Facebook and Twitter.

Our City is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Fund, The Ireland Funds and Newry and Mourne District Council.

 

2012 St Patrick's Festival, Newry

The Sticky Fingers Dragon, leading the 2012 St Patrick's Festival Parade in Newry

Sticky Fingers artists Hilary Good, Laura Nelson and Craig Starkie worked with the John Bosco Youth Centre, the Magnet Centre and Derrybeg Community Association throughout February, showcasing their carnival spectacles in the St Patrick's Festival parade in Newry on March 17th. A fire breathing dragon (pictured) commissioned by Sticky Fingers also led the parade - Newry's biggest ever - through the city. The dragon is a central character to Sticky Fingers' upcoming theatre production The Magic Woodlands, taking place this summer in Slieve Gullion Forest. Details on this exciting production to be announced over the coming months.
 
Photos from the workshops and Alice in Wonderland-inspired spectacle created by the Magnet Centre and artist Laura Nelson are now available to view on the artist's Flickr slideshow here.

 

Newry Drama Festival: Masks Exhibition

Newry Drama Festival: Works in Progress Image © Individual Artist 2012

Sticky Fingers artist Ciara O'Hara recently worked with over one hundred art students at three Newry secondary schools (The Abbey Grammar, St Mary's High School and Newry High School) to create a series of theatre masks for exhibition as part of this year's Newry Drama Festival.
 
The masks are currently being exhibited in Newry Town Hall and in various shops across the city in celebration of the Drama Festival's 60th year. For photos of the students' work in progress, see the Sticky Fingers Facebook page here.