Young people aged 6 to 17 from South inner city Dublin will be given the opportunity to find their voice through creativity.
DEIS schools in area of significant disadvantage will have the opportunity to participate in the Fighting Words schools programme.
Week programmes exploring creativity and building confidence and resilience .
First established in 2009, Fighting Words is a creative writing organisation established by Roddy Doyle and Seán Love in Dublin, with the aim to help students of all ages to develop their writing skills and to explore their own creativity. The programme promotes writing as a fun and powerful means of self-expression. Fighting Words is about something much broader and more inclusive than simply writing, it is about helping young people to be resilient, creative and successful shapers of their own lives. Our focus is on the Word Warriors programme, an after school programme for primary school children.
Fighting Words basis.point Programme
We provide seed funding for the expansion of the programme to the South Inner City, with the aim of offering the programme to 600 young people.
Word Warriors Programme delivered by Fighting Words
Word Warriers promotes writing as a fun and powerful means of self-expression. The programme designed for young people aged 7 - 17 is about helping young people to be resilient, creative and successful shapers of their own lives.
These workshops will be delivered free of charge in after school clubs for primary school children in Dublin 8. Each Wednesday afternoon, for an 8 week period, 20 students will work on writing their own stories exploring their own creativity and building their confidence, resilience and social skills to succeed.
Expanding the reach of Fighting Words
Throughout the summer, two week-long creative summer camps will be run for local young people in the Liberties. The camps will be offered to both primary school children and junior cycle students and will cover age appropriate genres such as story telling, poetry, play writing and graphic fiction.
basis.point Funding Fighting Words
2024 - € 30,000 Inner City Dublin.
8 schools from the Liberties, Dublin 8, North East Inner City will participate with Word Warriers
500 young people will explore their own creativity and grow in confidence and resilience developing life skills necessary for them to thrive.
Funding €30,000
Programme Feedback
While our mentors come from all walks of life, all of them are motivated by a love of working with children and young people in a creative environment and fostering creativity.
What really worked well was the structure of weekly workshops in an informal setting.”
Feedback from a Teacher
"The Fighting Words workshops gave me the confidence to believe in myself and to explore different forms of creative writting.”
Feedback from a Student
