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Preparations for Cruinniú 2025 are underway
The highly successful National Day of Creativity for Children and Young People, Cruinniú na nÓg takes place this year on Saturday 7 June 2025.
With the help of Donegal Youth Council, we are currently assessing Open Call proposals received and other programming options to deliver an exciting county-wide programme for children and young people aged 0-18 years.
Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth Plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people.
It takes place across 1 Saturday in June leading to hundreds of events nationwide, catering for all children and young people aged 0-18 years.
The inaugural Cruinniú na nÓg took place on 23rd June 2018 and for the past number of years, including under exceptional circumstances in 2020, young people and families have come together to enjoy, a wide range of creative activities including workshops, tutorials and creative packs delivered to homes across the county.
Over the past number of years, Culture Division in Donegal have worked extensively with children and young people by including Donegal Youth Council in the planning meetings and asking young people what they would like to see, do, or try each Cruinniú na nÓg. The result is a programme which includes their suggestions alongside exciting events they may never have imagined.
Take a peek at the national at Cruinniú na nÓg programme
Visit some great workshop recordings from previous years:
In June 2024, as part of this year’s Shared Island Funded Cruinniú na nÓg project, Scoil Colmcille in Letterkenny held a multicultural day, celebrating and engaging with cultural traditions of the many different nationalities of the young people who attend the school, and they had lots of fun doing it!
For Cruinniú na nÓg 2023 Rhyme Island engaged with young people from the IPAS centre in Letterkenny, and their creativity shines through in this short video.
As part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2022 this theatre workshop, led by Eve Li and Leanne McLaughlin, engaged young people living in Direct Provision and young people from the Irish community in collaboration to create these short performances.
These entertaining videos, as Gaeilge, are from the young people, aged 12 to 17, who engaged with the Fís Feasa workshops in Dunfanaghy Workhouse as part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2022, where they were given tips and skills on how to become video creators using their smartphones.