Youth Theatre Ireland Climate Action Training Workshops

These workshops were developed as part of Youth Theatre Ireland’s Climate Action Training Workshops series.

The purpose of these workshops is to support young people develop and strengthen their capacity for creative climate leadership through the practice of imaginative play, collaboration, and mindful ecological awareness.

This was achieved by bringing together some of the leading minds and changemakers working in Irish theatre, youth theatre, film, and youth work, to focus on sustainable practices in youth theatre.

Following on from our Sustainable Practices in Youth Theatre, Youth Theatre Practice Symposium in 2024 we're delighted to invite back Maeve Stone, Sinéad Wallace, Luke Casserly and Alex Konieczka with Barry Morgan.

The Aims of Youth Theatre Ireland's Climate Action Training were:

• To educate young theatre makers in sustainable practices
• To bring young people together to collaborate on Climate Activism in an engaging way, that builds on their own passions, interests and needs
• To share this practice with the wider youth theatre movement through a global platform.

This project supports youth theatre groups, to activate their communities of practices around climate action through community engagement, training, education in non formal settings, and network development.

As young artists, theatre makers and citizens, young people can become aware of the environmental impact of their pastimes, passions and potential future careers. They can become active agents of change in sustainable practices and take further personal responsibility for their decisions and actions.

These workshops and resources will assist young people and the artists, volunteers and community leaders they work with in implementing sustainable practices.

These workshops and resource development was supported by a grant from the Climate Action Works Programme through the Community Foundation Ireland in 2025.