Project Highlights:2025
That's Life Highlights:2024
Bedtime Adventures
Led by artist Director Joanna Williams, this ambitious inter-generational project focuses on play, engagement, and connection. It aims to create a magical world providing an immersive experience that sparks creativity and exploration. What sets this project apart is the active participation of adults with intellectual disabilities from That’s Life’s creative writing, visual arts, and music programs, enriching the installation with their artistic contributions.
Announcing the dates and locations of ‘Bedtime Adventures’, founder and artistic director of Helium Arts, Helene Hugel said: “It’s wonderful for two arts organisations to be encouraged to collaborate. By sharing our creative skills and complementary knowledge, we are able to create an ambitious visual and sensory experience that we hope will create a place for playful social connection for very young children and their families in Co. Galway and the surrounding region. Through the adults’ artistic contribution, the aim is to inspire families engaging in this event, and present an artistic creative future into adulthood.”
Andrew Madec, programme coordinator at That’s Life, Brothers of Charity Services, Galway, emphasized the inclusive nature of the installation, saying, “We’ve tried to create scenarios that encourage and promote engagement in a variety of ways and we hope to capture our audience’s imagination and interest through offering a rich selection of sensory experiences and an invitation to play! It has been beautiful to see how the project has been shaped and informed by the work of our creative writers and art makers with intellectual disabilities, and to see that all coming to fruition.”
Helium Arts is an award-winning children’s arts and health charity that aims to improve the personal, health and social outcomes of children and young people with lifelong physical health conditions by providing opportunities for creativity that they may not otherwise have access to. Through a series of arts-based workshops, they create safe and inclusive spaces that inspire creativity, spark friendships, and improve mental health and well-being.
'Bedtime Adventures’ transforms Studio@5 venue in Claregalway from March 8th to March 13th 2024. The installation will also visit Mayfield Arts Centre in Cork for one day on 22nd March.
'Bedtime Adventures' has been commissioned as part of ART:2023, a Decade of Centenaries collaboration from the Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
The That's Life team with our creative counterparts from Helium Arts
from L to R: Imelda Reynolds, Orla Kelly, Andrew Madec, Joanne William, and Peter Casby
Bedtime Adventures
Led by artist Director Joanna Williams, this ambitious inter-generational project focuses on play, engagement, and connection. It aims to create a magical world providing an immersive experience that sparks creativity and exploration. What sets this project apart is the active participation of adults with intellectual disabilities from That’s Life’s creative writing, visual arts, and music programs, enriching the installation with their artistic contributions.
Announcing the dates and locations of ‘Bedtime Adventures’, founder and artistic director of Helium Arts, Helene Hugel said: “It’s wonderful for two arts organisations to be encouraged to collaborate. By sharing our creative skills and complementary knowledge, we are able to create an ambitious visual and sensory experience that we hope will create a place for playful social connection for very young children and their families in Co. Galway and the surrounding region. Through the adults’ artistic contribution, the aim is to inspire families engaging in this event, and present an artistic creative future into adulthood.”
Andrew Madec, programme coordinator at That’s Life, Brothers of Charity Services, Galway, emphasized the inclusive nature of the installation, saying, “We’ve tried to create scenarios that encourage and promote engagement in a variety of ways and we hope to capture our audience’s imagination and interest through offering a rich selection of sensory experiences and an invitation to play! It has been beautiful to see how the project has been shaped and informed by the work of our creative writers and art makers with intellectual disabilities, and to see that all coming to fruition.”
Helium Arts is an award-winning children’s arts and health charity that aims to improve the personal, health and social outcomes of children and young people with lifelong physical health conditions by providing opportunities for creativity that they may not otherwise have access to. Through a series of arts-based workshops, they create safe and inclusive spaces that inspire creativity, spark friendships, and improve mental health and well-being.
'Bedtime Adventures’ transforms Studio@5 venue in Claregalway from March 8th to March 13th 2024. The installation will also visit Mayfield Arts Centre in Cork for one day on 22nd March.
'Bedtime Adventures' has been commissioned as part of ART:2023, a Decade of Centenaries collaboration from the Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
The That's Life team with our creative counterparts from Helium Arts
from L to R: Imelda Reynolds, Orla Kelly, Andrew Madec, Joanne William, and Peter Casby
Bedtime Adventures
Led by artist Director Joanna Williams, this ambitious inter-generational project focuses on play, engagement, and connection. It aims to create a magical world providing an immersive experience that sparks creativity and exploration. What sets this project apart is the active participation of adults with intellectual disabilities from That’s Life’s creative writing, visual arts, and music programs, enriching the installation with their artistic contributions.
Announcing the dates and locations of ‘Bedtime Adventures’, founder and artistic director of Helium Arts, Helene Hugel said: “It’s wonderful for two arts organisations to be encouraged to collaborate. By sharing our creative skills and complementary knowledge, we are able to create an ambitious visual and sensory experience that we hope will create a place for playful social connection for very young children and their families in Co. Galway and the surrounding region. Through the adults’ artistic contribution, the aim is to inspire families engaging in this event, and present an artistic creative future into adulthood.”
Andrew Madec, programme coordinator at That’s Life, Brothers of Charity Services, Galway, emphasized the inclusive nature of the installation, saying, “We’ve tried to create scenarios that encourage and promote engagement in a variety of ways and we hope to capture our audience’s imagination and interest through offering a rich selection of sensory experiences and an invitation to play! It has been beautiful to see how the project has been shaped and informed by the work of our creative writers and art makers with intellectual disabilities, and to see that all coming to fruition.”
Helium Arts is an award-winning children’s arts and health charity that aims to improve the personal, health and social outcomes of children and young people with lifelong physical health conditions by providing opportunities for creativity that they may not otherwise have access to. Through a series of arts-based workshops, they create safe and inclusive spaces that inspire creativity, spark friendships, and improve mental health and well-being.
'Bedtime Adventures’ transforms Studio@5 venue in Claregalway from March 8th to March 13th 2024. The installation will also visit Mayfield Arts Centre in Cork for one day on 22nd March.
'Bedtime Adventures' has been commissioned as part of ART:2023, a Decade of Centenaries collaboration from the Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
The That's Life team with our creative counterparts from Helium Arts
from L to R: Imelda Reynolds, Orla Kelly, Andrew Madec, Joanne William, and Peter Casby
Project Highlights:2023
​Project Highlights 2023: In Collaboration with Galway and Roscommon Education Training Board,
courtesy of our in-house videographer AMW Visual.
We are eternally grateful for the continuing support of Galway and Roscommon Educational Training Board, and the artistic facilitators funded through the organisation.
Featuring:
Award-warding visual artist, Taim Haimet - 'In Your Hands'.
Vituoso musician, Alain Halimi - 'Foley and Music Scoring'.
Actor, musician and dramatist, Miquel Barceló - 'Mask Performance Project'.
And the wonderfully talented Art Facilitator, Áine Lawless - 'Diorama Project'.
On behalf of our ever dynamic creative team: Andrew, Imelda, and Peter, a heartfelt thanks for all your hard work. We look forward to collaborating again in the future.