Arts & Health

The StoryDress 

In 2012, Storytellers Eleonore Nicolas and Fiona Dowling embarked in a design, technology and storytelling project to bring magic into the hospital ward. They developed a musical costume for their storytelling with lights embedded, as well as a prop nicknamed ' StoryWheel' to encourage the children to come up with their own stories, or co-create some with the staff or their parents, siblings and friends.

To find out more, visit the project's blog: 
http://storytellersnewgambit.wordpress.com/

Storytelling and Drawing in Children's Hospitals

Every second month, Fiona spends a morning in the Children's Hospital, going from ward to ward and bed to bed and offering stories or portraits to hospitalized youngsters from 18 month to 18-year-olds.


To find out more, read her interview with Niamh Lawlor:  http://www.practice.ie/interviewarticlepage/50

Scales and Tales

In 2011, storyteller Fiona Dowling and community musician Caoimhe Conlon undertook a 6 month residency in the Pediatrics Ward of Cork University Hospital sharing stories and songs with the young patients.


Tales and Scales http://helium.ie/wordpress/index.php/scales-tales/












All the above projects were done on behalf of Helium Children's Arts and Health http://www.helium.ie/