Brave Maeve Trail up for four awards
FIFTY LOCAL CHILDREN HELPED CREATE THE TRAIL
THE Brave Maeve Children’s Myth and Art Trail in Bray has been shortlisted in several categories for the 2018 Allianz Business to Arts Awards.
The trail was created and developed by Donna Carroll and Chris Judge, with the support of Bray Municipal District, Platform Pizza Bar, Megazyme and Bray Credit Union.
The trail has been nominated in four categories: Best Small Sponsorship (€15,000 or under); Best Use of Creativity in the Community; Jim McNaughton Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice and Allianz Community Art Award.
The project was initiated by freelance curator Donna Carroll and the beautiful murals were handpainted by the Jay Roche from Triskill Design.
The new Bray Mythology was written and illustrated by Chris Judge, who held workshops in Killruddery House and Signal Arts Centre in September 2017 and, with the help of 50 local Wicklow children, devised this exciting story.
The trail has quickly become a popular activity with local children, who can follow the trail along the Bray promenade to the base of Bray Head.
People can travel along the trail using a special map and read the story together with their family or simply use their imaginations and create their own adventure with Maeve and the creatures she meets.
The story is told in a number of brightly coloured murals in various spots along the seafront and follows a young giant adventurer called Maeve as she sets out to find a home for her people and battles many monsters along the way.
The children who devised the story were aged between four and nine years.
The full story of Maeve and her adventures is free to download from www.bray.ie/brave- maevestorytrail.
2018 saw a huge jump in nominations to the Allianz Business to Arts Awards, with a 25 per cent increase on previous record levels. Nominations came from all over the country, from organisations of all sizes, sectors and scopes.
The nominations celebrate outstanding relationships and partnerships right across the artforms, and featured diverse engagement programmes for communities, staff and education.