GroundFloor Productions

Can't wait for our Summer Showcase on Saturday 27th July 2-6pm 🥳🥳🥳

Prepare to be treated to beautiful Art, Music and Spoken Word, all created by young people and of course free food and lots of fun and chats!!

Young people 15-25 are welcome to join us for this free event 🤩🤩

Saturdays Sound Out 2-6pm 🥁 🪘 🎸 🎤 🎙

Join us for Music Making 🎶 and get the chance to perform at our Summer Showcase on Saturday 27th July 🥳🥳

Drop In or DM us for more information!

Our Paradise Picnic crew hard at work 🌼 🌸 🌻 🍃

Check out these before and after pictures!

Our yard has been transformated into a little sensory garden 👏 😍 🍃

Huge thanks to Karolina, Zen and our wonderful GroundFloor participants and leaders for making it all happen ❤️ 💜 ♥️

Join us on Fridays in GF at 2pm for some nature connection, guerilla gardening and paradise picnics ✨️ 🌟

📢 📢 GroundFloor Summer Programmes starting from Friday 14th June - Sunday 4th August 🤩☀ 🎸 🎤 💃 🍲 🎭

Something for everyone; Music, Drama, Art, Dance, Creative Writing, Outdoor Activities, Nature Connection, Dungeons and Dragons, trips, celebrations, parades, shows and showcases 🥰

Join us to:
Make Friends
Make and Create
Make Progress
Make a Difference

DM us for more info or sign up for our day trips and workshops through the link in our bio ❤❤❤

Come sign up for this FREE dance workshop for young people aged 15-24 (said with pizazz)! Join us in the Firkin Crane from 2-5pm on Saturday the 15th of June to partake in some hip and some hop 🕺

Sign up by going to our insta bio and filling out the form! There is a capacity, so sign up as quick as you can! There will be games, a warm up and a choreographed dance to learn with Luke (our great and fabulous youth worker) and Shona (their great and fabulous dancing sister)!

Dont miss out guys it’s a ONCE OFF opportunity!! 🕺💃🏻🕺💃🏻

You're Invited to Y-Connect 2024!

YMCA Cork are celebrating YMCA's 180th Birthday with a look at the Turning Points that have happened for so many in our community. Featuring all of YMCA's programmes: Family Support, Youth Vocation, Youth Health, Youth Spaces and Youth Advocacy. There will be food, music, fun and laughter.

Excited for our LIT and ALIT groups who will be presented with their Certificates on the night 🤩🤩

When: Friday June 7th 5.30pm
Where: YMCA Cork, 11 Marlboro St.

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Just some of our fantastic GroundFloor community performing at and enjoying Seó Youth Festival on Saturday 25th May.

Thanks to all those involved in organising the festival and the biggest shout out to all the young people who took part 🔥🔥🔥

We were delighted to be part of the Youth Led Anti-Racist Summit in Cork City Hall on May 17th.

The GroundFloor group performed their poem 'My Hope' which was created through a series of workshops facilitated by the fantastic Deborah Oniah and Zen Tshabangu.

Big thanks to the organisers of the event!

Interested in slaying dragons?.. good! How about being the dragon? How about being the narrator of a fantastical story filled with other worldly creatures and fun characters?

If any of this sounds interesting to you then you're a born Dungeon Master!

The YMCA hosts the Dungeons & Wyrmlings D&D club for young people and we want YOU to volunteer

This extremely popular group has a long waiting list that requires new DM's who have experience running D&D and who are passionate about the game and supporting young people.

Sessions run on Saturdays in the YMCA from 2 to 5 pm.

If you're interested and can commit to the sessions please shoot us a DM and we can get the dice rolling on your newest adventure 🎲🎲

Huge Congrats to our fantastic Leaders in Training group 2024 🤩 🤩

They hosted a beautiful Community Night in YMCA on Wednesday 3rd April as a response to the findings of their youth needs assessment.

The biggest need they found was for young people to have access to a warm, welcoming and inclusive community.

Over 100 young people, many of whom were new to GroundFloor and the YMCA came for a night of food, chats, music, creativity and fun 🥰

This group are living YMCA Ireland's mission that every YMCA is a place of welcome, opportunity, wellbeing, peace and justice.

Thanks also to the inspiring guest speakers who worked with this Leaders in Training group including the YMCA Youth Advocacy team blankson, Rachel Coffey, NYCI Equality and Intercultural Programme Officer and .

Watch this space to see what these Groundfloor Leaders get up to next 🥰

TMACC Spring 2024 Performance 🎭🎭
The YMCA in Cork had a fantastic time with TMACC Spring 2024 culminating in a beautiful performance of the play “Don’t Smile ‘Til Christmas” on The Everyman stage.
Thanks to the TMACC young people and The Everyman for presenting the programme, working with the YMCA.
Credit to Marcin Lewandoski photography for the stunning photographs!
Theatre Making and Citizenship Cork Spring 2024 is a free, fun and inclusive programme, introducing young people aged 16–19 to theatre through conversation and creation. We can’t wait for the TMACC Summer programme in July!

Join our fantastic Leaders in Training group on Wednesday 3rd April in Cork YMCA 4-7pm for FUN times 🤩🤩

They completed a needs assessment of Cork young people and identified the need for Community as the biggest issue facing young people.

We are inviting all young people 15-25 years old to come and experience the welcoming, inclusive GroundFloor Community next Wednesday 🥳🥳

📢 Are you between 15-19?
Would you like to develop, measure and communicate your skills and boost your confidence?
And get support to craft a powerful CV and ace job interviews 🤩

💡Then Skills Summary is for YOU!

Running on Thursdays 4-5pm as part of the GroundFloor Homework Club

Register your interest through the GF Homework Club link in our bio. DM us or pop into YMCA on Thursdays at 4pm to find out more 🥰

Our fantastic Leaders in Training group need YOUR help

If you are 15-25 and want to have your say on what young people in Cork need then fill in our survey ❤

Link in the bio 🤩

On Monday 12 February, YMCA Cork hosted a launch event for Joy’s Room, our new sensory space designated for young people to use if they become overwhelmed by the environment or by stress or anxiety. The room is named in memory of our dear friend and colleague Joy Cantwell-Moore, who passed away in August 2023.

Dozens of friends, family and colleagues were all on hand to celebrate Joy’s life, her care for the young people, children and families she worked with and the lasting impact she has made on our organisation, movement and community. We shared music, prayers, food, stories, tears and laughter as we gathered together for this special evening.

Our hope is that Joy’s Room will be a retreat for young people to help them to feel more comfortable and manage sensory overload so that they are better supported to engage in our programmes. A place where they can experience peace and Joy!

Special thanks to the staff, volunteers and young people of YMCA Cork who worked so hard to bring this project to fulfilment, and to Aviva Insurance and Cork ETB for their generous financial support.

Hope you guys have a great Christmas ❤️ we reopen again as normal from the 17th of January! See you all in the New Year 💫

Can't wait to see the Theatre Making and Citizenship Autumn 2023 crew perform on Wednesday in The Everyman 🎭🎭

Break a leg guys.....you got this ♥️

Join us for our Mid Term Nature Connection 🌿🍁🍂🌳

Help us to design and create our outdoor sensory space

Eco Art

Nature Connection with

Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd Nov
11am - 4pm
Lunch included 🥪🍕

Sign up through the link in our bio 🤩

Sorry guyytsss closed today from 2:15! Back again from 2pm on Wednesday 18th October!

Leaders in Training 🤩

Want to join our fantastic GroundFloor team of young leaders?

Aspire to inspire other young people and co-create and grow GroundFloor with us 🔥🔥

Develop skills in communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, assessing needs and event planning.

Starts 25th Oct - 13th Dec. Wednesdays 4.30 -7pm

Sign up through the link in our bio 🤩

Join us for World Stage 🌍 Poetry 🎤 and Dance 🎊

Spoken Word/Poetry Workshop Friday 13th 5-7pm in YMCA🍕🍕

Dance Workshop Saturday 14th Oct 2.30- 4pm in Cork School of Music followed by a performance of Spoken Word/Poetry and Dance 4-5.30pm 🔥🔥

Sign up through the link in our Bio 🥰

GROUNDFLOOR AUTUMN 🍂🍁🫖🎨🎭🥘🎥🎬🎤🎧🎹🎸

Our Autumn projects are in full swing 🤩

All young people 15-25 are welcome ❤

Drop In on Wednesdays 2-7pm to find out more 🥰

We can't wait for Culture Night on Friday 🥳🥳🥳

6-7PM Join us for an interactive Rhythm with Signs workshop with and GroundFloor's Jammie Dodgers music group in Nino's (First Floor)

7-9PM Open Mic with music, poetry/spoken word and all things creative in Nino's (First Floor)

6-9PM Feature in our podcast GroundFloor Chats with Cara and try out our GroundFloor recording studio.

Art exhibition featuring beautiful work by

ALL WELCOME 🎹🎸🎤🎧🎼🎬

What a fantastic series of summer programmes we had 🥰

We did all that we promised music, art, creative writing, drama, rowing and outdoor activities with launches, shows, parades and celebrations 🥳🥳❤❤

Made Friends, Made and Created together, Made Progress and Made a Difference

So, now it's time for some rest and looking forward to seeing you all in Sept!!

Do you want to slay the day away with YMCA? 🏳️‍🌈

Come join us in YMCA for Pride where we will be marching in the PRIDE PARADE in Cork City! After the Parade, there will be an After-Party in Groundfloor where there will be performances from the Jammy Dodgers, supported by Sean who has worked with our young people facilitating music jamming sessions (Jamming with signs). There will also be food! 🍕 Hope you can make it ❤️

If you wish to come, please fill out the consent form below if you are under 18 🥰

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11qy4IDNQ7vKOq3WrF4EQXsDKh_hz52vn6lLmy_Axetk/edit

Join us on Friday at 3pm to launch our Racial Justice Street Art Project 🤩😍

GroundFloor is on tour this week! We are using our heads, hands and hearts to make a beautiful mark in Cork city with MTU Creativity and Change ❤

YMCA Ireland's mission is to create inclusive communities where everyone feels welcome, accepted and inspired by social justice and peace for all and to provide life enriching opportunities for young people their families and communities.


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Where I Live by The Poetic Power Rangers

We were delighted to launch this beautiful comic made by the young people in GroundFloor's Poetic Power Rangers 🤩🤩
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The Poetic Power Rangers meet every Thursday 6-8pm for creative writing, poetry workshops, readings and slams 💫💫💫

Summer programmes in GroundFloor are in full swing!!! 🤩

Something for everyone; music, drama, art, creative writing, rowing and outdoor activities, celebrations, shows, launches and parades 🥰

Join us to;
Make Friends
Make and Create
Make Progress
Make A Difference

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We are really excited about starting Make A Mark Street Art Project next week in collaboration with MTU Creativity and Change🌎 🎨 ❤

Places are filling up fast soooooo if you like making new friends, learning more about social justice issues, expressing yourself and being creative sign up through the QR code or the link in our bio.

For more info on all of our GroundFloor summer plans then drop in to see us this week 🥰

We were delighted to present our Leaders in Training group with their certificates last night.

Really looking forward to working together with our young leaders to continue to develop and grow 💫❤