Bronwen is a theatremaker, performer, and facilitator. She is a core artist with Freshly Ground and an associate artist with Tallaght Community Arts. Bronwen’s practice is devising-based with an emphasis on community-engaged work. For the past 3 years, she has focused on crafting engaging projects for young audiences.

With Freshly Ground, Bronwen has recently wrapped Sea Legs, a sensory show for early years created in collaboration with the Brookfield Community, fostering connection and creativity through inclusive workshops and co-creation with children and caregivers. Bronwen aims to provide children with unobstructed access to the arts and creatively explore her practice through Gaeilge.

Helga Deasy (Ireland/Germany) is a choreographer, dance artist and dance facilitator. Exploring themes of identity, belonging, migration and care through the immediate expressive potential of the moving body, her practice encompasses performance making, cross-disciplinary collaboration and socially engaged dance. It is grounded in choreological studies and her research into somatic practices and empowerment.

A recipient of multiple awards, Helga has created a body of work for stage and film presented nationally and internationally. She feels passionate about the transformative potential of dance and works in arts and health settings, is a lead-facilitator on the Teacher Artist Partnership Programme and an early-years practitioner with Graffiti Theatre Company.

Órla Kelly is a visual artist, creative educationalist and arts manager with a specific practice that focuses on working with and for early years children, aiming to stimulate and support the naturally creative, poetic, philosophical and curious intelligences of the young child.

Órla is the director of Early Childhood Creativity, an initiative that promotes creative thinking, exploration and activity in early years children and their parents through her own work and the synergy of a variety of arts organisations and amazing independent artists working in theatre, music and across the visual arts.

Órla is currently exhibiting work in the Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire and has just completed work for Luxembourg’s inaugural children’s museum, Kannermusée PLOMM.

Declan King is a theater maker from Dublin. Having originally trained in Musical Theatre performance at the ICMT Belfast Declan has worked with several of Ireland and the UK’s leading theater companies including Bruiser, Improbable Theater, Big Telly, Cahoots, Gúna Nua, High Rock Productions, Tinderbox, and Terra Nova. He has worked in roles such as director, divisor, ASM, actor, and facilitator.

Declan creates his own work which often has elements of improvisation and audience interaction. These include pieces ‘The Plantin’, ‘Rumble in the Ensemble’ and ‘The Rehearsal Room’. Declan is interested in exploring accessible children's theatre.