LEAP is Baboró International Arts Festival for Children's artist development scheme for creative individuals from underrepresented, ethnically diverse communities and/or migrant backgrounds curious about creating work for young audiences.

LEAP Learnings

For a short executive summary of this report, and our learnings from the pilot LEAP programme, download the document below.

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This report is an account of the development and implementation of Baboró’s LEAP as a pilot programme between December 2020-April 2022. The report examines the context of LEAP’s creation, what worked about this pilot programme, what could be improved for the future, and what learnings LEAP offers that are relevant to wider Irish and international theatre for young audiences’ communities.

This report also situates Baboró’s LEAP within post-2000s Irish arts policy focused on interculturalism and/or diversity and the wider international landscape of politics, policy and social change in the theatre for young audiences sector and beyond that immediately influenced the creation and implementation of this programme.

Download the complete LEAP Report here

Lead researcher: Dr. Charlotte McIvor, University of Galway

Research team: Jillian Kenny, Maia Purdue, Mikail Nimitz and Heidi Schoenenberger