Dancing Polar Bears return to Red Earth – in aid of Helium Arts

Red Earth welcomes back the Dancing Polar Bears in aid of Helium Arts.

They have made the long journey from the North Pole to sing, play music and dance for all the boys and girls in Mullingar! 

Red Earth welcomes everyone to follow the polar bears footprints and cheer on the polar bears musical performance in store. 

Did you know?

Did you know that 16% of children in Ireland have been diagnosed with a life-long illness? Many experience loneliness and sadness when faced with living a life with illness.

Helium Arts’ creative projects creates space for these young people to make friends and have fun while developing personal and creative skills to last a lifetime.

Our artists ignite their creative passions, fire hidden talents, and provide a springboard for ill children to imagine a new positive sense of self without limitations. 

“I’ve kind of learnt you don’t have to be just one person. You could be anything.” – Teenager participating in Helium Arts’ programme./

At Helium Arts, we believe creativity changes lives in hugely positive ways and plays an important role in health and wellbeing.

Help Change Lives

Helium Arts, the national children’s arts and health charity based in Mullingar, is developing a midlands regional film project for teenagers with diabetes in partnership with national and local health organisations. 

Helium Arts is working to raise the funds to run film-making workshops in 2018, with a view to producing a national film camp in 2019 in Westmeath.

This creative project will provide a much-needed place for teens living with illness to support their well-being, creating positive experiences and long-lasting memories.

With your contribution, more young people will have fun with new friends and achieve huge satisfaction of seeing their ideas generated onto ‘the big screen’. On top of this they will be learning all-important creative and life skills. 

How to give

Come visit Red Earth’s dancing bears and make a donation in store. 

Your gift will help connect sick kids with artists to inspire them for life.

One kid who lives with Epilepsy said recently that he learned “how to make films and how to make friends” at Helium Arts’ latest film camp.

Helium Arts artistic director and CEO Helene Hugel says: “We are working with more teenagers than ever this year and we need to give them more access to creative mentors and equipment. 

“Many of these teens struggle with loneliness because they miss out on normal time to make friends. They also feel so different and are scared to get close to peers for fear of bullying. That’s why Helium Arts is here! 

“We are their ‘tribe’ as another teen on the programme called us.”

Lisa Collins at Red Earth is delighted to have linked up with this year’s chosen charity Helium Arts, supporting sick children through a focus on creativity and the arts. 

Lisa says: “It opens up a world of self-expression so they can live life to the full.”

Your donation will contribute to these young people’s development of personal skills, creating positive experiences and happy memories which will last a lifetime.