RTÉ Young Peoples' Programmes wants your help for an exciting new animation project celebrating great Irish women.

Herstory is delighted to partner with RTÉ, the BAI and EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum to bring you the Herstory 20/20 Project, now live on RTÉ Culture, featuring the Who’s your Heroine? Animation Project, and the Treasure Hunt workshops for primary and secondary schools.

RTÉjr has announced today that it will commission 6 brand-new Irish animations about 6 more great Irish women.

In a new initiative, Who’s Your Heroine?, RTÉjr now invites children and young people from ages 7 – 17 to nominate the women who inspire them and whom they think should be the subjects of these 6 RTÉ animations.

There is no limit to the women who can be nominated: it can be a pioneering woman from history; a mythological legend, or a woman at the heart of your family or local community who has an awe-inspiring story.  To nominate a heroine, just go to the Herstory section on RTÉ Culture – www.rte.ie/culture - and fill out the nomination form. The closing date for nominations is Friday 27th September 2019. 

To inspire students’ search, every week between now and February 2020, RTÉ will upload new stories and podcasts about remarkable Irish women on the Herstory section of RTÉ Culture: www.rte.ie/culture. 

Also available for teachers, there are lesson plans for primary and secondary school students on rte.ie/culture. These take the form of a Herstory Treasure Hunt, with workshop exercises that help children and young people to uncover lost heroines in their families and local communities; and awaken their own inner heroines or heroes. Plus, there’s a special exercise about the heroines of the Northern Irish Peace Process who will be honoured at the forthcoming 2020 Herstory Light Festival. Teachers can log on to rte.ie/culture to download the lesson plans.