BEAG Early Years Programme The BEAG Early Years Programme recruitment process got underway. New artists will be invited to join with 3 already on the BEAG panel. The current focus is to develop blended modes of delivery for childcare settings in Cork City and County. Placemaking Cork City Arts Office are contributing to the activities of a Place-making Working Group. One of the aims of this group is to support community-led placemaking projects through the development of a toolkit. The Community Arts Coordinator has created a Street Art Guide incorporating recent leaning from the partnership with Ardú. Social Practice Programme This collaboration with Leitrim Arts Office is ongoing with zero drop out of participants.
Sport & Sustainability Sports Development Officer Soccer on the Screen
While our Sports on the Green series had to be put on hold due to Level 5 Restrictions, we came up with a creative way to adapt the programme and continue to engage young people. Soccer on the Screen is an online session where young people learn about resilience, how to cope with change and maintain positive mental health from a professional soccer player. The first session featured Cork City Captain Gearóid Morrissey. There was a Q & A session at the end where young people could ask questions about what its like to be a professional athlete and learn some tips and tricks about how to train at home. Feedback from the session was excellent and it is something we intend to run with other sports.
Feedback from the youth worker involved with the first session of Soccer on the Screen- ‘It was a really enjoyable session for me to be part of. More importantly, the young people I invited on the call were absolutely thrilled with it. Josh in particular was delighted to have a chance to ask Gearoid 3/4 questions. We attend all city games together as a group from the youth club, so it was so nice of them to have that chat with Gearoid yesterday.I was on the phone to young people afterwards who got such a lift from the call and it was so welcomed during these diff icult times.’
Online Classes Online classes were offered out to youth groups across the city in early January. Initially there was very poor uptake- largely due to the fact that young people were online for most of the day already doing remote learning. However, since the announcement that restrictions would be extended some groups reached out to see if it was possible to try the online sessions. These groups are now registered to take part in weekly sessions which have started this week. The groups involved are JIGSAW, YMCA and Cork City Partnership. Foróige are waiting for the instructor to be Garda Vetted through them but are due to start classes once this comes back. The instructor is already vetted directly through Cork City Council. There is also a school booked into do a live session this Friday where all staff, students, parents and siblings are invited to take a break from remote learning and Move!
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