Strategic priority #1 - Art for everyone
Outcome 1.3
Constituent groups in our city are engaged in arts and cultural experiences that are by, of and for them.
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Delivered 2 x iterations of Cruinniú na nÓg Cork City, the national day of children’s creativity in June 2024 and 2025.
For Cruinniú na nÓg 2025 supported Comhairle na nÓg to design an inclusive youth event in collaboration with Scoil Bernadette and Breaking Barriers Theatre Group through a series of engaged workshops. The ‘Fun Inclusive Youth Space’ at the Marina Market was open to all young people on 7th June 2025 In 2025 we funded four projects through a new ‘Artist and the Community Scheme’ where professional artists work with communities of interest. The scheme is a development from the previous Arts in Context award, with increased maximum funding threshold and the inclusion of supplementary funding to support project access costs. Continued to support and steer BEAG Early Years programme, bringing quality early years arts programmes to childcare settings with partners Cork County Arts Office, HSE and delivery partners, Graffiti Theatre. Supported the 2025 iterations of arts in schools programmes: Tools of the Trade (primary schools’ collaborative art project by artists Leah Murphy and Susan Walsh); The Unfinished Book of Poetry (transition year poetry project) Published, launched and disseminated the socialpracticetoolkit.com, a practical resource for socially engaged arts practice, resulting from a long-term collaboration between Cork City Council Arts Office and Leitrim County Council Arts Office.
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Outcome 1.4
The people who make, produce and govern arts and culture in Cork reflect the city demographic
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Artist Tom O’Sullivan was awarded the Cork City Council Visibility Bursary Pilot Award.
Outcome 1.5
A spatial strategy is guiding our focus and investment across Cork City’s urban, suburban and rural neighbourhoods
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Initiated the Creative Communities Roadshow – creative tasters, information sharing and networking for artists, community workers and members of the public. So far over 150 people have attended roadshow events in: Ballincollig, Blarney, Douglas, Mahon, Togher and The Glen.
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