Submissions will be a) presented as a digital exhibition online, b) distributed as printed mini-newspaper to all our city libraries which will include copies for the Local Studies section and c) archived for posterity in Cork City and County Archives.
Cork City of Sanctuary As proposed to the Cork City of Sanctuary Working Group and with the support of the Community Response Team, the Community Arts Coordinator is coordinating an Arts Supplies Drive to Under 18 year olds in Direct Provision Centres to which many Cork City-based cultural institutions have made generous donations. Simultaneously, The Glucksman are delivering activity packs and resources to their target groups in the city and donating remaining supplies to county-based centres. Deliveries are expected to be made from next week. General Update Progress reports by award grantees gathered in the last month have provided reassurance that the vast majority of planned projects and activities will go ahead in 2020, albeit adapted around restrictions imposed by COVID 19. A handful will be postponed to 2021, leaving us with an exciting calendar of events for Q3 and Q4 that will reaffirm our social solidarity despite the necessity of physical distancing. Strategic Programmes supported through Revenue Funding that are revising modes of delivery include: Beag; Cork Mid-Summer Festival; Music Generation; Cork Academy of Music; Cork Butter Museum; Ó’Bhéal literary festival (including The Unfinished Book of Poetry) Recovery Planning Liaison with the Economic and Strategic Development Directorate has revealed opportunities for the delivery of creative activities that will support the arts sector, activate the City Centre and build community confidence through engagement. A detailed proposal has been developed.
Our first step is to be the coordination of online discussion fora focused on very specific categories of cultural production namely:
• Venues i.e. theatre, film, music, dance, performance, literature, festivals • Exchange-based i.e. community arts spaces, studios • Cultural Attractions i.e. galleries, museums • Time-based/Seasonal i.e. festivals, tourism especially those reliant on volunteers • Outdoor/Sports Attractions
Wellness Programming Through a series of conversations and meetings with coordinators of community services incorporating wellbeing programmes, many excellent initiatives have been identified that Cork City residents can be signposted to. This includes an online Wellness Hub for adults developed by a network of social prescribing initiatives across the Cork- Kerry Community Health catchment area (two of which are based in Cork City) and online offerings for U18s by Helium Arts Creative Health Programme in partnership with CUH. A number of projects that can address the needs and experience of specific target groups are being explored in consultation with the 16 areas represented by the newly established Community Response Teams. The target groups include cocooning older people, people living with long term health conditions, minority groups and those affected by mental health issues.
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