2. €6000 has been allocated to the production and documentary of ‘contact’ by Corcadorca. This is a theatre piece in response to the experience of COVID that is taking place on greens in the centre of residential settings around the city as part of the Midsummer Festival. It aims to bring cultural experience to people that cannot access our creative institutions currently, particularly those more vulnerable to the virus such as older people and those with health conditions. There has been national and local press coverage of this very special production.
3. Proposals by the Culture Team will be presented at the July meeting to aid in the decision to allocate the reimaining €200 0 in funding.
Cruinni ú na n Ó g
Cruinni ú na n Ó g took place on the 13 th June as an online progamme . Cork City’s programme was made available to view on the Cork City Council website as well as the national website. Despite the shorter timeframe and COVID 19 restrictions, the programme was the biggest to date which is a testament to the creative problem -solving capabilities of our cultural producers and the trojan work of our PF C oordinator, Eimear O’Brien. A decrease in in-person activities resulted in a surplus of our Cruinniú na nÓg budget which was channelled into the Lord Mayor’s Creative Call for Children in Cork City. The outcomes of this initiative included:
a) a digital exhibition on www.artsforall.ie,
b) a child-friendly publication for display in Cork City libraries which will include copies for the Local Studies section a
c) an archival collection 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 has coordinated an Arts Supplies Drive to 235 under 18-year olds in Direct Provision Centres to which many Cork City-based cultural institutions have made generous donations. She liaised with The Glucksman who simultaneously, coordinated deliveries of activity packs and resources to their target groups in the city that included City-based Direct Provision Centres. Delivery was coordinated in collaboration with the County Council Library Services on 4 th and 5 th June 2020. Cork Printmakers has recently been awarded the status of ‘Studio of Sanctuary’ on the back of rich engagement with youth and adult asylum seekers and will liaise with the City of Sanctuary in relation to future programming.
Music Generation
The Community Arts Coordinator has undertaken a role in the Music Generation Executive Committee, a subgroup of the larger steering group of Music Education Partnership.
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 in light of COVID include:
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Music Generation
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