Arts & Events Arts Council
The Arts Office was advised in December of its 2021 Partnership Funding allocation from the Arts Council of €90,000. This includes an allocation for Culture Night in 2021 and represents an uplift from the 2020 allocation of €67,000. Creative Ireland 2020 Projects
All projects have been completed
Positive Ageing and Wellbeing
In response to the prioritisation of health and wellbeing of older people during COVID times, and informed by the success of the 2019 Creative Enquiry with Cork City Arts Office and strategic partners, we applied for and were awarded €15000 through the Creative Ireland Positive Ageing and Wellbeing Fund. The fund is supporting a broad partnership to ‘COVID Proof Cultural Companions’. In December, the first of a number of activities in this programme took place. An outdoor screening event for an indoor audience at St. Luke’s Retirement Home was very positively received by both residents and staff. Jobs Stimulus Package Artist CPD – Social Engaged Practice Workshops: This workshop series is ongoing. Inter - Local Authority Cultural Placemaking Knowledge Exchange: Dates are being confirmed for the proposed knowledge sharing event for staff of Cork City Council and staff of other Local Authorities on street arts and cultural placemaking. Street Arts Workshops Planning for the 2021 Street Arts Learning with expert consultants ISACS (Irish Street, Art, Circus and Spectacle). Re-imagined GLOW/Christmas Event The Ferris wheel opened on December 2 nd , with strict COVID 19 protocols in place including online booking, sanitation, reduced capacity and social distancing. In addition, a series of festive shop window installations also were launched on December 2 nd , opening in ten vacant shop windows throughout the City Centre. A separate classic pantomime story was delivered at each location, running from 12noon to 9pm each day. Public feedback to both was very positive and ongoing health and safety spot checks were put in place to monitor crowd movement and safety. As part of the Re-imagine GLOW programme, Music Generation Cork City who traditionally performed at GLOW reimagined their Christmas offering to produce ‘GLOW on the Go’. Pods of young musicians popped up in their localities, ranging from parks to local care homes, singing Christmas songs. With special guest appearances from some of Cork’s finest musicians, the programme was captured in a short video available online. Separately, Graffiti Theatre Company team up with 10 Cork City schools in response to the Re-imagine GLOW window installations by making and designing their own panto scenes, transforming shoe boxes into mini pantomime theatre sets. A selection of 52 box theatres made during the project was displayed in an exhibition at the Atrium of City Hall - viewable safely through the windows, even when the building is closed. In addition, St Fin Barre’s presented Christmas Carols for Cork City as part of the Reimagine GLOW programme . Recorded at the Cathedral, a traditional Christmas Carols performance was broadcast on a mobile-screen, visiting the city centre, the city’s main hospitals, and also some nursing homes, so Christmas cheer from the Cathedral is shared with front line workers and patients/residents. As Re-Imagine GLOW was planned, the events office liaised extensively with the IS section on bringing the Christmas website in-house, aligning with the events template developed by that section with PTools. This was successfully rolled out as planning, PR and event elements were realised. Christmas programming from cultural venues across the City was also collated, and cross promoted via the new Cork City Council Reimagine GLOW web pages, to provide a comprehensive overview of what was happening in Cork City over Christmas. With the restrictions in place, and with these changing in early December, it was challenging for venues to a) commit to programme elements themselves, and b) relay that information to us in time for cross promoting. Nevertheless, venues such as the Glucksman, the Everyman and Nano Nagle Place provided information for this purpose.
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