Arts Funding The Arts Committee met to assess Arts Grants applications on 15 th December. Their recommendations will go to Council on 11 th January. Panels to assess all other arts funding strands will take place across January 2021. Helium Arts Creative Health Hub Cork City Arts Office supported interviews for the engagement of a Lead Artist for the Creative Health Hub – Cork. The successful candidate will be appointed and inducted in 2021. Evening Echo This annual public art event in Shalom Park took place with reduced numbers to preserve COVID compliance. Helium Arts Creative Health Hub Cork City Arts Office supported interviews for the engagement of a Lead Artist for the Creative Health Hub – Cork. The successful candidate will be appointed and inducted in 2021. BEAG Early Years Programme Cork City Arts Office are supporting the recruitment of an artist to the BEAG panel to coordinate deliver quality early years arts experiences in Childcare settings in Cork City and County. The recruitment process is being overseen by the members of the BEAG Early Years Steering Group. Appointments are expected by beginning of March 2021. MA in Arts and Engagement, Crawford College of Art and Design Cork City Arts Office Community Arts Coordinator is providing support towards the development of this course by contributing to the module design evaluation process. It is hoped that the course will be launch in September 2021 and promises to provide an exciting resource for aspiring Social Practice Practitioners in Ireland, particularly with an interest in change-making and health. Music Generation Music Generation contributed to the GLOW Trails 2020 programme with ‘Glow on the Go’: a one day collection o f pop up performance events around Cork City. There’s a roundup of the event and a gallery of the best images on The Music Generation website . PR highlights include spots on the Neil Prenderville show live on Friday Dec 11 th and a 5 minute feature broadcast on Monday 14 th on the same show with highlights. Glow on the Go also made the Irish Times Images of the Day on Sat 12 th (Clare Keogh) and there was a good Echo feature too (images by Clare Keogh). Music Generation put the final video edit by JJ Riordan up on the To Be Irish site too (using footage from the Kabin gathered by Shane Lyne), where it’s still accessible: https://tobeirish.ie/events/location/ireland/glow-on-the-go/ It was wonderful to see some of the school kids, young people and musician educators had not been in a position to perform live until that point, and to do so in a safe and very controlled way. It meant an awful lot to everyone involved and even more so given the new restrictions. Ma rgaret O’Sullivan is returning to the role of Music Generation Coordinator next Wednesday 13 th January. Claire Layton- O’Brien will be sharing the role until July 2021.
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