The festival received extensive coverage with a value of €155,405 for Print, Radio and TV coverage received. Coverage included the RTE Six and Nine O’Clock news and Virgin Media Ireland AM. Print and onli ne coverage included the Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, the Echo, Cork Independent, RTE.ie, Cork Beo.ie and YayCork.ie. Red FM and Cork’s 96FM also featured several interviews.
Creative Ireland Creativity in Older Age
The Culture and Creativity Team made an application to Creative Ireland under the Creativity in Older Age Scheme. €11,810 has been granted for Crafted Conversations - a participatory arts programme for older people led by the Cork Library Service. The programme contains two artist-led project strands, both of which centre on the act of making as a stimulus for conversation, storytelling and reminiscence. In each, the participants can also learn new skills and create tangible artistic works. Project Strand 1, ‘Tinned Stories’ , will involve one-on-one engagement with individual participants working from their own home while Project Strand 2, ‘Stitching the City’ employs a more dispersed, communal approach with groups in residential settings. In total the programme aims to engage 100 participants. Cruinniú na nÓg Planning for Cruinniú na nÓg began on the conclusion of the Cork St Patrick’s Day Festival. This year, a greater emphasis will be placed on youth informed and youth led activities that are interactive and delivered in ‘blended’ or ‘hybrid’ formats. To achieve this aim, free training will be provided both for youth workers to support their contribution/participation and for arts organisations to host engaging events using up to date tools. To facilitate this training and increased participation by young people, an additional €5000 has been committed, subject to availability from the Creative Ireland 2021 Fund to Cork City. Covid-Proofing Cultural Companions Pilot This pilot is ongoing. A new series of workshops hosted by Firkin Crane entitled ‘Tea and Ballet’ was launched early in the month and is proving tremendously popular. The project will be featured in an audio documentary on Lyric FM for which interviews are underway. Outdoor Public Spaces Scheme The Outdoor Public Space Scheme 2021 was recently launched by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media. The scheme is: “a targeted and public realm capital improvement programme to fund local authorities to adapt, equip or otherwise improve outdoor public spaces for arts & culture events and also festivals, taking account of public health guidelines ”. While it is envisioned that the scheme will have multiple benefits, its primary objective is to support the recovery of the creative, cultural, entertainment and events sector. The scheme will pay for 90% of the project costs up to €250,000. Examples of the types of eligible expenditure include (but are not limited to) a stage, a pavilion, permanent weatherproof coverings, paving, permanent seating, and outdoor projector screens. The Arts Office will collaborate with Tourism and the City Centre Coordinator in the development of a proposal under the scheme. In March, 52 arts and events organisations were invited to submit responses to a questionnaire, designed to consult on the practical needs to be considered in any intervention under the scheme.
Street Arts Streets Ahead
Throughout March, the Arts Office continued to collaborate with Irish Street Arts, Circus and Spectacle Network (ISACS) to develop the programme for ‘Streets Ahead’. Streets Ahead is a new street arts professional development programme which aims to connect its participants through the exchange of experiences, exploring of ideas and swapping of knowledge & skills via a series of online workshops with leading practitioners and experts in the art forms, taking place across April, May and June of 2021. Supported by Creative Ireland, this innovative programme has been designed to nurture and
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