Cork City Council welcomes the extension of the Creative Ireland Programme for a further five years to 2027. Since the inception of the programme in 2017, Cork City Council has embraced the spirit and inherent opportunity of the local authority focused Creative Communities pillar. We look forward to building on this legacy as we continue to put culture and creativity at the heart of local policy.
Creativity has long been core to Cork City’s identity. Through the centuries the city has embraced thinkers, artists, scientists and innovators of every kind. Cork is a designated UNESCO Learning City, a city of rich heritage and proud history. As a maritime city we look outward and welcome inward, enriched by the diversity of our growing population. The Creative Ireland programme provides the opportunity to harness this creativity across Cork City Council’s service areas, enhancing the quality of our engagement with the wider community on priorities such as social inclusion, health and wellbeing, climate action, placemaking and local economic development. In doing so we rely on the creative expertise of Cork city artists and creatives of all disciplines and their ability to apply their skills and talents in new and innovative ways in the service of the wider society.
Working together in partnership is the best way to ensure that these creative practices can reach into all of our communities. The breadth of disciplines represented by the staff in the Cork City Culture and Creativity team, spanning service areas from Enterprise to Libraries, demonstrates the embedded nature of culture and creativity in the outlook of Cork City Council. This Culture and Creativity Strategy responds to goals in the City Development Plan and a wide range of complementary strategies of Cork City Council in areas such as arts, heritage, libraries, enterprise and community development. It will enhance the realisation of those plans through the delivery of new creative engagement initiatives over the next five years.
Ardú Street Art Initiative; Criunniú na nÓg; Cork Words; KinShip Creative Climate Action; Rebel Streets; Urban Orienteering; Creative Parks, are just some of the impactful creative projects that have happened as a result of Creative Ireland Cork City to date. The next phase of the programme will continue to harness the creative capacity of the city, it’s people and communities to make meaning, achieve wellbeing, spark joy and excitement and enhance the attractiveness of Cork City as a place to live, work and visit.
Cork City Council welcomes the extension of the Creative Ireland Programme for a further five years to 2027. Since the inception of the programme in 2017, Cork City Council has embraced the spirit and inherent opportunity of the local authority focused Creative Communities pillar. We look forward to building on this legacy as we continue to put culture and creativity at the heart of local policy.
Creativity has long been core to Cork City’s identity. Through the centuries the city has embraced thinkers, artists, scientists and innovators of every kind. Cork is a designated UNESCO Learning City, a city of rich heritage and proud history. As a maritime city we look outward and welcome inward, enriched by the diversity of our growing population. The Creative Ireland programme provides the opportunity to harness this creativity across Cork City Council’s service areas, enhancing the quality of our engagement with the wider community on priorities such as social inclusion, health and wellbeing, climate action, placemaking and local economic development. In doing so we rely on the creative expertise of Cork city artists and creatives of all disciplines and their ability to apply their skills and talents in new and innovative ways in the service of the wider society.
Working together in partnership is the best way to ensure that these creative practices can reach into all of our communities. The breadth of disciplines represented by the staff in the Cork City Culture and Creativity team, spanning service areas from Enterprise to Libraries, demonstrates the embedded nature of culture and creativity in the outlook of Cork City Council. This Culture and Creativity Strategy responds to goals in the City Development Plan and a wide range of complementary strategies of Cork City Council in areas such as arts, heritage, libraries, enterprise and community development. It will enhance the realisation of those plans through the delivery of new creative engagement initiatives over the next five years.
Ardú Street Art Initiative; Criunniú na nÓg; Cork Words; KinShip Creative Climate Action; Rebel Streets; Urban Orienteering; Creative Parks, are just some of the impactful creative projects that have happened as a result of Creative Ireland Cork City to date. The next phase of the programme will continue to harness the creative capacity of the city, it’s people and communities to make meaning, achieve wellbeing, spark joy and excitement and enhance the attractiveness of Cork City as a place to live, work and visit.
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