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  • Tina Andreucetti 4:07 pm on July 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Arts, Community Employment Scheme, Health, Peter Sheridan   

    Best Medicine 

    I was involved along time ago with Peter Sheridan who ran a Community Employment Scheme called Best Medicine.

    It brought performing arts, crafts, music, drama to children and their families in hospital.

    This model could be used to

    a. provide a service within schools, early years establishments, community organisation, hospitals etc.
    b. Upskill people in variety of skills.
    c. Unleash latent talents and develop further those that have been brought to surface with no place to go.
    d. Utilised as a tool to deal with variety of issues e.g. HEALTH AND PERSONAL DEV ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL, EMOTIONAL / MENTAL HEALTH.

     

  • Temple Bar Cultural Trust 12:25 pm on June 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Forum on the potential of cultural and creative industries 

    Temple Bar Cultural Trust is organising a public forum on the EU Green Paper “Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries” on 7 July at 10.30am in the Project Arts Centre.

    Click to see invitation

     

  • Temple Bar Cultural Trust 12:24 pm on June 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Get Involved! 

    Temple Bar Cultural Trust is leading a consultation process in Ireland which will take into account the views and opinions of those working in the culture and creative industries sector. An estimated 61,000 people work in the this sector in Ireland, and we aim to gather the responses of as many of these as possible, so that we can send a clear, coherent response back to Brussels about what needs to be done to improve the working environment for all of us.

    HAVE YOUR SAY! – email us your thoughts on this/other themes of the Green Paper to cci@templebar.ie

    Deadline for submissions is Friday 16th July 2010

     

    • Jessica Fuller 8:36 pm on June 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Re. Content is King – PLATFORMIRELAND.ie
      Ireland is at the forefront and leading by example in technology, the arts, innovation and creativity, as the world first investor in a dedicated online channel for the professional Irish arts. platformireland.ie was trialed with funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport in partnership with forty leading Irish arts organisations including Druid, IMMA, Rough Magic, Opera Ireland, ICO, the IMC, Cois Ceim, TBCT, Project Arts Centre, Poetry Ireland, Feenish Productions, Bandit Films and many many more. PLATFORM IRELAND is now moving to the next stage – an 18month development phase to trading (yes enterprise and the arts!) … to include a virtual cultural archive, newsround for the domestic arts sector, and live events including opening nights of theatre, opera and music events….Its about its about lowering the access threshold for audiences, income generation for the professional arts sector, promotion and marketing, documenting our world, live entertainment, a showcase,…intersectoral (arts, technology, legal, audio-visual, new media ) and intrasectoral (cross artform) engagement and job creation – all island….its function is to engage, inform and entertain..platformireland.ie is one working example of innovation, culture and creativity…

    • Hugh McFadden 2:08 pm on July 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      What a ridiculous title, “Cultural & creative industries”. Arts such as literature are not “industries”. The bottom line is that literature doesn’t have a bottom line. The writer and artist is not an industry. Literature, for instance, is created by the writer. Full stop. Other people try to make money out of the work of the artist or writer, publishers, gallery owners, so-called arts managers. The gombeen attitude of money-making tries to impose its will on the artist & writer. Any artist or writer worth his or her salt ignores these philistines. Our gombeen politicians believe that “Ireland is a brand”. These are the same idiots who have wrecked the economy and bankrupted the country. Forget your “industry”. Support the creative writer and artist. The rest is rubbish.

  • Open Dublin 12:23 pm on June 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    More spaces made available to artists 

    We’re a group of young artists petitioning for the vacant properties in Dublin to be opened up to the Arts. We have set up an initiative programme called Open Dublin that proposes to allows artists to turn unoccupied storefronts into temporary galleries, studios, rehearsal spaces, workshops, etc for free. We are asking for the provision of a model where by property owners are informed of the benefits of occupying artists, including the reduction of the rates or the removal of derelict property penalties. Another big issue is insurance and we would like to see an insurance scheme where artists would be covered under a national policy which would cover public and employer liability within these spaces.

    Read more: Open Dublin’s response

     

  • Grainne Millar 3:24 pm on June 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Culture stimulates innovation and creativity 

    Innovation and creativity play a crucial role in our Knowledge economy. Culture and the arts are central when it comes to stimulating innovation and creativity. In Temple Bar Cultural Trust  we believe that the European Commission has previously overlooked the role of culture and the arts and we therefore welcome this Green Paper and the debate it will undoubtedly create. It is essential that Europe now opens its eyes to the potential of the culture and creative industries. These industries must be given a stronger voice on the European scene, possibly through the creation of national Creative Councils. At the same time it is essential that funding opportunities and the regulatory environment is adapted so that it encourages cultural and creative industries to develop and play their crucial role in the European, as well as the Irish, economic recovery. Culture and Creative industries must be encouraged to learn from each other and to fully utilize their potential for innovation and creativity. Having experienced the success of the Temple Bar regeneration project we know what is possible when culture and the arts are placed at the centre of social and economic change.

    Read more: Grainne Millar’s response

     

  • Garrett Stokes 12:37 pm on June 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    We need a collective understanding of CCIs 

    Before the goal can be achieved we must first understand the complexity of what are referred to as cultural and creative industries (CCIs), we must understand how they are separate, and how they are intermeshed – we must understand how to communicate with and inspire those who are working in these areas in order that the quality of their output is heightened, we must understand how the creative mind can be nurtured through education and how the creative and cultural ‘product’ can be created, marketed, distributed and consumed. Once we have a deep, collective understanding of the issues we can develop strategies and solutions that make it possible to ‘Unlock the potential of cultural and creative industries’.

    Read more:  Garrett Stokes’ response

     

  • Stuart McLaughlin 11:34 am on June 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Focus on skills development 

    In order to allow the development of the Culture and Creative Industries, a focus is required on the development of core skills that will ultimately support greater sustainability in the sector. Having recognised the limited opportunity and investment in continuous professional development in the CCI’s, Business to Arts has long provided access to training for cultural organisations.

    In 2009 this training was restructured to formalise the development of skills in a specific area (fundraising) with a blended approach to training developed to include coaching, classroom training, briefing sessions and online training, with the added dimension of facilitating collaboration within the arts sector. This programme is predominantly funded by a private sector foundation.

     In the first six months of this programme 54 cultural organisations engaged with the programme and within 9 months funds generated (and attributed to enhanced skills) exceeded the value of the investment in training by a third. This is, of course, a long-term programme and over time we would expect the funds generated to be many multiples of the cost of delivery.

    Programmes such as this can be simply extended to include a wider portfolio of skills and the blend of delivery methods allows for the effective utilisation of technology while enabling participants to select the most appropriate learning modality.

    In large organisations it is a given that success can only be achieved by ongoing investment in talent, but in the entrepreneurial, smaller-scale and lower-budget CCI’s this area is often neglected. If we are to create an effective, impact-led sector then a focus on skills is essential.

     

  • Michael John Gorman 11:15 am on June 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Experiments in the boundary zone 

    Universities have an ever-increasing need to engage the public with different areas of research, to justify public funding, to extend their relationships with local communities and to attract potential students. Science Gallery, a new initiative of Trinity College Dublin, is an experiment in public engagement with science and technology, bringing science into dialogue with the arts through exhibitions, events, festivals and acting as a sociable environment for face-to-face interactions between the public and scientists. The key challenges include: engaging the research community with the public, creating a two-way conversation, engaging young adults with science and technology, and balancing research priorities with public interest.

    Read more: Michael John Gorman’s response

     

  • Willie White 5:36 pm on June 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    We need to communicate better 

    A seismic shift is needed in the way the European Union communicates with its citizens, in fact it’s long overdue. By not making these fundamental changes the real threat is that ‘untapped potential’ will remain untapped. To address these issues, the EU should revamp its communications strategies, looking at everything from localized information channels to public information campaigns that capture the public imagination. By giving more support to new, flexible networks based on connections and patterns of usage (not geography), individuals and CCIs would have access to new ‘spaces’ in which to create and collaborate before having to create or tackle more formal structures and processes. Culture and creativity also need to be incorporated into the educational system which, as an entity, must acknowledge the creative spirit in everyone to stimulate further creativity and innovation for the future drivers of our economy.

    Read more: Willie White’s response

     

  • Philip Flynn 5:09 pm on June 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Content is king 

    Ireland is ideally poised to capitalize on the opportunities now presented by the universal adoption of the internet and new technologies. Content is king, and the quality of that content, whether cultural or commercial, combined with our effectiveness in engaging with audience or market in this new ‘digital’ world is what will allow us differentiate ourselves from the rest.  The importance of the other ‘Cs’ – Capability, Connectivity, Community – should not be overlooked. Perhaps most important of all – Collaboration – and the flexibility the Irish have shown in this area will allow us to work together on projects of shared interest.

    Read more: Philip Flynn’s response

     

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