Weekend 1: Friday 25th & Saturday 26th January 2019
Weekend 2: Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd March 2019
The central focus of the Creative Ireland programme in Leitrim is a countywide open call to community groups, venues, artists and everyone involved in the culture and creative sectors to develop high quality projects and programmes that enable groups and individuals to realise their creative potential and develop and encourage greater access, knowledge and appreciation of the arts, culture and creativity.
Groups with little or no previous involvement in creative projects are particularly encouraged to take part and to this end we work closely with the Leitrim Public Participation Network to involve groups that heretofore would have had little experience in creative activities. While this has given rise to a great many groups engaging in creative projects for the first time, it has also given rise to a significant increase in opportunities for artists and others in the culture and creativity sector to facilitate such projects.
However, while there are many professionals in the region with extensive expertise in different creative practices – there are many that haven't had the opportunity to develop an expertise in working collaboratively with groups, successfully developing and managing creative projects with them. With these practitioners in mind, we have also developed a programme over two weekends with some of the most experienced practitioners in this field.
Each weekend consists of an introductory workshop, four half-day sessions and a final panel discussion. All facilitators attend all sessions so the final plenary can be more constructive, taking on board the emerging topics from all sessions.
Each weekend is limited to 15 participants.
Weekend 1:
Friday 25th & Saturday 26th Jan 2019.
The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
Marie Brett, John Scott, Michael McLoughin, Siobhan Clancy. Chair - Aideen Barry.
Weekend 2: Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd March 2019. Venue The Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. Aideen Barry, Kate Wilson, Deirdre O'Mahony and Mark Storor. Chair - Marie Brett