Creative Ireland Invitation

Kilkenny Welcomes Creative Ireland

Kilkenny County Council warmly invites you to attend an open meeting about the new Creative Ireland Programme in Kilkenny on Thursday 27th April at 6.15p.m. The meeting will take place in the Kilbride Suite

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Creative Ireland is a government led, culture-based programme designed to promote individual, community and national wellbeing. The core premise is that participation in cultural activity drives personal and collective creativity, with significant implications for individual and societal wellbeing and achievement. It is a legacy project to the successful national 1916 Centenary Programme.

Local authorities have a crucial role in the overall local delivery of the entire Creative Ireland programme and are exclusively mandated, through their Culture Teams, to deliver Pillar 2 of the programme - Enabling Creativity in Every Community. The Creative Ireland Programme builds on existing work programmes in Local Authorities. Creative Ireland provides a framework to support and strengthen all of this existing work.

The Creative Ireland Programme will be managed and implemented in Kilkenny County Council by the Cultural Services Team (Arts, Heritage, Libraries and Architecture).

For more information on the Creative Ireland Programme see http://creative.ireland.ie/. For more information on Kilkenny's Creative Ireland programme contact Dearbhala Ledwidge, Heritage Officer. Dearbhala.ledwidge@kilkennycoco.ie