communiqué up a recommendation made by the Equality Rights Alliance and Blue Drum for targeted inclusion measures to ensure that “Community arts should be given funding to enable (…) proper consideration (…) of a Community Culture Strategy.”
Introducing: New Communities Partnership (NCP) & New Irish Families Project Daniela Jurj (top) is the Migrant Family Support Service Coordinator for the NCP.
Happy Parent Booklet From 2012 to 2014 the Happy Parent has run in 20 FRCs and engaged over 200 parents. A new booklet produced by Eleanor Phillips is now available. In it you can find out how to recycle and recreate using things often thrown out in the home.
Carmen Frese (below) is a lead researcher at Trinity College Dublin for the New Irish Families Project which looks at the experience of new Irish and their children who are born in Ireland.
“Sharing in creative activities helps to facilitate positive communications between parent and child”
My child is learning English at school and in the streets, so there’s no point (…)trying to talk to him in English which I don’t fully understand myself. (Lithuanian mother)
FRC Art Days Interested in the Shadow Report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights? What is culture? What are rights? The Free Legal Aid Centres of Ireland produced an information sheet about the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Ireland will be examined on progress by the UN Committee on in June 2015. The Shadow Report picked
Each summer we engage with an FRC as part of their Summer Programme, last year we worked with Drochead na Daoine in Sneem as part of their collaboration with the Sneem Family Festival. This year we engaged with the young participants of St. Kevin’s Family Resource Centre’s Art Day in Dublin 24. Together we created large group paintings and used recycled materials
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