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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communiqué to explore ways we could “fit-in” using the paintings as backgrounds.
Beara Family Support and Community Well Being
Creative Communities – From St. Louis,USA to Ballyboden FRC 2011-2014
Claremorris FRC
In 2011 Ballyboden FRC’s community worker Jean Bates collaborated with Eleanor Phillips in a residency exchange in St. Louis, USA. Upon their return they set
Dunmanway FRC
Cara House FRC
Drop in Well, FRC Loughrea FRC Monsignor McCarthy FRC Portlaoise FRC Raphoe FRC South West Kerry FRC, Cahirsiveen St Kevin’s FRC TACU Ballinrobe Teach Dara FRC The Caha Centre, Adrigole Community Hall, Adrigole, Beara, Ardgroom Trim FRC Westport FRC
about using the lessons they learned with the Ballyboden community to creatively explore the context of the centre’s work. The process included exploratory walks, interviews, photography, drawing, textile painting and relief sculpture. The participants will take part in a final weekend intensive process later in the year to cast their relief sculptures in cement tiles for the exterior of the centre.
Thanks You! We Are Family
Some FRCs active on Facebook (follow the links) ARD Family Resource Centre ( Ardaun, Roscam and Doughiska.)
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communiqué for You; by Eimear McNally’s creative illustrations; by Frameworks Films documenting of the process; by Paula Geraghty’s photographs; by Niall Crowley for facilitating; and Rachel Mullen (ERA).
A White Paper 2015-2018 Blue Drum is seeking feedback for our 'white paper'. A white paper will be a brief statement of intention that lays out the evidence for the work we do, communicates the key challenges that lie ahead, and identifies where we want to be by 2018.
Thanks to the 100 people from the four provinces for the day of workshops, friendly conversations and screening in Dublin Castle. Thanks too, to our peers who helped coproduce this event: Empowering People in Care (EPIC), New Communities Partnership, Rialto Youth Project, Fatima Groups United, Pavee Point, Community Foundation of Ireland, Age Friendly Ireland, ReCreate and, of course, TUSLA.
We are now in the process of lchoosing up to give priorities from the following list: -Working with others to create more cooperation focused on family and community support. -Testing new ideas in family and community support that can be passed on to others. -Advocating for human and cultural rights through community art e.g. social economy, cooperative ventures, etc. -Renewing and refreshing community arts through a plan for community culture. -Finding new ways of sustaining community arts work through cooperation. -Communicating clearly the public value of our annual funding and expenditure. -Linking all work to local needs and research evidence of new challenges. -Working with others to redress non participation by excluded groups in the Arts and society. Tell us your ideas? Check out the short survey on the following link: 2015-2018 Finally, if you have any news, questions or want to contact Blue Drum please email Eleanor or Ed at blue.drum@yahoo.com. _______
Also, we were supported by artist, Lisa Fingleton, who introduced her film Waiting
Issue 7 / Oct 2014
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