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(ii) Staff / Board Away Days We are currently exploring pathways beyond austerity and had a weekend review between board and staff. Barry Cullen facilitated the session and is currently drafting a response report to his overall organisation review process.
Will your FRC receive any foundation funding before the end of 2013 for your community arts work? If so, please get in touch with Blue Drum because we wish to put together an application to a Department of Arts scheme to add €1 to each €1 euro given by foundations or private funding. Contact Gillian 018111446.
(iii) Family Support Agency We had an animated and positive response from the FSA (Bill O’Dea, Olive Shanley and Deirdre Fradl) when we updated about the work in progress during the review meeting. All FRCs will receive our summer update soon!
(2) Happy Parent (HP) Eleanor Phillips reports about the roll out of the Happy Parent Initiative. We continue with the review work with Barry Cullen. Twenty-two FRCs expressed an interest and workshops are taking place around the country. Read Interesting for you? Contact Gillian 01-8111446.
(iv) CREATE Initiatives In May we connected to the artist-led work of CREATE. Eleanor and Ed went to an evening of exchange and conversation as part of Jesse Jones The Prosperity Project. Eleanor also attended its coproduction for the European Learning Network too and we will invite CREATE to explore connections in 2014. (v) AOLAAO Network Meeting ON April 27/28 Eleanor and Ed took part in the networking and exchanges of the Local Authority Arts Officers with their counterparts from England. We want to develop a shared project with the Network in 2014.
Sneem FRC, Kerry
(vi) Galway and Cork Ed met up with heath board funded project in Cork (Ballyphehane). He also met with artists involved in Gallery 126, a space in Galway City. Get in touch if you have plans to do creative things with family projects in Cork City or with an arts organisation in Galway. Ideas? Email blue.drum@yahoo.com
(3) Meetings / Seminars (i) Ministers Fitzgerald and Deenihan At our first meeting we had very positive enthusiasm from both Ministers to an idea for a Community Culture Strategy to ‘show off’ community arts work with children and families. Niall Crowley is supporting us to develop the Strategy. More to come!
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