Creative Ireland

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By Ed Carroll

Cultural rights do not constitute an option. They are not open to arbitrary interpretation. Cultural rights involve the right of everyone to take part in cultural life. Cultural policy should be designed to build capacity to protect and fulfil cultural rights in a manner that ensures they are given effect. The institutional architecture and artists need to be up-skilled on what cultural rights stand for and how they can be supported and fulfilled. Their commitment to promote cultural rights and take actions that ensure their realisation should be ensured. The new Framework is build around seven pillars that addressed to various stakeholders and with clear challenges. Pillar 1 is given to the systems and structures of funding and support and how to reposition institutions to make culture accessible and active for every citizen. Pillar 2 fosters creativity and is addressed the economic sustainability of artists and young people who are the future creative’s. Pillar 3 is about heritage, language, traditions and habitats. It’s about ‘culturing’ people, place, food and land for future generations. Pillar 4 faces the challenges of tolerance and diversity in the face of problems associated with income, education and class that still define who counts when it comes to culture in Ireland. Pillar 5 calls for new forms of collaboration based on model developed by the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. Pillar 6 puts its sight on creating opportunities for Irish creative talent to collaborate on a world stage. Pillar 7 responds to the challenges of the digital age and its implications for the way people have access to and meaningfully participate in culture especially young people. Creative Ireland, the government’s Legacy Programme for Ireland 2016, is, de facto, the first roll out of Ireland’s new cultural policy. It is a five year initiative (2017-2022) that aims to place creativity at the heart of public policy. It allows for some assessment of where cultural rights stand in Ireland. It is structured around five pillars: Enabling the creative potential of every child; Enabling creativity in every community; Investing in our creative and cultural infrastructure; Ireland, as a centre of excellence in media production; and Unifying our global reputation. The first two pillars appear, on the surface, to be the only ones holding out some promise for cultural rights.

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