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The Cork Peopleproject

Link to "The Cork People" projecthttp://thecorkpeople.wordpress.com/

The planning behind this project explained in two actsACT 1.Culture-storming and the conception of an idea...

How would we like to spend our weekend? What does culture mean? What values would we like to inspire and why?

Music/SongsWeather (everyone bonds over the weather)Dancing?Skillshare/music exchange/teach us somethingCork City XFactorInvite people to a conversationA Mad Hatters Tea Party?Play games..teach us a new game over tea

Low energy V high energy, how can we cater for both?Logistics...do we want to be cold??

What do we want to learn? How do we do this?STORY-COLLECTINGA time capsule? Create a snapshot of culture in one day in Cork...

How about making a newspaper?"The People's Paper"Fill the spaces with stories from the people of CorkCreate a NEWSROOMThe Mother ]ones newsroom.And thus an idea was born.ACT 2Embracing the flea and the execution of an idea...Approached the Mother ]ones Flea Market to see if they would house our newsroom and ]oin us in our quest to gather stories.The Cork People has a home and four intrepid culturehounds.Gathering supplies both practical and aestheticA typewriterPaper, pens, crayons, pencils...stationery to feed the soul and unlock creativityNewspapersDocumentary equipment, camera and voice recorderWhat do we want to know?What would make your life BETTER?Creating an online presence: thecorkpeople.wordpress.comStories will be gathered on video, voice recording, by letting people chat freely, structured interview and anonymous comments.Space to write, draw, answer questions, ask questions and Just be.Roving reporter on the streets asking "What would make your life better?"Stallholders and browsers provide a perfect microcosmic snapshot of cultural CorkStories will be posted online and in physical scrapbook copy.[FIN]

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Thank-you Project

Conor Shields from Community Arts Partnership is a producer and director, a multi-instrumentalist and performing musician for over twenty five years. He has co-founded theatre companies, worked in broadcast journalism and film, development education and as an arts practitioner has facilitated workshops. Community Arts Partnership is our lead partner for Northern Ireland and is the newly formed merger between New Belfast Community Arts Initiative and Community Arts Forum.www.comartspartner.org 

Ed Carroll from Blue Drum works with others in an imaginary space where culture, politics and community collide. He was part of the Civil Arts Inquiry team established by City Arts Centre, Dublin (2003-2007) and Executive Chair of Kaunas Biennial (2009). He has responsibility for the roll out of an EU Culture Research study exploring cultural rights. He lives between Kaunas and Dublin. Blue Drum is the coordinator of the research and lead partner for the Republic of Ireland.

Fernando Marquespenteado's inspiration has been floating around visual regimes within urban material cultures --- something like extensively deployed public imagery that inhibits and fatigues one’s primary instinct to produce meanings ---- together with his ongoing interest on male-to-male daily practices of violence, particularly through images and events where human life is taken without grace. His interest in these arenas grew, moved by an installed marriage which has been taken place between civil acrimony and public escapism within Brazilian society, a combination that always puzzled him, topped up with his estrangement and uneasiness around the event of (several)

City (Re) SearchesSeminar

As part of this weekend and seminar was held where students presented their projects. We had input from international members of City (re) Searches programme and discussion around Cultural rights.Link to the City (re) Searches programme

http://www.bluedrum.ie/city-researches.html.

beheadings within the prison system throughout the country, due to gang rivalry scenarios fuelled by drugs. He tries respond to the plural drives of his practice and to strengthen his joggling-between-two-continents-existence and his fragile civil sanity. 

Fiona Woods is a visual artist based in Clare, Ireland who attempts to generate modest spaces within which things can be individually or collectively questioned or produced. www.fionawoods.net / www.collectionofminds.net

Jeanne van Heeswijk has been working on socially committed art projects that take place in public spaces. She sees herself as a mediator, an intermediary between a situation, a space, a neighbourhood and the people connected to these. 

Jelena Veljkovic has been working as an independent programmer in Serbia and particularly with groups like Generator whose interest is public engagement.  She is invited to Cork as an intern and is supported by the European Cultural Foundation.

John Mulloy worked for many years as a community artist. Increasing discomfort with the negative impact of state policy on marginalised groups led him to research a 2006 PhD at the the NCAD (Dublin) on community arts. He teaches History of Art, Critical Theory and Rural Art in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

Mary Jane Jacob curatorial practice seeks to advance the parameters of artists’ public practices and examine assumptions about the audience for contemporary art. 

Niall Crowley is an independent equality expert and we invited him because he is interested in exploring how to connect cultural rights to other social and economic rights. He worked in the community sector with the Travellers’ rights organisation Pavee Point for twelve years. 

Niall O'Baoill is the cultural coordintor for Fatima Groups United an area that has realised a significant regeneration process in which art and culture was central. 

Susanne Bosch is an artist, open space facilitator; she works predominantly in public and on long-term questions, which tackle creative arguments around the ideas of democracy. www.susannebosch.de

Vagabond Reviews, from Dublin, Ireland, led a dry run of the project in Kaunas in November 2011. It was established by Ailbhe Murphy and Ciaran Smyth in 2007.