communiqué 02/15 The work outlined here is small scale. We work with individuals and groups and collaborate around refreshing ideas and critique. The impact will be the degree to which people are reenergised in the work they do beyond Blue Drum. We also advocate through research and publishing with the Department of Arts, the Arts Council and others. The value of this work is hard to measure. Without it, however, we think critical perspectives about community, cultural rights and values are not represented.
Value for Money and Policy Review of the Arts Council from the Dept of Arts. READ [+] Culture 2025 Discussion Document to accompany regional consultations.READ[+] 2. Community rights workshop series In May workshops took place in Galway and Limerick with artists and activists. Finally, in June, we invited all those who took part in the workshop series to a final round-up meeting in Galway to agree a Charter. READ [+]
Cultural Rights Workshop, Wexford The local value is hard to gauge. From it, Public Arts Officer, Mary McGrath worked to set up an Arts in the Community Working Group made up of artists, agencies and organisations.
Quote from Alice Maher 1. Vision for the Arts Summer’s end saw the following publications from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and the Arts Council.
3. TUSLA & Family Support Centres In June, TUSLA wrote to the specialist support agencies saying that it will discontinue funding at the end of June 2015. For over a decade agencies like DESSA, Women‘s Aid, Pavee Point and
Making Great Arts Work - Arts Council Strategy 2016-2025. READ [+]
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communiqué 02/15 Blue Drum have worked in the field of support. And Family Resource Centres will continue as important local centres of creativity for parents and children.
direct engagement with disadvantaged communities. 2. Adopt a cultural rights framework in the forthcoming national Cultural Policy and the Arts Council Strategic Plan. 6. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission held a consultation with NGOs about its new plan. We highlighted the responsibility of the IHREC to
Mapping of Values Common Ground UK
Advocate for spaces that should be especially protected from commercial advertising.
Promote equality and social inclusion in cultural life.
Advocate for a cultural rights framework in cultural policy
4. Cultural Rights at National Level Advocacy work with the Department of Arts and the Arts Council i.e. public sector duty continued. Minister Humphrey met us in March. The failure to grapple with community arts does not undermine what the Department of Arts, the Arts Council and local authorities are doing but challenges what they are not doing.
Criticise the State cultural practice in relation to participation. Put simply, does it not seem reasonable to demand an inclusive culture?
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5. European Anti Poverty Network AGM
Blue Drum Agency Location: Carmichael House, North Brunswick Street, Dublin 7 Email: blue.drum@yahoo.com Web: www.bluedrum.ie
The following motions were adopted: 1. Promote equality and social inclusion in cultural life through
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