Major conference planned in Culture & Creativity Strategy
A major Cultural and Creative Conference, pop-up shops, musical commission and new signs are among some of the proposals being put forward in a draft of the Sligo Culture and Creativity Strategy 2018-2022.
Members were shown the draft at the May Council meeting - the Council has been tasked by Creative Ireland to enable creativity in every community as part of national policy.
Sligo County Council’s Creative Ireland Co- Ordinator and County Librarian Donal Tinney told members they had received almost ¤97,000 to fund the Strategy.
“We will have no difficulty in delivering a programme that will fulfil this role (Sligo’s) as the cultural capital of the North West,” he said.
An open call will go out this month for artists to work in collaborative settings with communities/places of interest/latest technologies for projects to take place from July to December 2018.
The projects may be fully realised in 2018 or may be Research and Development towards a longer-term project to start in 2019.
Councillor Sinead Maguire welcomed the funding news, even if it was “late in the year”.
“The fact that we have such a rich cultural heritage in Sligo it’s wonderful we’re going to get an opportunity to showcase that,” she told the meeting.