We would also like to Congratulate Glounthaune Tidy Towns who were highly commended for their Best Bio Diversity entry in this years Pride in Our Community Competition. Their entry this year was developing Glounthaune along the L3004 from Rockgrove (western side) to Killacloyne (Elm Tree on eastern side).
Well done Glounthaune Tidy Towns
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Just to let you know that now is a really great time to start thinking about your participation in the
2023 Cork Lifelong Learning Festival from Monday 27th March to Sunday 2nd April 2023 inclusive
The Festival is open to individuals, organisations and groups all over Cork City
who want to engage with Lifelong Learners of all levels, interests and abilities.
It’s a great opportunity for engagement so if you have a passion for Learning of any kind,
we want to help you spread the word, engage, and inspire new lifelong learners across Cork.
Applications are accepted online, please follow this link to access form : https://submit.link/1iB
Or visit our website or social media for news & links Instagram - Facebook & Twitter
The deadline for submission of events is 5pm on Tuesday 24th January.
If you are having any trouble with the forms, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
We’re always excited to see new learning events and old favourites back again in the programme.
If it’s your first time considering submitting an event you may find this document useful and if you have any questions, please do get in touch!
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Festival and our Cork Celebrates Lifelong Learning Awards for 2022
We are really looking forward to working with you on making the 18th Lifelong Learning Festival another remarkable week.
Wishing you all a very happy Christmas, and a peaceful New Year.
Warm regards,
Siubhán Mc Carthy
Festival Co-ordinator
P.S. It’s always a challenge to have the printed programme available well in advance of the festival launch,
(planned for 7th March 2023) so we’re hoping you will have your forms submitted for inclusion in the brochure early in the new year please.
Siubhán Mc Carthy
Cork Learning City
Lifelong Learning Festival Coordinator & Learning City Development Worker
Community, Culture & Placemaking Directorate, City Hall, Cork, T12 T997.
( 021 4924527 or 086 012 3479
: https://www.corklearningcity.
The Museum of Birds and Beasts
The Museum of Birds and Beasts has been co-created by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley with the residents of five community hospitals in West Cork. The artists collaborated with the Museum of Country Life in Mayo and the National Folklore Collection in Dublin, exploring the folklore and artefacts from these remarkable collections to draw on participants’ experiences of working and living in connection with the natural world. The exhibition will run from 26th January - 24th February 2023 In LHQ Gallery, Cork County Library, Carrigrohane Road, Co. Cork
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The Museum of Birds and Beasts project is delivered through the Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork at Castletownbere, Dunmanway, Schull and Skibbereen Community Hospitals and St. Joseph’s Unit in Bantry General Hospital. Arts for Health is based in West Cork and provides a managed arts programme for older people in healthcare settings. Arts for Health partnership is Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Cork County Council, Cork Education & Training Board and Cork Kerry Community Healthcare. The project began in early spring 2022 with the artists’ research trip to the Museum of Country Life in Mayo. The artists were invited to choose eighteen objects from the museum’s “handling collection” to bring into West Cork hospitals and share with the staff and residents. This collection included a horse blanket and donkey harness both woven out of straw, a lobster pot made out of heather, sugán ropes and a straw and wool “favour” that would have been presented by a shepherd to a potential partner at a dance. These evocative, beautifully crafted objects sparked many lively conversations between the participants, staff and artists and a collection of stories grew throughout the year:
“My father worked in Biggs’ in Bantry. The donkey would walk through the back door into the shop and up to the counter where my dad would give it sugar lumps before it walked out the front door. This would happen at the end of every working day, after the donkey had finished its deliveries.” Sheila Nagle.
As part of the project master basket maker Joe Hogan from Mayo visited Dunmanway Community Hospital and St. Joseph’s Unit Bantry in May 2022 and created small panniers for donkeys. The participants were able to watch the baskets ‘grow’ into existence and many conversations were had with Joe as he worked away, sat on the floor of each day room. These panniers will be presented to the healthcare settings as part of the Museum of Birds and Beasts project.
Bantry Memory Café
Bantry Memory Café is launching its first Memory Café on Wednesday 1st of February from 11am to 1pm in the library in The Maritime Hotel Bantry, West Cork, Ireland.
The café provides a warm welcoming and relaxed place to meet others also living with dementia, their family and friends as well as health and social care professionals. There will be free tea and coffee, some useful information, and an opportunity to meet and chat with others.
For further information and bookings, contact Juliette O Donoghue at 087 9103036 or bantrymemorycafe@gmail.com.
Inspired by Kinsale and Tralee, where progress in this area has been made, an information meeting took place last May organised by Bantry Age Friendly in association with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and HSE/Cork Kerry Community Healthcare.
Since then a dementia sub-group has been set up comprising Winnie O’Sullivan and Ger Reaney, Bantry Age Friendly; Vanessa Bradbury, dementia advisor with the Alzheimer Society; Evie Finlay, community worker Cork Kerry Community Healthcare; Ber O’Riordan, Ann Harrington, PJ Cooke, Mary Bohane, dementia specialist Bantry General Hospital; Sinead O’Reilly, national dementia office and Kathryn Kingston, West Cork Development Partnership.
We would like to Congratulate Ilen River Nature Matters who were commended for their entry in The Best Bio Diversity Category in our Pride in Our Community Competition. Their entry was a qualified group of the community searching for and recording the flora and fauna in the river and along the riverbanks.
Well done Ilen River Nature Matters
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We would also like to Congratulate Inniscarra Community Centre who were commended for their Best Social Inclusion entry in our Pride in Our Community Competition. Their entry was a Children's Playground with adjacent seating area for parents and planting.
Well done Inniscarra Community Centre.
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