Donegal County Council is launching a Culture and Creativity strategy, which they hope will foster a support for creativity and the arts in the county.
The five-year strategy is an extension of the Government’s ongoing Creative Ireland initiative.
Maureen Kerr, acting coordinator for Donegal’s Creative Ireland Culture and Creativity team, says that “from the initial start-up of the previous five years, it’s an all-of-Government initiative and the fact that everybody has signed up to it for another five years means they think it’s successful and we obviously do locally here as well.”
“The theme in this next strategy is to continue to embed culture and creativity and the Creative Ireland programme in local policies and plans, so we will work with our partners in the local authority and other organisations whenever they are developing their plans, with the aim of working collaboratively in a creative way.”
The Council say that the strategy highlights five prioritites for the next five years: embedding culture and creativity across local authority plans, policies and project teams; strengthening and reinforcing Donegal’s cultural infrastructure and resources; supporting cultural and creative practitioners and professionals; nurturing our sense of place and identity; and enabling engagement with and access to culture and creativity.
You can view the plan in full here.
