Funding of €175,161 has been awarded to Donegal County Council for the 2022 Creative Ireland Programme Creative Communities initiative.
This partnership creates opportunities for people of all ages to engage with creative projects in their local area.
This funding includes planning for an enhanced Cruinniú na nÓg – Ireland’s national day celebrating young people’s creativity in June 2022. There will be projects around Creativity in Older Age with opportunities for older people to participate in creative activities. Finally, Creative Climate Action projects in partnership with Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications will use the talents of artists and the wider creative industries to connect people with profound changes happening in our environment, society and economy arising from climate change.
Creative Communities is a collaboration, between central and local government, between culture and industry, between artists, policy makers and communities.
Since the programme was launched in 2017, there has been an investment of €21 million from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in Creative Ireland initiatives undertaken by local authorities.
