MINISTER for Arts Heather Humphrey published a discussion document on Culture 2025 in August and then announced a public consultation process that will sweep in Limerick and other destinations. The input will feature at a national symposium next month.
Consultation meetings will be held here and in Cavan, Cork, Galway and Kilkenny, organised in conjunction with Local Authority Arts Officers. Ours takes place in The Hunt Museum on Thursday October 8, while Cork City’s is on September 25 at City Hall.
The objective is to set up a framework for future strategies “underpinned by the principle of upholding and supporting artistic freedom”.
“The discussion document which I published poses a series of questions aimed at stimulating debate and identifying both challenges and opportunities,” she stated. “My Department facilitated a colloquium of cultural stakeholders at the end of May, which informed the development of this Discussion Document. Now, we are in the next phase of the nationwide consultation process”.
Comments can be submitted to her department in writing also by interested parties.
To register for an event, click on https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YTQMNLC
Submissions on Culture 2025 can be made by email to culturalpolicy@ahg.ie or in writing to:
Culture 2025, Cultural Institutions Unit, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, New Road, Killarney in Kerry.
