Creativity and Change

There are loads of vibey hivey bits going on across the weekend of 9th and 10th May and we'd love if you could come along 🐝

On Saturday morning and will be completing their community mural, which had input from a public engagement created by some of our course participants, all welcome to give a hand.

Then the project have a very cool workshop at The Roundy as part of

After that we'll go for some lunch at our fave neighbours , followed by more chats at

On Sunday at 3, two of our Hive bees present the fantastic feminist play Captain Wagtail play at .ie, written by and performed by .kellyart as part of (also on Saturday if you can't make it)

And our friends at are running a very cool zine making workshop at 1 with

(There'll also be some bonus dancing with at on Saturday evening if you're so inclined)

Tickets for the Cork Fringe events are available from their website.

Hit us up if you'd like to come along, great buzz guaranteed 🐝

Our certified course in Creativity & Change has come to its bittersweet close for this year.

This group of committed changemakers have spent their time digging up the roots of colonialist and capitalist structures through conversation, collaboration and creative action, and having some good healthy fun while doing so.

There has been rich input along the way from , , , , , , , .msil, , , , , and

We're so grateful to all our participants and collaborators who have made this learning journey such a unique and transformative one. Recruitment is open for the 26/27 intake, so if you're intrigued by what you see, reach out!

C&C is also an elective module on , with opportunities to dive even further in your socially engaged arts practice

RPL routes and scholarships and fee discounts available, see more at mtu.ie

🌎 Earth Day 🌍 celebration at Grand Parade this morning, with the launch of new SDG wall tiles to promote the Crawford's position as an inclusive, active and creative community working towards the Sustainable Development Goals 💚

Thanks to the fab .prme and teams for their support 👏

Catch our students around Cork City Centre this Saturday afternoon from 2-5pm and take part in creative actions they have designed especially for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

You'll find 'Cirque de Solutions' around 46 Grand Parade and in the micro , 'W.A.Y.F.?' around the Peace Park and 'Ecologies of Care' at

Examine racial justice and its interconnections with global justice through fun arts-based activities and take actions towards ensuring welcome, safety and sanctuary for everyone.

All welcome 🌞

Our collab with the .ie Global Issues course is in full swing 🤝 Session 4 saw C&C Hive member facilitating a creative session in understanding decolonialism and moving towards action at - we can't wait for participants to put their learning into practice at our day of creative action in April ✊

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Join Cork Migrant Centre in collaboration with community organisations in Cork for a beautiful International Women's Day celebration on Friday from 2-5pm at the Migrant Health Hub, South Parish.

There will be music with and , art, Playback theatre by CMC's women's theatre group and an opportunity to connect with a group of inspiring speakers through 'human library' conversations, including Dr Avril Hutch (EDI, UCC), Dr Manizha Khan (), Fiona Hurley (), Laura Harmon (),
Rola Abu Zeid O' Neill (, Women's Studies and Human Rights, UCC), Professor Maggie O' Neill (Sociology, UCC) and Dr Evelien Geerts (Women's Studies, UCC).

See photos of rehearsals, some of the special guests and images from last year's fantastic IWD event above.

Free event and lunch is provided. Sign up in bio.

About the performance:
Thanks to Artist in the Community fund, Creativity and Change's group have been running Playback Theatre workshops with women in the Cork Migrant Centre, who are now joining us on stage. Together, we will listen to your stories about what it means to be a woman or gender minority in today’s world. In our workshops, we explored our own stories, which included not being valued because of our gender, and the incredibly ways we overcame these obstacles. Now we want to hold this space for your stories - to be present with the challenges you’ve faced because we believe stories can change how we see each other and ourselves. We hope you’ll join us, and help weave this tapestry as we celebrate International Women’s Day.

Announcing an exciting new collaboration with C&C and STAND, where we will be supporting imaginative 'What If...' explorations and creative action with participants on the Global Issues @ Cork course, beginning next week.

"What made the course truly valuable was the way it created a safe and supportive space for discussion. It didn’t just present global issues in theory, it encouraged us to connect them to our personal stories, identities, and emotions. This made the learning more real and transformative."

There’s just over a week left to bag your place on the six-week certified course. Beginning on the 18th February and running every Wednesday from 6 to 8pm, this course – a collaboration between .ie and - supports participants to make sense of and take action on the most pressing global issues.

Expecting a lecture on the following topics? Not a chance! These in-person workshops will be highly interactive, creative, discussion-based and focused on building a community of changemakers:

• What If… It’s Never Too Late? (The Environmental Crisis) with Irene Ní Shúilleabháin

• What If...We Redesigned How We Share the World’s Stuff? (Our Economic System) with Vicky Donnelly (/C&C)

• What If… We Could See the Hidden Empires Shaping Our Lives? (Decolonialism) with (C&C)

• What If… We Could Experience the World We’re Trying to Create? (SDGS) with David Nyaluke

• What If… We Build Better Futures Together? (Action and Radical Imagination with STAND and and Creativity & Change)

Thanks to the support of Irish Aid, the course is highly subsidised at €25. However, students from colleges in Cork can use the code STAND60 at checkout to avail of it for just €10.

More information and registration: https://stand.ie/what-we-do/global-issues-courses

For access support, students can contact Charlotte confidentially at [email protected].

It's always a pleasure to work with the .ie Youth Arts team at to introduce artivism and GCE on their Youth Arts Certificate course. The January weather didn't let us do the usual street art stuff, so we worked with mixed media to explore global citizenship and the SDGs. The group got in the flow and had good craic making giant awareness-raising posters. It was cool to see the different creative approaches they took and discuss ways to bring these processes in their own youth arts practice 💖

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A highlight of our Creativity & Change course is when participants put their learning into action to create 'artivism toolkits' and facilitate one another in global citizenship education workshops.

This weekend saw rich critical explorations emerge through a feast of different creative approaches to global justice themes such as intersectionality, gender equality, hope in action for young activists, resisting the attention economy, peacemaking, fast fashion, political bodies, food systems and sovereignty for children through theatre, collage, games, music, poetry and more. Our participants are creative GCE geniuses, so watch out for offerings from them out in the real world.

If you're interested in this kind of learning and curious about taking a journey as a creative GCE eductor through our Creativity & Change certified course, reach out! Applications for '26/'27 open soon and it also sits as an elective on the . There is an info session for all courses on offer from Dept. of Arts in Health & Education taking place online this Friday. Email [email protected] for all info.

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A highlight of our Creativity & Change course is when participants put their learning into action to create 'artivism toolkits' and facilitate one another in global citizenship education workshops.

This weekend saw rich critical explorations emerge through a feast of different creative approaches to global justice themes such as intersectionality, gender equality, hope in action for young activists, resisting the attention economy, peacemaking, fast fashion, political bodies, food systems and sovereignty for children through theatre, collage, games, music, poetry and more. Our participants are creative GCE geniuses, so watch out for offerings from them out in the real world.

If you're interested in this kind of learning and curious about taking a journey as a creative GCE eductor through our Creativity & Change certified course, reach out! Applications for '26/'27 open soon and it also sits as an elective on the . There is an info session for all courses on offer from Dept. of Arts in Health & Education taking place online this Friday. Email [email protected] for all info.

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A highlight of our Creativity & Change course is when participants put their learning into action to create 'artivism toolkits' and facilitate one another in global citizenship education workshops.

This weekend saw rich critical explorations emerge through a feast of different creative approaches to global justice themes such as intersectionality, gender equality, hope in action for young activists, resisting the attention economy, peacemaking, fast fashion, political bodies and more. Our participants are creative GCE geniuses, so watch out for offerings from them out in the real world.

If you're interested in this kind of learning and curious about taking a journey as a creative GCE eductor through our Creativity & Change certified course, reach out! Applications for '26/'27 open soon and it also sits as an elective on the . There is an info session for all courses on offer from Dept. of Arts in Health & Education taking place online this Friday. Email [email protected] for all info.