Cork County Arts

28/11/2025

🗣Applications are now open for the Cork County Council Tyrone Guthrie Residency

😄Cork County Council offers bursaries to artists of any discipline currently resident in Cork County to support a two week working period at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Monaghan.

👉Find out more: https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/arts/arts-funding-and-opportunities/tyrone-guthrie-centre-residency

28/11/2025

📣We are calling for applications for the My Creative Wish initiative for 2026. This initiative invites children and young people from across Cork County to submit their most imaginative creative wishes, with the opportunity to see those wishes brought to life by professional artists.

👏A total of 16 winning wishes will be selected by Cork County Council’s Culture and Creativity team. Each winner will receive 6 fully funded creative workshops, delivered by professional artists to them and their class. An additional 16 runners-up will be awarded a free Creative Ireland–funded workshop in their local library.

➡️For further information, please visit https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/cork-county-council-announces-the-return-of-my-creative-wish-for-2026

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27/11/2025

🗣The Artist Bursary Award is designed to assist individual artists develop new work, further their professional development, or enable international performing or exhibition opportunities for their work. This year the Artist Bursary scheme has been extended to include mentor opportunties, training, and international touring.

👉Find out more: https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/arts/arts-funding-and-opportunities/artist-bursary-scheme

27/11/2025

😁Cork County Council, in partnership with the Creative Ireland Programme, is delighted to announce the return of My Creative Wish for 2026. This initiative invites children and young people from across Cork County to submit their most imaginative creative wishes, with the opportunity to see those wishes brought to life by professional artists.

🤩To apply, schools and youth groups may request an application pack by emailing [email protected] by 5th December 2025.

👉Rad more: https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/cork-county-council-announces-the-return-of-my-creative-wish-for-2026

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Cork County Council, in partnership with the Creative Ireland Programme, is delighted to announce the return of My Creative Wish for 2026.

27/11/2025

👐Cork County Council offer a two week Tyrone Guthrie residency - read about author Julia Kelly's experience there.

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Author Julia Kelly describes a time, almost 20 years ago now, when her life was at a low ebb, career-wise and romantically — and how a two-week stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, gave her an identity, a way to live

26/11/2025

👉This year for the first time the Artist in the Community Scheme provides grants for artists to work directly with communities. Funds are granted for creative engagement activities delivered by artists with a community or for developing socially engaged projects with a community.

https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/arts/arts-funding-and-opportunities/artist-in-the-community-scheme

26/11/2025

👀Cork County Council are currently preparing the Library Development Plan for the years 2026-2030.

👂This plan will inform how the library service progresses and grows over the next 5 years, now's the time to have your say!

👉To complete a short online feedback form visit:
🔗https://tinyurl.com/5sxc3jdp

⏰The closing date for submission of feedback is Monday 22 December 2025.


Cork County Council Cork County Council Library & Arts Service

26/11/2025

Ann Lambe's Feathered Friends exhibition is on at Bandon Library. Ann Lambe also has work in our open call winter show at LHQ Gallery.

Cork County Council

25/11/2025

🗣This Creative Communities Scheme is designed to develop opportunities for ambitious plcemaking projects, socially engaged projects, and community arts projects in County Cork. It is open to artists and organisations to apply.

👉https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/arts/arts-funding-and-opportunities/creative-communities-scheme

25/11/2025

🗣Have your say on the Library Service Development Plan

😁Prepared in consultation with library staff and the public, the plan will form the basis of all that the service aspires to be and how it will function in the community.

👐The mission statement of the library service is ‘to empower communities by providing access to resources that educate, inform, enlighten and enrich the lives of their citizens by supporting and promoting literacy and a love of reading and by collecting and preserving resources relating to the cultural heritage of Cork.

Read more:

Libraries Library Development Plan Cork County Library Service Development Plan 2026-2030 Prepared in consultation with library staff and the public, and within the wider context of national and local strategies including the national library strategy, the Library Service Development Plan will form....

24/11/2025

👉Iarrann Comhairle Contae Chorcaí ar thograí ó ealaíontóirí aonair, eagraíochtaí ealaíon gairmiúla, féilte agus grúpaí ealaíon deonacha d’imeachtaí, tionscadail nó gníomhaíochtaí ealaíon atá bunaithe i nGaeilge. Is í aidhm an snáithe maoinithe seo ná tacú le saothar nua a chruthú nó imeacht, tionscadal nó gníomhaíocht ealaíon atá bunaithe ar an nGaeilge a chur chun cinn.

https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/arts/arts-funding-and-opportunities/sceim-deontais-ealaion-chomhairle-chontae-chorcai-na-healaiona-ata-bunaithe-ar-ghaeilge