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A creative arts programme based around Carlingford Lough is one of 43 projects has received funding from the Irish Government's Creative Climate Action Fund.
The 'Shifting Tides and Sea Change - Creative Coastal Conversations' project will bring together the coastal communities around Carlingford Lough to engage with their marine environment.
The project is in colloboration with lead partner The Wheel and supporting partners Community Hub and Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA). Funding of between €50,000 and €250,000 was awarded.
The Creative Climate Action fund is an initiative from the Creative Ireland Programme in collaboration with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications that supports creative, cultural and artistic projects that build awareness around climate change and empower citizens to make meaningful behavioural transformations.
Announcing the funds today, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD said “The inclusion of three significant cross-border projects in the Creative Climate Action Fund, under the Shared Island initiative, signifies the ongoing Government support for ambitious activities which benefit the whole island and bring people together around common concerns. In this instance the funding will help to develop awareness, through creativity, of climate change, the single greatest threat facing humanity today. We must be the generation that turns the tide on climate change and biodiversity loss. The ongoing Shared Island dimension of the Creative Ireland Programme will harness the power of cultural creativity to bring communities together across the island.”
The 43 successful awardees will establish projects spanning the island of Ireland, including 3 Ignite projects funded under the Shared Island initiative. Recipients will receive €5.8 million under Creative Climate Action Fund II.
