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Cork County Council Library & Arts Service invites applications to be part of a new and exciting project “The Art of Living”. Funded under the Creative Ireland Positive Ageing and Creative Wellbeing Challenge Fund, The Art of Living is a short film about creativity which highlights, showcases and celebrates a selected group of our older citizens.

Cork County Council Library and Arts Service is pleased to announce a new poetry initiative that aims to encourage people to imaginatively respond through poetry to the new perspectives  and understanding of place, nature and environment that the limitations on travel outside of the 5k limit have created in the last year. This boundary has meant that many of us are experiencing our locality in new and surprising ways, as we rediscover the world on our doorstep. “Poems from My 5k” provides an opportunity to reflect on this new reality through poetry.

Cork County Council Library & Arts Service have teamed up with libraries nationwide, publishers, booksellers, authors and others for the ‘Ireland Reads’ campaign, part of the government’s Keep Well initiative.

Cork County Council Library and Arts Service has launched it’s annual From the Well short story competition for 2021. The highly regarded literary competition is now in its 17th year and is open to registered library members who are over 18.

Cork County Council’s Library & Arts Service is delivering a new series of free online writing workshops for Spring 2021, designed to support creative writing throughout the county. Six online courses begin in mid-February, catering to a variety of ages and styles including adults, teens, songwriters, crime-writers, fiction and non-fiction. These workshops will continue the success of online workshops and collectives hosted by the Council throughout 2020, to foster creativity in the community for Cork County residents.

The majority of Cork County Council’s services continue as essential services in Phase 5, effective from December 24th. The Council is asking Cork County residents to note the following for the duration of level 5 restrictions.

Cork County Council Library & Arts Service has announced the publication of its annual anthology of short stories “From the Well”. This staple of the Cork literary scene, now in its sixteenth iteration, is arriving on bookshelves just in time for the festive period.

Cork County Council Library and Arts Service is delighted to introduce NEWSTART, its new early years literacy programme supporting numeracy, literacy and writing skills.