Culture and Creativity is at the heart of our community. The vision for County Carlow is to create a future with culture and creativity at the centre to drive and promote quality of life, happiness, health, wellbeing and economic prosperity through a people led programme that enables and entwines culture and creativity in everyday lives to the benefit of all. County Carlow culture and creativity team have developed the following specific values as outlined in our three year Culture and Creativity strategy;

• Accessibility and Inclusivity to ensure optimum participation that impacts all communities across County Carlow.
• Leadership, to ensure County Carlow is a thriving innovative place for culture and creativity to flourish,
• Openness, to ensure that there is a genuine open authentic approach taken in order for communities to reach their fullest potential.
• Collaboration, to ensure that there is meaningful collaboration and partnership created and empowered, to enable the sharing of knowledge and skills for transformative outcomes.
• Recognition, that culture and creativity are valued as vital resource and that the ambition of the strategic themes are shared, acknowledged and championed.