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Community groups and cultural venues will collaborate in experimentation with appropriate digital platforms, analogue tools and creative methodologies to facilitate inclusive access to cultural events for older audiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Through this collaborative R&amp;D, an engagement\u00a0model will be developed to ensure the participation of older people in arts and cultural life\u00a0in their region despite the challenges posed by COVID 19. Participating organisations\u00a0will consult with older audiences to deliver programmes that are ambitious, engaging, imaginative, localised and also accommodating of necessary health and safety measures. These programmes will\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>facilitate an exploration of movement and voice in response to ongoing\u00a0experiences of confinement and cocooning. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11347,"template":"","class_list":["post-11346","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>COVID-Proofing Cultural Companions - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cultural activity is at the heart of our Age Friendly Strategy in Cork City.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/covid-proofing-cultural-companions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-Proofing Cultural Companions - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cultural activity is at the heart of our Age Friendly Strategy in Cork City. 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