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Katy Hewison and Roberta Ceginskaite at Croom Park. Photo: Maurice Gunning dance limerick climate action Katy Hewison and Roberta Ceginskaite at Croom Park. Photo: Maurice Gunning dance limerick climate action

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Dance Limerick project aims to promote interest and engagement with Climate Action

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Dance Limerick project aims to promote interest and engagement with Climate Action. Katy Hewison and Roberta Ceginskaite at Croom Park. Photo: Maurice Gunning

Dance Limerick announces its new climate action project called Creating a Climate for Change in Limerick, running until the end of 2024

Project team and members of the community at Moyross Community Hub. Photo: Maurice Gunning.

The project aims to promote behavioural change, just sustainability transitions, and climate literacy through easy-access creative media in the form of audio, visual and movement stories. Creating a Climate for Change in Limerick is one of the twenty-four projects selected for the Spark Creative Climate Action Fund II projects for 2023 by the Creative Ireland Programme in collaboration with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC).

Dance Limerick artist Katy Hewison and a team consisting of researchers Ciara Moynihan and Gülfem Cevheribucak, dance artist Roberta Ceginskaite, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist Vanessa Grasse, visual artist Mike O’Brien, and communications coordinator Emer Casey are working in partnership with local communities to break down barriers to accessing climate change literature by transforming it into the formats of hearing, seeing and moving.

These groups include: Moyross Sport and Physical Activity Hub, Moyross Community Hub, Watch House Cross Library, Limerick City Library, and Croom Family Resource Centre. The project culminates in sharing events at Dance Limerick and Limerick City Gallery of Art in November 2024.

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Project team and partners meeting at Dance Limerick. Photo: Maurice Gunning.

As part of the research, the public is invited to join the project team for free, informal Information Sessions and Taster Community Workshops in late March and early April where you can listen to key researchers, move with the artists, and get an insight into the research so far and the learning yet to come.

The project also welcomes participants with additional needs or care responsibilities, and the team can help source and negotiate resources to support their attendance, and all the event venues have wheelchair access.

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