Minister to launch the Embrace Visual Art and Performance event
ART WORKS described as “unique, colourful and bold” will be showcased at this year’s Embrace Visual Art and Performance event, which Minister Anne Rabbitte TD will launch.
As part of the Clare Arts Office Embrace programme, over 250 participants with different abilities engaged with local professional artists. The Embrace exhibition will be launched this Wednesday, May 10 in Ennis venue Glór from 1pm.
Minister Rabbitte, with responsibility for Disability at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, will attend the event and see some of the environmental art, film, animation, textiles, mosaic, music, dance and drama on offer.
Established in 2001 and funded by the Arts Council, the Embrace programme works with up to 30 organisations and 45 professional artists on its Arts & Disability programme to provide art and performance workshops for up to 300 participants per year.
Local and national organisations such as the HSE, Enable Ireland, the Dulick Centre, West Clare Mental Health and the Brothers of Charity have partnered with the Arts Office to provide the Arts & Disability programme for adults and children who have an interest in pursuing and enjoying the arts.