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Mayfield Community Arts Centre WHO? WHERE? WHAT? MayÞeld Community Arts Centre develops, manages and delivers community arts programmes in consultation with the local community. Currently our two main programmes are our Global Education Programme and our Arts and Integration Programme. We also oȔer training, run out of schools activities, support youth in initiating their own projects through the European Youth in Action programme and coordinate a European Voluntary Service programme. In our Global Education Programme we use the arts as a tool to connect local and global issues and to enable local young people to show solidarity with young people in the Global South. Projects have been developed and delivered in formal and non- formal educational contexts. We also support a core group of teenagers who are very active in participating, shaping and developing the programmes. Our creative and colourful projects not only create space for personal learning, reßection and action but also create spaces for interaction with the public and various sectors of the community. We have a long history of co-operation and partnership with community development organisations using arts methodologies in Central America. This has both contributed to the wealth of the programmeÕs methodologies and also has enabled our programme to maintain a balance of southern perspectives in its global education work. The contribution of international volunteers who are regularly hosted here also enriches our programmes. The Centre is managed by the voluntary Board of Management of Newbury House Family Resource Centre. An Arts Committee on the Board oversees the strategic development of the Centre. The Centre is co-ordinated by a full-time coordinator and there are 12 staȔ, mostly part-time or employed on a project basis. Many volunteers, community employment workers and freelance workers contribute to the CentreÕs 2 main programmes: Arts for Integration and the Global Education Programme. The main target group for the CentreÕs activities are the residents of the local community. The Global Education programme seeks to enage MayÞeldÕs young people in particular. Click here to see our website. (www.mayÞeldarts.org) MayÞeld Community Arts Centre is a unique, purpose- built arts space based in Newbury House Family Resource Centre in MayÞeld in the north of Cork City. Photo: Participants of GlobalFest 2008, a youth arts project that brings together young people from Ireland, Nicaragua, Colombia and Guatemala

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