Get Together and Dance, Eat, Sing, Play this Easter Monday

Get Together and Dance, Eat, Sing, Play this Easter Monday RT Presents Cruinni na C sca, a Creative Ireland Initiative. Free Event for All, Dublin City Centre. www.rte.ie/cruinniu I #cruinniu

On Easter Monday 17th April, RT in association with Creative Ireland will present Cruinni na C sca, a large-scale free public festival across four zones in Dublin City Centre from 11.00am - 6.00pm. Cruinni na C sca aims to celebrate culture and creativity in contemporary Irish society through a rich variety of live music and dance, coding, theatre, art and music workshops, talks and tastings, readings and screenings, special events and more. The four zones are: St. Stephen s Green, Dublin Castle, Smithfield Square and Custom House Quay.

In addition to the events taking place in Dublin City, 31 local authorities will host free, family-friendly Cruinni na C sca events in their individual counties as part of the national Creative Ireland programme. Information on these events is available online at www.rte.ie/cruinniu.

RT will broadcast live from Cruinni na C sca zones throughout the day across RT Radio 1, RT 2fm and RT Raidi na Gaeltachta, with regular updates on television and online.

Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphries TD said, Creative Ireland is all about putting culture and creativity at the heart of communities nationwide and Cruinni na C sca will do just that this Easter Monday. There will be a wide series of family friendly events right across Dublin city centre, curated by RT , with events of a large and small scale also happening in every county nationwide. We want to encourage people to become involved in the cultural life of their own county through a national day of creativity.

We have set ourselves some ambitious targets for year one of Creative Ireland, with Cruinni na C sca top of the list. I am delighted that people nationwide will have the opportunity to come together and participate in cultural and creative activity on Easter Monday, driving our collective wellbeing and our sense of community. I would like to acknowledge the work of all of the key partners involved in delivering the events in Dublin and the Culture Teams in the 31 Local Authorities who have helped to put together an impressive series of events, with the list still growing.

RT Director-General, Dee Forbes said, "Allowing the public come together, celebrate and engage with national events is a key part of RT s role and public purpose. Building on the public events of last year, through Cruinniu na Casca, I am delighted and proud that this Easter RT , in partnership with Creative Ireland, will once again bring contemporary Irish culture and creativity to the streets of Dublin through a rich variety of live music and dance, coding, theatre, art and music workshops, talks and tastings, readings and screenings, special events, and so much more. It promises to be a special and unique day in Dublin and across the country."

While all the music, performance and orchestral events are free (see below), the talks, film-screenings, autism-friendly workshops and coding workshops should be pre-booked to secure a place. The fifty-plus talks cover themes ranging from arts and culture to creativity and social inclusion. Free tickets and information are available online at www.rte.ie/cruinniu.

Cruinni na C sca, a Creative Ireland initiative, presented by RT is supported by Dublin City Council, the Office of Public Works and Transport for Ireland.

***Cruinni na C sca HIGHLIGHTS Zone by Zone

(FULL PROGRAMME included in Notes to Editors below)

St. Stephen's Green

Orchestra Stage: RT Concert Orchestra, Lisa Lambe, Hot House Flowers

Summerhouse: Curated by Poetry Ireland and The Ark

Band Stand: Masamba Samba Dance, Gloria, Dublin s Lesbian and Gay Choir, Elv Lithuanian Choir

Imaginosity: Interactive playground

Craft Zone: Workshops including the Travelling & Polish communities and more

Indoor farming and environmental workshops with Cre8 Sustainability

Afro ire West African Drumming

Fuinneamh Giant Drum

Sensory workshops for children with autism

Learnit LEGO Zone

RT Radio 1's Arena will broadcast live from the orchestra stage from 11am - 1pm.

Dublin Castle

Upper Courtyard Stage: Crash Ensemble, Slow Moving Clouds, Landless

Indoor Venues: Series of talks and panel discussions on Cultural Reflection

Go4it Workshops on programming, app inventing, game development

DCCOI demonstrations in felt-making, ceramics and more

Dublin Library Bus

Smithfield Square

RT 2fm Band Stage: Loah, Soul , The Academic, Booka Brass Band

Lighthouse Cinema: Screenings of some of the best of Irish film

Robot workshops

Improvised duets for humans and machines

Slam poetry with Colm Keegan and more

DJ and scratching workshops with RT Pulse

Illustration workshops with Laureate na n g, PJ Lynch

Film, TV and radio production workshops with RT , Bowsie Workshops and Screen Training Ireland

The RT 2fm Roadcaster will broadcast live from 11am - 5pm, with live music and interviews with the acts. RT Raidi na Gaeltachta will broadcast live from their strand of talks at the Generator Hostel from 4 - 5pm.

Custom House Quay

Custom House Stage: C il M r

Dance Zone: Tango Fiesta, Bollywood Beats, Tribal Bellydancers, Chinese Dance, West African Dance

Picnic Area: Puppets, magic, face-painting and family entertainment

Traditional music workshops

Food village

3D street art

Dublin Fire Brigade Pipe Band

Carousel and family attraction in garden area.

San Patricio Mariachi Band

RT Radio 1's LIVELINE - 1917 with Joe Duffy will broadcast live from the stage from 1.30 - 3pm.

The RT 2fm Roadcaster will broadcast live from 11am - 5pm, with live music and interviews with the acts. RT Raidi na Gaeltachta will broadcast live from their strand of ta

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