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12/10/2004
Ministers launch Unlocking Creativity initiative
Culture Minister Angela Smith together with Minister Barry Gardiner have launched a new action plan for the Interdepartmental Unlocking Creativity initiative.
Announcing the new action plan, at the Creative Learning Centre, ‘Studio On’, Angela Smith, said the new document continued the dialogue and debate between four government departments and across education, the arts and the creative industries, to build a policy based on consensus.
“It is part of the process to ensure the future flourishing of creativity in Northern Ireland and demonstrates how a small region, such as Northern Ireland, can have a major profile in the new thinking, cultural dialogues and commercial agendas driving the process of change in the 21st century,” Ms Smith said.
Barry Gardiner said: “Creativity and innovation are two sides of the same coin. Unlocking Creativity fully complements the Regional Innovation Strategy, think/create/innovate. It is timely that as Unlocking Creativity: a Creative Region, is being published, the action plan rolling forward, think/create/innovate, has also been developed.”
Invest NI will distribute £4.5 million to client companies, within the creative sector, as part of its drive to unlock creativity and encourage innovative thinking within industry and business in the province.
The funding will provide specific investment support for client companies within the creative sectors and also infrastructural and capability development support on a more general level.
(MB/GMCG)
Announcing the new action plan, at the Creative Learning Centre, ‘Studio On’, Angela Smith, said the new document continued the dialogue and debate between four government departments and across education, the arts and the creative industries, to build a policy based on consensus.
“It is part of the process to ensure the future flourishing of creativity in Northern Ireland and demonstrates how a small region, such as Northern Ireland, can have a major profile in the new thinking, cultural dialogues and commercial agendas driving the process of change in the 21st century,” Ms Smith said.
Barry Gardiner said: “Creativity and innovation are two sides of the same coin. Unlocking Creativity fully complements the Regional Innovation Strategy, think/create/innovate. It is timely that as Unlocking Creativity: a Creative Region, is being published, the action plan rolling forward, think/create/innovate, has also been developed.”
Invest NI will distribute £4.5 million to client companies, within the creative sector, as part of its drive to unlock creativity and encourage innovative thinking within industry and business in the province.
The funding will provide specific investment support for client companies within the creative sectors and also infrastructural and capability development support on a more general level.
(MB/GMCG)
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