There are insufficient intercultural resources for children produced in Ireland; while there is a demand for these resources from teachers faced with cultural diversity in classrooms. The aim is to generate resources that tackle intercultural issues produced through high quality arts workshops that bring together young people and their communities.

We see this project at the heart of intercultural discourse in Ireland at a time when it is still at the first stage of adjusting to a multicultural identity. Although, as the draft recommendations towards a National Action Plan on promoting Anti-Racism and Interculturalism in Education reminds:

“Cultural diversity is a long-standing though little attended-to characteristic of Irish society. It includes established communities of Travellers, Jewish, Chinese, Italian and Muslim communities, together with other ethnic groups. Of the overall increase in inward migration to Ireland in recent years, only 10% are asylum seekers. Almost half of all recent migrants to Ireland are returning Irish emigrants. Most of the remainder are migrant workers who have been invited and encouraged to work in Ireland as a consequence of skill and labour shortages. The needs of these immigrants are multifarious and require urgent responses but their situation does not comprise the frame within which anti-racist intercultural education policy and codes of practice should be developed.”
Promoting Anti--Racism and Interculturalism in Education – Draft recommendations towards a National Action Plan

We believe opportunities for young people to work together and make culture the topic in the course of a publishing project are one rejoinder to this.