Who is Stamp? About the Cluster Partners
Creative Partners
Benchspace
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- Benchspace is Ireland's first, shared, creative manufacturing hub.
- It's multidisciplinary workshops are equipped with woodwork, jewellery, digital design and fabrication facilities, along with modular open-plan incubation pods.
- The founding idea of Benchspace is to assist creative start-ups. Key to this objective is to provide affordable access to work space and professional equipment for people to develop their creative business.
- Such facilities naturally complement Further Education and Higher Education programmes producing graduates in creative and making focused disciplines.
- Benchspace lowers the barriers for people from all backgrounds taking their first steps into the start-up market.
Benchspace: https://benchspacecork.ie
Sample Studios
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- Sample-Studios is one of Ireland’s largest artist studios and creative work spaces with a membership of over 120 Visual Artists and Practitioners.
- Sample-Studios delivers 6 residency programmes to launch, support and sustain creative careers, particularly for early stage career artists and marginalised artists from a migrant, refugee and asylum seeker background.
- In 2021 the members of Sample Studios made a return of €23.531 into the Cork economy for every €1 invested by the Cork City Council.
- Last year, 21,000+ people engaged with Sample-Studios' free public exhibitions, education and outreach programming
Sample Studios: https://sample-studios.com
Cork Craft and Design
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- Cork Craft & Design (CCD) is a social enterprise and membership organisation that supports and promotes professional and semi-professional craft and design makers
- CCD provides a space for creatives to network, sell and exhibit their creations.
- Every August CCD hosts the celebratory festival Cork Craft Month that holds over 70 events; from exhibitions, studio trails and demonstrations, craft markets, ‘Meet the Maker’ sessions and Family Fun Days.
- Pre Covid, Cork Craft & Designs retail shop had a turnover of €196,000 in sales with €175,000 going to our makers
Cork Craft and Design: https://www.corkcraftanddesign.com
Shandon Art Studio
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- Shandon Art Studios was established in 2017 and is run by a group of local artists practising different disciplines.
- The studio energises the historical quarter, the hidden heart of Cork City and is a shared space for multidisciplinary artists to work, collaborate and connect.
- Since 2017 they have held Free Events and Educational Programmes; including 22 Exhibitions and Events and 5 Public Art Commissions that have had a public engagement of 6162 people
Shandon Art Studios: Shandon Art Studios - Home | Facebook
Acknowledgments
Cult-CreaTE
STAMP has been made possible by Cork City Council’s involvement in the Cult-CreaTE European cooperation project (INTERREG EUROPE) on cultural and creative tourism for SME competitiveness.
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Local Enterprise Office Cork City
The STAMP partners gratefully acknowledge financial support from Cork City Local Enterprise Office (LEO).
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Creative Ireland
In addition, the STAMP festival is supported by the Creative Ireland Programme, an all-of-Government five-year initiative, from 2017 to 2022, which places creativity at the centre of public policy. Further information from creativeireland.gov.ie
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We are Cork
STAMP is also associated with the We Are Cork Place Brand.
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