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In its Art &
Study Centre, KCAT runs an Arts Council funded studio for artists with
special needs and a VEC Art Course open to anybody.
KCAT also
organises exhibitions and other events, an annual art summer school,
weekend-, holiday-, and evening courses and workshops for children.
KCAT
stands for Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent and was started by the
Camphill Communties of Ireland in 1996. It began as an EU Horizon funded
project to facilitate the artistic and personal development of seven
individuals with a range of disabilities. From this and contacts with other
projects in Europe grew the need and inspiration for the permanent centre
which is based in a former sausage factory building in Callan, since 1999.
Rather than
integrating the one group into the other, the centre seeks to create a new
situation: an environment in which artists and students from different
backgrounds can work together as creative equals and in which learning is a
possibility for everyone.
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