“Cork has always had its home-grown art, theatre, and, especially, music. When it was designated European Capital of Culture 2005, the smallest city ever to win the title – and, with a measly 15 million euros, given the smallest ever budget – it ingeniously issued a “public call” for ideas. The result, a wide-ranging programme of 236 creative projects, takes in football, rowing and hurling, as well as the Knitting Map, an attempt at the world knitting record using satellite images of Cork as a pattern.”
Tag: 03.08.05
Critics Assail Plans For Thai Tsunami Museum
Critics have attacked the Thai Government’s plans for a tsunami museum. Particularly insensitive, they say, are plans to create the simulated tsunami attraction as part of a memorial museum.