Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, along with Irish Theatre Institute (ITI), have launched a series of supports for artists and arts workers in Ireland as part of ‘Safe to Create’, a collaborative programme looking to transform workplace culture and practices, and to provide safe and respectful working conditions for those working in the arts.

The Goethe-Institut Irland has announced that it will host a travelling virtual reality (VR) exhibition at its premises on Merrion Square, Dublin, which invites visitors to reimagine the future of libraries as interactive spaces that offer multisensory forms of storytelling.

The mining of metals and minerals is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon energy system, but drastic and widespread changes are needed in how we extract, utilise and recycle these resources. That’s according to iCRAG, the SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences, which is coordinating the second Researching Social Theories, Resources, and Environment (ReSToRE) International Summer School at UCD this week (4th to 8th July).