Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

Dates set for Cork's Lifelong Learning Celebrations in 2024

We are delighted to announce the dates have been set for the 2024 Cork Lifelong Learning Festival 

The dates for the 2024 festival are set as Wednesday 10th of April - Wednesday 17th of April 2024 and we look forward to hosting a series of FREE learning events all over Cork City with something for everybody to enjoy. 

We believe that celebrating learning should be fun and accessible to all and in keeping with our Festival motto we want to encourage everyone to – Investigate, Participate, Celebrate.

We welcome a wide range of events in a wide variety of formats that celebrate lifelong learning and we are very excited to work with you on making the 2024 Corks Lifelong Learning Festival a remarkable week of learning events for Cork.

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Cork Celebrates Lifelong Learning Awards provides a great opportunity for the people of Cork to nominate individuals and projects that have inspired us by their innovation, endeavour and resilience through their Lifelong Learning actions. 

These awards are a celebration of how lifelong learning enables people to change their lives and how learning has become a way to improvement in life, work and community.

Join us to find out how to nominate exceptional individuals or projects in your area and to see some examples of best practice from other Learning Cities.

For further queries regarding the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival or Cork Celebrates Lifelong Learning Awards, please contact Siubhán Mc Carthy at learningfestival@corkcity.ie or call 00 353 21 4924527 . 

Below is a video highlighting some festival events in 2019 : 

The festival promotes and celebrates learning of all kinds, across all ages, interests and abilities. The festival’s motto is 'Investigate, Participate, Celebrate', and the public can do that by taking part in workshops or classes, watching demonstrations, trying out new skills, and seeing others; from the young to the old, show off what they are learning.

All events are free & accessible to everyone. 

Learning is promoted as fun with events including performances, debates, taster sessions, tours, displays and demonstrations. These free events take place right across Cork in a variety of venues indoors and out; including libraries, museums, community centres, parks, sports grounds, private businesses and in Cork's green spaces.

Join in! as a Festival PARTICIPANT - Applications open soon ! 

Our free printed festival programmeswill be available in the run-up to the festival at local libraries, host venues and in Cork City Hall foyer.