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East Cork Music Project Coffee Morning A Huge Success, With Thanks to Midleton’s IMP Choir


by ALAN SHEEHAN The


East Cork Music


Project (ECMP) fourth cof- fee morning and craft fair was very well supported by the local community last Thursday, 8 December. The ECMP held its its new premises


event at at


the Midleton Commu-


nity Centre, and ran from 11am-1pm, providing the local community with an opportunity to see the work of the project’s participants from both the music and art sections. The highlight of the event however came when the IMP Choir of Midleton presented two cheques: one for €1,000 to


the ECMP, and another for €500 for East Cork Parents and Friends of the Mentally Handicapped. The IMP Choir performs


every week at the Holy Ro- sary Church in Midleton, and also at funeral. The group


perform for


and pass along any dona- tions they receive to other


free, worthy initiatives such as


the ECMP and East Cork Parents and Friends of the Mentally Handicapped “We’re so, so happy with


the whole event,” said Clare Seymour, project coordina- tor of the ECMP. “We’re very proud of our young people. The event gave an opportunity for people to


gain a different perspective on the young people in the town, to show what these young people can do when they


are given the opportunity to do something. It was a very happy event, everybody en- joyed themselves. It gave us a sense of what we can do in the future.” The ECMP is a local


training initiative now in its fifth year of operation and aims to aid their partici- pants in progressing to full


time education, training, or employment through a ho- listic approach across three strands: creativity (through both art and music), per- sonal development, and consciousness raising. The project was previously lo- cated in Ballinacurra Busi- ness Park, but moved to the Midleton Community Cen- tre earlier this year. Various crafts and art-


works created by the ECMP participants were on sale, along with coffee and an assortment of cakes, before


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the participants from the music section, both the FE- TAC level 4 and 5 groups, held performances. “It was the FETAC


Fours’ first time perform- ing,” said Ms Seymour. “They only began on 3 October, and eight weeks later form them to know that many songs and be that comfortable performing in a group is highly impress. Now they can go hell for leather. We’re


delighted with them, with both groups.”


absolutely


• Clare Seymour (project coordinator of the ECMP) and Jim Ronayne (trustee of the ECMP).


• Erin and Shania, both participants at the ECMP.


• Clíodhna Reilly, Liz Stack, and Fine Gael Councillor Susan McCarthy.


• The FETAC Level 5 participants during their set at the East Cork Music Project’s coffee morning and crafts fair.


• Midleton’s IMP Choir presents a cheque for €1,000 to the East Cork Music Project, represented by project co-ordinator Clare Seymour.


• Midleton’s IMP Choir presents a cheque for €500 to a representative for East Cork Parents and Friends of the Mentally Handicapped.


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• Back row: Liam Donovan, Margaret Phelan (both IMP Choir), Clare Seymour (Project Coordinator of the ECMP), Belinda Walsh (one of the Coordinators of the ECMP’s arts section), and Charlie McAllister (IMP Choir). Front row: Margaret Trundle, Maureen Laffan, (both IMP Choir) and Lucia Parle (one of the Coordinators of the ECMP’s arts section).


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