Groups involved in the 2019 parade
- Foroige, Link Point Youth Centre
- Springboard Family Support Project
- National Learning Network
- Cork City Samba
- The Brook Centre
- Suisha Inclusive Arts
- Cope Foundation
- Enable Ireland
- Cork Community Bikes
- Youth Work Ireland, The Hut
- UCC Drama and Theatre Studies
- CCAL Comic Creators
- Kareen SK VYBZ Dance Troupe
- CCAL Drama Group
- Joan Denise Moriarty School of Dance
- Macha Shewolf Belly Dancers
- Cobh Animation Team
- Dun Ard Day Service, Bros. of Charity
- Mexicans En Cork
- Crawford College of Art and Design
- Cork Firebirds
- CCAL Skeleton Dancer Troupe
- Cork Life Centre
- Cork Figure Skating Association
- Blackpool Glen Farranree Community Youth Training Centre
- The ACA Performing Arts
- The Shandon Shawlies
- The Coal Quay Shawlies
- High Hopes Choir Cork
- CCAL Families Group
Groups involved in the 2018 parade
The Dragon of Shandon Parade is the result of an extensive outreach and participatory programme that spans several months of workshops with community groups, schools, artists and voluntary participants.
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Groups involved in the 2017 parade
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![]() Enable Ireland provides services to over 5,000 children and adults with physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities in 14 counties across Ireland. Covering childhood to adulthood, expert teams work with the individual and their family on a plan for each life stage.
Enable Ireland's services for adults with disabilities are tailored to individual need. They assist people with identifying and setting the goals they want to achieve from their service to improve their quality of life. They do this by listening, learning and adapting services accordingly to meet a person’s expressed needs and wishes. You can find them here and they also have a facebook page here and a twitter account (@enableireland). |
![]() COPE Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which supports 2,150 children and adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism, so that people of all abilities can live life to the full. Through a network of community based support in 65 different locations in Cork City and County, people can access local education, training, leisure, sports and the arts, the full range of specialised health and world class interdisciplinary and residential care and other supports including housing. Guided and responsive to people who they support as well as their parents, families and supporters, COPE Foundation works to create the life enhancing opportunities and environments that people need, now and into the future
You can find them here & here |
![]() Gurranabraher / Churchfield Youth Development Project aims to provide a community based response to young peoples’ needs, by offering them the opportunity to contribute to and participate in social education, artistic and recreational activities.
The primary objective is to equip disadvantaged young people with the knowledge and skills necessary for appropriate participation in society. Programmes are developed through consultation with young people and a local advisory committee, which are aimed towards meeting the needs of the socially excluded young people through a process of empowerment. Programmes are both centre based and community based You can find them here & here |
![]() Cork Life Centre is a voluntary organisation offering an alternative learning environment to marginalised young people.
The Centre and its staff offer students 1:1 tuition in Junior and Leaving Cert subjects and support them in their preparation for these State Exams. The approach to education is a holistic one. The value is on the social education of young people as much as on the academic. The Centre provides students and teachers with: - An open and friendly environment. - Positive trusting relationships with peers and staff. - Continuous support with issues and challenges a student might face during work With The Centre many young 12-18 year old early school leavers have achieved formal school certification. The success of the project is the mix of nurturance, individual programmes, educational certification, stimulation, fun, hard work, mutual respect and expectations You can find them here & here |
![]() Terence MacSwiney Community College
The Transition Year Class at Terence MacSwiney Community College are delighted to be invited to participate in the Dragon of Shandon Parade. They are a very talented group of young people and have wonderful artistic abilities. This community involvement provides the community link requirement for those who are working towards the prestigious Gaisce Award. This is their first year participating, however, they are hoefully that this link will continue with the vibrant arts world of Shandon and Blackpool. |
![]() The Cork Butter Exchange Brass Band has been in existence under its current name since 1878. However the Band's true origins lie back in the early 1840s. The Band known to the people of Cork affectionally as "Da Buttera" is a community based Wind Band with a focus on involvement in local community events and providing the people of Cork with free musical tuition to anyone willing to join the Band.
The Band plays at many events through out the year such as parades, festivals, regattas, open air recitals, and Christmas Carols You can find them here & here |
![]() "Cork City Samba Band" was formed by friends Darragh O’Connor and Rob Hamilton in May 2012 and has 20 members including people from Brazil, Spain, France, Germany and even Limerick.
The band plays both Rio and maracatu style samba as well as hip-hop, drum ‘n’ bass and house rhythms with distinct Brazilian flavour. Along with swinging samba reggae beats and foot stomping funk drumming, the band can also be heard singing and chanting and even though almost half the band are from outside the country you’re also likely to hear them suddenly break into sing-along folk chants like Óró ‘Sé do Bheatha Bhaile and Beidh Aonach Amárach. You can find them here & here. |
![]() Shawlies have promoted the history and culture of the city
![]() High Hopes Choir Cork
The choir is made up of people affected by homelessness who now raise awareness of homelessness, poverty and suicide through the power of song. |