Voices From Shandon, a What If... project by Cork Community Art Link 
in collaboration with Didier Gallot Lavallee, is a community arts project, 
part installation, part performance taking place throughout 2012 and 2013 in Cork. 

This flag project is one of the largest community based participative arts projects
to be undertaken in the City of Cork, celebrating community, diversity
and active cultural citizenship. 

Engaging up to 1,000 participants, groups and individuals from across the city
took part in an extensive outreach programme to create a thousand flags
which currently colour the city skyline of Cork, forming a temporary public art 
installation on St Anne’s Church in Shandon. The flags were raised to the sound
of 100 voices performing an original choral composition in a ceremony of colour
and song on June 15th 2013. 

The event marked the culmination of one of the largest of a number of cultural event
which took place across Ireland to celebrate the hosting of the European Presidency. 
The installation will remain in place until September 16th 2013 after which it is hoped
to tour the flags to other European countries.

This project is supported by Cork City Council and the Arts Council of Ireland.