Risto Ruohonen (Chair) and Sarah Gardner (Executive Director) participated in the 'Networking the Arts' conference on 20-22 May hosted by the Arts Council of Ireland in Cork to mark the Irish Presidency of the EU. The conference, which focussed on issues of artists mobility, was attended by 60 people for 28 countries. A report on the conference written by the Director of the Centre for Creative Communities, Jennifer Williams, can be found in the Centre's newsletter No.14, Interchanges.