Time could be said to be the theme of the Moment Intergenerational Performance Project directed by American artist Molly Sturges at O'Connell Court and given its public presentations last weekend.

This building is now a sheltered housing and residential care home but was formerly the Redemption Convent and it was under the highly-coloured windows of the old chapel that the Moment Ensemble came together in a series of closely knit episodes of reminiscence, video images, shadow pictures, storytelling, recitation and live music and song. Devised as part of the Cork 2005 Health and Culture strand with the collaboration of the HSE, the objective was to work out a strategy for the promotion of creativity within such institutions - to uncover, as Molly Sturges says, "the brilliance that just goes unseen".

Her purpose is to provide a significant creative exchange of lasting value to the lives of residents, their carers and their families; such places are to her "very tender, almost sacred spaces", and the Moment project was a way of transcending the labels often applied to these services.

The public performances marked the end of the engagement. There is no funding to allow it to continue but it is hoped that this programme uniting residents, nursing and administrative staff, students, schoolchildren (from Ashton Comprehensive), and professional artists (including Danny McCarthy and Mel Mercier) will provide both inspiration and a blueprint for further development.