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About Create
Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts. Our mission is to lead the development of collaborative arts practice by enabling artists and communities to create exceptional arts together.
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Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts in social and community contexts. Our work initiates cross-sectoral national and international partnerships which support artists and communities to co-create work of depth, ambition and excellence
Programme
Artist in the Community Scheme
Are you an artist or community group with an interest in working on a collaborative, socially engaged project? The Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards, an annual bursary, residencies and a summer school.
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Programme
Networking Day
Create’s National Networking Day is an annual encounter of exchange and learning about artists’ practices, which operate in the spaces between socially engaged arts, pedagogy, and politics, in order to activate, stimulate, critique, and make change.
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Supports
Advisory Support
Create offers advisory support to individuals and organisations, both through one-on-one meetings with Create associates and group sessions. The content of sessions can be tailored to the needs of the individual practitioner or organisation.
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Supports
Vetting for the Arts
Create is registered with the National Vetting Bureau to represent persons, organisations and groups in accessing vetting for bona-fide reasons of employment or engagement in the arts and culture.
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Supports
Reading Room
The Create Reading Room is a unique resource for artists, community workers, arts, civil society and NGO organisations and anyone with an interest in and passion for the potential of art to effect social change.
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Learning Lab: Art, Cultural Democracy and the City
27 September 2019
Create National Networking Day 2019, Cork
Event 26 Sept 2019
Check Up Check In 2019, Waterford
Event 11-12 April 2019
AIC Scheme Information Session, Waterford
Information session 12 April 2019
Acouscenic Listening & Creative Soundwalk, Bealtaine@TempleBar
Workshop 18 May 2019
Artist in the Community Scheme Information Sessions – Killarney, Galway
Information session 29 May 2018
AIC Scheme Information Session and Clinics, Carlow
Information session 4 June 2019
AIC Scheme Information session, Donegal
Information session 18 June 2019
Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice
Summer school 15-19 July 2019
City Change Masterclass
Event 29-31 May 2019
What's new
News
We Only Want the Earth
Events
Create National Networking Day 2019, Cork
Event 26 Sept 2019
News
AIC Scheme Case Study: Made Ground
News 21 August 2019
Events
Learning Lab: Art, Cultural Democracy and the City
27 September 2019
Resource
Field Notes: The Inaugural Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice
Book
Resource
2019 Residency with Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios – Rajinder Singh
Video