About us
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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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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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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January
December
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In Conversation event with Grant Kester
Event 23rd March
Artist in the Community Scheme Online Info Session
Event 23 February 2021
Landscapes of Daring Political Dreams
Workshop 15, 22, 29 March 2021
Artist in the Community Scheme Information Session – Online
Information session 30th March
AIC Scheme One to One Collaborative Practice Clinic
Clinic 6th April
Networks of Solidarity: Between Our Minds
Event 4th May 2021
Exchanges: Navigating the Irish Arts Scene
Event 12th May 2021
We Only Want The Earth Residency 1
Apply before 18 January 2021
AIC Scheme Information Session for Tuam-based artists
Event 10 February 2021
Artist in the Community Scheme Round 1
Apply before 26 April 2021
Artist in the Community Scheme Round 2
Apply before 27 September 2021
Landscapes of Daring Political Dreams workshop series
Apply before 26 February 2021
Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Remote Residency Award
Expressions of Interest due 17 May 2021
Opportunity: Support Roles for Creative Places Tuam
Expressions of Interest due 27 May 2021
What's new
Events
Exchanges: Navigating the Irish Arts Scene
Event · Talk 12th May 2021
News
Opportunity: Support Roles for Creative Places Tuam
News, Opportunities Apply before: 27 May 2021
Resource
In Conversation: Grant Kester and Gráinne Coughlan
Audio
News
Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Remote Residency Award
Resource
Create News 30 – Art, Language and Migration
Periodical
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