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AIC Scheme updates – Covid 19

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Important updates to the Artist in the Community Scheme, including enhanced award amounts and date changes, in reponse to Covid 19

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Resources for collaborative artists during Covid 19

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This is a challenging time for artists and communities alike. Here is some information and resources for artists during this time.

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Strategy 2020-2025: Connect Create Change

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Read our new Strategy Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland, 2020-2025

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What we do

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

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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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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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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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