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
today
Artists and The City Masterclass with Jeanne van Heeswijk – Postponed
Event 9 - 10 Dec 2019
Create and IAF City Conversation Series: Daisy Froud
Event 05 Dec 2019
Uisce Salach World Premiere
Event 27 Nov 2019
Politics of Context Workshop with Fiona Woods
Event 1 Nov 2019
AIC Bursary Award Information session: Collaborative Arts and Theatre
Information session 15 Oct 2019
Create and IAF City Conversation Series: Javier Rodrigo
Talk 29 Oct 2019
Learning Lab: Art, Cultural Democracy and the City
Event 27 September 2019
Create National Networking Day 2019, Cork
Event 26 Sept 2019
Check Up Check In 2019, Waterford
Event 11-12 April 2019
Acouscenic Listening & Creative Soundwalk, Bealtaine@TempleBar
Workshop 18 May 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
AIC Scheme Information Session and Clinics, Carlow
Information session 4 June 2019
City Change Masterclass
Event 29-31 May 2019
AIC Scheme Information Session, Dublin
Information session 26 February 2019
AIC Bursary deadline
Apply before 11 November 2019
AIC Awards deadline 1
Apply before 25 March 2019
AIC Awards deadline 2
Apply before 29 July 2019
AIC Scheme Information Session, Waterford
Information Session 12 April 2019
Join our Board
Contact us before 2 December 2019
Open Call: Artists and the City Masterclass
Apply before 22 November 2019
Create Office Closed
For Festive Holidays 20 December 2019
What's new
News
Arts Council AIC Scheme Bursary Award 2019: Collaborative Arts in Theatre – recipient
News, Recipients 9 December 2019
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Time & Trust: Durational interventions in collaborative art
News 2 December 2019
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Miracle or Misunderstanding
News, Featured publication 27 November 2019
Events
Artists and The City Masterclass with Jeanne van Heeswijk – Postponed
Event · Workshop 9 - 10 Dec 2019
News
We Only Want the Earth
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Create Networking Day for Collaborative Arts 2019
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