Our Place. Image: Daniel Obina Moses, AlanJames Burns, Sinead McCann, Laura O’Keeffe.
AIC Scheme Info Session: 27th August 2024
Event · Information session
Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers Artist in the Community Scheme grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on projects. The scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts.
The scheme is open to artists from any of the following artform disciplines: architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language), music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts. The projects can take place in a diverse range of social and community contexts eg arts and health; arts in prisons; arts and older people; arts and cultural diversity. The aim of the scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists.
Create is pleased to announce an online information session on applying to the Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, with Tatiana Dos Santos, AIC Scheme Programme and Development Support, and AlanJames Burns, previous AIC Scheme recipient.
The information session is about answering any questions you might have about making an application to the Scheme. It’s also about sharing experience of developing and delivering a collaborative project through the Scheme. If you are an artist or a community organisation interested in the Artist in the Community Scheme but don’t know where to start, come talk to us. If you are an artist interested in developing a collaborative project with a community organisation or in a community situation this event is for you. If you are an artist who has applied before and would like to access further detail on the application process, please join us.
*Please note that this event will feature live ISL interpreting and captioning*
AlanJames Burns (they/them) is a neurodivergent and environmental artist, curator and festival maker. Their practice is marked by socially engaged, and site-specific projects. The focal points of their highly collaborative practice are disability, the climate emergency, and the pursuit of a just society. Burns’ most recent project is ‘Our Place’, a socially engaged sound art and placemaking project with Sinead McCann and St John of God. ‘Our Place’, is a 4 year project that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities by creating access to cultural expression and cultural spaces, placing the ideas, talents, and lived experiences of intellectual disability at the heart of the art making and exhibition design.
Other projects include; ‘Disrupt Disability Arts Festival’, an annual festival taking place on at Project Arts centre and online; ‘Divergently Together’, 2024-26 a national Creative Ireland climate action project exploring the climate crisis through the perspective of disability; ‘The Waking Walls’ 2023, an immersive audio-lament that connects Caoineadh, traditional Irish mourning practices, to understanding experiences of ecological grief.
