Artist in the Community Scheme Online 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 Áine Crowley, Programme Manager, Arts and Engagement, and Maud Hendricks, actor, performer, and previous AIC Scheme award 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.

For further information on the scheme and how to apply, visit the Artist in the Community Scheme section of our website, linked on this page.

Maud Hendricks is artistic director of Outlandish Theatre Platform, the first theatre company in residence at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital (CWIUH) in Dublin 8.  With Bernie O’Reilly, Maud creates new socially engaged projects within a community and arts and health context, using theatre conventions in new settings to explore what self-representation means in today’s society.