Create Café Series – help us shape the next five years of Create

Help us to shape the next five years of Create!

In the last five years, Create has…

• Supported 823 practitioners through the Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create on a devolved basis for The Arts Council
• Launched the AIC Scheme Artist Mentoring Awards, which has to date matched 15 pairs of mentors and mentees
• Supported arts and cultural engagement through Creative Places Tuam, and supported 18 other Creative Places across the country
• Offered a two-year commission opportunity in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery
• Supported Eight Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Awards, in Collaborative Arts and Cultural Diversity; Collaborative Arts and Human Rights; Collaborative Arts and Community Development; and Collaborative Arts and Dance
• Delivered Ten residencies – onsite and remote, national and international – with Sirius Arts Centre, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, The Model, Galway Arts Centre and Creative Places Tuam, the National Women’s Council, and hablarenarte (Madrid)
• Run Five Summer (and Autumn) Schools on Collaborative Practice and Social Change
• Published Twenty publications
• Established the Create Reading Room: a new and 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. Its range of publications and resources inspired by collaborative arts practices can be accessed in-person or online
• Implemented our Strategy Connect Create Change (2020-2025), whose five strategic goals were designed to increase the reach of collaborative arts, enhance its value and ensure its ongoing sustainability

What’s next?

We’re inviting artists, arts workers, community and charity sector representatives, researchers, activists, arts managers and more throughout Ireland to contribute to our new strategy through a series of events taking place in-person and online throughout May and June.

These sessions will focus on your current experiences of collaborative arts practice, and where Create may be able to support you further. They’ll be open and friendly events, with opportunities for catching up with peers, as well as some creative challenges.

Create Café series

• Thursday 8 May, 2-5pm | Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork, T12 X70A | BOOK HERE
• Monday 19 May, 3-5pm | online I, via Zoom | BOOK HERE
• Tuesday 20 May, 2-5pm | FLUX Studios D2, 4 Chatham Row, Dublin, D02 PA06 | BOOK HERE
• Tuesday 27 May, 2-5pm | Nun’s Island Theatre, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, H91 H322 | BOOK HERE
• Wednesday 11 June, 2-5pm | The Model, The Mall, Sligo, F91 TP20 | BOOK HERE
• Thursday 12 June, 11am-1pm | online II, via Zoom | BOOK HERE

This event will take place within the principles of Create’s safer space agreement.

It is important to us that as many people as possible have an opportunity to experience our event. Those with financial, access or other requirements are invited to contact us to discuss how we can best support you to attend. Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpretation will be available upon advance request. After booking, and prior to the events taking place, we will circulate ‘what to expect’ documentation to attendees.

Should you have any questions about attending, please contact producer[at]create-ireland.ie or 01 4736600.

We look forward to seeing you there!