Creative Places Tuam is pleased to announce the first Thinking on Tuam residency, awarded to author and educator Oein de Bhardúin. This residency provides space to hear from voices and people in Tuam and beyond – activists, artists, academics, thinkers, historians, craftspeople, social campaigners, and more. Each residency will inform the larger Creative Places Tuam…
Create is delighted to announce the second Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights, in partnership with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. This bursary aims to support individual professional artists working in collaborative socially engaged arts practice. The purpose of the award is to support and nurture professional arts…
We are pleased to announce Rita Marcalo as the recipient of the Create and Sirius Arts Centre Artist Residency Award. Marcalo is a socially-engaged practitioner whose work resists the idea of art as an object produced by a special kind of person called the ‘artist’. Instead, her work is co-created in dialogue with (and performed…
Funding for individuals, arts groups and community groups About this fund This is a challenging time for artists and communities alike. We recognise the challenge posed to both individuals and groups active in community engagement at a time of physical distancing and the urgent demands on community development and civil society organisations to focus…
Funding for Artist in the Community Scheme reinstated The Arts Council and Create are delighted to announce a second round to the Artist in the Community Scheme 2020. With additional funding from Government, we will now proceed with a second round of the Artist in the Community Scheme 2020. This scheme offers funding to enable…
Create is pleased to announce Jennifer Cunningham, Jacqueline Glynn, and Jojo Hynes and Midie Corcoran as the recipients of the Creative Places Tuam Artist Bursary Awards: Community Solidarity through Collaborative Practices. The purpose of this bursary is to support and nurture professional socially engaged artists’ practice within the Tuam town and hinterland area that has…
2020 marks ten years since the Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Bursary award was inaugurated. We are pleased to announce that this year, we will award two AIC Scheme bursary awards. The first will focus on the theme of Collaborative Arts and Cultural Diversity, and specifically aims to support an artist from a minority…
Create and Sirius Arts Centre invite expressions of interest from collaborative artists with a minority ethnic background, and more broadly from a migrant background, for a residency award at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Co. Cork. The residency takes place across both Sirius Arts Centre and The Guesthouse Project in Cork city and provides opportunities…
Congratulations to all successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Round One) in 2020, who come from a range of art forms and contexts. In recognition of the severe limitations in place due to physical distancing and the challenges this poses to artists and communities, we offered and granted Research and Development Awards only (both with…
Statement from the Arts Council re: the change to the Artist in the Community Scheme budget in 2020 (29th May 2020) “Since the beginning of the current crisis the Arts Council has been examining and refocusing its plans to take account of the new reality we all face. As part of this process, we have…
Create is happy to invite artists and other interested socially engaged practitioners based in Ireland to become members of our virtual Reading Group. The Reading Group is coordinated by Create’s Cultural Diversity Researcher Evgeny Shtorn, and will have its first meeting on the 9th of June, from 1 to 2pm. The group will meet twice…
Community Solidarity through Collaborative Practices Creative Places Tuam is seeking applications from artists connected to the Tuam area whose collaborative socially engaged practice has been disrupted due to the COVID 19 restrictions. Collaborative practice is relational. The work develops because of direct and often durational encounters between artists and communities of interest and place. We…
