Beginning in 2017, Create, working closely with the Arts Participation team in the Arts Council, have been engaged in a period of research and policy making within the Artist in the Community Scheme. An aim of this work was to increase the capacity and engagement of artists and communities from minority ethnic and migrant backgrounds…
A4 Sounds in partnership with Create and Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) invite applications from trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming artists for a four-month residency award as part of the We Only Want the Earth 2021 programme. The residency will run from Feburary to May 2021. The residency opportunity aims to support an artist based in…
Contested Narratives, Places and Futures: Socially Engaged Art Practice in Ireland Editors: Helen Carey, Fire Station Artists’ Studios| Alan Grossman and Anthony Haughey, Centre for Socially Engaged Practice-Based Research, Technological University Dublin| Ailbhe Murphy, Create Preface: Gregory Sholette, Social Practice CUNY (City University New York), USA Publisher: Cork University Press Publication Date: 2022 Submission Deadline:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What does socially engaged arts practice look like at a time of social distancing? Instinctively, we prefer to alter the language here. Along with the WHO we prefer to think in terms of physical distancing and social solidarity. At this time of physical distancing we need more than ever to amplify the means of social…
Update 30th March 2020: Due to COVID-19, it is not possible to co-host the Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Artist Residency Award in June as planned and therefore we are necessarily exploring alternative dates. We will post an update when normal working frameworks have been re-established. Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Artist Residency Award Open…
A4 Sounds in partnership with Create and Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland (MASI) invite applications from artists who are seeking or have sought international protection in Ireland, for a four-month residency award as part of the We Only Want the Earth 2020 programme. The residency will run from May to August 2020. The residency opportunity…