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Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios residency recipient: Gea Gojak

News, Recipients 30 June 2021

Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios are pleased to announce Gea Gojak as the recipient of the 2021 Remote Residency Award. This award was specifically designed for collaborative socially engaged artists who have first-hand experience of displacement and/or histories of intergenerational migration, and will take place remotely over four weeks in June and July. The remote residency offers…

 

AIC Scheme 2021 Round One: Successful Recipients

News, Recipients 16 June 2021

Congratulations to all successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Round One) in 2021, who come from a range of art forms and contexts. Read more about each recipient, and their planned course of work, below. Research and Development Award Ashleigh Ellis will work with the Parkowen/ Green Spaces for Health group on the research and…

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AIC Scheme Bursary Award Recipient (Collaborative Arts and Human Rights): Tobi Balogun

News, Recipients 14 December 2020

Create and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties are pleased to announce Tobi Balogun as the recipient of the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights. Tobi is an artist based in Dublin and Carlow, working across Dance, Theatre, Fashion and Design. As a professional member of Dance Ireland and founding…

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AIC Scheme 2020 Round Two: Successful Recipients

News, Recipients 19 November 2020

Congratulations to all successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Round Two) in 2020, who come from a range of art forms and contexts. Read more about each recipient, and their planned course of work, below.   Research and Development Award Alisha Doody will work with the Stairlings Collective on the research and development of an…

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Creative Places Tuam Seeding Fund: Recipients

News, Recipients 23 October 2020

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the Creative Places Tuam Seeding Fund. This fund was established in order to respond to the challenge posed by Covid 19 to artists and communities alike. The Seeding Fund enables individuals and groups to fund research or projects that will happen in and benefit the people of…

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AIC Scheme Bursary Award Recipient (Collaborative Arts and Cultural Diversity): Amir Abu Alrob

News, Recipients 30 September 2020

Create and the Irish Refugee Council are pleased to announce Amir Abu Alrob as the recipient of the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Cultural Diversity. Amir is an actor and theatre-maker originally from Palestine, who has recently received Refugee status in Ireland. Amir has over six years’ experience as…

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Create and Sirius Arts Centre Artist Residency Award recipient: Rita Marcalo

News, Recipients 12 August 2020

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…

Creative Places: Tuam  

Creative Places Tuam Artist Bursary Recipients

News, Recipients 20 July 2020

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…

 

AIC Scheme 2020 Round One: Successful Recipients

News, Recipients 10 June 2020

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…

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Arts Council AIC Scheme Bursary Award 2019: Collaborative Arts in Theatre – recipient

News, Recipients 9 December 2019

Create is delighted to announce that Aisling Byrne has been awarded the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2019: Collaborative Arts and Theatre. Byrne is a theatre artist with a practice in socially engaged & inclusive theatre making. Throughout the past decade she has predominantly collaborated with artists and arts participants with…

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AIC Scheme Second Round 2019: Successful Applicants

News, Recipients 17 September 2019

Congratulations to all the successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Second Round 2019), who come from a range of art forms and contexts. Research and Development Award Artist; Community; Context; Artform; Location Alex Pentek; Cork Traveller Women’s Network; Art and Cultural Diversity; Visual Arts; Cork John Whelan; North Wexford Traditional Singing Circle; Arts and Community…