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Field Notes IV marks the fourth and fifth Summer Schools, held in 2021 and 2022, and provides a retrospective overview of the first five years of the School. The School, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts, brings together artists, activists, and thinkers for an intensive multi-day residential School (held virtually in 2020 and 2021). This…
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Rita Marcalo is the Artistic Director of Instant Dissidence, a dance company based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage. As a socially and ecologically engaged company, Instant Dissidence foregrounds the role of dance as a social engine. In 2020 Rita was awarded the Create and SIRIUS Arts Centre Artist Residency Award, funded through the Arts Council of Ireland’s…
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In late 2021 artist Kate O’Shea began a process of critical reflection and review of twelve years of her artistic practice with mentor Dr Ciaran Smyth. Gravity Express #1 is a publication which they co-constructed with a view to sharing some insights from that mentoring process. Focusing on the ruptures, transitions and re-formulations over the…
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Welcome to our latest Ory’Sta (Tuam slang for What’s the Story?) event, an informal conversation between Tuam-based artists Jojo Hynes and Midie Corcoran, with artist and mentor Kate O’Shea, held in Reapy’s Bar. This event formed part of the Creative Places and Create Networking Event, hosted by Creative Places Tuam in November 2022.
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We are delighted to share this panel from our Networking Event in November 2022, featuring Critical Friends, a network of professional practitioners with socially engaged, participatory and collaborative practices who have graduated at a Masters level, who are currently engaged in a hybrid library and archive- based residency with Create.
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This panel, part of our Networking Event in November 2022, was chaired by artist Seamus Nolan and featured Kathleen Keenan (musician), Mary McDonagh (theatre artist) and Nora Corcoran (Galway Traveller movement, Misleor festival), on Representation and (Re)imagining Traveller culture at local, regional and national levels. Via various artforms the panel discuss the importance of the…
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We were delighted to feature the premiere of The Colour of My Breath, a filmic exploration of the particular challenges of integration from the perspective of collaborative/ community artists from minority ethnic or migrant backgrounds at our Networking Event in November 2022. The premiere was followed by a panel discussion with artist Tomasz Madajczak, Alessandra…
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We were thrilled to welcome Pablo Helguera, a New York-based Mexican artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance, as our keynote speaker for our Networking Event in November 2022. As both an artist and educator Pablo has made a very significant contribution to the field of socially engaged practice. Through…
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Colour of My Breath is a filmic exploration of the particular challenges of integration from the perspective of five leading collaborative/ community artists from minority ethnic/ migrant backgrounds. Lead artist: Jijo Sebastian; Collaborators: Alessandra Azevedo, Hina Khan, Amir Abu Alrob, Mark Sebata and Tomasz Madajczak. Colour of My Breath is supported by the Communities Integration…
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Jojo Hynes and Midie Corcoran, Tuam-based artists, were awarded a Creative Places Tuam Bursary in July 2020. The purpose of the bursary was to support and nurture socially engaged artists’ practice, specifically aimed at artists with a track record of working collaboratively with communities of place or interest. Jojo and Midie have used the time…
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Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts. Our work initiates cross-sectoral national and international partnerships which support artists and communities to co-create work of depth, ambition and excellence. Our mission is to lead the development of collaborative arts practice by enabling artists and communities to create exceptional art together. Watch this short film…
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John Bissett is a community worker who lives and works in Dublin. John has been involved with a broad range of social movements working to effect positive change and to challenge the imposition of policies and actions which dominate and inflict suffering across the social body. He has been involved with grassroots youth and community…
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