Artist in the Community Scheme
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As the lead agency for collaborative arts, Create operates within the context of important policy frameworks and actions by the State in the field of the arts and culture, including the Arts Council Strategy Making Great Art Work 2016 to 2025 and its policy on Equality Human Rights and Diversity. Create is committed to broadening…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
Create and The Model invite expressions of interest for an Artist Residency award from collaborative socially engaged artists who have first-hand experience of displacement and/or are shaped by histories of intergenerational migration. For this residency, candidates may or may not self-identify as refugee, migrant or otherwise through lived experience and/or second generational memories. The residency takes place at The Model in…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios invite expressions of interest from collaborative socially engaged artists who have first-hand experience of displacement and/or are shaped by histories of intergenerational migration, for a remote residency to be held in June and July 2021. For this residency, candidates may or may not self-identify as refugee, migrant or otherwise through lived experience…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News, Create News Periodical 14 April 2021
Francesca La Morgia, originally from Italy, has been involved in a range of community projects primarily with migrant families in Ireland and in the UK for a number of years. In 2017, she created Mother Tongues, a non-profit organisation that aims to support migrant families in raising children with two or more languages. Francesca is…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
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…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
News 15 January 2021
Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin, Comharchumann Chléire and the community of Cape Clear Island Funded by the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Otolith is the second in a series of works instigated by artist Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin under the title ‘Archipelagic Thinking’. The performance event and resulting sculpture is a collaboration between Ó’Donnabháin, composer Seán Ó’Dálaigh, goldsmith…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
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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Artist in the Community Scheme
News, Create News Periodical 8 December 2020
Land Walks is a collaborative sound and visual art project by artist William Bock and residents of West Cork, that maps experiences of belonging and uprooting in the West Cork landscape through walking, storytelling and collaborative field recording. Over six months, William Bock walked with nine asylum seekers living in Clonakilty Lodge Direct Provision Centre…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
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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Artist in the Community Scheme
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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Artist in the Community Scheme
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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…
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Artist in the Community Scheme
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…
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