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Artist in the Community Scheme

AIC Scheme Bursary: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights

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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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…

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Creative Places Tuam Community Seeding Fund

News · Opportunities Deadline expired

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…

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AIC Scheme Round Two Reinstated

News · Opportunities Deadline expired

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…

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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…

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2020 AIC Scheme Bursaries – Cultural Diversity and Human Rights

News · Opportunities Deadline expired

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…

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Create News 28: Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

Create News Periodical 19 June 2020

Jeanne Van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalise the local”. She works on long term community embedded projects that question art’s autonomy by combining performative action, discussions and other forms of organising and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of…

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Create News 27: Time & Trust: Durational interventions in collaborative art

Create News Periodical 19 June 2020

Artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life; focusing on the transformation of social affect into political effectiveness. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education and politics. In 2018 and 2019, Bruguera created a number of interventions in Tate Modern,…

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Create and Sirius Arts Centre Artist Residency Award Open Call

News · Opportunities Deadline expired

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…

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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 announcement: Artist in the Community Scheme Round Two, 2020

News 29 May 2020

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…

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Create Reading Group on Socially Engaged Collaborative Art

News 26 May 2020

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…

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