Create News 29 – Land Walks: A Conversation on Identity, Belonging and the Irish Landscape

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Create News 29 – Land Walks: A Conversation on Identity, Belonging and the Irish Landscape

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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Create Networking Day 2020 goes Online

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Create Networking Day 2020 goes Online

News 12 November 2020

We are pleased to announce details of Networking Day 2020, which seeks to take stock of collaborative and socially engaged arts practice in a year unlike any other. The Networking Day brings together artists and community and cultural practitioners to share practice and to exchange in the context of the unique challenges this year has presented…

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Creative Places Tuam website launched

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Creative Places Tuam website launched

News 6 November 2020

Creative Places Tuam today launched a website which will bring together information, news, events and opportunities from the three year cultural programme. The site aims to amplify collaborative arts practice in the town and its hinterlands, connecting artists, business people, young people, and the wider community.  Creative Places Tuam is for everyone – whether you…

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Beyond the Now: opening new creative, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world

Beyond the Now  

Beyond the Now: opening new creative, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world

News 15 October 2020

Create is delighted to introduce  ‘Beyond the Now’ a syndicated social practice platform, founded by partners based and working in locations across the globe. Beyond the Now aims to open new creative, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world. Beside Create, partners include Counterpoints Arts, Open University,  Plymouth College of Art, Ettijahat, Coculture, and Mozilla Festival….

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

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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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Open Call: Submissions to New Publication on Socially Engaged Arts Practice

 

Open Call: Submissions to New Publication on Socially Engaged Arts Practice

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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:…

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Creative Places Tuam launches the first “Thinking on Tuam Residency” with Oein de Bharduin on Culture Night 2020

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Creative Places Tuam launches the first “Thinking on Tuam Residency” with Oein de Bharduin on Culture Night 2020

News 9 September 2020

Creative Places Tuam is pleased to announce the first Thinking on Tuam residency, awarded to author and educator Oein de Bhardúin. This residency provides space to hear from voices and people in Tuam and beyond – activists, artists, academics, thinkers, historians, craftspeople, social campaigners, and more. Each residency will inform the larger Creative Places Tuam…

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AIC Scheme Bursary: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights

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AIC Scheme Bursary: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights

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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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