NEIC Community Arts Programme
2025-
The launch of Boghanna Báistí Beaga, created by artist Helen Barry and children from Holy Child Preschool. Hugh Lane Gallery, July 2025. Part of the NEIC Community Arts Programme. Photo courtesy Hugh Lane Gallery
The vision for the North East Inner City Community Arts Programme is that community arts can be transformative. Community Arts is an essential component of social inclusion, social justice and equality. Since 2025, Create has managed the Community Arts Programme in the NEIC, with the aim to support artists and steer the development of place-based collaborative arts.
We see the enormous potential of this programme to activate the very best of contemporary collaborative arts practice, while building supportive and sustainable frameworks for diverse artistic practice and meaningful cultural participation in the North East Inner City.
Over the coming months, we will offer a high-quality collaborative, socially engaged arts programme that will build on the creative ambitions and capacities of the artists and communities of the North East Inner City. We will offer opportunities for artists and communities through training, funding opportunities, residencies, creative exchanges, public conversations and more.
Create will act as a connector, a facilitator of ideas, a strategic guide, and as a leader of collaborative community-based artistic endeavour. We recognise the existing artistic initiatives and creative practices already active in the North East Inner City and surrounding area, and aim to connect what is already in place with the best of Create’s thinking, access to artists, professional development expertise and national and international connections.
The programme will be shaped and informed by local needs, ambitions and interests as they evolve. Create will seek to build a collaborative framework that will lead to a programme of and by and for the people of the North East Inner City.
We look forward to sharing news, opportunities and developments here.
Fiona O’Neill, North East Inner City Community Arts Programme Coordinator, is available from Monday to Thursday: fionaoneill[at]create-ireland.ie, 0857858123
Fiona works in 51-53 Sean McDermott st (D01HW44) in the NEIC on Mondays.
