Resources

Mentorship Toolkit

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In 2022, Create launched the Artist in the Community Scheme Artist Mentoring Award (AMA) which supports artists who face particular challenges in developing their Practice.

This Toolkit is designed to support everyone who is becoming a mentor or mentee as part of the AIC Scheme Artist Mentoring Award. It was developed to serve as a companion document that you may reference throughout your mentoring journey from before your first meeting to after your mentorship is over. The toolkit includes a collection of information, tips, templates, and resources for mentees and mentors to use at their own discretion.

published 9 March 2026

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related programme Sharing Practice

Zine: Planning, Printmaking and Publishing for the People

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This zine builds on the Planning, Printmaking and Publishing for the People workshop event we hosted in 2024, led by gender-based violence activist Mpho Mokotso and artist and activist Kate O’Shea. The zine features contributions from Kate and Mpho as well as participants at the workshop.

published 17 June 2025

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related events Planning, Printmaking and Publishing for the People with Mpho Mokotso and Kate O’ Shea

The People’s Kitchen #1: Hot Compost

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Kate O’Shea is an artist and organiser. In 2015, she cofounded The People’s Kitchen, a space where people could come together to cook, eat, build community, and have a laugh as they shared ideas and formulated plans to address the challenges we face as communities today. The People’s Kitchen provides a framework for people passionate about systems change to literally sit around the kitchen table, share information and ideas from different perspectives, combine skills and knowledge, and formulate plans.

The People’s Kitchen focuses on the energy of collaboration and mutualism—rather than individualism, isolation, and competition—to get things done. Connection and building relationships make work more enjoyable, more nurturing, and more productive. Link, exchange, imagine, do. And have fun doing it.

The People’s Kitchen, North Main Street is funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme.

published 1 April 2025

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The People’s Kitchen 2: Growing in Public Flower Beds

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Kate O’Shea is an artist and organiser. In 2015, she cofounded The People’s Kitchen, a space where people could come together to cook, eat, build community, and have a laugh as they shared ideas and formulated plans to address the challenges we face as communities today. The People’s Kitchen provides a framework for people passionate about systems change to literally sit around the kitchen table, share information and ideas from different perspectives, combine skills and knowledge, and formulate plans.

The People’s Kitchen focuses on the energy of collaboration and mutualism—rather than individualism, isolation, and competition—to get things done. Connection and building relationships make work more enjoyable, more nurturing, and more productive. Link, exchange, imagine, do. And have fun doing it.

The People’s Kitchen, North Main Street is funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme

published 31 March 2025

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The Peoples’ Kitchen 3: John’s Front Garden

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Kate O’Shea is an artist and organiser. In 2015, she cofounded The People’s Kitchen, a space where people could come together to cook, eat, build community, and have a laugh as they shared ideas and formulated plans to address the challenges we face as communities today. The People’s Kitchen provides a framework for people passionate about systems change to literally sit around the kitchen table, share information and ideas from different perspectives, combine skills and knowledge, and formulate plans.

The People’s Kitchen focuses on the energy of collaboration and mutualism—rather than individualism, isolation, and competition—to get things done. Connection and building relationships make work more enjoyable, more nurturing, and more productive. Link, exchange, imagine, do. And have fun doing it.

The People’s Kitchen, North Main Street is funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme

published 30 March 2025

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AIC Scheme FAQs

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Here you will find Frequently Asked Questions and Answers regarding the Artist in the Community Scheme.

published 14 November 2024

Creative Places Coordinators’ Handbook

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Creative Places is an Arts Council initiative which aims to connect with people, artists, and places, to allow ideas to develop into creative actions that are inspired by and enrich our island.
The Creative Places Network Services was managed by Create since its inception in 2021 to 2024. Create offers tailored support, training, peer networking opportunities and knowledge exchange, contributing to the Creative Places goal of building local arts programmes which will benefit. This handbook has grown from the experiences and learning of the initial cohort of Creative Places coordinators, leading projects in Tuam, Athy, Bagenalstown, Edenderry, and West Cork between 2020 and 2024.

published 7 October 2024

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Figures of Eight: A project interrogating the current state of Dublin 8 by Fatima Groups United & Veronica Dyas

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Figures of Eight was a live performance process and moving performance made collaboratively with Fatima Groups United and artist Veronica Dyas in 2023. The project interrogated the current state of Dublin 8 in relation to accommodation, gentrification and biodiversity, and was produced by Project Arts Centre and funded through the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Project Realisation Award managed by Create.

This publication, which features an essay by the artist Veronica Dyas alongside perspectives from her collaborators, forms the first in our Sharing Practice series. This series is intended to showcase collaborative, socially engaged work in all its complexities. We look forward to using this platform to share practice via multiple media.

published 13 September 2024

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related programme Sharing Practice

Gravity Express #1

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published 10 January 2023

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Create and Counterpoints Arts Learning Lab on Collaborative Arts, Diversity and Social Justice

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In July 2020, Create and Counterpoints Arts, a UK-based arts agency dedicated to Art, Migration and Social Change, held a Learning Lab on Collaborative Arts, Diversity and Social Justice, which brought together artists, activists, policymakers and racial justice/ human rights advocates and activists, to think about how we might put the principles around ‘equality, diversity and human rights’ into practice in Ireland. The Learning Lab coincided with the European Union marking the 20th anniversary of the Race and Equality Directive (June 29th) and was framed in the context of the Irish Arts Council’s Equality Human Rights and Diversity Policy
and Strategy (2019).

This report document comprises an edited transcript of the conversations held that day.

published 9 June 2021

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Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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At the Create Networking Day (9th December 2020), close to two hundred delegates came together in a facilitated interactive session, entitled “Connect” which offered a chance to meet, talk, share, and strategise together. We collectively built a resource pack for the sector; talks, books, projects that have inspired, kept us going and which encourage our work as collaborative artists and cultural and/or community practitioners.

This resource, made up of everyone’s recommendations and co-produced by Create and Heart of Glass, is reflective of a sense of collective wisdom, provocation and support by our field of practice at this time.

Each resource can be accessed by clicking the heading for each item.

published 10 December 2020

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AIC Scheme Cultural Diversity Research Report

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AIC Scheme Cultural Diversity Research report

Artist in the Community Scheme Cultural Diversity Researcher Evgeny Shtorn interviewed artists from minority ethnic backgrounds who have engaged with the AIC Scheme, as well as evaluating literature and research in this field to create this research report in early 2020. This report evaluates the current state of affairs for migrant and minority ethnic artists working in collaborative arts in Ireland through interviews and quantitative analyses, before establishing a number of recommendations for the field.

published 21 April 2020

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