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Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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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

related programme Networking Day

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

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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.

This issue of Create News is based on a conversation between William Bock, Zoë O’Reilly, researcher and author of recent book ‘The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration’, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, artist and creator of Asylum Archive, Donna Treya from West Cork Development Partnership and project participants Lora Mildred, Mariama Bah and Khanyo Dlamini.

published 8 December 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

“Walking Whid/ Walking Story” – a journey through Tuam with Oein DeBhardúin

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“Walking Whid/ Walking Story” – a journey through Tuam with Oein DeBhardúin

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Join Oein DeBhardúin, inaugural recipient of Creative Places Tuam’s Thinking on Tuam residency on this journey through the town, hearing about the stories, folklore, legends and history of Tuam, the Traveller Community and its relationship with Tuam. A transcript of the walking tour is available here. You can download the tour by clicking on the download button on the top right hand side of the picture.

See a map and route guidance here.

This Walking Story was first shared on Culture Night 2020.

published 18 September 2020

related programme Creative Places: Tuam

Thinking on Tuam: Folklore Legends and Myths

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Thinking on Tuam: Folklore Legends and Myths

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We’re delighted to share the first public conversation from Creative Places Tuam’s Thinking on Tuam residency, between author Oein DeBhardúin and filmmaker and folklorist Michael Fortune, which focuses on folklore, mythology and stories.

This conversation was first shared on Culture Night 2020. A transcript is available here

Creative Places Tuam is an Arts Council initiative, led by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts.

published 18 September 2020

related programme Creative Places: Tuam

Field Notes II: Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes II: Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice

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Field Notes II documents the second Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, held in July 2019.

The Summer School brought together artists, activists, and thinkers for a five day residential, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts. This publication features writings from Summer School participants and facilitators, as well as from Dr Ailbhe Murphy, director of Create and Dr Áine O’Brien, co-director of Counterpoints Arts, who frame the publication in light of the significant challenges to collaborative, socially engaged art presented by Covid 19

published 22 July 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Create News 28 – Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

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Create News 28 – Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

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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 their own futures.

This is an edited transcript of a presentation given by Jeanne Van Heeswijk in Common Ground’s Studio 468 in February 2020.

published 19 June 2020

Survival is Not Enough! Gregory Sholette and Megs Morley in Conversation

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Survival is Not Enough! Gregory Sholette and Megs Morley in Conversation

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As part of Create’s Conversations for Change series with leading practitioners, thinkers and activists, we are delighted to host curator and artist Megs Morley and New York based artist, activist and writer Gregory Sholette. This series aims to amplify the means of creative and social solidarity between artists and communities, much needed in these unprecedented times.

published 18 June 2020

The Textual Trace: Writing and Socially Engaged Practice – Fiona Whelan and Gretchen Coombs in conversation

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The Textual Trace: Writing and Socially Engaged Practice – Fiona Whelan and Gretchen Coombs in conversation

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As part of Create’s Conversations for Change series with leading practitioners, thinkers and activists, we are delighted to host a conversation between Irish artist, writer and educator Fiona Whelan and Australian based academic Gretchen Coombs. This conversation explores writing both as a form of practice and encounter in collaborative work and writing as a form of advancing the analysis of practice and its critical coordinates in the diverse contexts in which socially engaged art occurs.

published 28 May 2020

related programme Art and Society Learning Programme
related programme Evaluative Register for Collaborative Arts

Tuam Creates: An ode to place

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Tuam Creates: An ode to place

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“Footloose and fancy free,
if I wanted to live in New York I’d live in New York,
if I wanted to live in Paris I’d live in Paris,
but Kilaloonty is where I roll out my blanket this past 16 years…”

An ode to Tuam by artist and musican Little John Nee, first performed at the launch of Creative Places Tuam, January 2020

published 28 April 2020

related programme Creative Places: Tuam

Cultural Diversity and the Artist and the Community Scheme

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Cultural Diversity and the Artist and the Community Scheme

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Create has been working with the Arts Council in recent years to widen access to the Artist in the Community Scheme, through our Cultural Diversity Strand. Watch this short video to find out more about the enhanced award, residencies and summer school offered through this strand. Then visit the AIC pages on this site to read more!

published 3 February 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

What is the Artist in the Community Scheme?

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What is the Artist in the Community Scheme?

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Are you interested in applying for the AIC Scheme? Watch this short video to find out more about Create and the scheme, which offers funding each year for artists and communities to work collaboratively together.

published 3 February 2020

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Irish Aphasia Theatre: an AIC Scheme funded project

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Irish Aphasia Theatre: an AIC Scheme funded project

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Irish Aphasia Theatre (IAT) is a socially engaged company which uses theatre to artistically engage, train, facilitate and produce the work of participants who have cognitive, communication and physical disabilities, in particular aphasia. IAT was founded by theatre director, writer and facilitator, Gráinne Hallahan, in 2018. This project was funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme Project Realisation award and Fingal County Council Arts Office.

Video Arcade Film, courtesy Gráinne Hallahan

published 20 January 2020

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Tania Bruguera and Dr Áine O’Brien in conversation: Networking Day 2019

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Tania Bruguera and Dr Áine O’Brien in conversation: Networking Day 2019

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It was our great pleasure to welcome world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera as our keynote speaker for Create’s National Networking Day 2019. Tania discussed her work on the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission with Áine O Brien, Co-Director Counterpoints Arts.

published 16 December 2019

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

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

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Artist Tania Bruguera researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life. In 2018 and 2019, Bruguera created a number of interventions in Tate Modern, including bringing together the Tate Neighbours, people who live or work nearby Tate Modern, to work with her and guide the project whilst exploring the role of the institution in the local area. Tania was keynote speaker at Create’s National Networking Day 2019, held on the 26th September in Millenium Hall in Cork City. This issue of Create News is an edited transcript of the conversation between Tania and Dr. Áine O’Brien, Co-Director of Counterpoints Arts.

published 3 December 2019

related programme Networking Day

Networking Day 2019: Hammad Nasar and Mary McCarthy

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Networking Day 2019: Hammad Nasar and Mary McCarthy

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In the context of the Decade of Commemorations and how Ireland’s struggle for independence played out very vividly in Cork, we chose to close Networking Day 2019 with a discussion about the notion of commemoration and the symbolic role of public art. We were joined by Hammad Nasar, initiator of Let Our Statues Speak project, to reflect on questions of memory and whose history gets written in or out of the urban fabric in broader processes of commemoration. Hammad was in conversation with Mary McCarthy, Director of the Crawford Art Gallery.

published 2 December 2019

related programme Networking Day

Networking Day 2019: Community-based Commissioning and the Politics of Place

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Networking Day 2019: Community-based Commissioning and the Politics of Place

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In the second panel of Networking Day 2019, chaired by Patrick Fox, Director of Heart of Glass, Sören Meschede, curator and coordinator of Concomitentes, Spain and artists Mark Storor and Linda Curtin of the per cent for art project I Can Colour Between the Lines But I Choose Not To in Knocknaheny Cork explored community-based commissioning and the politics of place, accompanied by Kath Gorman, Head of Participation and Engagement for Cork Midsummer Festival.

published 2 December 2019

related programme Networking Day