Resources

Thinking on Tuam: Folklore Legends and Myths

Video

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

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

Video

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

Video

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

Cultural Diversity and the Artist and the Community Scheme

Video

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?

Video

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

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme

Irish Aphasia Theatre: an AIC Scheme funded project

Video

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

Video

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

related programme Networking Day

Networking Day 2019: Hammad Nasar and Mary McCarthy

Video

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

Video

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

Connect Create Change: Strategy Launch

Video

Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland, Create’s Strategy 2020 – 2025, was launched on the 26th September 2019, following Create’s Networking Day. It was launched by Independent Senator Colette Kelleher, with contributions from Deirdre Figueiredo, MBE, Chair of the Create board, Ailbhe Murphy, Director, and world-renowned socially engaged artist Tania Bruguera.

published 31 October 2019

related programme Networking Day