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

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

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Field Notes IV marks the fourth and fifth Summer Schools, held in 2021 and 2022, and provides a retrospective overview of the first five years of the School.

The School, devised by Create and Counterpoints Arts, brings together artists, activists, and thinkers for an intensive multi-day residential School (held virtually in 2020 and 2021). This publication features writings and contributions from School alumni including William Bock, Tatiana Santos, Alisha Doody, Ella Skolimowski alongside reflections by School programmers Áine O’Brien, Áine Crowley and Director of Create, Damien McGlynn.

published 12 June 2023

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Create News 33 – Meditations on the role of the artist in the age of impending collapse

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Create News 33 – Meditations on the role of the artist in the age of impending collapse

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Rita Marcalo is the Artistic Director of Instant Dissidence, a dance company based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage. As a socially and ecologically engaged company, Instant Dissidence foregrounds the role of dance as a social engine.
In 2020 Rita was awarded the Create and SIRIUS Arts Centre Artist Residency Award, funded through the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community Scheme, which is managed by Create.
The residency took place within the wider context of Instant Dissidence’s work in dance and the climate emergency. This issue of Create News features the edited transcript of a talk given by Rita at Nordic Street Conference organised by PASSAGE festival / Helsingør Teater (Denmark and Sweden) on 10th June 2022. Rita’s participation at the conference was scheduled as part of Instant Dissidence’s European tour of SlowMo, funded by Perform Europe.

published 17 May 2023

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Gravity Express #1

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Gravity Express #1

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In late 2021 artist Kate O’Shea began a process of critical reflection and review of twelve years of her artistic practice with mentor Dr Ciaran Smyth. Gravity Express #1 is a publication which they co-constructed with a view to sharing some insights from that mentoring process. Focusing on the ruptures, transitions and re-formulations over the course of Kate’s sustained commitment to art and activism, Gravity Express captures some fragments from their work together in the form of a critical archaeology of artistic becomings. Presented in the style of the popular tabloid newspaper, it was first made publicly available as part of an in-conversation event at the Cork Mid-Summer Festival, June 2022.

Gravity Express #1 was in part supported by an Arts Council Of Ireland Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme Bursary Award in Collaborative Arts and Community Development, awarded to Kate O’Shea.

published 10 January 2023

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Ory’Sta: Jojo Hynes, Midie Corcoran and Kate O’Shea

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Ory’Sta: Jojo Hynes, Midie Corcoran and Kate O’Shea

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Welcome to our latest Ory’Sta (Tuam slang for What’s the Story?) event, an informal conversation between Tuam-based artists Jojo Hynes and Midie Corcoran, with artist and mentor Kate O’Shea, held in Reapy’s Bar. This event formed part of the Creative Places and Create Networking Event, hosted by Creative Places Tuam in November 2022.

published 17 December 2022

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Pablo Helguera: The Social Practice Nightmare Before Christmas

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Pablo Helguera: The Social Practice Nightmare Before Christmas

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We were thrilled to welcome Pablo Helguera, a New York-based Mexican artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance, as our keynote speaker for our Networking Event in November 2022. As both an artist and educator Pablo has made a very significant contribution to the field of socially engaged practice. Through his projects and critical writing, he has expanded our thinking of what it means to be a socially engaged artist, and the potential of the practice to effect change. Following his keynote lecture, Pablo was joined in conversation by artist Deirdre O’Mahony, member of Create’s Board.

published 12 December 2022

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Critical Friends: Networking Event 2022

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Critical Friends: Networking Event 2022

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We are delighted to share this panel from our Networking Event in November 2022, featuring Critical Friends, a network of professional practitioners with socially engaged, participatory and collaborative practices who have graduated at a Masters level, who are currently engaged in a hybrid library and archive- based residency with Create.

published 10 December 2022

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Representation and Reimagining Traveller Culture: Networking Event 2022

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Representation and Reimagining Traveller Culture: Networking Event 2022

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This panel, part of our Networking Event in November 2022, was chaired by artist Seamus Nolan and featured Kathleen Keenan (musician), Mary McDonagh (theatre artist) and Nora Corcoran (Galway Traveller movement, Misleor festival), on Representation and (Re)imagining Traveller culture at local, regional and national levels. Via various artforms the panel discuss the importance of the community taking the lead in developing, directing and producing the experiences and histories of the Traveller community.

published 2 December 2022

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Colour of my Breath at Networking Event 2022

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Colour of my Breath at Networking Event 2022

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We were delighted to feature the premiere of The Colour of My Breath, a filmic exploration of the particular challenges of integration from the perspective of collaborative/ community artists from minority ethnic or migrant backgrounds at our Networking Event in November 2022. The premiere was followed by a panel discussion with artist Tomasz Madajczak, Alessandra Azevedo, Amir Abu Alrob and Mark Sebata, with lead artist Jijo Sebastian, chaired by Carlos Garrido Castellano.

Colour of My Breath is supported by the Communities Integration Fund from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. This project is also supported by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts and the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme.

published 1 December 2022

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Colour of my Breath

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Colour of my Breath

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Colour of My Breath is a filmic exploration of the particular challenges of integration from the perspective of five leading collaborative/ community artists from minority ethnic/ migrant backgrounds.

Lead artist: Jijo Sebastian; Collaborators: Alessandra Azevedo, Hina Khan, Amir Abu Alrob, Mark Sebata and Tomasz Madajczak.

Colour of My Breath is supported by the Communities Integration Fund from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. This project is also supported by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts and the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme.

published 24 November 2022

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Create News 32 – The Artist Archive, A reflection by Creative Places Tuam Bursary awardees

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Create News 32 – The Artist Archive, A reflection by Creative Places Tuam Bursary awardees

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Jojo Hynes and Midie Corcoran, Tuam-based artists, were awarded a Creative Places Tuam Bursary in July 2020. The purpose of the bursary was to support and nurture socially engaged artists’ practice, specifically
aimed at artists with a track record of working collaboratively with communities of place or interest. Jojo and Midie have used the time afforded by the bursary to reflect on their experiences as collaborative artists, and to research inspiring collectives and explore best working practices within their community. They were guided in this work by mentor Kate O’Shea.

This issue of Create News features some of their observations and conclusions, in conversation with Kate O’Shea.

published 26 October 2022

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Create News 31 – The Power of the Arts in Enacting Social Change

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Create News 31 – The Power of the Arts in Enacting Social Change

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John Bissett is a community worker who lives and works in Dublin. John has been involved with a broad range of social movements working to effect positive change and to challenge the imposition of policies and actions which dominate and inflict suffering across the social body. He has been involved with grassroots youth and community work in the city of Dublin since the late 1980s. This has led to participation and leadership in many groups and social movements over the past four decades in Ireland, Australia and with groups across Europe. John is currently a member of Housing Action Now and Red Wheelbarrow Productions.

John is currently preparing a book for publication about the lives and struggles of public housing tenants, titled ‘It’s not where you live. It’s how you live’ to be out before the end of 2022. In this piece, John writes about the long history of arts and activism, focusing in particular on his working base of Rialto, Inchicore and Bluebell, in Dublin’s south inner city.

published 22 June 2022

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Create’s residency model and its challenge to practice

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Create’s residency model and its challenge to practice

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Nadia Tamerji was the recipient of the 2021 AIC Scheme Artist Residency Award by Create and The Model in Sligo. This award was designed for collaborative socially engaged artists who have first-hand experience of displacement and/or are shaped by histories of intergenerational migration.

In this conversation, Nadia and her mentor Kate O’Shea discuss aspects of the residency and its impact on her practice.

This residency was funded through the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community Scheme, which is managed by Create. It was supported by Sligo Arts Office and is offered through a partnership between Create and The Model.

published 23 May 2022

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Take home messages from Create’s residencies

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Take home messages from Create’s residencies

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Nadia Tamerji was the recipient of the 2021 AIC Scheme Artist Residency Award by Create and The Model in Sligo. This award was designed for collaborative socially engaged artists who have first-hand experience of displacement and/or are shaped by histories of intergenerational migration.

In this conversation, Nadia and her mentor Kate O’Shea discuss aspects of the residency and its impact on her practice.

This residency was funded through the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community Scheme, which is managed by Create. It wass supported by Sligo Arts Office and is offered through a partnership between Create and The Model.

published 22 May 2022

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2021 Residency with Create and Model, Sligo: Nadia Tamerji

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2021 Residency with Create and Model, Sligo: Nadia Tamerji

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Nadia Tamerji was the recipient of the 2021 AIC Scheme Artist Residency Award by Create and The Model in Sligo. This award was designed for collaborative socially engaged artists who have first-hand experience of displacement and/or are shaped by histories of intergenerational migration.

In this conversation, Nadia and her mentor Kate O’Shea discuss the residency and its impact on her practice.

This residency was funded through the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community Scheme, which is managed by Create. It wass supported by Sligo Arts Office and is offered through a partnership between Create and The Model.

published 13 April 2022

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Networks of Solidarity: 04 On The Airwaves

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Networks of Solidarity: 04 On The Airwaves

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Networks of Solidarity is a series of four monthly online talks co-organised by artist/organiser Kate O’Shea and writer/researcher Enya Moore from the Just City Collective, which aims to strengthen transnational networks of solidarity and deepen awareness of place-based struggles that reverberate from Dublin 8 to Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia). This event series is supported in part by a Dublin City Council Revenue award granted to Create.

On the Airwaves An online talk that invites radio producers, performers, community workers and podcasters to discuss opportunities afforded by the spoken word in building communities. Guests: Huna Amweero, Ainle Ó Cairealláin, Raphael Olympio, Dr. Krini Kafiris Facilitator: Fionnuala O’ Connell

published 31 March 2022

Networks of Solidarity: 03 Through Our Stories

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Networks of Solidarity: 03 Through Our Stories

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Networks of Solidarity is a series of four monthly online talks co-organised by artist/organiser Kate O’Shea and writer/researcher Enya Moore from the Just City Collective, which aims to strengthen transnational networks of solidarity and deepen awareness of place-based struggles that reverberate from Dublin 8 to Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia). This event series is supported in part by a Dublin City Council Revenue award granted to Create.

Through Our Stories Guests: Jason De Santolo (Garrwa and Barunggam, researcher and creative producer), Oein DeBhairduin (author, activist), Amala Groom (Wiradyuri conceptual artist), Alessandra Azevado & Karen Aguiar (Go Dance For Change) Facilitator: Enya Moore (writer, researcher)

published 30 March 2022