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

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

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

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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In Conversation: Grant Kester and Gráinne Coughlan

In Conversation: Grant Kester and Gráinne Coughlan

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Create-Ireland · In Conversation Grant Kester March 2021

In Conversation: Grant Kester and Gráinne Coughlan

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Create, in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Age & Opportunity, University of Limerick, Fingal Arts Office, and the Engagement and Learning Dept of IMMA, is delighted to share this In Conversation event with renowned US-based art historian and educator Grant Kester, and Gráinne Coughlan, Independent Researcher and PhD candidate TU Dublin. The event was chaired by Professor Kerstin Mey, President, University of Limerick.

A full resource page with examples and links mentioned throughout the conversation can be found here.

published 28 April 2021

related programme Evaluative Register for Collaborative Arts

Create News 30 – Art, Language and Migration

Create News 30 – Art, Language and Migration

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Create News 30 – Art, Language and Migration

Create News 30 – Art, Language and Migration

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Francesca La Morgia, originally from Italy, has been involved in a range of community projects primarily with migrant families in Ireland and in the UK for a number of years. In 2017, she created Mother Tongues, a non-profit organisation that aims to support migrant families in raising children with two or more languages. Francesca is the curator of the Mother Tongues Festival, the only festival in Ireland that focuses on multilingualism. This conversation, with Create’s Cultural Diversity Researcher Evgeny Shtorn, encompasses Francesca’s experience as a migrant, an academic, an artist, and her motivation for establishing the Mother Tongues Festival

published 14 April 2021

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Care as a Radical Act: Networking Day 2020 (Subtitled)

Care as a Radical Act: Networking Day 2020 (Subtitled)

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Care as a Radical Act: Networking Day 2020 (Subtitled)

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Moderated by UK-based writer and educator Chrissie Tiller with artists Fiona Whelan, Jijo Sebastian, Alexis Maxwell and Gemma Nash, this panel from Create’s Networking Day 2020 draws on the recent paper of the same name by Chrissie and discusses what forms of cultural solidarity, practices of (self)care and creative interdependence are needed to see us through and beyond the current crisis.

Create’s Networking Day 2020 was offered in partnership with Heart of Glass, Creative Places Tuam and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.

published 12 February 2021

related programme Networking Day

Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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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Create News 29 – Land Walks: A Conversation on Identity, Belonging and the Irish Landscape

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

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

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Creative Places Tuam

Creative Places Tuam

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Creative Places Tuam

Creative Places Tuam

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The Creative Places Tuam website brings together inspiring news, events and opportunities about Creative Places Tuam, a three year capacity building programme managed by Create

published 4 November 2020

related programme Creative Places: Tuam

Beyond the Now

Beyond the Now

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Beyond the Now

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‘Beyond the Now’ is a syndicated social practice platform, founded by partners based and working in locations across the globe, which aims to open up new creative, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world.

published 1 October 2020

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

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

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Create-Ireland · Walking Whid/ Walking Story

“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.

This Walking Whid is inspired by the history and story of Tuam. We would like to credit Michael Waldron & Tuam Tidy Town’s Tuam Heritage and Nature Trail published in 2015 for text referenced in the Whid. Other resources used for this work were sourced from an assortment of Journal of Tuam Society (JOTS) publications, and Oein’s memories of stories told.

This Walking Story was first shared on Culture Night 2020. Route Map and Guidance and Full Transcript available.

published 18 September 2020

related programme Creative Places: Tuam

Thinking on Tuam: Folklore Legends and Myths

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

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

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

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Create News 28 – Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

Create News 28 – Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

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Create News 28 – Utilising Political Imaginaries to Radicalise the Local

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

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

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

Tuam Creates: An ode to place

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Little John Nee · tuam creates - 27:04:2020, 22.19

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

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