Resources

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

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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 (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

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Made Ground: An AIC Scheme-funded Project

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Made Ground is a collaboration between artists Eva Richardson McCrea, Frank Sweeney and the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society (DDWPS). Taking the DDWPS online archive of over 3,500 photographs as its starting point, the work draws on a range of source material including interviews, institutional and personal archives, documents and original footage. The two channel video work considers the movement from manual to knowledge based forms of labour in the Docklands, the changing architecture of the area and the impact of these changes on the surrounding communities

Video courtesy of the artists.

published 29 August 2019

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Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice, 2019

Video by KILIG Productions

The 2019 Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice took place in Killary Lodge, Leenane, Co Galway in July 2019.

The Summer School brought together 13 artists, thinkers, and activists on a five-day residency with international guest speakers enabling a ‘think and do’ collaborative approach, utilising creative workshops, critical and comparative case studies, and one-to-one mentoring.

Facilitated by Áine O’Brien, Co-Director, Counterpoints Arts, with arts consultant Mary Ann Devlieg and artist Isabel Lima,the Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice is an initiative of the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme, and is delivered through a partnership between Create and Counterpoints Arts.

published 26 August 2019

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2019 Residency with Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios – Rajinder Singh

Video by John Beattie

Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios are pleased to share this behind the scenes look into Rajinder Singh’s 2019 Artist Residency Award based at Fire Station Artists’ Studios.

Rajinder Singh’s photography, video and performance work explore ideas around the vulnerable body and its pain, interrogating the economies of power that deny it space and shape.

This AIC Scheme-funded residency, which aims to support an artist from an ethnic minority to develop their collaborative and socially engaged arts practice, is offered through a partnership between Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios.

published 6 August 2019

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2018 Residency with Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios – Hina Khan

Video by John Beattie

Hina Khan was the inaugural recipient of the Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Residency for an Artist from an ethnic minority background.

Hina’s work is the constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and express ideologies through symbolism.  Using a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques, Hina’s work portrays social issues, immigration and humanitarian crisis like prostitution, gender discrimination, restrictions, trauma, child abuse and killing. This residency provided Hina space to work with freedom, enhancing her capabilities as an artist and provided an opportunity to develop her collaborative arts practice further, while immersing herself in contemporary Irish art practice.

published 17 July 2018

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Sheelagh Broderick on collaborative processes and the AIC Scheme

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Sheelagh Broderick, artist and visual artist, & Sherkin Island Development Society Ltd, on collaborative processes; collaborative practice as a contingent practice and the role and importance of documentation and evaluation.

This video was originally published in 2012 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Artist in the Community Scheme

published 1 December 2012

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