Resources

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 Framework

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

Create – Who We Are

Video

Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts. Our work initiates cross-sectoral national and international partnerships which support artists and communities to co-create work of depth, ambition and excellence.

Our mission is to lead the development of collaborative arts practice by enabling artists and communities to create exceptional art together.

Watch this short film to learn more about the breadth of our work.

published 21 January 2020

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

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

related programme Artist in the Community Scheme