CREATE: Arts Sector News & Updates – September 2024
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  Figures of Eight Performance. Photo by Jacek Snochowski  What Is an Island? Panel discussion and book launch Date & Time: 21 September, 4pm Venue: Talk Suite, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 8 The What is an Island? project was initiated in 2018 by artist and educator Glenn Loughran (TU Dublin / GradCAM) in collaboration with Uillinn director Ann Davoren and former director of Create, Ailbhe Murphy. “What is an Island? Towards a Patchwork Pedagogy for a World Archipelago” captures each iteration of the project, through the Covid 19 pandemic and the emergence of the metaverse, through community, friendship, loss, and recovery. To support this publication, IMMA has invited Glenn Loughran and Ann Davoren to convene a panel on the relation between islands, art and climate change, on the 21st September at 4:00pm. Following this panel discussion, join us for a reception to launch the publication. This panel discussion and book launch are part of Earth Rising 2024, IMMA’s flagship festival focused on the Earth crisis. AIC Scheme 2024 (Round Two) open for applications Deadline: 30 September The Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme 2024 (Round Two) is now open for applications. This includes the following awards: Research and Development Award (without mentoring) Research and Development Award (with Mentoring) Recent Graduate Research and Development Award (with Mentoring) Project Realisation Award Sharing Practice: Figures of Eight Figures of Eight was a live performance process and moving performance made collaboratively with Fatima Groups United and artist Veronica Dyas in 2023. The project interrogated the current state of Dublin 8 in relation to accommodation, gentrification and biodiversity, and was produced by Project Arts Centre and funded through the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Project Realisation Award managed by Create. This publication, which features an essay by the artist Veronica Dyas alongside perspectives from her collaborators, forms the first in our Sharing Practice series. This series is intended to showcase collaborative, socially engaged work in all its complexities. We look forward to using this platform to share practice via multiple media. |
 Culture Connects Programme Coordinator, Dublin City Council Culture Company Deadline: 20 September Dublin City Council Culture Company are seeking to recruit a Culture Connects Programme Coordinator at Richmond Barracks. Richmond Barracks is a building of historical importance located in Inchicore, Dublin 8. It is home to a library, garden, cafe and Culture Connects, a programme of cultural activities that celebrate the experiences and interests of the local communities and people. Various roles, The Dock Deadline: 23 September, 10am Venue Manager will work closely with The Dock team to oversee and manage effectively the venue for the benefit of staff, artists, arts workers and visitors. Communications Manager The Communications Manager will work closely with The Dock team to communicate the aims and objectives of their forthcoming Strategic Plan and accompanying policies. Artistic Director & CEO, Dublin Theatre Festival Deadline: 27 September, 5pm Dublin Theatre Festival seeks candidates for the role of Artistic Director & CEO. The Artistic Director & CEO is required to be ambitious in all aspects of the Festival’s operations and to lead a dynamic and curious team to continuously improve. Communications and Marketing Manager, Poetry Ireland Deadline: 27 September Poetry Ireland are looking for a Communications and Marketing Manager to join their team, who will lead and shape the strategic and day-to-day communications and marketing of the organisation. Artistic Director & CEO, Dublin Municipal Theatre Deadline: 30 September, 5pm Dublin Municipal Theatre (DMT) is a new and exciting cultural initiative based in the historic Smock Alley building at 6-7 Exchange Street Lower. DMT aims to build upon this heritage, creating a vibrant, inclusive, and innovative space for contemporary theatre that resonates with audiences. The newly formed Board are seeking an experienced and dynamic Artistic Director and CEO to lead Dublin Municipal Theatre through an exciting period of transition and development. Digital Deliveries Supervisor, Irish Film Institute Deadline: 4 October, 5pm Irish Film Institute wishes to appoint a Digital Deliveries Supervisor to oversee and implement the digital preservation workflow for all materials delivered under the IFI’s overarching agreements (OA). They will play a key role in fulfilling administration and preservation actions on a daily basis and will also create annual reports on this activity, making suggestions for improvements and addressing any issues that arise.  Dwell Here: Residency programme, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art Deadline: 18 September IMMA are delighted to announce new residency opportunities inviting practices working across disciplines of the visual arts, design, architecture, curation and related humanities fields. Successful applicants will be supported to undertake independent site-responsive research in addition to participating in the week long seasonal research intensives. Cruinniú na nÓg Commission 2025, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Deadline: 23 September, 2pm To celebrate Cruinniú nan Óg 2025 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has partnered with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Children and Young People’s Services Committee, the My Project and Springboard Family Support Services to offer an artist’s a commission to create new work for Cruinniú na nÓg 2025. This commission is open to applications from professional artists who create art for and with children from seven to ten years. Research and Development Plan for Creative Places Kilfinane, Ballyhoura Development CLG Deadline: 24 September, 5pm Ballyhoura Development CLG wish to appoint a skilled artistic professional or professionals to work with them to deliver Creative Places Research and Development Award for Kilfinane in County Limerick. Creative Places Kilfinane is to be the catalyst for how the people of the community understand what the arts are and who they are for, a sea change in mindset driven by open access to great art in the community, a new understanding and appreciation of the work of artists, and a deep understanding of the myriad tangible benefits the arts bring to us all for connection, integration, participation and sense of place. Creative Health and Wellbeing in the Community Project, Cork City Council and Irish Hospice Foundation Deadline: 27 September, 12pm Cork City Council, in partnership with the Irish Hospice Foundation, is seeking expressions of interest from artists of all disciplines with facilitation experience and knowledge of working with young people and/or vulnerable older adults for a new project: ‘Exploring Loss and Grief: Healing Through Art’. Supported by Creative Ireland, this project aims to address isolation and foster connection through creative engagement with individuals experiencing grief and loss and facilitate intergenerational collaborations between active retired groups and fifth class students. TOCHAIL Residency, Cumas Ceantar/ Creative Places Uibh Ráthach and TASC Deadline: 27 September, 5pm Creative Places Uíbh Ráthach is inviting submissions from socially engaged artists and arts collectives who wish to participate in TOCHAIL a three week research residency in the Iveragh Gaeltacht in South Kerry, during the Autumn/Winter of 2024. The TOCHAIL project will be of interest to artists who are interrogating new approaches to the rural housing crisis, positioned within the wider context of climate justice. These residency opportunities are open to artists of all disciplines who are experienced in socially engaged practices. The Air We Share Artist in Residence, Galway Arts Centre Deadline: 30 September At the core of The Air We Share is the development of an open call for three significant artist in residence opportunities valued at €38,000 each. These are 9 month residencies (Oct 2024- July 2025) managed by the creative lead partner Galway Arts Centre. They invite artists to propose ambitious, innovative and collaborative projects that will engage with the community of Westside and respond to the scientific research related to the atmosphere, air quality, and climate conducted by citizen scientists and climate scientists in the University of Galway. Westmeath Artists Award 2024, Luan Gallery and Westmeath Arts Office Deadline: 1 October, 12pm Luan Gallery invites submissions from professional practicing visual artists residing in or originally from Westmeath (proof of Westmeath residence or being from Westmeath initially will be required) who represent the diversity of Westmeath’s artistic community, working in any medium to submit 2D and/or 3D artwork for consideration of this Award and inclusion in a group exhibition, which will take place from December 2024 to early February 2025. Arts Participation Assessment and Advisory Services, The Arts Council of Ireland Deadline extended: 7 October, 12pm The Arts Council requires the services of either a single or multiple services providers, with suitable expertise and capacity, to provide Arts Participation assessment and advisory services. Open Call: Artist Books for Dublin Art Book Fair 2024, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Deadline: 7 October Temple Bar Gallery + Studios announces the open call for artist books for inclusion in Dublin Art Book Fair 2024, guest curated by Adrian Duncan. His theme is Fictions: The makings of other worlds. Arts and Disability Connect Round Two 2024, Arts & Disability Ireland Deadline: 8 October, 4pm The Arts and Disability Connect scheme is designed to support artists with disabilities to be ambitious, to develop their practice and to connect with arts organisations and arts professionals in the Republic of Ireland. Call for Art Projects, Ballymun is Brilliant Deadline: 13 October, midnight Ballymun is Brilliant is excited to announce a call-out for innovative art projects aimed at exploring climate action and climate justice in the Ballymun community through artistic expression. This project seeks to engage the local community in Ballymun by fostering conversations around climate change, sustainability, and justice. Ocean & Environment, Creative Places West Cork Islands Deadline: 31 October, 5pm Creative Places West Cork Islands welcomes creative submissions from socially engaged artists, designers, craft-makers, or creative teams in relation to a new socially engaged commission that will respond to all of the seven inhabited islands of West Cork under the theme Ocean and Environment. The aim of this commission is for art to create a space for dialogue and understanding, promoting social progress and cultural innovation in response to contemporary challenges.  Stones by Aaron Sunderland Carey Opening: 18 September, 7:30pm Exhibition until 22 October Venue: Axis Ballymun, Main Street, Ballymun, Dublin 9 Sunderland Carey presents a new mixed media exhibition made in collaboration with Ballymun. Stones portrays a community who have faced countless changes and challenges, reflecting on and examining the relationship between the community, the landscape and those with power. Empathising with the Enemy by Louis Scully Opening: 19 September, 6pm Exhibition until 18 November Special event: 17 October, 1:15pm Venue: NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 NCAD Gallery is delighted to introduce lens-based artist, photographer and maker Louis Scully with his first solo exhibition titled Empathising with the Enemy. Empathising with the Enemy by Scully is a lens-based project and film work developed through forging a network of individuals and organisations located in the geographic areas of Palestine and Israel – made manifest through a dialogical approach of interviewing activists’ of varying communities who voice their wider perspectives from within the contested occupied territories of Israel-Palestine. Our Place by AlanJames Burns, Sinead McCann with St John of God RHA Gallery | Exhibition until 22 September Kerry County Museum | Opening: 20 September, exhibition until 20 October Our Place is a collaboration between artists Sinead McCann and AlanJames Burns and St John of God Liffey Services. It creates access to cultural expression and cultural space by placing the ideas, talents and lived experience of people with intellectual disabilities at the centre of art-making and exhibition design. Within the gallery you will experience a multi-sensory installation that playfully explores themes of happiness, human rights, and belonging. Global Desires, Outlandish Theatre Date: 9-13 October Venue: Bay 1, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8 Outlandish Theatre continues to push the boundaries of art, activism, and research with the co-created, interdisciplinary, participatory and bold Global Desires. The international, multi-location and multigenerational cast addresses questions of desire essential to them: the desire to seduce, the desire to know more, the desire to not know any more, and the desire for autonomy and basic human rights whilst living in Direct Provision. Global Desires, presented as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, is directed by Maud Hendricks and Bernie O’Reilly of Outlandish Theatre. The work is co-created by Outlandish Theatre’s ensemble working with dance artist and collaborative movement director JJ, and Jong Gewei (Young Antlers). With For About 2024: When words fail, Heart of Glass, UK Date: 10 October Time: 9am – 6pm Venue: Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot, L34 3AB, UK As different crises impact our lives, the ways we communicate have become increasingly challenging. With For About: When words fail is concerned with themes including: collaboration, communication, language, silence, rupture, crisis, heartbreak, radical friendship, safe space, solidarity. Heart of Glass invite artists, practitioners and arts, community and youth workers who value empathy, listening, and expression. The event will feature workshops, discussions and performances led by practitioners of socially engaged arts, youth work, feminist organising, and climate justice.  Creative Exchanges, Age & Opportunity Date: 19 and 26 November Time: 10am – 4pm Venue: IMMA – Irish Musuem of Modern Art, Dublin 8 Admission: €380 Creative Exchanges is a two-day course designed for activities coordinators working in residential or day care settings. It is also suitable for those with an arts background interested in engaging with older people in a care setting. The course is designed to provide meaningful opportunities to engage older people in arts activities and adopts a person-centred approach promoted by, HIQA’s National Quality Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People (2016). On completion of the course, a Certificate of Attendance will be issued to participants by Age & Opportunity. Read more about our Promotional Guidelines and how to submit your event or opportunity for possible promotion by Create. We only promote opportunities in which the artist is paid, in line with our Artists’ Pay Policy. Create: 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 PC43, Ireland Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts  |
