CREATE: Arts Sector News & Updates – 17th June 2025
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  Resistance is a Visual Language – workshop with Josh MacPhee. Create Reading Room, May 2025. Photo: Vance Lau  2025 AIC Scheme Bursary Awards Deadline: 21 July, 5pm The bursary award is aimed at individual professional artists who collaborate with individuals or groups/ communities (non-arts professionals). Artists must have a track record of making and interpreting art collaboratively with communities. One of the two bursary awards is specifically for an early career/emerging artist with a track record in collaborative arts practice. AIC Scheme Bursary Info Session (online) Date & Time: 25 June, 2-4pm Create will host an information event online for artists in relation to this bursary. In this session a member of the Create team will outline the Bursary, answering any questions you might have about making an application. The focus of discussion will frame the context of this Bursary, the application process and how a Bursary could help facilitate and support experimentation, research and professional development. Artist Evelyn Broderick, previous Bursary recipient (2023), will speak to her experience and the role the Bursary played in the development of her practice. AIC Scheme 2025 Round One: Successful Recipients Congratulations to all successful applicants to the AIC Scheme (Round One) in 2025, who come from a range of art forms and contexts. Read more about each recipient, and their planned course of work, here. Creative Places Tuam Cultural Growth Fund Recipients Announced Creative Places Tuam is committed to further supporting the growth of culture and creativity in Tuam. Following on from the Seeding Fund (2020) and Taking Root Fund (2023), we are proud to offer a third funding scheme, the Cultural Growth Fund, to support artists and communities of Tuam alike to continue their great work. This was a highly competitive and oversubscribed award and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who took time to submit an application. Creative Places Tuam with support from Galway County Council Arts Service was in the privileged position to award €20,155 to seven projects. We look forward to working to supporting these important projects over the coming months. |
 Learning and Public Engagement Curator, The Model, Sligo Deadline: 23 June The Model is seeking a committed and conscientious individual to join their team as Learning and Public Engagement Curator, who will play a key role in the organisation, supporting the delivery of high-quality arts programming while ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all who engage with The Model. Climate Engagement Officer, The Playhouse, NI Deadline: 27 June The Playhouse is hiring a Climate Engagement Officer, who will primarily support the organisation and delivery of longer-term, socially engaged arts projects led by communities throughout the Derry City and Strabane District Council area. These place-based projects will engage people in positive change on a range of climate action issues. Communications and Projects Manager PEACEPLUS, British Council Ireland Deadline: 30 June, 6:29pm The Communications & Project Manager PEACEPLUS is responsible for the communications and project delivery aspects of the CONNECT PEACEPLUS project. Artistic Director & CEO, Belfast International Arts Festival, NI Deadline: 4 July, 5pm Belfast International Arts Festival invites applicants to become their next Artistic Director and Chief Executive. The Artistic Director & CEO will help the Festival continue to lead, develop and grow this exciting annual celebration of contemporary performing arts from home and abroad to audiences from across the city and beyond. Programming Assistant, Irish Writers Centre Deadline: 6 July Irish Writers Centre is seeking a Programming Assistant who will provide administrative support to the Head of Programming and assist them in the full lifecycle of the year-round programming. Communications Officer, Irish Street Arts, Circus & Spectacle Network Deadline: 9 July, 12pm The Irish Street Arts, Circus and Spectacle Network (ISACS) are seeking a dynamic and motivated individual to join its growing team and play a key role in the future growth of these collective art forms across the island of Ireland and beyond.  Public Art Commission: Soundscape for People’s Park, Limerick City and County Council Deadline: 25 June, 12pm Limerick City and County Council would like to commission an artist to create two audio islands for the public to sit, rest, and enjoy commissioned sounds in noise polluted areas of People’s Park. 2025 International Young Artists Residency Program, Taipei City Government, Taiwan Deadline: 30 June, 12am (GMT+8) Walls are more than just boundaries; they’re the city’s canvas and the starting point for cultural dialogue. The Taipei City Government is inviting young artists from around the globe to Taipei to collectively infuse new life into this city through the vibrant art of graffiti and murals. Artists Residencies 2026, Platform, Finland Deadline: 30 June This residency invites participants to explore the interconnected ideas of resistance and repair — not as fixed categories, but as evolving, relational practices that shape how we respond to the world around us. Platform welcomes a wide range of interpretations and encourage cross-disciplinary approaches. This residency is not looking for answers, but for engaged, thoughtful exploration — through making, reflecting, and being in process. Artist Awards 2025 for Older Artists, Age & Opportunity Deadline: 2 July, 12 noon Age & Opportunity is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2025 Artist Awards. They are currently inviting applications for two distinct awards: Professional Development Artist Award Emerging Artist Bursary Each award offers €1,000 to a successful applicant and is designed to support artists at different stages of their creative journey. Call for Proposals, IMPACT25, Germany Deadline: 2 July, 23:59 (CET) IMPACT25 sees itself as a transdisciplinary symposium for strategies for dealing with the future. This call for proposals welcomes projects that are rooted in artistic, scientific, social, activist or technological fields and whose authors would like to engage in open exchange with other international participants regarding their respective approaches. Artist-in-Residence Program, Mozarteum University, Austria Deadline: 13 July Mozarteum University invites media artists and artist collectives to apply for a funded residency to create an interactive, multi-user XR performance in the newly built X-Reality-Lab. This residency is ideal for someone eager to contribute to establishing a new infrastructure for media art and setting the stage with experimental artwork. New Small Grants Programme, Arts Council of Northern Ireland Deadline: 18 July, 12 noon The New Small Grants Programme, funded by support from the Department for Communities, aims to encourage greater participation in the arts; and, to increase equality of access to and opportunities in the arts across all Section 75 groupings. Participating in the arts, and coming together as communities, can make a vital contribution to improving health and wellbeing, building confidence, and integrating communities. Projects which facilitate greater participation in the arts across every section of our society are encouraged. Funding from The Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2026* | Deadline: 24 July, 5:30pm *opens 24 June The Project Award supports specific projects across various artforms. It focuses on enabling individual artists and organisations to bring their ideas to fruition and create excellent artistic work. Architecture Participatory Arts Children and Young People’s Arts Circus Dance Film Literature Music Street Performance and Spectacle Theatre Traditional Arts Visual Arts The award guidelines can be downloaded from the available funding section of the Arts Council’s website.  My City Too, ArinolaTheatre Launch event: 21 June, 3pm Admission: €13-15 Venue: The Cube, Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2, D02 RD45 My City Too is a zine produced by ArinolaTheatre in order to give people from immigrant communities the space to express their experiences, opinions and feelings about how the civil unrest and anti-immigration protests have affected their perspective of Dublin. This event will include performances of writing included in the zine, discussion groups about anti-immigration sentiment, the opportunity to purchase the zine fresh off the press, opportunities to learn about businesses run by people of immigrant communities in Ireland and an open mic section. Homes not Hazards: ‘There’s something about these flats’ Date: 28 June Time: 11am onwards Venue: Tailors’ Hall, Dublin 8, D08X2A3 Friends of the Earth, Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) and the Just Housing research project in Maynooth University are collaboratively launching ‘Homes not Hazards: ‘There’s something about these flats’ – an exhibition that brings to light the housing conditions and lived experiences of tenants in local authority homes in Cromcastle Court in Coolock and Emmet Buildings in Dublin 8. What does it mean to know?, Ethna Rose O’Regan, Sinead McCann in collaboration with Dr Louise Brangan Exhibition until 26 July Venue: The LAB Gallery, Foley Street, Dublin 1, D01 WA07 What does it mean to know? is a new exhibition by Irish artists Ethna Rose O’Regan and Sinéad McCann (working in collaboration with writer and sociologist Louise Brangan). McCann and Brangan’s unique collaboration comprises two new artworks: ‘NO BABIES WERE BORN THERE.’, a large scale sculptural text work, and ‘I’m still there’, a light and sound installation. Both works invite people to consider some of the narrative and statistical fictions that guide how we make sense of Magdalene Laundries today. They invite the viewer to reflect upon the question: What does it mean to remember?  Invitation to Tender: Facilitator for Artists Care Exchange, Age & Opportunity Deadline: 23 June, 12 noon Age & Opportunity is seeking tenders from key individuals with an interest and background in the arts and older people in a care context, to act as facilitator for the fourth iteration of the Artists Care Exchange (ACE), an Age & Opportunity Arts initiative. They wish to appoint a facilitator from August to December 2025, with some additional work in the recruitment of participants in June/July. Petition to Minister O’Donovan: Protect the future of artists and arts workers, PRAXIS Petition to Minister O’Donovan regarding the future of artists and arts workers Praxis, the Artist’s Union of Ireland, has published a petition calling on Minister O’Donovan to protect the future of artists and arts workers. Artists, arts workers and supporters are welcome to sign the petition. 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