Resources

Representation and Reimagining Traveller Culture: Networking Event 2022

Video

This panel, part of our Networking Event in November 2022, was chaired by artist Seamus Nolan and featured Kathleen Keenan (musician), Mary McDonagh (theatre artist) and Nora Corcoran (Galway Traveller movement, Misleor festival), on Representation and (Re)imagining Traveller culture at local, regional and national levels. Via various artforms the panel discuss the importance of the community taking the lead in developing, directing and producing the experiences and histories of the Traveller community.

published December 13, 2022

related programme Mentoring and Training

Ory’Sta: Jojo Hynes, Midie Corcoran and Kate O’Shea

Video

Welcome to our latest Ory’Sta event, an informal conversation between Tuam-based artists Jojo Hynes and Midie Corcoran, with artist and mentor Kate O’Shea, held in Reapy’s Bar. This event formed part of the Creative Places and Create Networking Event, hosted by Creative Places Tuam in November 2022.

published November 14, 2022

related programme Mentoring and Training

Pablo Helguera: The Social Practice Nightmare Before Christmas

Video

We were thrilled to welcome Pablo Helguera, a New York-based Mexican artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance, as our keynote speaker for our Networking Event in November 2022. As both an artist and educator Pablo has made a very significant contribution to the field of socially engaged practice. Through his projects and critical writing, he has expanded our thinking of what it means to be a socially engaged artist, and the potential of the practice to effect change. Often employing humour, Pablo has illuminated many of the key preoccupations of contemporary socially engaged arts practice, communicating the complexity of what’s at stake while also highlighting critical pathways through for a generation of artists. Following his keynote lecture, Pablo was joined in conversation by artist Deirdre O’Mahony, member of Create’s Board.

published November 11, 2022

related events Create Networking Day 2020
related programme Mentoring and Training

Colour of My Breath at Networking Event 2022

Video

published November 10, 2022

related events Creative Places and Create Networking Event, hosted by Creative Places Tuam
related programme Mentoring and Training

Patching Tuam

Video

“Patching Tuam” was a textile art project for young people in Tuam. Local textile artist Kathy Ross showed the attendees how to use techniques such as drawing and painting, collage, applique and hand and machine embroidery to create Punk Patches displaying their social, political and personal viewpoints and their sense of place.

published October 3, 2022

related programme Mentoring and Training
related events Patching Tuam

Tuam Assembly with Isabel Lima

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Tuam Assembly is a series of conversations between Tuam’s residents and stakeholders to explore their needs and expectations, part of Isabel Lima’s Artist Residency. These conversations will focus on the way a town is defined: by the connections and relationships that evolve at any given moment in place. These conversations recognise the importance of residents, their knowledge, lived experiences, aspirations, and skills, to planning place. We explore individual histories, aims, visions and objectives and by the end of each conversation we will have agreed on specific ways we can enact collective decisions.

Film by David McDonagh for Creative Places Tuam

published June 21, 2022

related programme Cooperative Ignition Programme

Ory’Sta 4: Oein DeBharduin, David McDonagh, Maggs McDonagh and Joanna McGlynn

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Welcome to the fourth in our series of Ory’Sta Talking on Tuam conversations, which was originally pesented as part of the 2021 UK- based Creative People and Places programme conference.

This conversation, filmed in Tuam town hall, features inaugural Thinking on Tuam resident artist Oein DeBharduin, film-maker David McDonagh, community development worker Maggs McDonagh and visual artist Joanna McGlynn.

published January 21, 2022

related programme Community Conversations

Ory’ Sta 3: Oein De Bhairdúin, Megs Morley and Owenie Ward

Video

Welcome to the third in our series of Ory’Sta Talking on Tuam conversations, which takes as its theme Nomadic Archives.

This conversation is to allow us to start thinking together on how we ensure the culture of the Travelling Community is centred in Creative Places Tuam. How we include the artforms, stories and crafts of the Travelling community in Tuam – what spaces are available to us, what spaces are not, what spaces we need to imagine into being ourselves.

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published May 27, 2021

related programme Community Conversations

Ory’ Sta 2: David Burke, Tom Flanagan, Keelin Murray

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Welcome to the second in our series of Ory’Sta Talking on Tuam conversations. This time around, we’re delighted to welcome David Burke, editor of the Tuam Herald, and Tom Flanagan, artist, filmmaker and educator based in Galway. Creative Places Tuam is all about the place, the people, and the stories of Tuam and its hinterlands. How do we tell the story of ourselves, of our town, of our history? Both David and Tom have vast experience in telling stories, reporting, and giving voice to the community. We invited them to have a conversation with Keelin Murray, Create’s Communications and Publishing Manager, who herself has a keen interest in these questions.

published March 31, 2021

related programme Community Conversations

Ory’ Sta 1: Leo Moran, Ailbhe Murphy and Carolann Courtney

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We are delighted to launch our Ory’Sta series of conversations with artists, residents, community groups, and business people from Tuam and beyond. Our first conversation welcomes Leo Moran, Tuam local and musician and Ailbhe Murphy, artist and Director of Create to our virtual fireside, to talk with Carolann Courtney, Programme Coordinator. This conversation was recorded in December 2020. We look forward to sharing further conversations in the coming months, and to being able to meet in person when it is safe to do so. For now, join us to gather around the virtual fireplace.

published January 21, 2021

related programme Community Conversations