Resources

ReImagine Tuam

Video

Here’s just a sneak peek of the Open Shop event held in Tuam as part of the Creative Places Tuam Gathering weekend. The Reimagine Tuam Project team, including Helena McElmeel Architects and Niall O’Cleirigh hosted an Open Shop event to share and discuss the survey, consultation, engagement and collaborative work carried out over the last year with building owners, community groups and various stakeholders as part of the Reimagine Tuam Vacant to Vibrant project.

published September 16, 2024

related programme Community Conversations

Chips in the Mall!

Video

Behind the Scenes of the Creative Places Tuam Gathering weekend. We loved welcoming so many to the Mall for Little John Nee’s Nettle Horse, which closed out our Gathering weekend, marking the culmination of the four year Creative Places Tuam pilot programme. We look forward to seeing how the programme evolves!

published September 13, 2024

related programme Artworks and Residencies

Creative Places Tuam Archive

Video

Our archive, and leaving a record of our work, is so important to us – check out how we built our archive in Tuam with local artists and residents. You can see the full archive in the Tuam library any time.

published September 12, 2024

related programme Artworks and Residencies

The West’s Awake!

Video

The West’s Awake Community Weekend is a celebration of Tuam and its people. This two-day event, funded by Creative Places Tuam, is brimming with the creative talent of home grown musicians, artists, crafters, performers, poets, filmmakers, singers, writers, storytellers and more. Coinciding with The Saw Doctors’ triumphant return to Tuam, organised and produced by a local team, this is a weekend for you and your community.

Film by Kevin Fahy at Salty Productions for Creative Places Tuam.

published February 23, 2024

related programme The West’s Awake!

Fully Fledged by Jennifer Cunningham and Tim Acheson

Video

A commissioned video work to accompany a sculpture as part of the For Our Grand(m)Others project developed by artist Mark Storor in collaboration with residents of Gilmartin Road, Tuam.

For Our Grand(m)Others is funded by Creative Places Tuam, an Arts Council initiative managed by Create, the national development agency for Collaborative Arts

published March 27, 2023

related programme Artworks and Residencies

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 events Creative Places and Create Networking Event, hosted by Creative Places Tuam
related programme Partnerships and Connections

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 Community Conversations

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 Creative Places and Create Networking Event, hosted by Creative Places Tuam
related programme Partnerships and Connections

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 Partnerships and Connections

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 Artworks and Residencies