Resources - Creative Places Tuam

Tuam Assembly with Isabel Lima

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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 Residencies and Research

Ory’Sta 5: Maureen Kennelly, Patrick Fox and Ailbhe Murphy

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Create-Ireland · Ory'Sta 5: Creatively Making Place

Ory’Sta 5: Maureen Kennelly, Patrick Fox and Ailbhe Murphy

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No longer confined to a Zoom screen, we were thrilled to welcome artists and community members to discuss creative place making, in our very first live in-person Ory’Sta, featuring Maureen Kennelly (Director, Arts Council), Patrick Fox (Director, Heart of Glass) and Ailbhe Murphy (Director, Create).

Tuam is a unique place with many deeply embedded artistic and cultural habits and practices. This made for a rich conversation between all of our guests, including addressing how different communities can engage creatively to build the version of place they want to be a part of? How can artists be key partners in this work? How will Create and Tuam continue to work together to realise their shared visions? We discussed legacy, and the importance of ensuring that the great work already started can continue, when Create’s role in the project finishes at the end of 2023.

You can read a transcript of this audio here.

published April 8, 2022

related programme Ory’ Sta: Talking on Tuam

At a Glance: 2020 – 2022

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At a Glance: 2020 – 2022

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How do we tell you about all the cups of tea– our shorthand for meetings, planning, scheming, that kept Creative Places Tuam going when Covid 19 meant we had to change our plans?.

How do we tell you about the slowing of pace, holding of place, staying together even though we were in different counties (Dublin, Carlow, Cork and Galway) for months?

How do we talk about zoom, the emails, the phone calls, the hand-written letters, voice notes, WhatsApp messages…?

You will find here an infographic showing just some of the “vital statistics” of the past two years of work on Creative Places Tuam.

published March 29, 2022

related programme Training and Development

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

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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 Ory’ Sta: Talking on Tuam

Old Tuam Society: History of Tuam

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Create-Ireland · Tuam History: Old Tuam Society

Old Tuam Society: History of Tuam

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As we near the midway point of the Creative Places Tuam programme, we have invited reflections from local artists and residents. Here is a piece written by Old Tuam Society, on the history of Tuam.

You can read a transcript of this audio here.

published June 25, 2021

related programme Residencies and Research

Patricia King-Callaghan’s Midway Reflections on Creative Places Tuam

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Create-Ireland · My Tuam: Patricia King-Callaghan

Patricia King-Callaghan’s Midway Reflections on Creative Places Tuam

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As we near the midway point of the Creative Places Tuam programme, we have invited reflections from local artists and residents. Patricia King-Callaghan is a community organiser, writer and local resident – here are her reflections on Creative Places Tuam.

You can read a transcript of this audio here.

published June 16, 2021

related programme Residencies and Research

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

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

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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.

Please select CC for subtitles.

published May 27, 2021

related programme Ory’ Sta: Talking on Tuam

Padraig Stevens’ midway reflections on Creative Places Tuam

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Padraig Stevens’ midway reflections on Creative Places Tuam

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As we near the midway point of our time in Tuam we have invited reflections from local artists and residents. Here are musician Padraig Stevens’ thoughts.

You can read a transcript of this audio here.

published May 27, 2021

related programme Residencies and Research

Joanna McGlynn’s midway reflections on Creative Places Tuam

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Create-Ireland · My Tuam: Joanna McGlynn

Joanna McGlynn’s midway reflections on Creative Places Tuam

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As we near the midway point of our time in Tuam we have invited reflections from local artists and residents. Here are artist Joanna McGlynn’s thoughts.

You can read a trancript of this audio here.

published May 27, 2021

related programme Residencies and Research

In Conversation: Grant Kester and Gráinne Coughlan

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Create-Ireland · In Conversation Grant Kester March 2021

In Conversation: Grant Kester and Gráinne Coughlan

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Create, in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Age & Opportunity, University of Limerick, Fingal Arts Office, and the Engagement and Learning Dept of IMMA, is delighted to share this In Conversation event with renowned US-based art historian and educator Grant Kester, and Gráinne Coughlan, Independent Researcher and PhD candidate TU Dublin. The event was chaired by Professor Kerstin Mey, President, University of Limerick.

This conversation delved into the question of the critical coordinates for collaborative and socially engaged arts practice, exploring alternative ways to analyse and understand the complex processes and relationships inherent to socially engaged art and which lay the foundations for change.

A full resource page with examples and links mentioned throughout the conversation can be found here.

published April 28, 2021

related programme Residencies and Research

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

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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 Ory’ Sta: Talking on Tuam

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

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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 Ory’ Sta: Talking on Tuam

Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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Collaborative Arts Resource Pack

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At the Create Networking Day (9th December 2020), close to two hundred delegates came together to collectively build a resource pack for the sector; talks, books, projects that have inspired, kept us going and which encourage our work as collaborative artists and cultural and/or community practitioners.

This resource, made up of everyone’s recommendations and co-produced by Create and Heart of Glass, is reflective of a sense of collective wisdom, provocation and support by our field of practice at this time.

Each resource can be accessed by clicking the heading for each item.

published December 10, 2020

related programme Training and Development

Thinking on Tuam: Folklore Legends and Myths

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Thinking on Tuam: Folklore Legends and Myths

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We’re delighted to share the first public conversation from Creative Places Tuam’s Thinking on Tuam residency, between author Oein DeBhardúin and filmmaker and folklorist Michael Fortune, which focuses on folklore, mythology and stories.

This conversation was first shared on Culture Night 2020. A transcript is available here

Creative Places Tuam is an Arts Council initiative, led by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts.

published September 18, 2020

related programme Residencies and Research

“Walking Whid/ Walking Story” – a journey through Tuam with Oein DeBhardúin

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Create-Ireland · Walking Whid/ Walking Story

“Walking Whid/ Walking Story” – a journey through Tuam with Oein DeBhardúin

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Join Oein DeBhardúin, inaugural recipient of Creative Places Tuam’s Thinking on Tuam residency on this journey through the town, hearing about the stories, folklore, legends and history of Tuam, the Traveller Community and its relationship with Tuam. A transcript of the walking tour is available here. You can download the tour by clicking on the download button on the top right hand side of the picture.

This Walking Whid is inspired by the history and story of Tuam. We would like to credit Michael Waldron & Tuam Tidy Town’s Tuam Heritage and Nature Trail published in 2015 for text referenced in the Whid. Other resources used for this work were sourced from an assortment of Journal of Tuam Society (JOTS) publications, and Oein’s memories of stories told.

This Walking Story was first shared on Culture Night 2020. Route Map and Guidance and Full Transcript available.

published September 18, 2020

related events Walking Whid/ Walking Story
related programme Residencies and Research

Tuam Creates: An ode to place

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Tuam Creates: An ode to place

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“Footloose and fancy free,
if I wanted to live in New York I’d live in New York,
if I wanted to live in Paris I’d live in Paris,
but Kilaloonty is where I roll out my blanket this past 16 years…”

An ode to Tuam by artist and musican Little John Nee, first performed at the launch of Creative Places Tuam, January 2020

You can read a transcript of this audio here.

published April 28, 2020

related programme Ory’ Sta: Talking on Tuam