Resources – Creative Places Tuam

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:
www.create-ireland.ie/wp-content/upl…ant-Kester.pdf

published April 28, 2021

related programme Residencies and Research

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

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

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Ory’ Sta: 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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Download the resource pack

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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Little John Nee · tuam creates - 27:04:2020, 22.19

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

published April 28, 2020

related programme Ory’ Sta: Talking on Tuam