Artist in the Community Scheme: Four Essays
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New Publication from Create in partnership with the Arts Council
Artist in the Community Scheme: Four Essays
Artists and communities will join together to celebrate the publication of a book about the contemporary art work they have produced collaboratively.
To launch Artist in the Community Scheme: Four Essays, Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, in partnership with Arts Council and in association with Tallaght Community Arts, will host a celebration on 5 November, at RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght from 4pm – 6pm.
The event will highlight the working process of the artists Susan Gogan, Declan Gorman, Ríonach Ní Néill and Rhona Byrne in the projects they undertook in collaboration with a very different range of communities, including the young people of Ronanstown Youth Service, North Clondalkin.
Aged 8-15 yrs fifteen young people worked with dance artist Ríonach Ní Néill and company members of dance company Ciotóg to produce a dance production that was staged at the Civic Theatre, Tallaght 15 April and the axis Arts Centre in Ballymun, 12+13 April 2008.
Making journeys, forming clouds, making pylons, building trust. - Young person from Ronanstown Youth Service.
Each artist presenting at the event has contributed an essay to the new publication produced by Create and the Arts Council. The launch event celebrates the richness and diversity of the work that emerges when artists and communities collaborate and illustrates how the Artist in the Community Scheme, which Create manages on behalf of the Arts Council, has over the years become a key mechanism through which collaborative arts is now understood as a vibrant and dynamic contemporary arts practice.
For further information communications@create-ireland.ie or contact Katrina Goldstone, 4736600