Event
Date
20 November 2024
Time
10am-4pm
Location
Dublin City Centre (Venue TBC)
Price
Free of charge - application based
Create and Radical Institute (founding members: Eve Olney and Krini Kafiris) are hosting a one-day workshop which draws from Eve’s work on sustainable organising practices in collaborative and participatory processes, with a focus on addressing difference and conflict in creative collective work.
Many of the causes of conflict in collaborations can be prevented and difference can be productively addressed in ways which can enhance the creativity of the collaboration. Participants will be introduced to a series of strategies and methods that can enable them to deal with issues they are facing within their collaborative and/or participatory work as well as preventative processes and methods that they can incorporate into their practice.
Applicants are invited to send in their own issues/ experiences prior to the workshop so that the workshop can address specific needs and scenarios.
How to Apply
This workshop is offered free of charge. There is a limit of 10 places. To apply, email Vance Lau at producer@create-ireland.ie with:
- A statement of interest as to why you wish to participate (100-200 words)
- An up to date biography (150 words), and
- Optionally: a particular issue/ problem you want to address (100 words).
All information collected will be anonymised. Please put “CPD workshop application” in the subject line. Written formats, voice notes and videos will be accepted. Please indicate in your email if you have any access needs.
Deadline for applications: Monday 28 October, 4pm.
Radical Institute
Radical Institute is a Cork-based, transnational initiative that explores how the arts and cultural practice can promote and sustain radical social and ecological change to transform our social/political movements and create new worlds. They provide a nurturing environment for participants to unleash their imagination, experiment, learn, collaborate, organise – as well as develop new approaches, practices and tools for ecological, social and community transformations. They offer collective mentoring and training programmes for cultural practitioners, artists, architects, activists and collectives, including those at risk and/or marginalised — drawing from radical thought and praxis within art, architecture and community building, sustainable organising, as well as from cultural/critical/social ecological theory. Their methods are holistic, ecosystemic, feminist and collaborative.
Eve Olney
Dr Eve Olney is a socially engaged creative producer, mentor and independent practice-based researcher. Her praxis incorporates a social ecological ethnographic approach to social change through collaborative creative methodologies. She is a founding member of creative social working and learning scheme The Living Commons, and with Krini Kafiris. In 2023, they were awarded Erasmus+ funding that enabled 18 participants to travel to Ulex Projects in Barcelona, for trainings in sustainable activism. She co-founded Radical Institute with Dr Krini Kafiris and co-ran Studios of Sanctuary Artists’ Residencies in collaboration with Sample Studios / Radical Institute awarded by The Community Foundation for Ireland in 2022. She leads the Traveller Tenancy Participatory Programme for the Traveller Accommodation Unit (TAU), Cork City Council (funded by the Dormant Accounts Fund). She is a founding member of Cork Community Land Trust steering committee (CCLT).
