Create and Counterpoints Arts are  delighted to announce the participants for the 2024 Summer School on Collaborative Practice and Social Change.

Many of the selected artists and cultural activists are engaged in social change and movement organising, working across a mix of art forms and public formats, including film, theatre, dance, creative writing, architecture, street art and journalism and the visual arts.

The 2024 Summer School continues its focus on the importance of countering disinformation and false narratives through mobilisation of the place-based sensibilities of socially engaged practice; combining participation and collaboration across diverse communities, with the storytelling and reporting skills of investigative journalism and digital activism.

Now in its seventh year, we will focus on the central role that grassroots communities play in the strengthening of local and trans-local democratic practices and on the transformative potential of projects that can facilitate new political imaginaries from the ground-up; in projects that are co-produced via creative alliances between artists, activists and communities of place.

The six-day format is designed as an immersive incubator inviting participants to work on an imagined cooperative commission, alongside skills training workshops, comparative case studies, peer-to-peer reflection and one-to-one mentoring.

The Summer School will take place from: 10 – 15 June 2023, at Killary Lodge, Tullyconor, Leenaun, Co Galway.

 Summer School Visiting Facilitators and Team:

Ismail Einashe, Investigative Journalist and Cultural Activist

Khaled Barakeh, Socially Engaged Artist and Founder/Director, co culture, Berlin

Kate O’Shea, Socially Engaged Artist and Cultural Activist

Dr Áine O’Brien, Summer School Director

Áine Crowley, Summer School Producer

Carolann Courtney, Summer School Assistant Producer

The Summer School on Collaborative Practice and Social Change is generously supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Rowan Trust.