This Our Thriving Tribe session is dedicated to Collaboration!
Networking / cross pollination opportunities. Across the examples provided by the AHEH partners networking is the most widely disseminated single strategy for encouraging and facilitating entrepreneurial growth…
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The curators of Our Thriving Tribe invited Arts professionals to share their experience of working with others, networking and collaboration as part of research into entrepreneurship within the arts in Ireland. Each professional responded in their own unique way, some of these responses are shared in this new session towards expanding upon the current discourse on entrepreneurship within the arts in Ireland and include some top tips for future arts professionals!
Opportunities for networking, mentor-based support, interface with industry and with the wider community and facilitating collaboration and partnerships are tried and tested strategic frameworks that can help bridge the gap between education and enterprise, employability and entrepreneurship
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Guests in this session
Guests in this session include:
Lynnette Moran is an independent Arts Producer & Festival Director specialising in Live Art, Theatre, Visual Art and Digital platforms; with distinct experience of producing collaborative & socially engaged arts practice & public art commissions.
Felicia Olusany aka Felispeaks is a Nigerian-Irish Poet, Performer, Playwright from Co. Longford, Ireland.
BROKENTALKERS, a creative partnership of Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan from Dublin, Ireland who make socially charged, form-busting theatre that challenges and inspires audiences at home and around the world.
Bernadette Kiely, a visual artist based in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
Claire Prouvost, a French illustrator and graphic designer based in Dublin, Ireland.
Tadhg O’Sullivan is a director-producer, editor and sound artist living in Ireland.
THISISPOPBABY, a theatre and events production company that rips up the space between popular culture, counter culture, queer culture and high art – providing both a vehicle for our associate artists’ dreams and an electrifying access point to the arts.
Tobi Omoteso, an internationally acclaimed B-boy (breakdancer) and hip hop dancer.
Edel Tobin who is passionate about re-imagining & rejuvenating public outdoor spaces. She has spent the past seven years building, curating, and creating projects in her home city of Waterford and across Ireland.
Maser who truly embodies the centric spirit of contemporary visual art in Ireland today & has generated a large & dedicated following in Ireland & abroad – through his seamlessly imaginative and unique graphic style.
Cathy Fitzgerald, an Irish-based New Zealander living in rural County Carlow, Ireland inspired by the emergent art and ecology field in visual culture.
Our Thriving Tribe aims to expand upon the current discourse on entrepreneurship within the arts in Ireland. A process of enquiry into the context of artistic practice by researching entrepreneurship from the perspective of arts professionals in order to generate new knowledge within this field.
There is consensus between students, graduates, and academic staff that developing team work and collaboration skills is of paramount importance to prepare students for the work place and collaboration and cross disciplinary pollination are a reoccurring theme in the case studies and interviews (4.2.5, 5.2) and WP1 has highlighted that participatory and experiential learning offer pedagogical frameworks more suited to the creative and practice orientated Art & Humanities subjects (ref) where creativity rather than money is often the motivator.
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