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Delegates at Creative Connections, Arts and Disability Conference


A two day event for Arts and Disability practitioners, participants and partnering organisations presented by Clare Arts Office.

Clare Arts Office are proud to present Drawing from the Well, a two day Arts and Disability event taking place on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th October, 2017.
Venue: Butter Market, Waterpark House, Drumbiggle Road, Ennis, Co Clare.

The event aims to offer Arts and Disability practitioners, participants and partnering organisations an opportunity to reflect on their practices, be inspired and to revisit the idea of what it means to take “creative risk” in arts and disability practices.

It has been 15 years since the Embrace for Arts and People with Disabilities programme was initiated and Clare Arts Office are proud of the great art work that has been created and the level of knowledge that has developed around arts and disability practice in County Clare.

Having reached this pivotal point they felt it an opportune time to invite artists and coordinators to take time to reflect and to have the opportunity to think about new ways of developing and approaching projects.

Friday, 13th October
The programme includes presentations by leading practitioners such as the Blue Teapot Company, Equinox Theatre Company, KCAT Studios, Speckled Egg Dance Company & Croí Glan Dance Company.
Registration: 9 am – 9.45 am
Event 9.45 am – 4.30 pm, full agenda below:
Drawing from the Well Agenda

Saturday, 14th October
Workshops are now fully booked.
Workshop with the Petal Pilley, Director of Blue Teapot Company: 10 am – 12pm
Workshop with Rachel Parry, Director of Speckled Egg Dance : 1pm – 3pm

This event is Free!
You can register your place at this event by clicking on the eventbrite link below or by contacting the Clare Arts Office by email at arts@clarelibrary.ie, or telephone 065 689 9091.

Pádraig Naughton, Executive Director of Arts & Disability Ireland, speaking at the Creative Connections: Arts and Disability Conversation and Showcase in Town Hall Theatre, January 2016. Photo: Reg Gordon.

Dance Artist James O'Connell, Loop Head: Dreams of My Life, 2015, a choreographed response to a year-long mentoring project funded by Arts & Disability Ireland, in which he invited Rachel Parry to challenge his choreographic practice.

Visual Artist Margaret Walker, KCAT, at Arts & Disability Ireland's Creative Connections conference in Galway, 2016. Photo: Reg Gordon.


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