Project Awards
Creative Places Enniscorthy is delighted to launch Open Call 2025. This call follows the first Open Call invitation to the community in Enniscorthy in 2024. There are some exciting new projects celebrating local culture and creativity and development of projects already started in 2024. The recent CPE Open Call sees a total of 9 projects awarded to local artists and community groups. These initiatives will bring together artists, community groups and residents to explore and express the unique culture, heritage and creativity of Enniscorthy.
DETAILS OF AWARDS
Project awards – 9 projects awarded grants
Outrage Entertainment – Emerging Sounds
A monthly music event designed to support young and emerging musicians in Enniscorthy by providing a welcoming, low-pressure performance space. Events will take place at The Presentation Arts Centre, the Enniscorthy Athenaeum, and FDYS Music Box and other venues that foster a welcoming space for both performers and audiences. By keeping performances informal and open to all skill levels, we aim to develop a vibrant and inclusive music community
Mayumi Nakabayashi – Threshold Spaces – Enniscorthy Environmental Art Project
Inspired by a Japanese tradition, this project explores boundaries and thresholds through the creation of ‘threshold stones’ with communities and incorporating them into co-creative land art. A development project from the work Mayumi has started with several communities in Enniscorthy, she will build with these communities and continue her rich work with them through her invitation to them to be collaborators with her in the work.
Amy Redmond – People of Scorthy – Audio visual portraits
Amy will record sound stories and work with a local Ukrainian Film director / photographer Jana Gontar to develop unique audio-visual portraits of 12 “People of Scorthy” old and new.
Mary Doyle / Anne Manning – We’re allowed in There
This project will create a Clay and land project. A body of work created by different community groups (Intergenerational) based around the history of and contemporary thought of the turret rocks site. This project has been inspired by two individual R&D projects – Am I Allowed in Here? – Mary Doyle and Clay work – Anne Manning through CPE Open Call 2024. The 2 artists have come together working across different community groups that they established relationships with last year.
Doulab Circus – Circus Unites
This youth-led contemporary circus project is a development project from Open Call 2024. Doulab continue to bring together young members of the diverse communities that make up Enniscorthy, who may not otherwise connect.
Lucia Kickham – Creative Mother – Where is my voice now?
This series of workshops for mothers will reignite creativity and provide tools to support maternal wellbeing through movement, voice, writing and visual art, led our own local artist / dancer Lucia Kickham.
Justin Codd – Our Town Observations and Voices of Enniscorthy
This is a project is an exploration of Enniscorthy, combining photography and oral history to create a lasting record of the town’s people, culture, and transformation over time. It aims to document and celebrate the individuals who shape the community, capturing their personal stories, experiences, and reflections.
Enniscorthy Community Allotments with artist Ilaria Berardi – The Oak Tree Project
This project will engage with the community, by creating a mural inspired by Irish biodiversity, a sustainable suncatcher and a willow dome in the Enniscorthy Community Allotments
Imogen Stafford / Aoife Banville – Bradán
This is a public art / sculptural project. Three large salmon sculptural pieces composed of mesh and light will be placed / suspended across the old bridge. They will be lightweight and ethereal and subtle in movement. The pieces will be made in collaboration with Enniscorthy community through a series of workshops.
