Our Place 2025-26

Carlow Arts Festival is excited to commission the Our Place team to create a series of sound artworks exploring human rights and happiness in collaboration with people supported by the Delta Centre Day Service. The Our Place team includes lead artists AlanJames Burns and Sinead McCann, and co-designers Patrick Fitzgerald and Tony Davis, supported by staff at St John of God Liffey Services Dublin.

In Carlow, the co-designers will facilitate workshops where everyone will be encouraged to discuss their human rights and share experiences of accessing their rights and the barriers faced. They will capture and record their stories to create audio artworks. The recordings will inform an immersive multi-sensory installation that will be exhibited at Carlow Arts Festival 2026.

This project is informed by methods of working and engagement developed by the Our Place team. In this new phase of action research, the team will examine access to employment, culture and intellectual property for creatives with intellectual disabilities. The Our Place team, in collaboration with Carlow Arts Festival, will lead a cross-sector arts, community and disability discussion, sharing and building knowledge and capacity. This new phase of work is supported by the Disability Participation and Awareness 3.0 Fund from Rethink Ireland, in consultation with Create Ireland – the national organisation for collaborative arts in Ireland, and with sector-wide support from Safe to Create, a programme for the Irish arts and creative sectors to promote dignity at work.

To find out more about the history of the Our Place project, see the Our Place website: https://itsourplace.ie/

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