For the Inchicore project, titled The Caretakers, Artists Elizabeth Woods and Kevin Leong have focused on collective care as a central community concern. In 2025 they studied the practices of a diverse group of thirteen collective caretakers in Ireland during their original residency with Common Ground. Returning in 2026 they have involved The Caretakers as co-designers of and advisors to the meeting space and its evolution. The group of caretakers includes community development workers, political and community activists, local residents, gardeners and cultural custodians working across Dublin 8.

For the month of November, Elizabeth and Kevin are creating an experimental community meeting space, The Caretakers, in the De Mazenod Centre, Bulfin Road, D08 YR89, Inchicore. The Caretakers will host the local community and explore new ideas for building connections across a diverse community in an evolving social environment from November 3rd – 27th, between 10:00am and 2:30pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursdays and Fridays only. The Caretakers will serve free lunch from noon; with free cakes and hot drinks on offer from 10am.

The free, healthy community lunch menu is designed by Arrernte* chef, Tanika Orr, bringing her indigenous Australian bushtucker** sensibilities to meet Irish ingredients and tastes. Over the course of the month, Tanika will be building local community capacity to sustain the operations of the kitchen in future social spaces by training community cooks and by adapting the menu to be practical and affordable for ongoing operations.

Tanika Orr is an Eastern Arrernte creative who grew up in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Australia, with family connections through the Brays, Perkins and Turners. Through their family, Tanika holds connections to Country around the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges, Wild Woman Country and cultural lands north of Mparntwe, home of their family’s Sun Dreaming. Now based on the Sunshine Coast, Tanika’s creative practice brings together food, sound, storytelling and community gathering. Tanika also works with music, field recordings, spoken word and performance to explore identity, humour, politics and contemporary First Nations experiences. They create meaningful spaces where food, sound, story, culture and community come together and where art can live beyond the walls of a gallery.

* Indigenous to Central Australia
** Food foraging, cultivation, preparation and consumption based on Australian indigenous
practices