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Hello. I'm James Bingham.
I'm a white male. I’ve got brown, curly hair.

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I'm wearing a dark red jumper
and I’m wearing glasses.

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I work for Irish National Opera.
I’m their Studio and Outreach Producer

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and as part of Traction,
I will be the Producer in the Irish trial.

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Well, Irish National Opera as a company
is actually only two years old,

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but in that time we've run a number of projects

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that incorporate into them
aspects of co-creation.

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One example was a project called Popera.

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Popera saw us work with Music Generation Carlow
and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

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In this project, we worked with
four primary schools and the composer

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Andrew Synott alongside a broader
artistic team to create four operas.

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Now these four operas were composed
by the children in partnership with Andrew

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and the children also performed
as singers and instrumentalists

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in the pieces together in one performance.

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It was a huge success and it was a real
example of letting the children lead

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in that composition process and seeing something
really interesting created through that process.

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Through the trial in Ireland with
Irish National Opera for Traction,

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we're going to be working with
three different communities.

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One is the residents of the island of Inis Meáin,
which is part of the Aran Islands.

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We're going to be working in Tullamore,
which is in the Midlands of Ireland,

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with secondary school students there and
we're also going to be working in Tallaght

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which is a district just near Dublin,
with residents living there.

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With these three communities
it's not entirely clear next year

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how exactly our engagement will manifest itself.

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That's because this year, we're going to spend
the time working and listening to communities

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to see what kinds of engagement will be
of benefit and will be of interest to them

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in terms of opera co-creation.

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So this year we're running a series of workshops

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in each of these three communities
and in each community,

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we're focusing on a different aspect
of creation in Opera

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because it's such an inherently
multidisciplinary art form.

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In Tallaght, we're going to be looking
at co-creation in a visual aspect,

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so how design can be created through
digital technology and through virtual reality.

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We're going to be looking at
co-creation of music in Tullamore;

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and then in Inis Meáin, we're looking at how we can
create together a story in those kinds of ways.

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Now, based on the information that we
learn over the course of this first year,

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as well as the exploration and understanding
that we get through virtual reality technology,

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we're going to then build projects next year
that really suit these three communities

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and are projects that are going to
be of interest to these communities.

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The idea being that by the end of that project,
each of these three communities

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will have generated material that will
be of use to our creative team

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to shape and create a cohesive whole work
that can exist in the virtual reality format.

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The final piece itself is going
to be presented in 2022.

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First, it will be shown to all
three communities in special events

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and then we're going to tour it round
to as many places in the country as possible.

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The really great thing about a virtual reality opera is,

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because it all exists on a virtual reality headset,

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you can really take it to any kind of public space.

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For more information on this project,
if you're curious to learn more,

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please head to irishnationalopera.ie.
Thank you very much.