Grants - Kildare

Kildare County Council Arts Service invites applications from individual artists and arts collectives and community groups for the following grant and award opportunities

• Arts Act Grant scheme
• Artist in Schools Residency Bursary Award
• Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award
• Drama League of Ireland Summer School Bursary Award
• Film Bursary Award
• Recording Bursary @ Platform4 Audio and Digital Media Studio
• Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary Award
• Youth Arts Residency Bursary
• Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award
• Local Publishing award
• Irish Youth Choir bursary (as auditions are in Jan / Feb, please register your interest immediately by contacting the arts service)
• NYCI Certificate in Youth Arts (accrediting body NUI Maynooth) bursary. Course dates will be announced in summer 2012. (Register your interest by contacting the arts service)

Application forms available from www.kildare.ie/artsservice

Further information available from

Kildare County Arts Service, Riverbank, Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare

Tel: 045-448328; Email: arts@kildarecoco.ie, or service

Closing date is strictly 12 noon TUESDAY 19^th March 2013

Waterford City Grants

Waterford City Council Arts Grants 2013 cover quite a lot of ground.

Deadline 30 January 

Production of quality Arts Programmes:

Professional Theatre / Performance Production
Professional Creative Collaboration Production
Amateur / Voluntary Group Production
Youth / Pre-professional Production
Marching / Concert band programme
Concerts Programme
Hospitals/Disability Arts Programme

Audience Development/Inclusion:

Primary Schools Exploring Arts Performance Programme
Secondary Schools Exploring Arts Performance Programme
Transition Year Exploring Arts Programme
Youth Social Inclusion Arts Exploration Programme
Intergenerational Inclusion Arts Programme

The Artist and the City:

Professional Development Grants
Tyrone Guthrie Artists Awards (Creative residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre)
Publishing Purchase Scheme
3rd Party Support Scheme
Specific Bursaries: Youth Choir Bursary, Youth Orchestra Bursary, Music Network Bursary, AIMS Bursary, All Ireland Drama Festival Bursary

Link here

Grants! First one in - Offaly

It's grants season. Do you have a project or perhaps education requirement that could use the extra cash? Your local authority have money for that exact purpose, supporting artists. There are quite a few I've found and I'll post them up over the next few days.
And if you find any more, let me know.

Note that the funds are even more limited so make a strong case. They like community engagement for example.And toot your horn. 

Offaly County Council Arts Act Grants for 2013

Applications are now invited by Offaly County Council from community groups and individuals involved in the arts for funding for projects in 2013.

The grant scheme is open to organisations such as drama and musical groups, town bands, choirs, voluntary community organisations and individual artists proposing projects within the community.
Funding is limited under this scheme and priority will be given to specific projects which are innovative, produce maximum community impact and provide professional arts and cultural experiences and applications should not be made without thought given to the above goals.

Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from www.offaly.ie/arts or requested by email from arts@offalycoco.ie or over the phone on 05793 57400.

The closing date for all applications is Friday February 15th 2013 at 3pm.

North Tipperary Arts Grants

All you lovely people in North Tipp, your grant deadline is approaching.

Arts Act Grant - Thursday 15th March 2012

Artist in Primary School Scheme - Thursday 29th March 2012
 
Details, forms, addresses here

Meath Arts Grants

Closing date for all grants in 2012 is 5pm Friday 23rd March 2012

• Festival Grant Scheme   
  5pm Friday 23rd March 2012
• Professional Artists Development Fund5pm Friday 23rd March 2012
• Tyrone Guthrie Centre Award5pm Friday 23rd March 2012
  
• Annual Arts Grant Scheme 5pm Friday 23rd March 2012
  
• Community Arts Award5pm Friday 23rd March 2012
  
• Schools Musical Instrument Purchase Scheme5pm Friday 23rd March 2012
• Going Solo5pm Friday 23rd March 2012 
• Bi - Annual Arts Grant Scheme Phase II 
  5pm Friday 23rd March 2012 
• Tony Finnegan Memorial Award - 2 awards annually 

Details here
If you have questions, the arts office are lovely and welcoming.

Westmeath Co Arts Grants

Deadline 1 March 2012

Westmeath County Council operate 3 arts grants schemes annually as detailed below.

Individual Artists Bursaries. This fund provides funding to individual professional artists based in Westmeath who earn a proportion of their annual income through their artistic endeavours. Westmeath County Council will offer bursaries, each year, in respect of the professional development of individual professional artists practicing in any of the artistic disciplines outlined in the County Arts plan.

Arts in Community Scheme.
The Arts in Context Residency scheme provides specific project funding to artists to enable them to work with any school or community group for arts projects across disciplines. Funding issued by Westmeath County Council will go directly to pay the artists fees and the school or group must supply and materials required for the project. This scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between a selected group of individuals and an artist working on a particular project over a particular duration of time and to allow the group an opportunity to engage with an artist directly on a specific project. This scheme gives employment to an artist working with a group over a given period and it allows the group to gain specific skills and expertise in the area of the arts.

Arts Act Grants. 
 Westmeath County Council offers grant aid to community, voluntary or amateur arts groups or organisations, which will stimulate public interest in the arts, promote the knowledge, appreciation and practice of the arts or assist in improving the standards of the arts. In this Act the arts are defined as painting, sculpture, architecture, music, film, drama, dance, literature, design in industry and the fine arts and applied arts generally.

Link here

Kildare County Council Arts Grants

Kildare County Council Arts Service invites applications from individual artists and arts collectives and community groups for the following grant and award opportunities

·    Arts Act Grant scheme

·   Artist in Schools Residency Bursary Award

·    Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award

·    Drama League of Ireland Summer School Bursary Award

·    Film Bursary Award

·    Recording Bursary @ Platform4 Recording Studio

·    Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary Award

·    Youth Arts Residency Bursary

·    Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award

·    Local Publishing award

Additional awards for 2012 are

• Tyrone Guthrie Printmaking Residency Bursary Award
• Irish Youth Choir bursary (as auditions are in Feb/March, please register your interest immediately by contacting the arts service)
• NYCI Certificate in Youth Arts bursary. Course dates will be announced in summer 2012. Register your interest by contacting the arts service)

Application forms and further information are available from

Kildare County Arts Service, Riverbank, Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare

Tel: 045-448328; Email: arts@kildarecoco.ie  or www.kildare.ie/artsservice  

Closing date is strictly 12 noon TUESDAY 20^th March 2012

Laois CoCo Arts Service: Awards, Grants and Opportunities

Laois County Council Arts Service invites applications for the following awards and opportunities to individuals/groups and organisations from County Laois.

Arts Act Grants 2012: Provision has been made by Laois County Council for the payment of grants to arts organisations and individuals who meet the artistic and financial criteria set down by Laois County Council and who provide adequate information on their proposed activities.
Maximum amount payable will not exceed €1000.

Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Awards 2012: A Bursary is available to enable a Laois artist to spend one week working at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan. The bursary is open to artists in all fields and is selected on previous achievements and project/s in hand.
In 2012 a special Bursary for Printmakers is available and will enable two print artists to spend a week sharing and working in the new Print Studio at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. One of the artists must be an experienced printmaker and preferably a member of a recognised print studio.

Artists in Schools Scheme 2012: Grants are available for artists’ residencies in schools, to include all art forms. This scheme gives primary and post primary schools the opportunity to select and work with professional artists and explore new arts media.

Details and application forms regarding the above schemes are available on request from: The Arts Office, Laois County Council, Áras an Chontae, Portlaoise, Co. Laois
Or can be downloaded from the website: www.laois.ie

Deadline for completed applications is Thursday 23rd February 2012

Cavan Arts Grants

Arts Grants season is amongst us, less money, less publicity but there's still some there for the right artists and projects. Just make sure you tick their boxes.

Are you based in Cavan? Arts Awards deadline approaches fast:

Deadline for submission for Arts Awards for 2011 will close on Friday, 17th February 2012. Info here

Arts Awards and Tyrone Guthrie Award

They also have an interesting sounding project for

A series of vacancies have arisen for arts facilitators in creative writing, spectacle arts and music.
This project in its entirety will foster peace and reconciliation in the border community that has suffered greatly over 30 years economically, socially and culturally. An opportunity will be provided for community groups, bands, youth organisations to partake in a series of initiatives which are designed to promote awareness and understanding on a cross border, cross community level.

The successful candidates will consider the peace building theme of this project in their approach to the individual arts strand and ensure that the work embarked upon reflects this.

More here

Laois Art Grants

The co council arts grants seem to be a bit lower key than usual. Here's Laois.

The Arts Department have a number of awards and opportunites currently available to Arts Organisations, schools and Individuals. Including Arts Act Grants, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary and the Artists in Schools Scheme.

Persons born or living in the county will be eligible to apply for the Laois County Council Residential Bursary.


Deadline: Thursday 23rd February 2012 before 5pm.

Link here

Culture Ireland

Culture Ireland’s principal funding scheme is designed to support the presentation and promotion of Irish arts internationally. There are four funding rounds each year. The next deadline is 15 February 2012.




So if anyone from off the island would be interested in a reading or tour from me and/or the Poetry Divas, GET IN TOUCH SOON! And we will try to fit you in to our demanding schedule.

To be eligible for funding the primary purpose of the proposed international visit must be to present the work of Irish artists (including Northern Ireland) at significant international venues and festivals. Proposals are considered for events (e.g. exhibitions, performances or readings) the full costs of which cannot be met by the artist, company or international presenter.

Applications can be made by the local organisation / artist or the international presenter, venue or festival.

Funding Criteria
1. Quality of work and track record of artist / company
2. Level of geographic priority for Culture Ireland
3. Profile of international venue / festival
4. Financial viability of the event (including level of support from presenter / other partners)
5. Proven capacity of applicant to present work internationally
6. Wider promotional and media impact

Eligible Costs
In supporting an event, Culture Ireland will typically offer funding towards the costs of travel / transport and sometimes also accommodation/subsistence, i.e. costs which relate directly to the international presentation of the event. Culture Ireland does not fund fees, production costs, publicity or copyright/royalties.

Full guidance, lists of those who have previously received funding and application details are availabe on the Culture Ireland website.

Sky Arts Futures Funds

Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund Seminars

Missed out on the first-round shortlist of Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund? Looking for professional guidance? Need help with your application for round two? Find out here how you can sign up for one of Sky Arts and IdeasTap’s national Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund Seminars, featuring advice and Q&As with leading arts figures. Who knows – that £30k might have your name on it…

The next round
If you missed the deadline for round one, or didn’t make it to this final stage, then the second round of applications opens on 22 November. This time we’ll be looking for three winners.

Futures Fund Seminars
To help you with your application, Sky Arts is putting on a series of Futures Fund seminars. These afternoon sessions will include a live Q&A with a successful artist talking about their career, how they established themselves as a working artist and offering advice on working in the arts, This will be followed by a panel of Sky Arts and IdeasTap staff members answering your questions about applying for the fund. The afternoon will end with an opportunity to network – free drinks will be provided!

The Futures Fund Seminars will be happening across Britain and Ireland including:

DUBLIN: 20 December, Science Gallery – 2pm to 5pm. Speaker: singer, actress and entertainer Camille O’Sullivan

Kilkenny County Council Arts Office 2011 Bursary

Grants season is upon us for some county councils. Check with your local arts office to see if yours is one. Remember many will also give grants to people who are FROM there, not just LIVING there. The only county council I know who give grants to people who only WORK there is Dublin South, who graciously gave me one when I was working there.


Kilkenny County Council Arts Office is now inviting artists working across all art forms (e.g literature) to apply for its Arts Office 2011 Bursary. 

Applications will be accepted from individual creative practitioners working in any art form to enable them to pursue their practice, to develop within their chosen discipline, including research and development, professional development, collaborative projects and activities, multidisciplinary projects and equipment. 

Individuals seeking assistance must be involved in arts activities which, in the opinion of the Arts Office, develop knowledge of the arts and arts practice, their own practice and that of others. They must seek to promote the arts and artists practice to the public and develop an appreciation of the arts and their own practice and that of others. Undertakings should also assist in improving the standards of the arts and arts practice. The Arts Office is encouraging individuals seeking assistance to involve others in their project, to assist and develop collaborative practice and engage with others in the execution of their activity or project.

Dealine: 4pm, Monday 14 November 2011.For all application forms regarding the Bursary please contact:
Niamh Finn, Arts Administrator, Kilkenny County Council Arts Office, No. 76, John Street, Kilkenny.
T: 056 779 4138
E: niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie / mary.butler@kilkennycoco.ie
Application forms can also be downloaded from www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Services/Arts/Grants_Awards/ or from www.artlinks.ie.

Dublin City Artists' Grants

Dublin City Council invites applications for funding towards arts projects and programmes in the city which are complementary to the following objectives:

* Achieving quality provision of the arts and cultural services
* Supporting the established and emerging artist
* Ensuring equality of public access to and participation in the arts, particularly through the city neighbourhoods
* Encouraging awareness, education and research in the arts
* Supporting the sustainable and strategic development of arts initiatives

Application forms, guidelines and criteria may be obtained from:
City Arts Office, Dublin City Council, The LAB, Foley St., Dublin 1.
T: 01 222 7843
E: victoria.kearney@dublincity.ie

Download the guidelines for Art Funding 2012: English or Irish.
Download the application for Art Funding 2012: English or

Deadline 5pm, Friday 4 November 2011.

www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/ArtsOffice/ArtsFunding/Pages/ArtsFunding.aspx

dlr Arts Grants 2011

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council operates a scheme of grants for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual artists, arts groups and arts organisations engaged in arts projects or events at local or county level.

Grants are also available to support the arts practice and professional development of those living or working in the county.

Individual artists, arts groups and arts organisations working in all art-forms (architecture, circus, craft, dance, film, literature, music, opera, spectacle, street art, theatre, traditional arts and visual arts) are eligible to apply. Collaborative applications are also welcomed.

Applications can be made for a maximum of €10,000. However it is envisaged that the majority of grants will be in the region of €1,000 - €5,000 and only in exceptional circumstances will more than this be awarded.

Application forms are available on www.dlrcoco.ie/arts or by contacting artsfunding@dlrcoco.ie

The closing date for applications in 2011 is Thursday 7th July at 12 noon.

Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow

Bursaries!

ARTLINKS have announced a fund of €25,000 in bursaries for its membership in the five ArtLinks partner counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow for 2011.

Each partner county has €5,000 to be awarded to a successful practitioner in the categories of dance, music, drama/theatre, literature, film and visual arts – with a minimum award to successful applicants will be €1,000. The awards are designed to support the professional development of creative practitioners, aged 18 and over, who are resident within the ArtLinks five county partnership region.

Full details of the fund, and the Bursary Application Form and Guideline Notes can be downloaded from www.artlinks.ie

Deadline: 5pm on Friday 1 July 2011.

Waterford Bursary

Haven't seen this elsewhere so Waterford artists, get cracking.

Regional Arts Bursary 2011 Call for applications

This prestigious award will enable the chosen artist to spend two weeks at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, the artists’ workplace in County Monaghan during 2011. It covers all board and lodging expenses plus the use of a studio if required.

Deadline: Thursday 12th May 2011.

Website here.

Clare County Council bursary for the Tyrone Guthrie Centre

The Arts Office of Clare County Council is delighted to announce that the bursary scheme for the Tyrone Guthrie Centre (open to artists in all disciplines) is being offered in 2011.

The bursary for the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan allows an artist the opportunity to stay at the internationally renowned centre for up to two weeks, all expenses paid. Each artist is allocated their own studio in this spectacular setting of woodland and lakes. Interaction with the other resident artists is encouraged and a group dinner takes place each evening. This bursary is open to all professional artists in the county.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Friday 15 April 2011 at 4p.m.

Application forms and further information are available from
The County Arts Office, County Library, Mill Road, Ennis, Co. Clare.
T: 065 6899091
E: arts@clarelibrary.ie
www.clarelibrary.ie/arts.htm or www.clarecoco.ie

Kilkenny County Council Residency

Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office in partnership with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre is offering a two week residency at Annaghmakerrig to two practitioners of any art forms currently based in Kilkenny.

The aim of the Residency is to assist and encourage both established and emerging practitioners, in giving them an opportunity to work intensively on a ‘project’ alongside others in a very unique environment.

Application forms can also be downloaded from: www.artlinks.ie / www.kilkennycoco.ie/services/arts

Deadline: 4pm, Friday 29 April 2011.

For further details and application forms regarding all of the above please contact:
Niamh Finn, Arts Administrator, Kilkenny County Council Arts Office, No. 76, John Street, Kilkenny.
T: 056 779 4138
E: niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie

Dublin City Council

ARTS BURSARIES
Dublin City Council invites applications from artists who wish to be considered for a Bursary of €4,000 towards studies at an advanced level or the development of work/professional skills. Artists, resident in Dublin City Council’s administrative area, can apply for a Bursary in Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama and Literature. One Bursary will be awarded in each discipline.

Deadline: 17.00hrs on Friday 15th April 2011

Link here