Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award – Ireland

Deadline: 24-Jun-21

The Arts Council is pleased to launch the Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award to support the professional development of artists by enabling them to spend time developing their practice.

The award is specifically focused on helping artists to improve their capacity to develop or present high-quality arts experiences with or for children and young people. It is open to individual artists and practitioners working in a creative capacity in any artform, including arts facilitators, curators or programmers.

Objectives

• Spend focused time working at their practice
• Spend time researching/thinking about/developing a new idea for future dissemination
• Spend time developing their technical skills in a particular area
• Spend time developing/learning new skills related to their practice or area of interest
• Spend time working with a mentor, or collaborator(s) to develop an idea, or to assist in developing or upskilling within a particular area of their practice, or an area related to their practice
• Spend time developing an idea in collaboration with a potential production partner(s)
• Undertake a short period of training by way of master classes or other professional training opportunities (whether national or international)
• Purchase a limited amount of equipment and materials to assist with the development of their practice
• Spend time undertaking a combination of the above activities.

• Enable a professional artist with significant experience in their artform but with limited experience in developing work with or for young people to develop their knowledge and capacity in this area
• Enable a young artist (aged 18–24) who has demonstrated artistic leadership and innovation in their artistic endeavours as a young person to develop their professional capacity to engage other young participants or audiences in the arts
• Enable an emerging, mid-career or established artist to explore new ideas, skills or ways of working that will improve their capacity to create high-quality work with or for young people.

Award Information

• €20,000
• €15,000
• €10,000

Eligibility Criteria

• The award is open to artists working in all genres and at all stages in their professional careers. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
  • Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application how the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland, and the Arts Council must be satisfied with same.
  • Be professional practising artists. Although they might not earn income continuously or exclusively from their arts practice, applicants must identify themselves, and be recognised by their peers, as professional practising artists.
• As part of its Equality, Human Rights & Diversity policy, the Arts Council is committed to offering equality of access, opportunity and outcomes for all potential applicants, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background. In this funding scheme the Arts Council particularly welcomes applications that are representative of the diversity of Irish society, including but not limited to any of the characteristics outlined above, and/ or initiatives that deliver equitable opportunities or outcomes for those involved.

For more information, visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Young-People,-Children,-and-Education-Bursary-Award/