Deadline: 28-Jul-22
The Arts Council is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the 2023 Street Arts and Spectacle Project Award to support high-quality, stand-alone initiatives that specifically deliver a presentation to, or an engagement with, an audience or public.
Potential street arts or spectacle proposals could be those that:
- Allow artists within these artforms to work with professionals such as choreographers, producers, directors and costume designers to develop work that is new to both the artists involved and audiences
- Involve original artistic ideas, enabling artists to engage with new or experimental collaborative partnerships leading to a public performance
Award Information
You may apply for up to €50,000.
Types of Projects
The Arts Council has identified the following types of project as strategic priorities for support through this award:
- Projects that reflect a strong relationship and/or level of investment between the artist and project partner(s), leading to high-quality production values for the completed work.
- Projects that present innovative formats of artistic creations and dissemination through high-quality elements of cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Projects that demonstrate the capacity to deliver ambitious work of high public impact and visibility.
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to professional artists1 and organisations working in the areas of street arts and/or spectacle. 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.
For more information, visit Arts Council.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Street-Arts-and-Spectacle-Project-Award/
