Deadline: 22-Jun-23
The Arts Council is delighted to announce the Agility Award to support individual professional freelance artists and arts workers at any stage in their careers.
The Arts Council particularly welcomes new applicants who represent the diversity of Irish society. They encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background.
Priorities
The purpose and priority of the Agility Award:
The purpose of the Agility Award is to enable individual artists and arts practitioners like you to do one or more of the following:
- Develop your practice
- Develop your work
- Develop your skills
They will prioritise applications that best show how your practice as an artist or arts practitioner will benefit from taking time to develop your practice or to work on artistic ideas. They encourage applications from early-career stage artists and arts practitioners who may not have previously applied to the Arts Council.
Funding Information
- The amount you can request must range from €1,500 to €5,000.
- You can request any amount within this range, but they will not make an award for less or more than this.
- Access costs for artists or arts practitioners with disabilities In addition to the maximum of €5,000.
Eligible Activities
You can apply for any activities that will support your development as an artist.
- Working at developing your practice.
- Researching or thinking about or developing a new idea for future presentation.
- Developing your technical skills in a particular area.
- Developing or learning new skills related to your practice
- Working with a mentor or collaborator(s) to develop an idea, or to help you upskill within an area of, or related to, your practice.
- Developing an idea in collaboration with a potential production partner(s).
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to individual professional freelance artists and arts practitioners at any stage in their careers.
Art forms:
- Architecture
- Arts Participation
- Festivals
- Film
- Literature
- Music
- Traditional Arts
- Theatre
- Dance
Ineligible
They will not accept applications from the following:
- Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses).
- Individuals seeking support towards fees for postgraduate (including unaccredited)/higher education or study.
- Individuals seeking support towards work undertaken as part of a formal course of study.
- Individuals seeking support towards the costs of undertaking an internship or volunteer work.
- Organisations.
- Non-professional artists or arts practitioners.
- Individuals who live outside the Republic of Ireland. In limited cases, they may accept applications from outside the Republic of Ireland. However, you would need to detail in your application how your proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland. They would need to be satisfied with your explanation.
- They cannot accept applications from those employed or contracted on a full-time basis by an arts organisation funded through Arts Council programmes or through direct state subsidy or by a commercial arts entity.
For more information, visit Arts Council.