Deadline: 28-Jul-22
The Arts Council is pleased to announce an open call for the 2023 Traditional Arts Project Award to support stand-alone projects which enrich the traditional arts landscape by facilitating artists in bringing creative, ambitious and high-quality projects to audiences.
Strands
There are two strands to the award.
- Small & Medium Scale: The purpose of Strand 1 is to support one-off or short-term projects that are led by the traditional arts but can involve collaboration with other artforms. Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate:
- Attention to artistic quality
- Creativity
- Significant benefit to the traditional-arts community.
- Large Scale: The purpose of Strand 2 is to support:
- Ambitious and high-quality projects, including those that have the potential to make a significant and lasting impact on the traditional-arts landscape
- Ambitious and large-scale initiatives led by artists with a demonstrable track record in professional traditional-arts practice that specifically focus on producing a work, event or project for a sizeable audience
- Projects that involve highly creative performances of a broad repertoire and/or working with expert practitioners
- Artists who engage in devised or collaborative creative processes.
Award Information
- Strand 1: Small & Medium Scale €20,000
- Strand 2: Large Scale €80,000
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to professional artists, groups of artists and organisations working in the traditional arts. 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 https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Traditional-Arts-Project-Award/