Deadline: 23-Mar-23
The Arts Council is inviting nominations for the Circus Project Award.
Purpose of the award
- The purpose of the award is to support high-quality, stand-alone initiatives that specifically deliver a presentation to, or an engagement with, an audience or public.
- Potential circus proposals could be those that:
- Involve a variety of circus disciplines within a theme-based performance
- Allow artists 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
- Enable artists to create work that changes their own concepts of current working practices
Priorities
- The Arts Council has identified the following types of projects as strategic priorities for support through this award:
- Projects that create opportunities to extend the life of the work by securing a broad range of performance venues within the finite parameters of the project
- Projects that reflect a strong relationship and/or level of investment between the artist and project partner(s), and leading to high-quality production values for the completed work.
Funding Information
- You may apply for up to €50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open to professional artists and organisations working in circus.
- 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.
Who is the applicant?
- The applicant is the person or organisation that will receive any grant offered and who will be required to accept the terms and conditions of that grant.
- Any grant offered will only be paid into a bank account held in the name of the applicant.
- All documentation provided must be in the name of the applicant (individual artist or arts organisation) – e.g. if you apply to the Arts Council for funding under the name Máire de Barra, then all documentation, including bank and tax details, must be in that name. Variations such as Mary Barry or Barry Studios are not acceptable.
Ineligible
- Applicants who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Organisations currently in receipt of funding under the following Arts Council programmes: Strategic Funding, Arts Centre Funding, Partnership Funding – though the involvement of such organisations as partners is welcome
- Organisations or individuals in receipt of 2023 Arts Grant Funding
- Individuals who work on an ongoing basis with organisations funded through any of the programmes
- Members of the Council of National Cultural Institutions directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
- Individuals or organisations that do not have a demonstrable track record as professional artists or organisations
- Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses) or who will be during the period for which this award is offered
- Individuals seeking support towards fees for postgraduate (including unaccredited)/higher education or study
Note: you cannot apply for the award both as an individual and as part of an organisation – e.g. you cannot apply as artistic director of a company and also apply separately under your own name.
For more information, visit Circus Project Award.