Deadline: 27-Jul-23
The Arts Council is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Late-Night Events (Pilot Programme).
Objectives and Priorities of the Award
- Arising from Action 2 (b) of the Night-Time Economy (NTE) Taskforce, this is a pilot scheme to help existing arts and cultural spaces assess the viability of staying open late. The project is a partnership between the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media and the Arts Council.
- The Late-Night Events (Pilot Programme) 2023 intends to further extend and diversify the offering for late-night activity and provide opportunities for new and exciting work, encouraging new audiences into existing cultural facilities. It will also seek to identify and address any challenges venues may associate with staying open late.
- In addition, nine local authorities are currently appointing NTE advisers: in Dublin city, Cork city, Limerick city, Galway city, Kilkenny, Drogheda, Sligo, Buncrana and Longford town. The Late-Night Events (Pilot Programme) 2023 should support the work of these initiatives. Pending the appointment of these advisers, the Arts Council will ensure that arts officers are fully informed of this pilot programme.
- The pilot will:
- Encourage new partnerships between local authorities, arts centres, festivals, producers, other commercial and non-commercial venues and artists, particularly those operating later into the evening
- Support innovative and additional approaches to night-time arts activities
- Enhance, diversify and expand audience engagement
- Seek to identify and overcome challenges to venues and cultural spaces associated with opening late
- Advocate for a place-based approach that will build on the existing arts sector in each town or city
- Support any additional NTE interventions thatmay be in place (i.e. pilot NTE advisors)
- Support events promoted at reasonable cost to audiences
- Support events that pay artists and creative workers fairly.
Funding Information
- Up to €60,000 will be available for the lead arts centre for programming.
Eligibility Criteria
- The lead partner must be an arts centre thathas been in receipt of Arts Council Art Centre Funding or Arts Grant Funding (arts centres) within the last five years. Events may or may not take place in the arts centres: the arts centre may be centrally involved or simply act as the administrator for the pilot.
- Partners might include local promoters, local-authority night-time advisers, operators of pop-up venues, other arts centres, other commercial and non-commercial venues festivals, producers and artists.
Ineligible
- Activities and costs that you may not apply for include the following:
- Major capital purchases
- Ongoing core costs
- Activities or costs that do not fit the purpose of the award
- Activities that are more suited to another award funded by the Arts Council or operated by other state agencies, such as Culture Ireland
- Activities that have already taken place or which will have commenced before 1 September2023
- Activities undertaken for charity-fundraising purposes or for participation in a competition.
For more information, visit Arts Council.