Deadline: 23-Mar-23
The Arts Council is seeking nominations for its 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.
Objectives
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 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
Priorities
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.
Funding Information
You may apply for up to €50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to professional artists 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.
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 above programmes
- Members of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
- Individuals or organisations who 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 Arts Council.