Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The Arts Council is seeking proposals to support touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and art practices.
The Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is open to applications from organisations and individuals. Applications which demonstrate collaboration / partnership between networks, consortia or other collective groupings of presenters are encouraged, particularly where these indicate a high degree of engagement with audiences and collaboration with the producing entity or artists.
Objectives
- The Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is designed to support touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and arts practices. In offering this scheme the Arts Council aims to support:
- Proposals that are of high artistic quality
- Tours that generally have a strong audience focus
- A geographical spread of tours
- A range of genres/practices in both artforms
- Tours of varying scale
- Applications that show that all those involved in the proposal (makers, producers, arts centres, etc.) agree their roles with regard to artistic and marketing issues and to risk sharing.
- Applications that include a contingency plan outlining alternative arrangements should COVID-19 restrictions prevent the original plan from being carried out
- Applications that provide evidence of an effective and appropriate producer role.
Priorities
- Architecture
- Arts participation
- Circus
- Dance
- Film
- Literature
- Music
- Street Arts and Spectacle
- Theatre
- Traditional Arts
- Visual Arts
- Young People, Children and Education (YPCE)
Eligibility Criteria
- The scheme is open to individuals and organisations that wish to tour from January 2023 to June 2023 and who are resident or based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
- Unsuccessful applicants to Strategic/Arts Centre/Partnership Funding may apply to the Touring Scheme(s).
Ineligibilty Criteria
Those who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Organisations in receipt of Strategic/Arts Centre/Partnership Funding
- Individuals or organisations who do not have a demonstrable track record as professional artists or organisations
- Organisations or individuals not resident/based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland
- You cannot apply for a tour taking place only in Northern Ireland
- In Theatre, no more than one application per applicant will be accepted
- Applicants who do not guarantee payment to artists in their original plans and contingency plans
- Members of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/funds/Touring-and-dissemination-of-work-scheme/