Exploring and Thinking Bursary Awards 2022-23 in Ireland

Deadline: 12-Dec-22

Applications are now being accepted for the Exploring and Thinking Bursary Awards 2022-23.

Exploring and thinking is a collaborative framework for early childhood arts in the Dublin region. It came about in 2016 when the four local authorities South Dublin County, Fingal County, Dublin City and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County partnered for the first time to collectively consider early childhood arts provision in the Dublin region.

Purpose

Early childhood arts includes a wide range of different arts practices and creative experiences with/for children aged 0-5 years in different contexts. The Exploring & Thinking Bursary Award supports individual professional artists to develop their artistic practice working with and/or producing work for early childhood arts.

Objectives

To support artistic ambition in cross-artform collaborations, professional development and the research and development of new work in early childhood arts
To reach new early childhood arts audiences in under-served communities and neighbourhoods
To stimulate dialogue between Dublin Local Authorities, artists, early childhood educators and organisations
To build on current research investigating practice across artforms, professional disciplines and context
To generate advocacy in early childhood arts

Priorities Areas

Access with an emphasis on under-served communities and neighbourhoods
Quality of practice that is evidence and standards based
Positive impact on artistic practice and the wider early childhood sector
Focus on Artist that is responsive to emerging and established practitioners
Sustainability with actions that are achievable, realistic and measurable

Eligibility Criteria

The Bursary award is open to:
- Individual professional artists who wish to develop their practice in early childhood arts
- Artists practicing in all artforms
- Artists resident in Ireland.
- Artists do not have to be based in the Dublin region, but the bursary proposal should articulate how this support in turn, will impact existing early childhood arts practice in the Dublin region.
- All successful bursaries need to be completed by year end 2023. They reserve the right not to allocate funding and to allocate partial funding. The fund is limited and all eligible applications will be evaluated on a competitive basis against the criteria set out in this document.