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.
Proposals can include but are not limited to:
- Professional development, including travel
- Adapt/reimagine existing work in line with current public health guidelines
- Seed new ideas and partnerships
- Access mentoring
- Research and development of new work
- Residencies
- Access to a recognised and relevant postgraduate course
For more information, visit Exploring and Thinking Bursary Awards.