Deadline: 16-Mar-23
Nominations are now open for the Mayo County Council’s Upstart Awards to incentivise quality artistic collaborations between groups/ people with disabilities, artists, arts venues and organisations within County Mayo.
Award Details
Awards, in the main, range from €500 to €1800.
What you can apply for?
- Projects that focus on creative work by people with disabilities.
- Projects that are additional to a groups’ or organisations’ regular programme of work.
- Projects that involve the development of new work in a new art-form.
- Projects that engage people with disabilities as artists, participants or audience members.
- An event to celebrate arts and disability.
- A workshop or a series of workshops in the lead up to December 3rd with a local group of people with disabilities. (This should be facilitated by a professional artist with experience of working with people with disabilities.)
- A performance for an invited audience of a work in progress/ event (film, theatre, dance, music, choral or other event) by a group of people with disabilities, which has come about through collaboration with a professional artist/artist.
- A mainstream performance that will be made accessible for an audience of people with disabilities. (i.e. audio described/ sign language interpreted/ text captioned etc)
- A project/performance/exhibition by emerging artist(s) with disabilities, or a group of people with disabilities who have produced work with a professional artist.
- A closed event for a specific group of people with disabilities.
What you cannot apply for?
- Projects that have already taken place.
- Projects that operate in contexts outside the arts
- Projects developed as tools for Advocacy, occupational or therapy purposes.
- Projects developed as tools for wellbeing or life skills development.
- Projects which are primarily based in health-care contexts and are focused on health gain.
- Projects that are part of an ongoing arts programme.
- Projects which take place outside the county.
- Projects/Events already funded by Mayo County Council Arts Service
Eligibility Criteria
- Venues that have participated in Mayo County council’s Arts and Disability Programme. (Disability Equality Training, 2009, access audits, 2010.)
- Artists who have participated in Disability Equality Training or who have experience of working with people with disabilities.
- Emerging artists with disabilities.
- Groups of people with disabilities interested in working with a particular artist and/or venue to develop a project. (The professional artist’s C.V should show evidence of experience of working with people with disabilities).
For more information, visit Mayo County Council.