Deadline: 22-Sep-22
The Arts Council is seeking applications for the Arts Centre Funding to invest in and support the infrastructure of arts centres required to sustain and develop the arts in Ireland.
The Arts Council wishes to encourage arts centres to engage with and further develop supports for artists. Examples of this might be by:
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Providing professional-development opportunities for practising artists through:
- The management of physical spaces for artists to develop work
- Residencies that are meaningful in length, appropriately remunerated, and relevant to the requirements of artists in different artforms and practice
- In-house productions/co-productions
- Other models of support as appropriate
- Working with cultural and other organisations (e.g. other arts centres and venues, local-authority arts offices, festivals, libraries, schools, care centres, etc.) to engage with people as artists, audience members, collaborators and participants
- Planning for the development of digitally intelligent buildings, supporting innovation both in creation and dissemination.
Purposes
- Arts centres are defined as full-time, public-facing, professionally managed, building-based arts organisations. They support the creation, presentation and mediation of the arts across a range of artforms and arts practices. They support professional, collaborative, voluntary and amateur arts practice.
- Recipients of Arts Centre Funding play a critical part in delivering the policy priorities of Making Great Art Work, the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy.
Objectives
- The year-round production and dissemination of arts activities, events and services of the highest quality throughout the country
- That greater numbers of people enjoy high-quality arts experiences
- That artists are supported in their professional practice
- That audiences, artists and participants reflect the diversity of contemporary Ireland
- Increased depth of engagement by and with the public
- High standards in governance and management.
Types of activities supported through Arts Centre Funding
- Arts Centre Funding is intended to support activities that your organisation undertakes to realise your mission and related operating costs.
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Note: organisations applying for Arts Centre Funding for 2023 should include any activities that were previously supported through separate funding schemes:
- Residencies
- Artist-development initiatives
- Resource sharing
- Young ensembles
- Touring and dissemination of work.
- Arts Centre Funding may not be used for the purchase of capital items.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Arts Centre Funding Programme is open only to building-based, professionally managed, multidisciplinary arts organisations that are open to the public all year round.
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To be eligible for application, your organisation must:
- Be formally constituted as either a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG), a Designated Activity Company (DAC), a Company Limited by Shares (LTD) or a statutory body.
- Apply in its own name, and not in the name of another company or individual
Ineligible
- Organisations that have already applied for funding through Arts Grant Funding 2023
- Members of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
- If this is the first time your organisation has applied for Arts Centre Funding, you must contact Val Ballance, Head of Arts Centres, before applying. Applications received from first-time applicants that have not agreed their eligibility to apply, in writing, with the Head of Arts Centres will be considered ineligible.
- Organisations that fail to meet the eligibility criteria will not be assessed and will not receive Arts Centre Funding.
For more information, visit Arts Council.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Arts-Centre-Funding/