Deadline: 29-Sep-22
The Arts Council has announced an Open Call for the artists and arts organisations of Ireland to create national collaborative ground-breaking public-facing projects of ambition, impact and scale that encourage discourse, provocation or response to place and identity as part of contemporary Ireland.
Open Call is a programme for artists and arts organisations to develop and shift their practice and profile work for the public on a national scale, creating high-profile arts central to people’s lives.
Objectives
- To provide a unique opportunity for artists and arts organisations to engage with, and respond to, the Decade of Centenaries through the creation of innovative national projects and programmes.
- To support artists to create public-facing, new work of ambition and collaboration, impact and scale that encourages discourse, provocation or response to place and identity as part of contemporary Ireland, and to incentivise experimentation in a range of artistic disciplines.
Purposes
The Arts Council will achieve the objectives of the Open Call Award by supporting project proposals that:
- Are led by the vision of the artist(s) or develop the ambition of the artist(s)
- Are brave in the pursuit of creative risk-taking
- Encourage collaboration between artforms and art-practice areas (i.e. cross-artform, interdisciplinary or combined-arts practice)
- Extend the reach and impact of a project, with a fresh and dynamic approach to public engagement; in this context, public engagement may refer to participants and/or audiences
- Demonstrate effective project partnerships, planning and project management
- Demonstrate a commitment to a research-and-development phase in project planning.
Priorities
Priority will be given to projects that:
- Expand new territories of arts practice
- Include high-profile international dimensions and collaborators in terms of public visibility and resource-based partnerships
- Encourage, foster and enable diversity and inclusivity in the arts and demonstrate the principles of equality and diversity in working practices
- Demonstrably respond to the Decade of Centenaries.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount that may be awarded to a successful application in the Lower Strand of the Open Call Award 2023 is: €250,000.
- The maximum amount that may be awarded to a successful application in the Upper Strand of the Open Call Award 2023 is: €500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open only to applicants who were successfully shortlisted in the Open Call Award 2023 Phase 1 and have been directed to apply to Phase 2.
- Note: an individual or organisation may make only one application to the Open Call Award 2023, and therefore can apply to only one of the two strands available. You must choose the strand you selected in Phase 1.
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For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Open-Call/