Deadline: 31-Oct-22
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is inviting applications for the Commissioning Programme to enable organisations to commission new work.
The finished work should be in a form capable of being presented, exhibited, published, performed and/or disseminated in its entirety at the point of completion in Northern Ireland (if applicable abroad) either live or online.
Priorities
This programme prioritises applications that:
- Propose commissions of high artistic quality;
- Are planned to reach significant audiences primarily in Northern Ireland through live performance, exhibition, publication, broadcast, recording, and/or other audience channels;
- Provide for an extended life and/or extended public reach and impact for the work or project that has been created;
- Demonstrate a strong collaborative-engagement process between the commissioner, performers and the commissioned artist(s) in the development of the new work; and
- Demonstrate innovation and deepen the experience and understanding of the artform.
Funding Information
The maximum award available is £25,000.
Eligibility Criteria
The Arts Council welcomes applications from the widest possible range of organisations. You will be required to provide proof that you have a legal constitution.
What You Can Apply For?
The Commissions Award only supports fees paid to the artist(s) by the commissioner. All other costs relating to the rehearsal, production, presentation, exhibition or dissemination of the commissioned work must be borne by the commissioner.
Ineligible
- Individual artists or sole traders applying to commission themselves
- Commercial trading companies
- Companies that exist to distribute a profit
- Broadcasters (excluding community service broadcasters)
- Central Government Departments
- Organisations applying to commission an artist who is a serving Board member or Trustee of that organisation.
For more information, visit Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
For more information, visit http://artscouncil-ni.org/funding/scheme/commissioning-programme