Deadline: 13-Jan-22
The Arts Council is offering grant under “Touring and dissemination of work scheme – advance planning” to support initiatives that are of high artistic quality and that generally have a strong audience focus.
The Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is open to applications from organisations and individuals. Applications which demonstrate collaboration / partnership between networks, consortia or other collective groupings of presenters are encouraged, particularly where these indicate a high degree of engagement with audiences and collaboration with the producing entity or artists.
Objectives
The Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is designed to support touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and arts practices.
In offering this scheme the Arts Council aims to support:
- Proposals that are of high artistic quality
- Tours that generally have a strong audience focus
- A geographical spread of tours that takes into account Covid-19 constraints (if applicable). Priority will be given to tours that limit their need to travel extensively – e.g. tour a production or event around several locations in one city or local area.
- A range of genres/practices in each artform
- Tours of various scales (limitations on scale brought about by Covid-19 restrictions (if applicable) should be taken into account, and large-scale productions should include a rationale)
- Applications that show that all those involved in the proposal (makers, producers, venues, etc.) agree their roles with regard to artistic and marketing issues and to risk sharing. This is particularly important in the context of Covid-19 restrictions, when limited audiences, longer runs and constraints on performers and staff are key issues.
- Applications that include a contingency plan outlining alternative arrangements should Covid-19 restrictions prevent the original plan from being carried out
- Applications that provide evidence of an effective and appropriate producer role.
Priorities
Priorities of the scheme – individual artforms and arts practices:
- Architecture
- Arts Participation
- Circus
- Dance
- Film
- Literature
- Music
- Street Arts and Spectacle
- Theatre
- Traditional Arts
- Visual Arts
- Young People, Children and Education (YPCE)
Eligibility Criteria
- The scheme is open to individuals and organisations who wish to tour productions in the Republic of Ireland in 2023, and who are resident or based in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
- Applicants to Strategic/Arts Centre/Partnership Funding may apply to the Advanced Planning Touring Scheme(s).
- As part of its Equality, Human Rights and Diversity policy, the Arts Council is committed to offering equality of access, opportunity and outcomes for all potential applicants, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background. In this funding scheme the Arts Council particularly welcomes applications that are representative of the diversity of Irish society, including but not limited to any of the characteristics, and/or initiatives that deliver equitable opportunities or outcomes for those involved.
- The applicant is the person or organisation that will receive any grant offered and who will be required to accept the terms and conditions of that grant.
- Any grant offered will only be paid into a bank account held in the name of the applicant.
- All documentation provided must be in the name of the applicant (individual artist or arts organisation) – e.g. if you apply to the Arts Council for funding under the name Máire de Barra, then all documentation, including bank and tax details, must be in that name. Variations such as Mary Barry or Barry Studios are not acceptable.
- For applications that involve a network, consortium or partnership, a single organisation must be nominated as the applicant.
For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Touring-and-dissemination-of-work-scheme—advance-planning/
