The Arts Council has announced that it is offering funding of almost €10 million to 166 artists and arts organisations as part of its Arts Grant Funding (AGF) programme. The grants are for Artists’ Support; Arts Participation; Circus; Dance; Festivals & Events; Film; Literature; Music; Opera; Spectacle; Theatre; Traditional Arts; Venues; Visual Arts and Young People, Children, and Education.
The investment includes an additional €2.5 million compared to last year’s AGF programme, part of an effort to support artists and arts organisations through the Covid-19 crisis. This has been made possible through extra investment from the government this year. In total, 166 applications out of 194 were successful, including 42 that were not funded in 2019.
“This investment is a vote of confidence by the Arts Council in these artists and arts organisations,” said Arts Council Director Maureen Kennelly. “Because of Covid-19, no one can predict accurately what performances, exhibitions or other art work will look like in 2021, but we know that artists and arts organisations will continue to create great work for the public, despite the current extreme challenges. These awards will create work opportunities for freelance artists and arts workers across all art forms, which is critical at this time of crisis.”
The Arts Grant Funding scheme now in its third year, was introduced in 2018 as part of our 10-year strategy, Making Great Art Work. The additional investment comes alongside a suite of other new and enhanced funding programmes designed to help the arts sector survive and adapt to the pandemic.
These include enhanced Projects awards, Bursary awards and Commissions across all art forms and areas of arts practice; a capacity-building scheme to support organisations adapt and develop new skills and expertise; a professional development scheme to support individuals to up skill and take on new training or professional development opportunities; and an Emergency Stabilisation Fund to support some arts organisations facing significant financial difficulties.
Successful applicants under Arts Grant Funding include:
Barnstorm Theatre in Kilkenny has a particular although not exclusive focus on commissioning and producing theatre for children and young people. The company tours nationally and occasionally internationally, primarily to schools audiences, and provides a year-round programme of projects and events that serve young people, schools and communities within Kilkenny.
The Cill Rialaig Project artists’ retreat in Balinskelligs County Kerry comprises a cluster of pre-famine cottages that have been restored to provide seven self-contained live/work spaces for artists. Residencies last 2-3 weeks and are provided free of charge. Places are offered through a mix of direct invitation and open submission. The retreat is part of the wider Cill Rialaig project which incorporates a gallery, shop, café, workshop and print studio.
Tulca, is a contemporary visual arts festival in Galway city. Progressing from its origins within the Galway Arts Centre, it set up as an independent limited company in 2004 to support its aim of extending the debate and provision for the visual arts community and audiences throughout the city and county.
Clonmel Junction Arts Festival was established in 2000 and since then it has developed a distinctive role in providing a quality arts programme for a large audience in South Tipperary. The festival is rooted in the town that it serves, , and sees itself as playing an important role in creating new and dynamic connections with the community.
Upstate is a community-engaged performing arts organisation working across all arts participation practice areas. Established in Drogheda in 1997, its programme is designed to facilitate local communities of place and interest to work in collaboration with professional artists to realise performances based on themes, ideas and issues of mutual interest.
Artists' Support | Achill Heinrich
Boll Association | 22,500.00 | Mayo County |
Artists' Support | Cill Rialaig
Project Ltd | 72,500.00 | Kerry County |
Arts
Participation | Common Ground | 90,000.00 | Dublin City |
Arts
Participation | Upstate Theatre
Project | 95,000.00 | Louth County |
Arts
Participation | Dance Theatre of
Ireland | 70,000.00 | Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown County |
Arts
Participation | Centre For
Creative Practices | 50,000.00 | Dublin City |
Arts
Participation | Cork Community
Artlink Ltd | 60,000.00 | Cork City |
Arts Participation | Tallaght
Community Arts | 99,000.00 | South Dublin |
Arts
Participation | Outlandish
Theatre Platform | 70,000.00 | Dublin City |
Arts
Participation | Asylum
Productions | 50,000.00 | Kilkenny County |
Arts
Participation | Bluefire | 76,400.00 | Fingal |
Arts Participation | Callan Workhouse
Union | 49,600.00 | Kilkenny County |
Arts
Participation | Smashing Times
Theatre Company | 30,000.00 | Dublin City |
Circus | National Circus
Festival of Ireland | 50,000.00 | Kerry County |
Circus | Taking Flight:
Education & Performance Ltd. | 43,000.00 | Dublin City |
Circus | Dublin Circus
Project | 23,500.00 | Dublin City |
Circus | Circus Factory | 75,000.00 | Cork City |
Circus | Mc Cague, Elaine | 103,000.00 | Dublin City |
Dance | Davis, Joan | 33,000.00 | Wicklow County |
Dance | Smalis, Angeliki | 33,000.00 | Limerick City |
Dance | Croi Glan
Integrated Dance | 66,470.00 | Cork County |
Dance | Murphy, Luke | 153,030.00 | Cork City |
Dance | The Firkin Crane | 32,500.00 | Cork City |
Dance | Chiodi, Maria
Jazmin | 131,000.00 | Limerick County |
Dance | Irish Modern
Dance Theatre | 148,000.00 | Dublin City |
Dance | Murphy, Laura | 33,000.00 | Cork County |
Dance | junk ensemble | 140,000.00 | Dublin City |
Festivals &
Events | Clonmel Junction
Festival | 101,000.00 | Tipperary County
Council |
Festivals &
Events | Clifden Community
Arts Week | 90,000.00 | Galway County |
Festivals & Events | Light Moves
Festival Of Screendance | 40,000.00 | Limerick City |
Festivals &
Events | Cairde Festival
Ltd | 90,000.00 | Sligo County |
Festivals &
Events | Blood in the
Alley Productions | 22,000.00 | Cork County |
Festivals &
Events | Galway Theatre
Festival | 20,000.00 | Galway City |
Film | Aemi | 98,850.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Over the Edge | 9,000.00 | Galway City |
Literature(English) | Doire Press | 60,000.00 | Galway County |
Literature(English) | Ó Bhéal | 7,500.00 | Cork City |
Literature(English) | Curlew Editions
Ltd | 39,000.00 | Sligo County |
Literature(English) | Wordwell Ltd | 30,000.00 | Wicklow County |
Literature(English) | The Dublin Review | 67,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Tramp Press | 108,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Cuirt Intl
Festival of Literature | 100,000.00 | Galway City |
Literature(English) | Fish Publishing | 15,000.00 | Cork County |
Literature(English) | Lilliput Press | 86,500.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Irish Pages | 28,000.00 | Donegal County |
Literature(English) | Rockfinch Ltd | 12,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Banshee | 60,000.00 | Kildare County |
Literature(English) | The Well Review | 15,000.00 | Cork County |
Literature(English) | Paper Lanterns | 25,000.00 | Kildare County |
Literature(English) | Dublin review of
books | 25,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Holy Show | 19,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | The O'Brien Press | 57,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Cyphers Magazine | 12,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Dublin Book
Festival | 60,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Fighting Words | 45,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Museum Of
Literature Ireland | 15,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | International
Literature Festival Dublin | 80,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Gaden Gilmartin, Cassia | 11,000.00 | Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown County |
Literature(English) | New Island Books
DAC | 87,000.00 | Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown County |
Literature(English) | Publishing
Ireland | 15,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Words Ireland | 44,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | IBBY Ireland | 7,500.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Fiction At The
Friary | 6,000.00 | Cork County |
Literature(English) | Skein Press | 90,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Maleney, Ian | 12,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(English) | Gorse | 14,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(Irish) | Futa Fata | 49,500.00 | Galway County |
Literature(Irish) | Feasta | 13,000.00 | Kerry County |
Literature(Irish) | Dalen (Llyfrau)
Cyf | 30,000.00 | Cork County |
Literature(Irish) | Wilson (mac
Liam), Richard (risteard) | 10,000.00 | Meath County |
Literature(Irish) | Comhar Teoranta | 23,000.00 | Dublin City |
Literature(Irish) | Leabhaircomhar | 14,000.00 | Dublin City |
Music | Cork
International Choral Festival | 29,250.00 | Cork City |
Music | Symphony Club of
Waterford | 12,000.00 | Waterford City |
Music | Louth
Contemporary Music Ltd | 87,000.00 | Louth County |
Music | Music for Wexford | 20,000.00 | Wexford County |
Music | The Galway Music
Residency | 65,000.00 | Galway City |
Music | Music for Galway | 67,000.00 | Galway City |
Music | Waterford Music | 16,000.00 | Waterford City |
Music | Sligo Jazz
Project | 53,000.00 | Sligo County |
Music | Drogheda
International Music Series | 19,000.00 | Louth County |
Music | National String
Quartet Foundation | 70,000.00 | Cork County |
Music | Music in Kilkenny | 26,820.00 | Kilkenny County |
Music | Resurgam | 73,000.00 | Dublin City |
Music | Quiet Music
Ensemble | 41,000.00 | Cork County |
Music | Clifden Arts
Society | 12,000.00 | Galway County |
Music | Power, Karen | 23,000.00 | Cork County |
Music | Kirkos | 39,000.00 | South Dublin |
Music | Burke, Aoife | 11,000.00 | Cork County |
Music | St. Barrahane's
Chuch Festival Of Music | 8,000.00 | Cork County |
Music | Sundays at Noon /
Gallery Music | 22,000.00 | Dublin City |
Music | Pipeworks
Festival | 48,000.00 | Dublin City |
Music | Bray Jazz
Festival | 48,000.00 | Wicklow County |
Music | Cork Orchestral
Society | 35,000.00 | Cork City |
Music | The Journal of
Music | 64,000.00 | Galway County |
Music | Finding A Voice | 30,000.00 | Tipperary County
Council |
Music | Kaleidoscope
Night | 39,000.00 | Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown County |
Music | Dublin Sound Lab | 38,000.00 | Dublin City |
Music | New Music Dublin | 238,000.00 | Dublin City |
Opera | Lismore Music
Festival | 70,000.00 | Waterford County |
Opera | Dumbworld Ltd | 69,510.00 | International |
Spectacle | Inishowen
Carnival Group | 65,000.00 | Donegal County |
Theatre | Bewley's Cafe
Theatre | 65,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | Yergainharsian,
Nyree | 85,000.00 | South Dublin |
Theatre | Moonfish Theatre | 77,000.00 | Galway City |
Theatre | White, Louise | 65,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | Landmark
Productions | 215,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | Gúna Nua Theatre | 85,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | The Performance
Corporation | 70,000.00 | Kildare County |
Theatre | Dunne, Shaun | 100,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | One Two One Two | 57,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | ANU Productions | 205,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | Gare St Lazare
Players Ireland | 63,000.00 | Cork County |
Theatre | Livin Dred
Theatre Company | 70,000.00 | Cavan County |
Theatre | Dead Centre
Theatre Company | 165,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | Scaife,
Sarah-Jane | 95,000.00 | Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown County |
Theatre | THISISPOPBABY | 275,000.00 | Dublin City |
Theatre | Power, Peter | 90,000.00 | Cork City |
Theatre | An Taibhdhearc | 39,000.00 | Galway City |
Traditional Arts | Ionad Cultúrtha | 40,000.00 | Cork County |
Traditional Arts | Historical Harp
Society of Ireland | 39,500.00 | Kilkenny County |
Traditional Arts | The Seamus Ennis
Cultural Centre | 77,000.00 | Fingal |
Traditional Arts | Ériu | 43,000.00 | Dublin City |
Traditional Arts | Harp Ireland /
Cruit Éireann | 80,500.00 | Dublin City |
Traditional Arts | Ceol Connected | 65,000.00 | Dublin City |
Traditional Arts | Comharchumann
Forbartha Ghaoth Dobhair | 43,000.00 | Donegal County |
Venues | Courthouse Arts
Centre | 50,000.00 | Wicklow County |
Venues | Tipperary Excel
Heritage Company | 20,000.00 | South Tipperary
County |
Venues | Nenagh Arts
Centre | 25,000.00 | North Tipperary
County |
Venues | The Glens Centre | 41,000.00 | Leitrim County |
Venues | Friars' Gate
Theatre & Arts | 17,000.00 | Limerick City and
County Council |
Venues | Complex
Productions Ltd | 50,000.00 | Dublin City |
Venues | The Mill Theatre | 28,920.00 | Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown County |
Venues | St John's Arts
Centre | 60,000.00 | Kerry County |
Venues | South Tipperary
Arts Centre | 40,580.00 | South Tipperary
County |
Visual Arts | Custom House
Studios Ltd | 20,000.00 | Mayo County |
Visual Arts | Askeaton Civic
Trust | 50,000.00 | Limerick County |
Visual Arts | Irish Arts Review | 60,000.00 | Dublin City |
Visual Arts | MART | 60,000.00 | Dublin City |
Visual Arts | Interface | 62,000.00 | Galway County |
Visual Arts | Artlink Ltd | 106,000.00 | Donegal County |
Visual Arts | The Walls Project | 19,000.00 | Waterford City
and County Coun |
Visual Arts | Courthouse
Studios and Gallery | 20,000.00 | Clare County |
Visual Arts | A4 SOUNDS | 70,000.00 | Dublin City |
Visual Arts | Barrett, Marie | 52,000.00 | Donegal County |
Visual Arts | Paper Visual Art
Journal | 45,000.00 | Dublin City |
Visual Arts | Source | 30,000.00 | Antrim |
Visual Arts | The Ballinglen
Arts Foundation | 60,000.00 | Mayo County |
Visual Arts | 126 Artist-Run
Gallery | 32,000.00 | Galway City |
Visual Arts | Goma Gallery Of
Modern Art Waterford | 20,000.00 | Waterford County |
Visual Arts | Mexindex | 5,000.00 | Kildare County |
Visual Arts | Pallas
Projects/Studios | 99,300.00 | Dublin City |
Visual Arts | Lismore Castle
Arts | 55,000.00 | Waterford County |
Visual Arts | Tulca | 110,000.00 | Galway City |
YPCE | Newell, Anna | 200,000.00 | Wicklow County |
YPCE | Graffiti Theatre
Company Ltd | 180,000.00 | Cork City |
YPCE | Theatre Lovett | 180,000.00 | Dublin City |
YPCE | Noonan, Cliodhna | 15,000.00 | Cork City |
YPCE | Dublin Youth
Theatre | 70,000.00 | Dublin City |
YPCE | Cross Border
Orchestra of Ireland, The | 100,000.00 | Louth County |
YPCE | Laois Youth Dance
Ensemble | 15,000.00 | Laois County |
YPCE | Barnstorm Theatre
Company Ltd | 177,000.00 | Kilkenny County |
YPCE | Superprojects | 45,000.00 | Fingal |
YPCE | Ni Mhuiri, Sian | 115,000.00 | Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown County |
YPCE | Waterford Youth
Arts | 80,000.00 | Waterford City |
YPCE | Fibin Teo | 80,000.00 | Galway County |
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