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Application deadline 16 April 2021	Artist in the community scheme The aim of the scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists. It is essential that consultation take place between the artist and the community group, so that both parties are involved in deciding on the nature of the project realisation. Group ownership of the art should be maintained at every stage. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €15,000 Accepting applications
Application deadline Ongoing	Writers in Schools Scheme The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the island of Ireland.	Maximum award €200 Accepting applications
Application deadline 1 April 2021 17:30	Deis Recording and Publication Award The purpose of the Deis Recording & Publication Award is to provide support for traditional arts projects, or projects involving collaboration between the traditional arts and other artforms, that focus on the recording or publication of work. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €10,000 Opens 2 March 2021
Application deadline 8 April 2021 17:30	Agility Award The Agility Award is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €5,000 Opens 9 March 2021
Application deadline 15 April 2021 17.30	Young Ensembles Scheme The primary purpose of the Young Ensembles Scheme is to support groups of young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four to create or critically engage with ambitious and original work together in any artform (e.g. circus, street art, spectacle, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, architecture, or any combination of the above). Groups/ensembles must be made up of three or more members. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €25,000 Opens 14 March 2021
Application deadline 15 April 2021 17:30	Dance Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Dance.	Maximum award €60,000 Opens 16 March 2021
Application deadline 15 April 2021 17:30	Film Project Award This award supports specific projects in the field of film.	Maximum award €70,000 Opens 16 March 2021
Application deadline 15 April 2021 17:30	Theatre Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Theatre.	Maximum award €20,000 Opens 16 March 2021
Application deadline 15 April 2021 17:30	Visual Arts Project Award This award supports projects and initiatives in the field of Visual Arts.	Maximum award €80,000 Opens 16 March 2021
Application deadline 22 April 2021 17:30	Creative Places Award You must be a local authority, an arts organisation or a community development organisation in order to apply for the Creative Place Award or the Creative Place Research and Development Award.	Maximum award €150,000 Opens 23 March 2021
Application deadline 22 April 2021 17:30	Invitation to Collaboration — In the Open — Faoin Spéir In the Open \| Faoin Spéir, a special purpose Invitation to Collaboration round in 2021, has been developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis.	Maximum award €90,000 Opens 23 March 2021
Application deadline Closed	An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme Next date to be announced. An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme supports initiatives in the field of local-authority-led arts development.	Maximum award €75,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Anthony Cronin Award The Anthony Cronin Award is an exceptional award offered in memory of former Aosdána Saoi Anthony Cronin (1928–2016). The primary purpose of the award is to support a mid-career writer of literary work and to enable him or her to develop further writing.	Maximum award €13,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Architecture Bursary Award The award supports professional individual architects in the development of their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Architecture Project Award This award supports projects in the field of architecture. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €70,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Artist and Youth Work Residency scheme The Artist and Youth Work Residency scheme is designed to promote innovative partnerships between youth groups, artists and (where relevant) arts organisations. This scheme is managed by the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) on behalf of the Arts Council and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €5,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Artist in Residence in Technology and Innovation DCU in partnership with the Arts Council is offering an exciting and unique residency which will provide an artist with the environment and resources to explore innovative technologies through their practice. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Artist in the community scheme bursary award The Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights aims to support individual professional artists working in collaborative socially engaged arts practice.	Maximum award €10,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Arts Centre Funding The purpose of Arts Centre Funding is to invest in and support the infrastructure of arts centres required to sustain and develop the arts in Ireland. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Arts Council COVID-19 Crisis Response Award The Arts Council is introducing a special fund to enable Irish-based professional artists to provide access for the public to new and original art during the period of COVID-19 isolation.	Maximum award €3,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Arts Grant Funding Arts Grant Funding will be awarded to organisations and individuals to carry out a series of activities between either 1 January – 31 December 2021 or 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2022. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Arts Participation Bursary Award The award supports professional individual artists working in the area of arts participation to develop their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Arts Participation Project Award This award supports projects in the field of arts participation. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €60,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Arts and Disability Connect Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) is a scheme open to artists with disabilities working in any artform. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €8,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Authored Works The purpose of Authored Works is to provide film artists with the creative and editorial freedom to make a feature-length authored cultural film work from a strong artistic point of view. Films must be artist-led. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €185,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Beyond Borders Beyond Borders is a co-commissioning and touring programme run in partnership with Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.	Maximum award €15,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	COVID-19 Completion Funding Scheme 2020 The COVID-19 Completion Funding Scheme is intended to facilitate Arts Council-funded projects or activities to be completed and/or realised.	Maximum award €40,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Capacity Building Support Scheme The Capacity Building Scheme is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Circus Bursary Award The award supports individual professional artists at any stage of their career in the development of their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Circus Project Award This award supports projects in the field of circus. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €50,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Co-funding Award 2021 - Creative Europe Co-operation Projects The primary purpose of the award is to enable Irish organisations who have secured funding for artistic activities under the Co-operation Projects strand of the Creative Europe Culture Sub-Programme 2014-2020 to apply for co-funding. Funding will be considered to support those elements of Irish arts activities that align with the objectives and priorities of this award. This award is only open to Irish arts organisations that have received an offer of funding, either as Lead Co-ordinator or Partner, under the Co-operation Projects strand of the Creative Europe Culture Sub-Programme in 2020.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Commissions Award The Commissions Award is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Creative Production Supports - A Theatre Resource Sharing Pilot Scheme The objective of this initiative is to provide high-quality, art-led production supports for the independent theatre sector, on a pilot basis over two years, optimising existing resources and networks in the development, presentation and touring of theatre.	Maximum award €250,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Creative Schools Initiative The primary purpose of Creative Schools is to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives. It is an initiative that will support schools to develop and begin to implement their own Creative Schools plan. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €4,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Dance Artist Residency Scheme The purpose of this scheme is to stabilise and support a network of dance artists in residence across the country. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €25,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Dance Bursary Award The purpose of the award is to support professional artists in the field of dance to develop their art practice. It provides artists at any stage of their career with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Dámhachtain Sparánachta Litríochta don Ghaeilge Dámhachtain sparánachta litríochta don ghaeilge	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Emergency Stabilisation Fund The purpose of Emergency Stabilisation Funding is to provide once-off financial support to Strategic Funded and Arts Centre Funded organisations that are in need of emergency grant aid between now and 31 December 2020.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Engaging with Architecture Scheme The purpose of the Engaging with Architecture Scheme is to support ambitious, innovative and creative, high-quality projects – e.g. exhibitions, events, festivals and programmes. Its aim is specifically to enhance and extend the public’s experience of, and involvement with, architecture. The scheme is developmental and also seeks to build a network of architects, curators, arts programmers, festivals and arts centres in this area of practice. Next date to be announced	Maximum award €25,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Festivals Investment Scheme The festival Investment scheme is open to multi-disciplinary festivals and single artform festivals taking place between July and December 2021. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €35,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Film Bursary Award The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career working in the field of experimental or non-narrative film making to develop their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Liam O'Flynn Award The Liam O’Flynn Award is a joint initiative of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the National Concert Hall/An Ceoláras Náisiúnta to provide a traditional artist with a period of artistic reflection, inspiration and creation in residence in the National Concert Hall. Nexrt date to be announced.	Maximum award €15,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Literature Bursary Award - English Language The award supports professional individual writers (writing in the English language) in the development of their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Literature Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Literature. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 4 February 2021 17:30	Markievicz Award The Markievicz Award is administered by the Arts Council on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and is open via a public call to artists working in all arts genres supported by the Arts Council.	Maximum award €25,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Music Commissions Award The music commissions award is focused on partnerships. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate partnerships between commissioners and artists that result in some form of creative output. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €13,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Music Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Music. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €40,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Music bursary award The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the field of music to develop their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Next Generation artists award The purpose of the Next Generation Artists Award is to support a group of promising artists across all disciplines at an early but pivotal stage in their career. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Open Call Open Call is a programme for artists and arts organisations to develop and shift their practice and profile work on a national scale, creating high-profile arts central to people’s lives. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €400,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Opera Bursary Award The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the field of opera to develop their art practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Opera Commissions Award The opera commissions award is focused on partnerships. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate partnerships between commissioners and artists that result in some form of creative output. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €45,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Opera Projects and Production Award The Opera Projects and Production Award is intended to support individual opera development projects (both early and middle-stages of development) beginning on or after 1 January 2021, and the making and presentation of fully-staged productions of opera to be presented in 2021, in line with the Council's published policy and strategy for opera. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €450,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Partnership Funding To provide funding on a competitive basis to support Local Authorities and Ealaín na Gaeltachta with ambitious and imaginative proposals to assist artists in developing their practice and their ideas, and/or deliver excellent arts experiences to the public. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Professional Development Award The Professional Development Award is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €3,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Reel Art The purpose of Reel Art is to provide film artists with the opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme for cinema exhibition. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €90,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Strategic Funding To provide funding on a competitive basis to support arts organisations with ambitious and imaginative proposals to assist artists in developing their practice and their ideas, and/or deliver excellent arts experiences to the public. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Street Arts and Spectacle Bursary Award The award supports individual professional artists at any stage of their career in the development of their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Street Arts and Spectacle Project Award This award supports projects in the fields of Street Arts and Spectacle commencing. Next date to be announced	Maximum award €50,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Theatre Artist Residency Scheme The purpose of this scheme is to offer theatre artists the opportunity to create a year-long work programme in partnership with venues and local authorities. The specific contents of the work programme will be designed by the theatre artist in collaboration with the venue and/or local authority. Next date to be announced	Maximum award €30,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Theatre Bursary Award The award supports professional theatre artists in the development of their arts practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 11 February 2021 17:30	Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme Applications are invited for proposals seeking funding to support touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and art practices. This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work starting between May 2021 and December 2021.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Touring and dissemination of work scheme - advance planning This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in certain arts disciplines for tours taking place in 2021, and is open to applicants who are resident in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. Tours may travel to both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Traditional Arts Bursary Award This award supports professional artists to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Traditional Arts Commissions Award The Traditional Arts Commissions Award is focused on partnerships. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate partnerships between commissioners and artists that result in some form of creative output. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €10,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Traditional Arts Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Traditional Arts. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €80,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Travel and Training award Please note that the Travel and Training Award is closed until further notice.	Maximum award €3,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Visual Artists Workspace Scheme The scheme will award grants of up to €40,000 towards running costs such as light, heat, rent, artists development programmes, administration and/or appropriate salary costs (capital costs cannot be applied for through this scheme). Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €40,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Visual Arts Bursary Award The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the development of their practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	Young People, Children and Education Project Award The award supports specific projects in the field of Young People, Children and Education in the 14-month period commencing on or after 1 November 2020. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €85,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 January 2021 17:30	Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award The Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working with, and producing work for, children and young people across a range of artforms. The purpose of the award is to support professional artists to develop their art practice.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline Closed	ilDÁNA ilDÁNA is designed to support the production of landmark creative documentary films on the arts in Irish. Next date to be announced.	Maximum award €120,000 Application closed

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