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Application deadline
06 October 2016 17:30
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The Publications/Title by Title scheme assists publishers in the production of literary titles and journals.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
07 October 2016 17:00
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Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme that provides film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
Ongoing
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Please note maximum amount awarded differs between artforms. There are three strands to this award: Travel and Training Outbound; Travel and Training Inbound; Creative Europe (Culture sub-programme) Travel Award.
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Maximum award €3,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
Ongoing
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The scheme allows artists to work with prisoners in prison/ detention centres for a period of 10 days and complements an existing arts and education programme in the Education Units within the prison system.
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Maximum award €2,400
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
Ongoing
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The scheme offers writers the opportunity to work with prisoners in prison/detention centres and complements an existing arts and education programme in the Education Units within the prison system.
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Maximum award €1,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
Ongoing
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The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the island of Ireland.
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Maximum award €200
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
1 December 2016 17:30
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The purpose of the Programme Activity Fund is to assist experienced organisations to provide high-quality artistic programmes for, by or with children and young people that are in line with Arts Council policy and strategic priorities for young people, children and education (YPCE).
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Opens 1 November 2016
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
Next round opens
07 June 2016
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An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme supports initiatives in the field of local-authority-led arts development. The scheme is rooted in the policies set out in the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016–2025), Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland and in A Framework for Collaboration: An Agreement Between the Arts Council and the County and City Management Association. The emphasis is placed on supporting partnerships that focus on developing projects, resources or services that are ambitious and are testing new ground.
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Maximum award
€75,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
8 September 2016 17:30
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The purpose of annual funding is to provide stable and secure funding to certain arts organisations (on an annual basis). Applicants may request a contribution towards both operating and artistic programming costs.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
8 September 2016 17:30
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The purpose of the annual programming grant is to assist applicants with the costs of their artistic programme. The scheme is not intended to provide support for ongoing operating/administrative costs.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 January 2016 17:30
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The award supports professional individual architects in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
Closed
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This award supports projects in the field of architecture.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
5 September 2016 17:00
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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.
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Maximum award
€5,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
27 June 2016 17:00
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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. The Project Realisation may result in a variety of outcomes.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
16 November 2015 17:00
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The Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2015 aims to support individual professional architects / artists working in the area of engaged and/or collaborative architecture.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
5 May 2016 17:00
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Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) is a scheme open to artists with disabilities working in any artform.
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Maximum award
€8,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists working in the area of arts participation to develop their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
3 March 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of arts participation.
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Maximum award
€60,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 September 2015 18:00
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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.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
3 March 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of circus.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
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Dámhachtain
sparánachta litríochta don ghaeilge
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 April 2016 17:30
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The purpose of this scheme is to stabilise and support a network of dance artists in residence across the country.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 January 2016 17:30
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The purpose of the award is to support professional artists in the field of dance to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 August 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of dance commencing on or after 1 January 2017
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
9 June 2016 17:30
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Deis is a scheme established under the Arts Councils Traditional Arts Initiative, 2005-2008. Deis is aimed at encouraging and facilitating the traditional arts community to seek funding from the Arts Council for a range of projects.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
7 April 2016 17:30
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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.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
9 June 2016 17:30
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The purpose of the scheme is to support ambitious, innovative and creative, high quality initiatives that specifically aim to enhance and extend the public’s experience of architecture. The Engaging with Architecture Scheme also seeks to build an expert network of architects, curators, arts programmers, festivals and arts centres working in this area.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
29 September 2016 17:30
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The festival and events scheme is open to multi-disciplinary festivals and single artform festivals. Events may be one-off projects or programmed over a number of months.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
27 June 2014
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Applications are invited from film artists of distinction for the role of Film Artist in Residence (1 September 2014 –31 August 2015), jointly funded by the Arts Council and University College Cork, in association with the Cork Film Festival.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 January 2016 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists working in the field of experimental or non narative film making to develop their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
3 March 2016 17:30
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This award supports specific projects in the field of film commencing on or after 1 July 2016.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
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The award supports professional individual writers (writing in the English language) in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
15 September 2016 17:30
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The purpose of the Local Authority Grant is to support the ongoing programme and strategic actions of the local authority arts services in developing the arts locally. This funding scheme is open to local authority arts services only.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
Closed
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Scheme to encourage new, local authority-led partnerships to develop innovative collaborative arts projects in the area of Cultural Diversity and the Arts.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 April 2016 17:30
Next round opens
22 March 2016
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The work of artists illuminates the present, nourishes our understanding of the past and inspires our vision of the future. Through this proposed Making Great Art Work: Open Call, the Arts Council wishes to invite artists and arts organisations to submit proposals for ambitious artistic projects. Projects funded under this programme will take place within 18 months of the date of award.
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Maximum award
€350,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
21 January 2016 5.30 pm
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The award supports professional individual artists in the field of music to develop their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
18 February 2016 17:30
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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.
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Maximum award
€12,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 August 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of music commencing
on or after 1 January 2017
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
Closed
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The Music Recording Scheme has been suspended for 2014.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
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The Arts Council is committed to supporting emerging artists of promise. We acknowledge that artists work as lone practitioners and as collaborators in a wide range of contexts. The objective of the award is to support professional artists from across Ireland at an early stageof their career. There will be 15 awards, each to the value of €12,500.
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Maximum award
€12,500
Application closed
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Application deadline
Closed
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The Opera bursary award has been suspended for 2014.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
10 March 2016 17:30
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The Arts Council's Opera Production award is intended to support the making and presentation of opera productions during the first 8 months of 2017, in line with the Arts Council’s published policy for opera.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 August 2016 17:30
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The award is intended to support the making and presentation of opera productions commencing on or after 1 January 2017, in line with the Arts Councils published policy for opera.
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Maximum award
€70,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
Closed
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RAISE is a fundraising capacity building initiative. RAISE will provide one-to-one professional support to eight arts organisations for two years, planning and implementing a tailored fundraising programme. The Arts Council is calling for expressions of interest from its funded organisations typically these will be in receipt of RFO, Annual Funding or Annual Programme Grant.
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Maximum award
€100,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
Closed
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The RAISE 2013 award consists of professional support for the creation of a fundraising strategy, recruitment and mentoring of a fundraising intern, and funding for the retained fundraising intern, as an entry level fundraiser, for a two-year period.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
16 November 2015 5pm
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TG4 and An Chomhairle Ealaíon/the Arts Council invite submissions for a special season of Splanc! to celebrate and commemorate 2016 in art.
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Maximum award
€12,500
Application closed
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Application deadline
3 March 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects in the fields of street arts and spectacle commencing on
or after 1 July 2016
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 April 2016 17:30
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The theatre artist development scheme will give arts organisations the opportunity to offer developmental and mentoring programmes to groups of theatre artists.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 April 2016 17:30
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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.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
Closed
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The award supports professional theatre artists in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 August 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of theatre commencing
on or after 1 January 2017.
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Maximum award
€150,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 April 2016 17:30
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The purpose of this award is to offer organisations the opportunity to share administrative and production resources with a number of individual theatre artists over a specified period of time.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
5 May 2016 17:30
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This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in certain arts disciplines for tours starting between January 2017 and June 2017, 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.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
3 December 2015 17:30
Next round opens
03 November 2015
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This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in certain arts disciplines for tours starting between January 2017 and December 2017, 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.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
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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.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
18 February 2016 17:30
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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.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 August 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of traditional arts commencing
on or after 1 January 2017.
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Maximum award
€60,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
4 September 2014 17:30
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The scheme will award grants of up to €30,000 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). The funding will be offered on a once-off basis for 2015.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists in the development of their practice.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
8 September 2016 17:30
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The purpose of the Visual Arts Curator Residency Scheme is to offer visual arts curators the opportunity to research and develop their practice while developing a year-long work programme in partnership with an arts or non-arts organisation, such as a company, venue, festival, local authority or other. The specific content of the work programme will be designed by the curator in collaboration with the partner organisation.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 August 2016 17:30
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This award supports projects and initiatives in the field of visual arts commencing on or after 1 January 2017. Please note that there will only be one round of the Project Award in Visual Arts in 2017. This means that the upcoming deadline of 18 August 2016 will be the only available award for visual arts projects taking place in 2017. Please note that any application made under this round must commence by November 2017 at the latest.
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Maximum award
€40,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
4 February 2016 17:30
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The primary purpose of this award is to support groups of young people between the ages of 12 and 23 to create ambitious and original work together in any art form (e.g., architecture circus, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, or any combination of the above).
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 July 2016 17:30
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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.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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