Closing date:
Closing date passed
Maximum awarded:
€10000
Art area:
Architecture,Circus,Dance,Festivals and events,Film,Literature (English language),Literature (Irish language),Local arts,Multi-disciplinary arts,Music,Opera,Production companies,Public art,Resource organisations,Spectacle,Street arts,Theatre,Traditional arts,Venues,Visual arts,Young people children and the arts
Audience type:
All
Collaborative application possible?
Yes
Contact:
Mathilde Veldt
Position:
Assistant, Young People Children & Education
Telephone:
01 618 02 50
Email:
mathilde.veldt@artscouncil.ie
Please note: The window to apply for the Young Ensembles Scheme will open on Friday, 26 March 2010.
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., circus, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, or any combination of the above). Groups/ensembles must be made up of 3 or more members.
Priority will be given to applications that demonstrate the following:
- The capacity to deliver a high quality artistic process, which is ambitious and original, provides a challenging and rewarding experience for the participants, and enables them to develop their artistic skills.
- A process that ensures young people will have a strong sense of ‘artistic ownership’ of the project they undertake. This may mean they will have a role in devising, creating, composing or designing an original piece of work or artistic initiative, or that they will undergo a well structured process of exploring, interpreting, or re-imagining a given script/composition/artistic work or initiative.
- Evidence of the ensemble’s artistic activities or work produced to date and how funding will enable the participants to further develop their experience. (In the case of a new ensemble, evidence of other relevant projects in which the young people or artistic leaders have been involved should be demonstrated.)
- A clear plan regarding how members of the ensemble will document, reflect on and evaluate their project.
In addition, the Arts Council has identified the following as strategic priorities for support through this award (these may not apply to all applications, but if they apply to yours, you are encouraged to highlight them):
- Youth-led artistic initiatives that demonstrate innovative use of new media.
- Initiatives that enable young people from diverse social or cultural backgrounds to collaborate in a high quality artistic process.
- Initiatives that enable young people with disabilities to engage in a high quality artistic process.
Download award guidelines.
Young ensembles scheme guidelines (0.11 MB, Adobe PDF)
View sample application form.
Young ensembles scheme sample application form (0.06 MB, Adobe PDF)
The Arts Council has launched a new online services website which allows for applications to be submitted entirely online. You can upload a wide range of support materials in electronic format along with your application form.
PLEASE NOTE: Before you will be able to make an online application you will have to register with the site. It may take up to five working days for your registration to be confirmed so it is very important that you register as early as possible. Please see Section 1 of the Award Guidelines for information on groups/organisations that are eligible to apply for this award.
To register online click here.
Hard copy applications will also be available to download from the Arts Council website from Friday 26 March. Please note: closing date for hard copy applications is 5.30pm, Friday, 23 April.
The window to apply for the Young Ensembles Scheme will open on Friday, 26 March 2010.