The Arts Council received a total of 17 applications for this award and has offered a total 7 awards in response
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Recipient
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Description
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Artform/practice
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Location
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Amount Awarded
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Carmel Winters, Everyman Palace
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To engage fulltime with a professional theatre by being the writer in residence at the Everyman, to ring-fence focused time for the creation of an original new theatre play, and to develop new relationships and new audiences through interaction with local communities.
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Theatre
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Cork County Council
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€18,250
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Deirdre Kinahan, Solstice Arts Centre
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To work as theatre artist in residence at Solstice Arts Centre, Meath. To write a new play for the centre, to provide for independent theatre development and practice in the county and to collaborate with the venue and arts office in presenting theatre and creating artistic opportunities.
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Theatre
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Meath County Council
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€18,720
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Jim Nolan, Garter Lane Arts Centre
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To direct a large-scale production with combined local amateur companies, to mentor the work of emerging local playwrights, and to research a project to offer participation in theatre making to groups and individuals disenfranchised from access to creative expression.
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Theatre
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Waterford City Council
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€11,750
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Louise Lowe, Droichead Arts Centre
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To create a year-long residency based in Barlow House, Droichead Arts Centre, to research and develop innovative approaches to off-site and site-specific theatre in Louth, and to initiate a professional mentoring strand to local artists.
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Theatre
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Louth County Council
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€13,720
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The Company, Civic Theatre Tallaght
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To fund a year-long residency at the Civic Theatre, gaining both time and space to investigate participatory theatre practices as a methodology. To begin to involve local communities in our work. To develop the company's working practice outside the pressures of final performances.
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Theatre
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South Dublin County Council
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€17,610
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Theatre Lovett, Riverbank Arts Centre
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To engage with Theatre Lovett's expertise with children and young people. To deepen relationships through audience interaction and by offering an extensive range of outreach work to Newbridge and Kildare, and to enable the company further develop its theatre productions.
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Theatre
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Kildare County Council
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€18,720
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Veronica Coburn, Draíocht Arts Centre
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To develop a coherent programme of work focusing on the clown and working with a range of groups from the Dublin 15 area. To facilitate the development of the artist's own practice, and to provide an opportunity for other theatre artists to engage with the clown through mask pedagogy.
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Theatre
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Fingal County Council
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€9,390
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