This award supports groups of young people between the ages of 12 and 23 to create ambitious and original work together in any artform. The Arts Council received 50 applications and has offered a total of 19 awards in response totaling €170,476.
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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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Bui Bolg
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To devise a street show which showcases youth circus skills and theatre crafts by hosting a summer training programme, a circus skills masterclass and workshops.
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Circus
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Wexford County Council
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€8,425
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Butler Gallery
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Butler Gallery and its young critics group Red Square will recruit a diverse group of 15 young people to view, debate and critique theatre and visual art strands of Kilkenny Arts Festival. Access to trained faciliators, artists and performers will scaffold the learning experience.
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Visual arts
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Kilkenny County Council
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€7,850
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Carlow Town And County Amenity Trust Ltd
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Members of Tullow Youth Theatre will make a series of short films working on the theme of OPPOSITE. Films will be conceived, written and performed by TYT members. Youth theatre members will be supported by drama, script and film professionals to facilitate, encourage and challenge young voices in the areas of writing and acting for film.
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Film
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Carlow County Council
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€9,980
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Civic Theatre
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Civic Theatre will continue to provide young people with an opportunity to be theatre artists through its Tenderfoot project. Tenderfoot gives young participants the opportunity to be in a theatre context under the mentorship of working theatre professionals.
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Theatre
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South Dublin County Council
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€10,000
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Coole Music and Arts
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Under the guidance of Katharina Baker, Sonic Strings (12-18 years old) propose to work on a two-strand programme to develop a) a new original work to include string playing, drama, dance and percussion, and b) participate in a course in Sweden, together with DalaViolinisterna, to develop a collaborative performance in Swedish/Irish traditional music/dance.
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Music
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Galway County Council
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€9,950
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Fluxusdance
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To create and perform an original dance-theatre work of approximately 20 minutes. To support the development of Counterbalance Youth Dance Company in assisting young people with disabilities to create and perform. To foster integrated arts practices, and bring integrated dance to new audiences.
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Dance
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Kildare County Council
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€10,000
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Fomacs
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A young makers/curators programme for 11 first and second-generation young Chinese people aged 18-23. To explore the emergent role of digital media in the creative arts and curation. Creative and critical engagement with John Thompson's China Through the Lens photographic collection in partnership with the Chester Beatty Library.
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Visual arts
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Cork City Council
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€10,000
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Galway Arts Centre
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Red Bird Youth Forum will collaborate with an artist and special effects designer to make a short film, curate a group exhibition of professional artists, work with similar research interests and develop what they have learned in the last year and bring it to a new project.
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Film
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Galway City Council
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€9,000
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Galway Community Circus
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To create a contemporary circus spectacle with the help of Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre and Fanzini Brothers who will train young members in the circus skills of aerial dance, clowning and new vertical dance harness work. The show will be a contemporary take on the story The Children of Lir. Young people will explore the art of storytelling and make the story their own putting a modern twist on it with elements of circus, rap and video while balancing this with live traditional Irish music.
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Circus
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Galway City Council
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€10,000
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Helium Children's Arts & Health
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The Two Suitcases Project is a collaboration between teenagers with chronic illnesses and professional artists where the teenagers' stories are explored through film, animation and digital media. This project is facilitated by Helium Children’s Arts & Health. The goal is for the teenagers to film their own stories, building on filmmaking skills developed through mentorship by professional filmmakers and artists.
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Film
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Westmeath County Council
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€9,951
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Legitimate Bodies Dance Company
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Offaly Youth Dance and members of LBDC hip-hop summer school 2012 will work with professional dance artists, choreographes and film makers to develop their first dance film. The autobiographica film will look at the theme of teenagers valuing themselves and creating their own priorities and ideas about life.
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Dance
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Offaly County Council
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€4,000
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Limerick Youth Theatre
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A professional writer, a director, a film production company and a composer will work closely with LYT members to create a short film; to give LYT members the opportunity to create and perform in a short film; to raise awareness about dyslexia.
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Film
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Limerick City Council
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€5,000
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OFFline Film
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To stimulate interest in the art of filmmaking at a youth level. Participants will learn about different aspects of filmmaking before making their own short to be screened at OFFline. Participants will get to experience the filmmaking process and share their experience with festival goers.
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Film
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Offaly County Council
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€9,100
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Rialto Youth Project
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To develop young people’s songwriting and music performance skills and to produce a CD, performance and film.
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Music
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Dublin City Council
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€10,000
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Shawbrook/ LD Dance Trust Teo
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A group of ten young dancers with the support and mentoring of Shawbrook/LD will work to extend an existing contemporary ballet piece into a one-hour piece to be performed at Backstage Theatre and for touring.
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Dance
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Longford County Council
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€9,000
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Siamsa Tire Theatre and Arts Centre
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To develop a Kerry Youth Trad Ensemble and provide opportunities for young people to work with professional musicians to develop skills and to showcase their work.
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Traditional arts
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Kerry County Council
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€5,240
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South Dublin County Council
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To establish a youth-led creative digital media arts group. To create documentary-style art works using animation, music technology and sound recording that explore life in the local area and new ways of presenting topics to an audience. To promote sustainability beyond potential funding via training and mentoring.
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Multi-disciplinary arts
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South Dublin County Council
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€9,135
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St Michael's Theatre, New Ross
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An ensemble of Wexford teenagers, eight from rural and eight from urban areas, will collaborate on an integrated project, creating new films inspired by the location - a working farm. This unique project will also address the theme of rural isolation. The première will take place on a farm in Autumn 2012
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Film
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Wexford County Council
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€8,855
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Tallaght Youth Theatre
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Tallaght Youth Theatre members will work with theatre professionals to build skills and confidence and increase the profile of the youth theatre. They will examine and respond to Mark O’Rowe’s ‘Sulk’ (1996) creating, producing and performing a new youth-led work that reflects on and connects to Tallaght’s cultural heritage.
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Theatre
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South Dublin County Council
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€9,990
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Wexford Arts Centre
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A youth-music ensemble in Wexford, consisting of aproximately 10 core members, will prepare live performances of music arranged/composed specifically for the group and they will commission a local composer to create original work with them. They will collaborate with local young artists to create an art work that responds to the music.
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Music
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Wexford County Council
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€10,000
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