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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 13 January 2022 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 July 2022 and December 2022.	Maximum award Unlimited Opens 30 November 2021
Application deadline 13 January 2022 17:30	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 2023, 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 Opens 30 November 2021
Application deadline 20 January 2022 17:30	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 Opens 7 December 2021
Application deadline 17 February 2022 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 18 January 2022
Application deadline 9 September 2021 17:30	Agility Award The Agility Award aims to support individual professional freelance artists and arts workers at any stage in their careers.	Maximum award €5,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 October 2021 17:30	Amateur and Voluntary Practice Pilot Scheme The Arts Council will offer the Amateur and Voluntary Practice Pilot Scheme in the following areas: Music, Theatre and Musical Theatre.	Maximum award €125,000 Application closed
Application deadline 11 November 2021 17:30	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 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Architecture Project Award This award supports projects in the field of architecture.	Maximum award €70,000 Application closed
Application deadline 20 April 2021 12:00	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 18 October 2021 17:00	Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award The Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2021: Collaborative Arts and Community Development aims to support individual professional artists working in collaborative socially engaged arts practice.	Maximum award €10,000 Application closed
Application deadline 26 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 Application closed
Application deadline 23 September 2021 17:30	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.	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 27 May 2021 17:30	Arts Grant Funding Arts Grant Funding will be awarded to organisations and individuals to carry out a series of activities between 1 January – 31 December 2022.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 2021 17:30	Arts Participation Bursary Award The primary focus of the Arts Participation Bursary Award is on the artist and the exploration and development of the applicant's own individual artistic practice. The award is to support individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 19 August 2021 17:30	Arts Participation Project Award This award supports projects in the field of arts participation.	Maximum award €60,000 Application closed
Application deadline 18 October 2021 16:00	Arts and Disability Connect Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) is a scheme open to artists with disabilities working in any artform.	Maximum award €15,000 Application closed
Application deadline 30 September 2021 17:30	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 12 August 2021 17:30	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 €30,000 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Circus Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Circus.	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 29 April 2021 17:30	Commissions Award The Commissions Award is available in Dance, Music, Opera, Traditional Arts, Festivals and Young People, Children and Education.	Maximum award €45,000 Application closed
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 Application closed
Application deadline 3 June 2021 17:30	Creative Production Supports The Arts Council will offer Creative Production Supports in the following areas: Dance, Theatre and Young People, Children and Education.	Maximum award €240,000 Application closed
Application deadline 10 June 2021 17:30	Creative Schools Initiative Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools initiative supports schools/centres to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives.	Maximum award €4,000 Application closed
Application deadline 8 April 2021 17:30	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 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Dance Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Dance.	Maximum award €100,000 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 2021 17:30	Dámhachtain Sparánachta Litríochta don Ghaeilge Dámhachtain sparánachta litríochta don ghaeilge	Maximum award €20,000 Application closed
Application deadline 22 July 2021	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 2021.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 19 August 2021 17:30	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 18 November 2021 Next round opens 19 October 2021	Festivals Investment Scheme The festival Investment scheme is open to multi-disciplinary festivals and single artform festivals taking place between July and December 2022.	Maximum award €35,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 October 2021 17:30	Film Artist in Residence at UCC in 2022 The Film Artist in Residence, based in the School of Film, Music and Theatre, is designed to provide a film artist with a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a university environment while offering students of film and screen media the opportunity to engage with a practising artist in a meaningful way during the course of their studies.	Maximum award €30,000 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Film Project Award This award supports specific projects in the field of film.	Maximum award €70,000 Application closed
Application deadline 22 April 2021 17:30	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 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Literature Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Literature.	Maximum award €30,000 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Music Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Music.	Maximum award €40,000 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 24 May 2021 17:30	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.	Maximum award €25,000 Application closed
Application deadline 23 September 2021 17:30	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.	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 29 April 2021 17:30	Opera Projects and Production Award The Opera Projects and Production Award is intended to support initiatives by professional practitioners in the development and presentation of opera.	Maximum award €450,000 Application closed
Application deadline 7 October 2021 17:30	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 27 May 2021 17:30	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. Reel Art 2021 will open for applications on 27 April.	Maximum award €100,000 Application closed
Application deadline 16 September 2021 17:30	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.	Maximum award Unlimited Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Street Arts and Spectacle Project Award This award supports projects in the fields of Street Arts and Spectacle commencing.	Maximum award €50,000 Application closed
Application deadline 8 April 2021 5.30pm	Theatre Artist Residency Scheme The purpose of the Theatre Artist Residency Scheme is to offer professional theatre artists the opportunity to create a year-long programme of work in partnership with arts centres, festivals and local authorities. In each case, the specific contents of the work programme will be designed by the theatre artist in collaboration with an arts centre or festival and a local authority.	Maximum award €30,000 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Theatre Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Theatre.	Maximum award €150,000 Application closed
Application deadline 8 April 2021 17:30	Theatre Resource & Development Scheme The purpose of the Theatre Resource and Development Scheme is to develop a collaborative infrastructure that promotes best practice in the development, production and dissemination of theatre artists’ work and practice across Ireland.	Maximum award €30,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 October 2021 17:30	Traditional Artist in Residence at UCC The Traditional Artist in Residence, based in the Department of Music in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences, is designed to provide a traditional artist (traditional musician, singer, dancer, story-teller or practitioner of the oral arts such as agallamh beirte and lúibíní) with a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a university environment while offering students of music the opportunity to engage with a practicing artist in a meaningful way during the course of their studies.	Maximum award €30,000 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Traditional Arts Project Award This award supports projects in the field of Traditional Arts.	Maximum award €80,000 Application closed
Application deadline 8 July 2021 17:30	Visual Artists Workspace Scheme The scheme will award grants of up to €40,000 towards core costs such as the running costs of the workspace such as light, heat, rent, administration and/or appropriate management costs. A proportion of support up to a maximum of 20% of the total request may be directed towards essential repair and maintenance.	Maximum award €40,000 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 19 August 2021 17:30	Visual Arts Project Award This award supports projects and initiatives in the field of Visual Arts.	Maximum award €80,000 Application closed
Application deadline 28 October 2021 17:30	Writer in Residence/Fellowship Scheme 2022 The Arts Council has a long-standing partnership with a number of Irish universities offering Writer-in-Residence/Fellowship positions to provide university students of Creative Writing MA and MFA programmes with an opportunity to work with and learn from a professional author of distinction, and to enable writers to develop their work while in a position of relative financial stability.	Maximum award €30,000 Application closed
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 Application closed
Application deadline 19 August 2021 17:30	Young People, Children and Education Project Award The award supports specific projects in the field of Young People, Children and Education commencing on or after 1 January 2022.	Maximum award €80,000 Application closed
Application deadline 24 June 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 25 June 2021 17:00	ilDÁNA ilDÁNA is designed to enhance the TG4 schedule by supporting the making of ambitious and cinematic long-form documentaries on the arts in Irish.	Maximum award €120,000 Application closed

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