Alsa Productions- Theatre
- Cork City Council
- €45,797
To present Tall Tail at Cork Midsummer & at Dublin Fringe to family audiences, and also in Graffiti Theatre to schools audiences. To create an engaging production with our team that tells the story of a dog who lives on the street with his owner, exploring issues of homelessness and loneliness. |
Asylum Productions- Theatre
- Cork County Council
- €9,920
Develop and cast Ob Gob by Roderick Ford To create a safe, inclusive environment for working with a writer and actors with disabilities in a professional context To bring the work to a rehearsal-ready state for co-production with C.M.F, the Project Arts Centre and other presenting partners for 2020 |
Barry, Orla- Visual Arts
- Wexford County Council
- €28,200
Develop a performance/installation exploring relations between human & animal, natural & artificial farming habitats. Collaborate with choreographer Einat Tuchman & experiment with a new format of audience participation. Produce & present the project at Muzee, Belgium in 2019 with coproducer EVA. |
Brady, Ronan- Circus
- Westmeath County Council
- €16,000
To create “Sub Rosa”, a whimsical duet of circus & acrobatics to demonstrate self esteem should come from within, not external sources. By collaborating with leaders in circus & theatre they will deliver an important message to an Ireland that is edging towards being an anti-depressant medicated nation |
Brokencrow Theatre Company- Theatre
- Waterford County Council
- €35,777
To create a brilliant show based on Rumer Godden's Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, for young audiences (6-8yrs) To present it, free of charge, in libraries in Cork City during CMF 2019 to a diverse audience of young people To make a lightfooted production that can efficiently tour non theatre venues |
Browne, Michelle- Arts Participation
- Dublin City Council
- €31,600
To commission 3 artists to develop collaborative projects to present at Velo-city Cycling Conference 2019. To engage diverse communities to consider how we use the city as a shared space To create opportunities for citizens to be part of the conversation around cycling infrastructure, health & wellbeing |
Burke, Aoife- Music
- Cork County Council
- €14,445
To present four chamber music recitals at the Triskel Arts Centre, featuring predominantly Irish musicians. To invite two European collaborative guest artists, creating high-calibre performance opportunities for non-pre-formed small ensembles; to develop and enrich our national chamber music landscape. |
Burke, Ursula- Visual arts
- Tipperary County Council
- €9,995
Applied research for development of a new body of work for large solo exhibition in a three venue international co-production with Visual Carlow, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and the Ulster Museum, Belfast during 2019/2020. |
Byrne, Aisling- Arts Participation
- Kildare County Council
- €36,269
To work with emerging theatre artist Mark Smith and a team of participants from Run of the Mill in bringing 'Making a Mark' to production at Dublin Fringe Festival, 2019. To develop this documentary style perfomance under the umbrella of Talking Shop Ensemble in collaboration with Shaun Dunne. |
Carrick, Eoghan- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €37,012
A new piece exploring the life, work and disappearance of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader. An interdisciplinary performance for Dublin Fringe Festival, that takes place in a gallery and explores ideas of artistic authorship and the process of grief. |
Cello Ireland- Music
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
- €15,419
To stage two collaborative concerts:A reinterpretation of Mahler Songs as sung by Cathal Coughlan with Jazz quartet and cello quartet in The Sugar Club, and a concert of Italian traditional and Irish uilleann pipes and concertina and percussion and cello quartet. |
Chaos Factory- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €17,934
MorphMe: a satirical exploration of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, set within a reality TV show. We will work collaboratively to create an experimental performance magnifying the absurd aesthetic expectations in society to expose the unrealistic expectation and desire for perfection in society. |
Cleary, Siobhan- Traditional Arts
- Roscommon County Council
- €25,400
1. To create a 90 min show incorporating new music compositions based on folklore and history of the Royal Site of Rathcroghan. 2. To explore existing music and stories from the oral tradition of this area from local sources and to research archival material 3. To premiere concert at Boyle Arts Festival |
Connaughton, Philip- Dance
- Dublin City Council
- €49,996
Create a high quality dance production that wil premiere at Cork Opera House Bring the work to two national venues, and one international venue. Engage with key programmers through an in-development session at DDF2019 in order to generate further interest in the work. |
Conroy, Amy- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €9,883
To develop and write a new and ambitious play of two parts with alternative narratives for performance. To collaborate with dramaturg Caitriona McLaughlin on the writing of this play. To investigate the prevalent psychological use of ‘Gaslighting’ as a means of personal and political manipulation. |
Cousson, Guillaume- Street Arts
- Cork City Council
- €36,300
MIRAGE will be a performance mixed of circus, theatre, dance, fire and illusion techniques. Inferno’s team will be mentored by a team of renowned artists from Ireland and Europe MIRAGE will be a 40 minute nighttime performance tailored to appeal to wide audience and will tour Ireland in 2019. |
Croi Glan Integrated Dance- Dance
- Cork County Council
- €50,000
To create two new works with high production values: choreographers John Scott and Tara Brandel, composer Tom Lane, designer Maree Kearns, reflecting on migration and the Me Too phenomena. To tour works to Firkin Crane, The Project Dublin, Dance Limerick, Ballina Arts Centre, D-CAF Cairo, FRESH San Francisco |
Daniel, Selma- Dance
- Fingal County Council
- €35,555
To further develop a research taken via Arts Council YPCE Bursary 2017 and produce a new dance piece to young audiences. To work with key partners, Draiocht, Riverbank Arts Centre and Dance Ireland. To collaborate with highly skilled creative team of designers, dancers, musician and dramaturg. |
Duffy, Philip- Traditional Arts
- Sligo County Council
- €16,089
Within the ambit of All Ireland winning Céilí Bands since 1953 through discussion, workshops, radio shows, pod casts, literature, recordings and an innovative online forum, ‘Le Chéile’ will correlate archive information including musical material to provide valuable sources for future generations. |
Dunlea, Paul- Music
- Cork County Council
- €18,890
To Present a concert by the New Irish Jazz Orchestra featuring new contemporary works by leading Irish composers including Ronan Guilfoyle, Cormac McCarthy, David O'Rourke, Brian Byrne, Paul Frost & Paul Dunlea |
Dunne, Shaun- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €74,891
To develop, rehearse and stage a new piece of multi-discipliniary theatre exploring youth work in Ireland. To collaborate with Grace Dyas (Director) and Luca Truffarelli (Film Designer) in presenting this new work, produced by Project Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre across Decemeber, 2019. |
Eccles Theatre Group- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €8,222
To create a multi-disciplinary family comedy with aerial arts, live foley and original songs inspired by 20th century pop. To develop creative partnerships and new collaborative methodologies by using aerial arts as the foundation for the text. To progress to full production in 2019. |
Egan, Karen- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €19,885
As a breast cancer survivor, the artist wishes to create a piece of theatre exploring the vulnerability, chaos and humour of what it means to be a patient. To work with musicians, actors & dramaturg to interrogate the narrative style and form. To show a work in progress at Project in 2019. |
Fiction At The Friary- Arts Participation
- Cork County Council
- €2,640
A collaboration with residents of two Direct Provision Centres in Cork, in association with UCC Writer in Residence. As well as featuring Melatu Uche Okorie, author of This Hostel Life, there will be a Writing Group for residents of Direct Provision, with workshops at UCC, and a showcase of work. |
Fitzgerald, Laura- Visual Arts
- Kerry County Council
- €30,000
Bothántaíoch is a site-specific installation of outdoor artworks within a 5km section of the Kerry Camino walking trail. Working alongside a geologist, the artworks will unpick meanings behind land and property as well as battling the endemic of loneliess currently plighting the rural community. |
Gaitkrash Theatre Company- Theatre
- Cork City Council
- €38,453
To present Irish premiere of Kaite O’Reilly’s award-winning play Cosy with original sound composition. By collaborating with the writer and cutting-edge composer/sound artist team Cosy speaks directly to contemporary issues: arts, inclusivity and disability; care for the elderly; suicide; family; money |
Gallagher, Gemma- Theatre
- Wicklow County Council
- €19,992
To create complicit instinctual work in response to exposure of abuse within social care, viewed through the eyes of a whistleblower. To explore movement, design and non-linear narrative to present factual material with a team of estabilished artists. The artist begins with her own experience of working in care |
Galway Jazz Festival- Music
- Galway City Council
- €2,120
Premier in Ireland, The Inside Out Piano - a bespoke one-off piano developed by UK composer/pianist Sara Nicolls Hear original compostions for it and the conventional grand piano performed by the instrument's creator Sara NicollsMeet the maker in an illustrated Q and A about the development of the Inside Out Piano. |
Gardner, Stephen- Music
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
- €17,320
To create a 40 minute chamber work based on poems honouring the Choctaw gift to Irish Famine Relief.To develop this work over the course of 8 workshop/rehearsals.To present concerts at Strokestown Park Famine Centre,The James Joyce Centre and Monkstown C of I Church. |
Goan, Róise- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €19,997
To develop a new theatre work about diet culture in co-production with Pentabus Theatre (UK). To engage with users of weight loss programmes in rural & suburban contexts in Cork and Wicklow, fat activists and academic scholars To workshop and present a work in progress showing at Cork Midsummer Festival 2019 |
Gould, Clare- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €9,105
To write a new play for young audiences, exploring how children manage grief and abandonment. To develop and collaborate with internationally renowned young audience director Anna Newell and workshop with four actors to create an innovative, inspirational new play. |
Gúna Nua Theatre- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €122,680
To produce site-specific production of Mike Finn's new play Bread Not Profits at Cleeve's Factory Limerick on the centenary of the Limerick Soviet in 1919. To deliver a public engagement plan encouraging a city-wide creative response to the Limerick Soviet and celebrating non-violent worker-led action. |
Haugh, Emma- Visual arts
- Dublin City Council
- €10,000
To develop an exhibiton & performance dealing with the work & life of Irish designer & architect Eileen Gray, exploring lesbian invisibility in relation to architecture & culture, considering historical developments of domestic space via a feminist critique of architectural modernism. |
Heffernan, Kate- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €19,973
To explore the housing crisis through the Nursing Home Fair Deal Scheme and transient renters of homes awaiting sale. To create a collaborative performance with a high quality team and partners Mermaid and Project Arts Centres. To develop a radically flexible form that ‘borrows’ the stages of other productions. |
Higgins, Michael- Film
- Dublin City Council
- €20,464
To produce a feature length structural video, based on a found handwritten document entitled ‘The Most Popular Things in the World to do’. Listing 28 activities the project will involve a lone character undertaking each point on the list exploring the concept of outsider in cinema. |
Holohan, Shane- Circus
- Leitrim County Council
- €36,300
To develop and produce a show for children aged 4-8 years, on the themes of cooperation and respect. To develop professional practice as a creative director for work for children, in collaboration with another circus performance company. To integrate multiple circus discipines into a physical narrative. |
Horgan, Con- Street Arts
- Kerry County Council
- €25,750
To create a street arts show, new to our current working practice and new to Irish audiences An installation-based, audience focused, site specific, immersive show for two audience members that lasts two minutes Work with the festival partners to deliver high quality, pioneering work to Irish audiences |
Hough, Patrick- Visual Arts
- Offaly County Council
- €34,370
To create an ambitious new moving image installation about Algae, raising questions around deep time, archaeology, Climate Change and Green Capitalism. To exhibit the work at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork in a ten week solo show from March 2019. |
Inis Theatre- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €10,000
To write a narrative play in response to the political uncertainty of our time, inspired by Schiller's Don Carlos Iseult Golden & David Horan will collaborate, using the skills refined over 7 successful projects for stage/screen. To create a substantial Irish play with local and universal resonance. |
Irish Composition Summer School- Music
- Donegal County Council
- €8,300
ICSS wishes to develop the careers and experience levels of emerging composers through a practice based environment with the best of established perfomer and composer input, in a collegiate and supportive environment with excellent support facilities |
Irvine, Jaki- Visual arts
- South Dublin County Council
- €59,188
Explore a sense of time's brokenness and uncertainties of self. Use this as a structuring device, for a new body of video,sonic and sculptural works, mixing live and recorded performances, looping and self-erasure. Articulate new perspectives on the fragility of self/others, in the light of dementia. |
Jones, Jesse- Film
- South Dublin County Council
- €67,890
To make a single channel experimental non narrative artist film for cinematic release and gallery exhibition that explores our shared social ideas of female sexuality and taboo from the tesimonies of medieval witch trials through to the recent "Me Too" movement. |
Kelleher, Fiona- Traditional Arts
- Cork County Council
- €13,230
This project aims to: Create a new collaborative performance piece celebrating the canúint and nuances of song and language of the Múscraí Gaeltacht. Use collaboration as a way to create depth, richness and texture in the presentation of the work Honour the work of lesser known poets of the area |
Kelly, Sonya- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €9,960
To write a play inspired by a viral image of a doctor who openly wept after losing a patient. The play will be an exploration of why stoicism is revered in medicine and emotions are taboo, bringing a fresh perspective to theatre audiences on the people who see life and death pass through their hands. |
Kickham, Lucia- Dance
- Wexford County Council
- €28,000
To build on research undertaken and to produce a compelling new dance work.To continue to advance and explore my choreographic practice within a collaborative creative process. To present at Dublin Dance Festival 2019 (work-in-progress) and at Dublin Fringe Festival & Dance Limerick (full-length work). |
Langan, Clare- Film
- Kerry County Council
- €70,000
The film focuses on ancient trees to explore the interconnection between the disintegration of the natural world & the breakdown of culture & society To make an interdisciplinary film encompassing choreography, performance art, land-art, painting, music composition I will work with an international team. |
Livin Dred Theatre Company- Theatre
- Cavan County Council
- €60,001
To stage a high-quality production of Trad by Mark Doherty: a hilarious and poignant physical tragicomedy with live traditional music. To play four venues with 10 performances and develop our audience nationally. To employ 11 freelance professional theatre makers with particular focus on gender parity |
Lucy Ryan Productions- Theatre
- Wicklow County Council
- €74,686
To present Gym, Swim / Party at the ORT for 6 performances as part of Dublin Fringe, 2019. To build on AC development funding to further innovate in the creation of a large-scale interdisciplinary work. To combine the work of leading theatre artists and an emerging generation of theatre makers. |
Luminosa Music- Music
- Galway County Council
- €16,753
The Pilot Series is a concert programme called "Soundings: a new context for rare music". This concert series which will be performed at Galway Cathedral will focus on the performance of rare or neglected orchestral works, bringing a high quality and unique concert series to Galway Audiences. |
Lynch, Sean- Visual Arts
- Kerry County Council
- €41,950
- To produce a major new installation artwork for exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds - Interrogate and investigate the medium of sculpture as the most liberal and eccentric of all artforms within an international context - Subsequently tour this artwork to Crawford Art Gallery, Cork |
Macken-Posavitz, Laura- Dance
- Dublin City Council
- €20,449
Create a high quality neoclassical dance work using 7 dancers. Project partners: St Catherines/Dance Ireland/John Scott Dance - creation, development and presentation of a new work delivering 2 studio & 2 theatre performances. I wish continue to widen and diverisfy the profile of ballet in Ireland. |
Mc Cague, Elaine- Circus
- Dublin City Council
- €40,000
To produce a surreal new modern circus work for an outdoor festival environment by close collaboration between a trans-disciplinary performance, design and technical team. To experiment and push the boundaries of modern Irish circus deep into the incredible. |
McCabe, Anne- Traditional Arts
- Galway City Council
- €20,000
We will develop a new work based on old forms, by combining harping, bardic poetry with seanchas to interrogate how the great voices of the Gaelic chieftains were muted, to reemerge as populist arts forms in the Caoineadh and lúbíní. We aim to reclaim the Irish voice through the symbol of the harp. |
McLoughlin, Lisa- Dance
- Fingal County Council
- €15,700
•Perform a one-woman off-site solo, exploring the equation of dependency in 5 Irish cities in conjunction with a consortia of partners •Design/deliver a companion movement workshop to be hosted by art networks in each city •Create awareness on the hidden cost of care across generations & gender |
Mccann, Niamh- Theatre
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
- €9,650
The artist wants to create a new play that is both experimental and groundbreaking in its form. To collaborate with interdisciplinary practitioners with specific expertise to embolden the project. To explore the potentiality of the dramatic material into varied iterations and ways of presenting across live & digital form |
Mcginn, Ursula- Theatre
- Kildare County Council
- €5,200
The artist plans to develop LUNA, a new play for ages 3-6. LUNA incorporates physical comedy, puppetry, miniatures and music to explore the world of dreams. LUNA encourages young children to talk about their feelings and any worries which might be affecting their sleep. |
Mears, Elaine- Theatre
- Galway County Council
- €40,066
Draw on learning from work in development and collected stories on the life of Galway character Una Taaffe to present an interdisciplinary, multi-sensory new theatre work which explores themes of identity, isolation, mental illness, ageing and mythologizing at Galway Theatre Festival and Áras Éanna. |
Merrigan, James- Visual Arts
- Wicklow County Council
- €9,692
Support towards materials, equipment and artist fees in the production of 7 unique artist zines that embrace collaboration, communication, community and long-term self-sufficiency in art publishing by retreating from a dependency on commercial printers for short print-run publications. |
Moonfish Theatre- Theatre
- Galway City Council
- €74,921
To present new work, 'Redemption Falls', in Galway and Dublin in 2019. To create an innovative marriage of new theatre practices and traditional folk song and dance in the form of a 'theatre-gig'. To use this form to communicate experiences of trauma, displacement, and civil conflict |
Moukarzel, Bush- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €128,974
Deliver an original performance meditating on the impact of war on art, and the formation of Europe. Collaborate with world-class personnel to create multi-disciplinary innovative work. Explore Beckett's project from a new angle, for new audiences as well as those familiar with his work |
Moynihan, Fionnuala- Music
- Dublin City Council
- €4,910
. To give a three-recital concert series on May 4-6 2019 in Barrahanane church, Castletownshend. . To focus on one composer per concert: Mozart, Schubert, Clementi and feature piano sonatas and chamber music works. .To invite four celebrated musicians to perform in this project with me. |
Murphy, Gavin- Visual Arts
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
- €9,250
Produce an ambitious collaborative film with sculptural and photographic elements concerning an intertextual cultural history of glass-makingVisit Liverpool/St Helens to inform the production and develop exhibition outcomesPartner with IADT and third party collaborators on the production of the work |
Nic Gabhann, Bernadette- Traditional Arts
- Meath County Council
- €7,200
Meath Beo aim to organise a series of traditional music evenings raising the profile of the native talent of Co. Meath. The artist led events will showcase the artforms to a geographical spread of audiences, with acoustic performances in a selection of unique historic venues throughout the county. |
Noonan, Aoife- Film
- Dublin City Council
- €69,803
Something at the End is an experimental film in structure and technical approach which explores our reliance in technology and the ubiquitous nature of the internet. A mixed media piece, we will incorporate live action, puppetry, digital manipulation VR and animation. |
Nyah Festival- Traditional Arts
- Cavan County Council
- €3,910
NYAH group would like to hold a series of eight qualty TRAD Mentoring workshops & Recitals at Farnham Arms Hotel Cavan Jan to April 2019 . Our overarching aims are to strengthen and sustain the Cavan traditional cultural sector by creating new performance opportunities increasing visiting artists profile and nurturing Ten Comhaltas branch collaborations that encourage skills development in music song & dance. |
Ní Fhlathúin, Nuala- Traditional Arts
- Galway City Council
- €8,000
To collaborate with storyteller Máirín Mhic Lochlainn to produce a sculptural installation & performance, drawing on Conamara storytelling from Radiona Gaeltachta Archives. To consider the contemporary power of storytelling tecniques to give voice to changing relationships with rural landscapes |
Ní Uallacháin, Pádraigín- Traditional Arts
- Louth County Council
- €17,125
Identify the full Hugh O'Beirne song-air collection in the RIA Dublin and Charles Byrne harp song collection in QUB. Restore the airs of over 95 songs to their lyrics and prepare initial 25 songs for performance Make the full 95 song collection, music and lyrics, available online www.breifnearts.com |
O'Brien, John- Music
- Cork City Council
- €10,036
3 performances of 'Lilith' a new song cycle composed by me with text by Éadaoin O'Donoghue performed by Karen Underwood & I, at Dali as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2019.We want to create a musical journey for this character as she stands up for herself through songs that traverse the millennia. |
O'Connell, Isabelle- Music
- Dublin City Council
- €28,300
New Music Summer Lab June2019: ten day course in contemporary music for young composers and performers in partnership with NCH, RIAM and CMC Workshops and lunchtime concerts open to public Creation of new works by young composers to be premiered in final evening concert with works by faculty composers |
O'Neill, Jody- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €74,743
Produce a new play promoting autism acceptance in partnership with the Abbey, Mermaid & Everyman Palace Theatres. Engage with AsIAm and KCAT in involving audiences in conversation about autism. Work with an experienced team, who have collaborated previously to present a work of high artistic integrity. |
O'Reilly, Christian- Theatre
- Galway City Council
- €19,741
In collaboration with other theatre artists the artist wants to find the best theatrical form for his play 'No Magic Pill' by experimenting with different casts, cast sizes and forms of theatre. The artist feels that the form of the play requires such interrogation |
Paper Visual Art Journal- Visual Arts
- Dublin City Council
- €42,397
PVA will produce two high-quality hardcopy publications covering developments in art in Ireland in 2019; alongside two new publications: the first with Declan Long and Francis Halsall; and the second with Sirius Arts Centre. We will continue extending our public engagement with 6 public events. |
Proffitt, Richard- Visual Arts
- Dublin City Council
- €24,051
Create a new body of work for exhibition as part of the Glucksman's artistic programmme during Cork Midsummer Festival 2019. Collaborate with the UCC Music Department, St Vincent’s Church. Engage the public in an immersive environment exploring the revivification of forgotten alternative cultures. |
Reilly, Fiona- Visual Arts
- South Dublin County Council
- €10,000
I want to collaborate with artist,curator and writer Deborah Madden.We will develop our relationship and explore our overlapping research interests in immaterial labour and value sytems to produce a publication and discursive event in a non gallery setting which will reach new audiences. |
Riordan, James- Theatre
- Galway County Council
- €21,470
To present Selvage,a show about unravelling tightly wound modern anxieties and a boy's triump over his'gnaw'.To collaborate with established artists to make multidisciplinary theatre.To partner with Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre and Station House,Clifden,engaging audiences in fresh,physical work in the West |
Robinson, Padraig- Visual Arts
- Kildare County Council
- €10,000
Produce screen tests with screenwriter and actor Mark O'Halloran developing my first longer form screenplay Masquerades of Research through praxis and experimentation. Develop and test written dialogue in preparation for a more ambitious film production. |
Roche, Jenny- Dance
- South Tipperary County Council
- €47,000
To explore the experiential states of three dancers in movement through a range of technological and introspective tools To create three distinct dancing portraits through VR To immerse audiences in these dancing portraits through a mixed reality experience in a gallery setting. |
Scannell, Raymond- Theatre
- Cork County Council
- €74,937
To create an artistically engaging, music-based work with themes that speak to contemporary audiences. To present this new music-theatre piece at the Cork Midsummer and Dublin Fringe Festivals in 2019. To broaden the artists artistic practice with old & new collaborations and open up new Production partnerships. |
Sharry, Martin- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €492
To write a play that uses the limitations of Parkinson's symptoms to generate drama. To spend time writing and to collaborate with actors and a dramaturg. To devise a new aesthetic that responds to the current fashion for images and appearance. |
Sligo Jazz Project- Music
- Sligo County Council
- €30,000
Sligo Jazz Project 23-28 July 2019 1. An International Jazz Summer School with approx 25 tutors & up to 130 participants, 6 days with workshops each day 10am-4pm. 2. International Jazz Festival featuring tutors from summer school & visiting "star" artists, jam sessions, concerts, festival club etc. |
St Patrick's Festival- Traditional Arts
- Dublin City Council
- €9,470
GNÁS is a three-day series of intimate, site-specific traditional song and storytelling performances taking place as part of the St. Patrick’s Festival 2019. The programme features a host of artists in the singing and storytelling traditions, dotted around Dublin in locations of historical significance. |
Stack, Róisín- Theatre
- Galway City Council
- €8,841
Use The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara as inspiration for a new experimental performance. Respond to the play’s themes in a contemporary context through discussion, devising, found-text and design. To truly experiment by drawing on disparate experiences & examining our responsibilities and habits as artists. |
Taylor, Sean- Arts Participation
- Limerick County Council
- €42,100
To create a citizen’s art-science sound art work from domestic water supplies, the River Liffey and its tributaries in Dublin City. To enable citizens to participate in scientific research with creative outcomes Clean water is an increasingly scarce and contested resource on planet Earth. |
Tighe, Dylan- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €74,997
To write, direct and present a new performance based on a live-redubbing of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 film 'Salò' To create an experimental concept & new form to examine the ideology underpinning institutional abuse and its contemporary legacy To stage the work at the Peacock Theatre during DTF 2019 |
Tonnta- Music
- Dublin City Council
- €22,792
To create a series of ground-breaking installation performances To partner with Kirkos, Dublin City Arts Office, Crawford Gallery, Irish Composers Collective to present new Irish music & repertoire from significant international composers To create new, devised performances with professional artists |
Trad Ireland / Traid Éireann- Traditional Arts
- Sligo County Council
- €54,600
The project comprises 3 key pillars: * Feasibility Study / Research into the challenges faced by traditional arts practitioners in career-development. * Professional Development Symposium - A insight into best-practice in tradtional arts support in Europe * Traditional Arts Residency - Pilot scheme |
Vallely, Niall- Traditional Arts
- Cork County Council
- €20,000
Sounds Like Freedom is a collaborative project involving traditional musicians Niall Vallely, Karan Casey and Aidan O'Rourke with the members of New York avant-jazz trio Harriet Tubman. It will draw on shared experiences of the struggle for civil rights in the US and Ireland over the last 50 years. |
Walsh, Richard- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €9,977
To create a first draft of a play set in a laundromat exploring fatherhood, global conflict and oral culture. To explore the relationship between work/tasks and oral culture. To allow 8 weeks to prepare the text then to workshop the text for 3 days with 3 actors and theatre maker John Jesurun. |
Walshe, Eimear- Visual Arts
- Longford County Council
- €27,690
To produce new sculptural works for the Van Abbemuseum Permanent Collection: an applied pedagogic approach in The Department of Sexual Revolution Studies research, involving collaborations with translators, steel fabricators, and a choir. To be first shown at the Deviant Practice Symposium in 2019. |
Ward, Feargal- Film
- Kildare County Council
- €69,941
Brasilia is an experimental film exploring themes of extraction, ambition, revelation and memory. Across the vast Soviet boglands an actor will retrace the route taken by an Irish engineer, an L. Rhatigan, sent to Siberia in 1935 to learn how to extract peat for use in the generation of electricity. |
Weir, Grace- Visual Arts
- Leitrim County Council
- €10,000
To research the duality between concepts of time in physics and issues of temporality that occur within the language of photography and film.To collaborate with a writer-curator and a physicist in London.To develop a series of experimental works that consider the nature of time and experience. |
West, Michael- Theatre
- Dublin City Council
- €49,891
Prepare a stage adaptation for one actor of Mike McCormack's award-winning novel Solar Bones. To develop and rehearse the script in partnership with Mermaid Arts Centre. A total of 6 performances at Mermaid, Bray, Town Hall Theatre, Westport and Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019 |
Whelan, Fiona- Arts Participation
- South Dublin County Council
- €46,000
• Lead a cross-city, intergenerational enquiry into the formation of boys’/men’s identities, considering forms of masculinity, power and gender relationships • Collaborate with Rialto Youth Project & Brokentalkers • Co-develop the content of a major multi-disciplinary exhibition/event in The LAB in 2020 |
Yurodny- Music
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
- €13,765
- Perform the European première of Onur Türkmen's 'Sailing to Byzantium' (2016) at The Model Arts Centre Sligo as part of Tread Softly Festival 2019 - Work in collaboration with award-winning lighting and set designer Sarah-Jane Shiels - Document the developmental process and the final performance |
de Burca, Benjamin- Visual Arts
- Galway City Council
- €77,000
Create a collaborative artwork with Irish music communities, reframing associated representations crystalised through time. Develop an experimental approach that brings music, performance and cinematic production into a visual art project. Bring our work to new audiences in Ireland and UK |