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Arts Council Agility Award From the Arts Council: This award aims to support individual professional freelance artists and arts workers at any stage in their careers to do one or more of the following: • Develop their practice • Develop their work • Develop their skills • Create new work • Present new work

This award was developed to support people following the Covid-19 crisis and is open to all.

We particularly welcome new applicants and encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background. €5,000 in available funding. You can also apply for additional costs to meet access needs you may have as part of your proposal.

All awards and schemes are informed by the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016-25), ‘Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland’.

Deadline Thursday, 8 July, 5:30pm

Web artscouncil.ie

Email adrienne.martin@artscouncil.ie Visual Artists Workspace Scheme From the Arts Council: The purpose of the Visual Artists Workspace Scheme is to support artists’ workspaces throughout the country to provide the best possible working environment for visual artists and, where feasible, to enable a level of subsidy for the artists working in these spaces.

The scheme is in line with the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016–25) ‘Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland’ which commits to ensuring “a supportive working environment that addresses key points in the creative cycle by which art is made.”

The scheme will award grants of up to €40,000 towards core costs including 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.

Please visit the Arts Council website and funding page for more details and how to apply.

Note: workspaces that are successful in their application to this scheme cannot have received or have applied to other Arts Council Awards or grant programmes for the same purpose.

Deadline Thursday, 8 July, 5:30pm

Web artscouncil.ie

Email maeve.oflaherty@artscouncil.ie Galway City Council Arts Grant Scheme From Galway City Council Arts Office: Galway City Council Arts Office invites applications for the Arts Grant Scheme 2021 which will provide funding for arts organisations and arts groups for their projects and programmes.

In order to be considered for funding the organisation or group: • Must operate primarily as an arts organisation • May be voluntary or professional • Must operate on a not-for-profit basis • Must be based in Galway City or operate substantially within the city

Art forms and projects supported include music, film, theatre, dance, visual arts, multi-media, combined arts, literature, architecture, traditional art, arts festivals and arts venues.

Grant assistance will be awarded only where applications meet the criteria set down by Galway City Council. Please note that the City Council reserves its right to add to or reduce the value of an award it may make, and to withhold an award at its discretion.

For more information and application forms visit: galwaycity.ie/artsgrants2021

Deadline Friday, 9 July, 4pm

Web galwaycity.ie

Email c&c@galwaycity.ie Creative Residency in Sport From Dublin City Council Culture Company: In partnership with Dublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership, we invite applications from artists to spend eight months ‘in residence’ with a designated sports club in the city

Made by Dublin City Council Culture Company, the Creative Residency programme creates partnerships to try out ideas, test new approaches and add to the cultural story of the city. Creative Residencies encourage makers and experts to pilot new partnerships with organisations. By bringing creative people and organisations together, and by connecting through culture and conversation, we will develop and share new ways of working.

The Creative Residency in Sport is a new and exciting partnership between the Dublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership and Dublin City Council Culture Company. Through the residency, the selected artists will be encouraged to explore the theme of art and sport, with reference to a designated local sports club, and to create a final (permanent or temporary) creative work for public presentation at the end of the residency.

Deadline Wednesday, 14 July

Web dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie

Email info@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie

Wexford Artist Workplace Scheme From Wexford County Council Arts Office: The Arts Office in partnership with Creative Ireland is pleased to announce they are launching a new Artists’ Workspace Grant Scheme.

This scheme is seed funding to help visual artists, craft makers and creatives establish a practice by offering support in suitable, affordable and flexible workspaces throughout the county, and enable a level of subsidy for artists/ creatives working in these spaces.

The total fund is €20,000 and applicants may apply for a maximum fund of €5,000.

Awards will be in the region of €3,000 – €5,000 each. Workspaces must accommodate at least three professional artists working on site and show in your application how you will share resources for the benefit of all artists sharing the workspace.

The scheme is in line with the ‘Creative Ireland Wexford’s Culture and Creativity Plan’ and the ‘Wexford County Arts Plan’, to support artists accessing affordable and flexible workspaces for making, exhibiting and selling work. It also aligns itself with the Arts Council ten-year strategy (2016-25), which commits to ensuring a supportive working environment for artists.

Deadline Monday, 26 July, 2pm

Web wexfordcoco.ie

Email arts@wexfordcoco.ie Creative Ireland Open Call 2, County Leitrim From Leitrim County Council: A central theme of Creative Ireland is collaboration in order to facilitate an ecosystem of creativity and to nurture the creative imagination through active engagement with the arts and culture.

Leitrim as a county is regarded for its unspoilt landscape, culturally vibrant, rich in heritage and remarkable, relative to its size, for its levels of activity and capacity across a wide range of artforms and cultural arenas. Leitrim County Council recognises the value and importance of creativity. We recognise that while the creative sector plays a central function in the cultural wellbeing of the county, it also has vast implications socially and economically; the three strands of which are inherently intertwined.

Funding is €5,000. Applications must be developed by a community group, venue or organisation in partnership with individuals with professional expertise in any creative or cultural arena such as visual or performing arts, literature, heritage or other culture and creativity area. A group may approach the professional practitioner with a view to developing a project or visa-versa.

Deadline Friday, 23 July

Web leitrimcoco.ie

Email creativeleitrim@gmail.com Creative Places Tuam From Create Ireland: Creative Places Tuam, led by Create, is delighted to announce a brandnew commission opportunity for collaborative and socially engaged artists and/or arts collectives, working at the intersection of art, theory/ research and social action/ justice.

We are seeking proposals for a 15 month Cooperative Commission commencing in September 2021 that engages with and responds to the unique town of Tuam, located north of Galway City in the west of Ireland. Funding is €60,000.

We wish to work with artists and/or arts collectives that are seeking to further explore the potential of the town and hinterlands through collaborative and socially engaged art making practices. Creative Places Tuam is inviting proposals to deliver an engaging project that will embed the successful collective within the diverse communities that make up Tuam.

We expect that through this cooperative commission the selected artists and/or arts collective would create a strong connection into and with the local ecosystem of social solidarity whilst engaging with the issues and concerns that matter to the communities of Tuam.

Deadline Wednesday, 21 July, 5pm

Web creativeplacestuam.ie

Email cptuam@create-ireland.ie Artist in Residence at UCD Earth Institute From UCD: ‘Creating a Sustainable Global Society’ is one of the four strategic themes underpinning UCD’s 2020-2024 Strategy. The theme addresses critical global and local challenges relating to biodiversity, climate, water, food, the built environment, communities and work.

UCD Parity Studios are delighted to announce the 2021-2022 residency which aims to address one or more of these challenges, supported in partnership with UCD Earth Institute and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

The Earth Institute is UCD’s institute for environmental and sustainability research. The Institute comprises a community of over 130 senior academics and 200 early career researchers drawn from across the University’s six constituent Colleges, and seeks to promote interdisciplinary activity across the sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, engineering and architecture. Areas of multidisciplinary expertise include biodiversity, climate, ecosystems, water, the built environment and sustainable communities.

Deadline Sunday, 11 July

Web ucdartistsinresidence.com

Email emer.oboyle@ucd.ie