Arts Council Funding | Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award

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Applications for the Arts Council Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award opens on Tuesday, 24 May.

The Young People, Children and Education Bursary Award supports the professional development of artists by enabling them to spend time developing their practice. The award is specifically focussed on helping artists to improve their capacity to develop or present high-quality arts experiences with or for children and young people. It is open to individual artists and practitioners working in a creative capacity in any artform, including arts facilitators, curators or programmers.

Further guidelines will be available on the Arts Council website.

The Young People, Children and Education Bursary Award specifically supports artists to engage in professional development that will improve their capacity to develop or present high-quality arts experiences with or for children and young people. The bursary aims to support artists at all stages of their careers.
Potential proposals could be those that:

  • Enable a professional artist with significant experience in their artform but with limited experience in developing work with or for young people to develop their knowledge and capacity in this area;
  • Enable a young artist (aged 18–24) who has demonstrated artistic, leadership and innovation in their artistic endeavours as a young person to develop their professional capacity to engage other young participants or audiences in the arts;
  • Enable an emerging, mid-career or established artist to explore new ideas, skills or ways of working that will improve their capacity to create high-quality work with or for young people.

Closing date for applications is 17:30 Thursday, 23 June 2022.

Please note: You must be registered with the online services website to make an application for any Arts Council funding. If you are not already registered, we recommend you register for online services as far in advance of the deadline as possible, as it may take five days for your online services registration to be processed.

We also urge anyone, before starting your application, to reach out to the relevant contact within the Arts Council (awards@artscouncil.ie).

For further information, please see artscouncil.ie.