Date: 23 March
Time: 6pm
Venue: Online
Web: www.create-ireland.ie/activity/in-conversation-event-with-grant-kester/
Admission: Free (booking essential)
To book: www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-conversation-event-with-grant-kester

Create, in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Age & Opportunity, University of Limerick, Fingal Arts Office, and the Engagement and Learning Dept of IMMA, is delighted to announce an In Conversation event with renowned US-based art historian and educator Grant Kester, and Gráinne Coughlan, Independent Researcher and PhD candidate TU Dublin. The event will be chaired by Professor Kerstin Mey, President, University of Limerick.

As Professor of Art History at UCSD and the founding editor of Field: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism, Grant is one of the leading figures in the critical dialogue around socially engaged art practice today. Taking place in the context of ongoing work Create and the above partners are undertaking to devise a new evaluative register and framework for collaborative / socially engaged arts practice, this conversation delves into the question of the critical coordinates for collaborative and socially engaged arts practice, exploring alternative ways to analyse and understand the complex processes and relationships inherent to socially engaged art and which lay the foundations for change.

This event is offered free of charge, but booking is essential to secure your place. Details of the online platform will be emailed in advance of the event. Visit here for speakers’ biogs and more details.

Date: 23 March
Time: 11am
Venue: Online
Web: https://beyond-the-now.com/news/beyond-the-now-at-imagine-festival-belfast/

We are pleased to announce that Beyond the Now will take part in the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics Belfast, with “Beyond the Now: Art and Mutual Aid after the Pandemic”, a panel discussion to be held on the 23rd March at 11am. Reserve your free place at the Imagine! Festival site.

As we try to map a route beyond Covid-19, the arts can play an important role in renewing community. But it has to be acknowledged that artists and arts infrastructure has been hard hit by the pandemic.The return to normality, when it arrives, cannot be the picking up of routines that were curtailed by months of lockdown. Normality now offers itself to be remade.

This panel discussion, featuring Dr. Stephen Felmingham, Dr Majella Clancy and Dr Kim Charnley, aims for an honest assessment of the challenges encountered in the wake of Covid-19, while affirming art as an agent of social renewal. It asks what role art might take in reconstruction and explores the ethics of ‘mutual aid’ that informs some forms of art activism.

Web: www.create-ireland.ie/aic-scheme-increased-award-amounts-and-timeframes-announced/

We are delighted to announce that with the support of the Arts Council Ireland, maximum award amounts will be increased in 2021 for all Research and Development awards. This is informed by the Arts Council’s Paying the Artist Policy and Create’s guidelines on fair and equitable pay. Increased fees for Artist Mentors better reflect their contribution to this developmental work. The maximum available timeframe has been increased from 5 months to 6.

From 2021, we will no longer offer the specifically ring-fenced Research and Development Award with Mentoring for an artist from a minority ethnic or migrant background. Rather, additional supports will be offered to all applicants, regardless of their individual background.

We acknowledge the very particular challenges for some artists in applying for funding. From 2021 we will take action towards ensuring a more equitable application process through additional support to those with disabilities or access needs. This will include translation or transcription services, or alternative modes of applying using audio or video format.

In addition, this year we have introduced online application forms. The online portal allows quick loading of support materials and other relevant documentation, and has a “save and continue later” function, which allows applicants to revisit their application within 30 days of saving it.

Round One of the AIC Scheme closes on the 26th April 2021. Application forms are now live online. You can find further information on applying for the AIC Scheme at our AIC Scheme Awards page.

Date: 30 March
Time: 10am
Web: www.create-ireland.ie/activity/artist-in-the-community-scheme-information-session-online/
Admission: Free (booking essential)
To book: www.eventbrite.ie/e/online-information-session-artist-in-community-scheme

Create is pleased to announce an online information session on applying to the Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, with Áine Crowley, Programme Manager, Arts and Engagement, and artist William Bock, previous AIC Scheme award recipient.

The information session is about answering any questions you might have about making an application to the Scheme. It’s also about sharing experience of developing and delivering a collaborative project through the Scheme. If you are an artist or a community organisation interested in the Artist in the Community Scheme but don’t know where to start, come talk to us. If you are an artist interested in developing a collaborative project with a community organisation or in a community situation this event is for you. If you are an artist who has applied before and would like to access further detail on the application process, please join us.

In addition to the information session, we are also offering online Collaborative Clinic sessions. The Collaborative Clinic offers artists/applicants one to one project advice sessions with members of the Create team. These include sessions specifically for first-time applicants to the Research and Development award, and those who have been unsuccessful in the past, as well as sessions for applicants to the Project Realisation award – looking at Budgeting, Communications and Dissemination, Production and Digital Platforms and Evaluation.

Further details on these one to one sessions and booking information will follow.

Web: www.create-ireland.ie/create-selected-for-raise-programme-2021-22/

Create is thrilled to have been chosen to be part of the RAISE Programme for 2021-22.

An Arts Council initiative delivered by O’Kennedy Consulting since 2018, RAISE focuses on building capacity to generate significant private and philanthropic investment for the arts and cultural sectors.

We are very much looking forward to learning more about how to optimise our fundraising potential, and proud to have been one of the 15 Irish arts organisations chosen.

• Branar Téatar do Pháistí
• Create
• Dance Ireland
• Dance Limerick
• Douglas Hyde Gallery
• Firkin Crane
• Galway International Arts Festival
• Improvised Music Company
• Irish Baroque Orchestra
• Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership CLG
• Linenhall Arts Centre
• Smock Alley Theatre
• The Glucksman
• The Tyrone Guthrie Centre
• Youth Theatre Ireland

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 24 March, 3pm
Web: https://wewillthrive.co.uk
Email: recruitment@wewillthrive.co.uk

Thrive has been a vital and essential organisation in its support of the arts, culture and heritage sectors. They are looking for their next CEO, to lead their organisation into its next stage of development.

Information Pack

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 25 March
Web: www.paveepoint.ie
Email: info@pavee.ie

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is a partner to a new two year project which aims to raise awareness about healthy relationships and prevent violence against girls and women among young adults and teenagers. They are looking to recruit a new worker to work with them to develop and deliver the awareness raising programme with young Travellers, Traveller organisations and community.

Job description
Application form

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 26 March
Web: https://ifi.ie
Email: slyons@irishfilm.ie

The Irish Film Institute is seeking to appoint a Press & Marketing Manager to join the management team. They will be responsible for the effective delivery of all marketing, PR and promotional initiatives for the company, incorporating IFI Cinemas, IFI Irish Film Archive, IFI Education, IFI International, IFI National and IFI Platforms.

Job Description

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 29 March, 5pm
Web: https://thelir.ie
Email: recruitment@thelir.ie

The Lir Academy is seeking a new Director of Development to work with the Director and Development Council (a subcommittee of the Board) to devise and deliver appropriate structures, strategies and targets to achieve The Lir Academy’s strategic priorities.

Job description

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 30 March
Web: www.ncad.ie
Email: staffappointments@staff.ncad.ie

The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) is now looking to appoint a Creative Futures Academy Co-ordinator. Reporting to the Creative Futures Academy Programme Director and working closely with NCAD’s Academic Development Group, the successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating all projects within the Creative Futures Academy and related projects.

Job Description
Application Form

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 31 March, 5pm
Web: https://irishtheatreinstitute.ie
Email: recruit@irishtheatreinstitute.ie

Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) is seeking a dynamic and dedicated General Manager to join its team.

Job Description

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 9 April
Web: www.macnas.com
Email: jobs@macnas.com

Macnas have an upcoming vacancy for their Executive Director role, and they are looking for an individual who will match the ambition, vision, energy and innovation of their team, and work with them to bring work of the highest quality to audiences in Ireland and around the world.

Full details

Category: Jobs
Deadline: 12 April, 12 noon
Web: www.firstfortnight.ie
Email: triona@firstfortnight.ie

First Fortnight is now at a unique phase in its development and seeks to recruit a Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation through this next phase of consolidation and sustainable growth.

Information Pack

Category: Awards
Deadline: 26 March, 5pm
Web: www.sculpturedublin.ie

Experiment! is a unique opportunity for the selected artist to realise a piece of sculpture with support from Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS) and Dublin City Council Arts Office.

The Award will provide a range of practical supports to an artist seeking to take creative risks within their practice, allowing them to further develop and refine their own sculptural language while pursuing new lines of enquiry.

Information Sheet

Category: Awards
Deadline Extended: 26 March, 5pm
Web: https://artsineducation.ie/en/
Email: editor@artsineducation.ie

The Arts in Education Portal editorial team are pleased to invite applications for a documentation award.

The purpose of the award is to support the development of documented outcomes from Arts in Education initiatives in Ireland, which can be shared with the arts in education community and give insights into different processes of engagement. This is part of the Arts in Education Portal Editorial Committee’s commitment to supporting and recognising the value of documentation and reflection as a key component within arts in education initiatives.

Visit the weblink above for more information.

Category: Bursaries
Deadline: 26 March, 12pm
Web: https://bealtaine.ie
Email: arts@ageandopportunity.ie

The Age & Opportunity inaugural Creative Ageing Writing Bursary aims to generate discussion, debate and knowledge about creative ageing in Ireland. The bursary is intended to afford time and space for an artist/ writer to reflect on their practice – the learnings, insights but also challenges they have faced. The writer/artist might also want to consider how they have approached working with older people and the learnings generated through that.

Guidelines
Application Form

Category: Open Calls
Deadline: 1 April, 5pm
Web: www.thecomplex.ie
Email: info@thecomplex.ie

The Complex invites artists of all disciplines to present their ideas for a contemporary, performative and interdisciplinary arts platform called THE ART FACTORY which provides a setting for experiments to take place in a supported environment, within the raw aesthetic of The Complex.

Visit above weblink for more information.

Category: Residencies
Deadline: 5 April, 5pm
Web: www.cittadellarte.it
Email: unidee@cittadellarte.it

UNIDEE and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto are pleased to invite applications for participation in this year’s UNIDEE Residency programs. Curated by Andy Abbott, the theme is “Groundwork for Embedded Arts Practice”.

The 2021 program aims to further and deepen this conversation with a specific focus on alternative structures, frameworks, ecologies and organisational forms for socially engaged art projects, and the ‘groundwork’ required to build and sustain them. How are artists and artworkers laying the foundations for new realities through creative approaches to collaboration, exchange, economy, labour, policy, pedagogy and networks? How essential is this infrastructure to the success of socially transformative art projects? In what spaces, places and contexts can it emerge and grow? To what extent can we consider its development a part of the practice, and how can we maintain it together?

Bursaries and scholarships are available to cover the fee for the program and, for those that choose to spend their one-week intensive in presence, accommodation whilst in Biella. Participants will be required to cover their own travel to/from Biella and food/living costs whilst in Cittadellarte.

For more details, visit the weblink above.

Category: Awards
Web: www.artscouncil.ie

Agility Award | Deadline: 8 April, 5:30pm
In the context of the ongoing uncertainty created by COVID-19, and the Arts Council’s commitment to raising standards of excellence in the making of art, the purpose of the Agility Award is to support professional artists and arts workers to:

• Develop their practice, and/or
• Develop their work, and/or
• Develop their skills, and/or
• Create new work, and/or
• Present new work.

This award is open to freelance artists and arts workers at any stage in their career.

Dance Artist Residency Scheme | Deadline: 8 April, 5:30pm
The purpose of the dance artist residency scheme is to stabilise and support a network of dance artists in residence across the country. The specific contents of the work programme will be designed by the dance artist in collaboration with the venue and local authority.

Theatre Resource & Development Scheme | Deadline: 8 April, 5:30pm
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.

Theatre Artist Residency Scheme | Deadline: 8 April, 5:30pm
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.

Various Project Awards | Deadline: 15 April, 5:30pm

• Dance Project Award
• Film Project Award
• Theatre Project Award
• Visual Arts Project Award

The award guidelines can be downloaded from the available funding section of the Arts Council’s website.

Applications will only be accepted through the Arts Council’s online services website and all supporting material must be submitted online. Applicants who have not previously used the online services site must register in advance of making an application. It may take up to five working days for your registrations to be confirmed so it is very important that you register as early as possible.

Category: Open Calls
Deadline: 9 April, 5pm
Web: https://workhouseunion.com
Email: info@callanworkhouseunion.com

Town Ecologies invites three Irish emerging architects to develop their co-design and participatory community engagement skills and experience within a rural context.

In 2021, Workhouse Union is involved in three separate rural renewal projects in County Kilkenny working alongside Kilkenny LEADER Partnership, Kilkenny County Council, and local community groups and stakeholders. Each of the three successful architecture practices will have a clear and defined role within one of the projects with practical experience supported by mentorship and research resources.

Open Call

Category: Residencies
Deadline: 15 April
Web: www.mayo.ie/arts/
Email: mayoarts@mayococo.ie

To commemorate the Decade of the Centenaries, Mayo County Council Arts Service invites submissions for a special residency working with the Jackie Clarke Collection’s artefacts relating to the following events of this period in Irish history.

The aim of this commission is to enable the artist to research and develop new work sensitive to the historical context of the period, in response to the Decade of Centenaries commemoration programme by working with the Jackie Clarke Collection.

Artist Brief

Category: Grants
Deadline: 20 April, 12pm
Web: www.youth.ie
Email: saoirse@nyci.ie

Applications are now invited to support innovative partnerships involving artists in residence in youth work settings and/or youth groups in residence in arts settings commencing mid-June 2021.

Full details available on above weblink.

Date: 19 March
Time: 4-7pm (GMT)
Web: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-activism-and-the-activism-of-art

Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflected forms of protest within their art practice itself. The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art maps, critiques, celebrates and historicizes activist art, exploring its current urgency alongside the processes which have given rise to activism by artists, and activist forms of art.

In the frame of the FEINART lecture series the author Gregory Sholette approaches his subject from the unusual dual perspective of commentator (as scholar and writer) and insider (as activist artist). He describes a new wave of activist art taking place not only within community-based protest groups, as it has for decades, but also amongst professionally trained, MFA-bearing art practitioners, many of whom, by choice or by circumstance, refuse to respect the conventional borders separating painting from protest, or art from utility.

Get your free ticket from the weblink above.

Dates: 15 March to 1 April
Web: www.waterfordhealingarts.com/surviving-or-thriving/

The Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon and Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) have announced details of an innovative new online series designed to support the wellbeing of arts professionals in Ireland, with particular relevance to the present Covid-19 pandemic. Entitled Surviving or Thriving?, the series of panel discussions, workshops and podcasts, which is open to all those working in the arts in Ireland and is free of charge, aims to strengthen resilience, restore confidence and promote connectedness across the arts sector.

Full programme and line-up can be found here.

Panel Exchange 3: Collaborative Arts
Date & Time: 22 March, 10:30am
Web: http://waterfordhealingarts.com/surviving-or-thriving-panel-exchange-3-collaborative-arts/

Chaired by Dr Maureen Gaffney, with guest speakers visual artist Deirdre O’Mahony, choreographer/ curator Ruairí Ó Donnabháin and dance artist Tobi Balogun.

Workshop 3: Collaborative Arts 
Date & Time: 23 March, 10:30am
Web: http://waterfordhealingarts.com/surviving-or-thriving-workshop-3-collaborative-arts/

Building a Culture of Care: Anti-burnout practices for socially engaged artists, facilitated by trainer, researcher and activist Dr Krini Kafiris and artist Kate O’Shea. **UPDATE: This workshop is fully booked

Online events: 23-29 March
Exhibition until 5 May
Web: http://www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/the-lab/exhibitions/a-consideration-of-all-bodies

The LAB Gallery presents, ‘A Consideration of All Bodies’, a group exhibition of work by Declan Byrne, Philip Kenny, Paul Moore, Hugh O’Donnell and Áine O’Hara. All the artists and the curator have disabilities. The exhibition is installed in the gallery and available to view from the street. It also has an online programme of events and discussions.

‘A Consideration of All Bodies’, contemplates disabled people’s bodies and our ways of navigating a world designed for nondisabled bodies. Rather than explicitly referencing disability, the artworks in this exhibition reflect the artists’ experiences of interacting with their environments. The artists examine bodies, their own and other people’s. What support do bodies need, and how might this support change in the future?

‘The patient will see you now’ an online performance by Áine O’Hara
Dates: 23, 25, 27 March
To book: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-consideration-of-all-bodies-the-patient-will-see-you-now

‘The patient will see you now’ is a one-to-one interactive performative work which The LAB Gallery invites you to experience through an ‘At Home’ visit on Zoom. You will be sent a ‘Patient’s Kit’ prior to your visit with images, video and audio description. This work focuses on patient-practitioner interactions, who holds the power and how we might go about prioritising care and connection in these spaces. This work is a conversation which you will be invited to participate in.

Artists Talks with Paul Moore and Philip Kenny
Date & Time: 26 March, 6pm
To book: www.eventbrite.ie/e/artists-talks-with-paul-moore-and-philip-kenny

Both Paul Moore and Philip Kenny will discuss their practices as part of ‘A Consideration of All Bodies’. Speech-to-text and ISL will be provided at this event.

Panel Discussion: Access + Inclusion – Supporting Disability in the Arts 
Date & Time: 29 March, 5pm
To book: www.eventbrite.ie/e/access-inclusion-supporting-disability-in-the-arts

The LAB Gallery and Arts & Disability Ireland (ADI) present ‘Access + Inclusion – Supporting Disability in the Arts’. This will be a panel discussion with Pádraig Naughton, Executive Director of ADI, Sheena Barrett, Dublin City Council Assistant Arts Officer and Curator at the LAB Gallery, and Róisín Power Hackett, the inaugural ARC LAB Curatorial Scholar. Speech-to-text and ISL will be provided at this event.

Programme

Date: 24 March
Time: 4pm
Web: www.whatdoesheneed.com
Admission: Free (booking essential)
To book: www.eventbrite.ie/e/stevie-a-preview

“Stevie is about a little boy. He is a reflection of what we see in the flats, our local community growing up, with lots of fiction added in.”

You are invited to a preview of Stevie, an animation written by Rialto Youth Project young men’s group with artist & writer Fiona Whelan.

Stevie is part of What Does He Need? – a long-term project by artist & writer Fiona Whelan, theatre company Brokentalkers and Rialto Youth Project, exploring how men and boys are shaped by and influence the world they live in.

Date: 25 March
Time: 7-8:30pm
To book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/health-activism-and-social-arts-practice

Birmingham School of Art in partnership with Tate Liverpool present a series of online public events focusing on the critical issues facing art, artists and the art world in the wake of the global pandemic.

At this time of rapid social change, economic instability, and global health crises, people have turned to creative and health driven pursuits for self-care, solace, human connection and self-expression.

Socially engaged arts practice has often been at the forefront of activism on social issues addressing current issues within communities. What are the most urgent questions of our time and how can they be addressed through creative and cultural forms? What are the conditions necessary to sustain this focus on creative activity in support of the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities? What is the role of the socially engaged artist working with and in communities for active social change? This seminar will pose these questions to both commissioning organisations and artists.

Featuring Sheila Ghelani, artist, UK and Minna Tarkka, Artistic Director of m-cult Helsinki Finland, and chaired by Ailbhe Murphy, Artist and Director of Create Ireland.

This seminar will take place online via Zoom. To register your place, please book here by 24 March at 1pm.

Category: Scholarship
Deadline: 12 April, 4pm
Web: http://arciadt.ie
Email: maeve.connolly@iadt.ie

Applications are now invited for the 2021 ARC-LAB Gallery Scholarship, which is offered by the LAB Gallery at Dublin City Arts Office in partnership with IADT.

The ARC-LAB Gallery Curatorial Scholarship award comprises a stipend of €15,000 and MA tuition fees of €6,000. The ARC­­­­-LAB Scholar will also be provided with a dedicated desk and research space in Dublin City Arts Office, mentorship and professional guidance from The LAB Gallery, and research supervision from IADT.

The ARC­­­­-LAB Scholar will work with the Curator of the LAB Gallery on programming and research into curatorial strategies and develop a self-initiated curatorial project at the LAB Gallery.

The ARC­­­­-LAB Scholar will be funded as a full-time student on the IADT MA in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) and the outcome of their curatorial project will be presented in the LAB Gallery as part of the gallery’s public events programme in 2023.

Information for Applicants