Offaly Support for Artist Scheme 2010

Offaly Local Authorities (Offaly County Council, Tullamore, Birr and Edenderry Town Councils) is inviting visual artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, dance artists, drama practitioners, etc to be selected onto a panel for potential public arts commissions. This invitation will remain open on a continuous basis until the end of 2012.

We intend to maximize the Government’s ‘Per Cent for Art Scheme’ to create innovative and original high quality public experiences in the arts for those residing in and visiting Offaly. We will commission artworks that reflect the distinctiveness of a locality and people and which will build upon our guiding principles of quality, inclusiveness, accessibility and long-term value.

At this stage, a schedule of commissions has not been finally decided; therefore this is not an exercise in matching artists to particular predetermined schemes.

It is not a prerequisite that you have previously engaged in community practice; your work may not be relevant to this particular field. However it is envisaged that the majority of commissions will involve a level of community engagement.

The ‘Per Cent for Art Scheme’ will operate as resources allow and it is envisaged that this panel will remain in place for commissions to take place from 2010 until the end of 2012.

Inclusion on the panel does not guarantee subsequent inclusion on a shortlist, or any commission or remuneration for the artist in question.

Applicants should note that a second stage process of selection will take place, involving the evaluation of shortlisted panellists, as projects arise.

The administrative deadline for this scheme is Friday June 11th. More details about how to apply and the application process are on the web site.

Dublin Arts Bursary

Dublin City Council is looking for applications for its Arts Bursary of €4,000, which can be used to fund studies at an advanced level or the development of work/ professional skills.

Artists, resident in Dublin City Council’s administrative area, can apply for a Bursary in Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama and Literature. One Bursary will be awarded in each discipline.

Application forms, guidelines and criteria may be obtained by contacting:The Arts Office,Dublin City Council,The LAB, Foley St, Dublin 1.
Tel: 222 7850 or email: maura.carty@dublincity.ie

Deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm Friday May 14th 2010. Only applications in hardcopy form will be accepted.

Application forms and information on how to apply are on the web site.

FilmOffaly Bursary 2010

FilmOffaly, Offaly's Film Commission, in association with Filmbase, is pleased to announce the FilmOffaly Award 2010.

This funding initiative aims to foster creative, resourceful filmmaking in the county. FilmOffaly are looking for unique, original stories by talented new filmmakers, professional and novice alike. The only stipulation is that the filming must take place in Offaly! There will be one award to one successful applicant.

The winning applicant will receive:

• €8,000 towards the cost of their production
• A premier in Tullamore Omniplex Cinema
• 1-year’s Filmbase membership to the Writer, Producer and Director of the winning film
• A 50% discount on production equipment and/or editing facilities from Filmbase for the project
• Filmbase's production insurance to cover the shoot

The closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 3.30pm on Friday, 14th May 2010.

Further information on how to apply is on the web site.

Kildare Grants & Bursaries

Kildare County Council is looking for submissions for its 2010 Arts Act Grant Scheme and Bursary Awards.

There is an array of grants and bursaries on offer, including the following which might be of particular interest to our members:

* Film Bursary Award
* Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Award
* Drama League of Ireland Summer School Bursary Award

The closing date for all the grants / bursaries is 5pm on Friday the 19th March. Application forms can be downloaded from the web site.

Tony Doyle Short-List

The BBC has announced the short-list for the 2010 Tony Doyle Bursary Award:

• Murder in the Lakelands by Patrick Nash
• Only One Problem by David Ireland
• The Dealer of Ballynafeigh by Rosemary Jenksinson
• A Pocket Full of Honour by Raymond Tierney
• The Pilgrimage by Chris Boyle
• East Side Princess by Vanessa Pope
• Christie by Chris Croucher & Mark Benyon

Arts Council Bursaries

The deadline for the next round of Arts Council Bursaries is 21 January, 2010. Each is funded to a maximum of €15,000.

Of specific interest to our members are:

• The Theatre Bursary Award
• The Visual Arts Bursary Award
• The Film Bursary Award
• The Arts Participation Bursary Award

Information on how to apply, and a full list of all bursaries, are available on the web site.

FSTI Bursaries

FÁS Screen Training Ireland is looking for applications for the Screen Training Ireland Bursary Award and Work Placement Scheme.

The purpose of the scheme is to expose industry practitioners to the best training expertise, work situations and mentoring internationally. The scheme is open to experienced industry professionals and enables successful bursary recipients to participate in international training programmes, work placements and mentoring to assist their professional development.

Bursaries are awarded to ensure professional development and skill enhancement in line with international work standards.

FÁS Screen Training Ireland offers two types of bursaries to applicants:

• Funding to attend training courses and workshops abroad
• Support funding to participate in a structured work programme within international companies and organisations

For further information please contact Emer MacAvin on 01-6077423 or email emer.macavin@fas.ie

Bursary Deadline Extended

The Arts Council announced recently that the deadline for the next round of Bursary awards (originally 5 November 2009) has been extended and the new deadline is 21 January 2010.

The Bursary Award is focused on individual artists. The primary purpose of the Bursary Award is to support professional artists in developing their art. It aims to provide artists with the time, resources and freedom to think, research, reflect and develop their practice.

Revised application forms and guidelines will be available shortly.

Dublin Bursaries

Dublin City Council invites applications from artists who wish to be considered for a Bursary of €4,000 towards studies at an advanced level or the development of work/professional skills.

Artists, resident in Dublin City Council's administrative area, can apply for a Bursary in Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama and Literature. One Bursary will be awarded in each discipline.

Application forms, guidelines and criteria may be obtained by contacting:

The Arts Office,
Dublin City Council,
The LAB
Foley St,
Dublin 1

Tel: 222 7850 or email: maura.carty@dublincity.ie

The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm on Monday, September 7, 2009.

Bursary for Wilson

IFTN reports that Irish writer/director/producer Juanita Wilson won the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Annual Bursary 2009 for her short film 'The Door'. The award of €8,000 will be presented to Juanita at the Sarajevo Film Festival in late August.

The Katrin Cartlidge Bursary is designed to encourage new creative voices in European cinema and to celebrate the independence, singularity and integrity of spirit that Katrin Cartlidge embraced and exemplified in her own lifetime.

The Hugh Leonard Award 2009

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is looking for submissions for The Hugh Leonard Award 2009.

The award is open to mid-career scriptwriters who are residents or citizens of Ireland. The award consists of a bursary of €5,000 and the production of a rehearsed reading of one of the writer's scripts at From the Mountains to the Sea, DLR Literary Festival in September 2009.

A budget of €5,000 will cover the production of the rehearsed reading, which will be managed by DLR Arts with significant input from the selected recipient of the award. The successful applicant will need to be available from the 8th – 12th September for the rehearsed reading.

Selection will be made by way of an open submission competition.

Applicants will submit 3 copies of the following:

• A typed curriculum vitae (maximum 3 pages)
• Publications, programmes or published articles
• Typed expression of interest to include
• A short paragraph stating reasons for applying
• A short description of the benefits of the award to his/her stage of development as a scriptwriter
• Details of which script the writer would like to nominate for the rehearsed reading (this can be a new or previously published/performed work)

Please ensure that all submitted materials are clearly marked with the writer's name.

Closing date for applications is 4pm on Friday 17th July.

Interviews may be held in early August for short-listed applicants if deemed necessary by the selection panel.

Criteria for selection

• Artistic merit and distinctiveness of proposal
• Quality of previous work
• Suitability of the script for a rehearsed reading

Applications to be submitted to:
Carolyn Brown,
Senior Arts Administrator,
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council,
Moran Park House,
Queen's Road,
Dun Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.

Young Wicklow Filmmakers Bursary

IFTN reports that Wicklow County Council has launched its 2009 Bursary Awards for Young Wicklow Filmmakers.

The awards for film makers, aged between 18 and 25 years, will be presented to the applicants who are deemed "Best Short Filmmaker" across two age categories.

This initiative, which was started in 2007, alongside Wicked Young Filmmakers Festival will award a total of €2,750 will be awarded in the following categories:

Category One – Best short for age category 22 – 25 years - €1,000
Best runner up in age category 22 – 25 years - €500

Category Two – Best short for age category 18 – 21 years - €750
Best runner up in age category 18 – 21 years - €500

The successful applicants will be selected by a panel of judges including film practitioners and representatives of Wicklow County Arts Office and County Wicklow Film Commission.

A selection of successful shorts will be screened in the Greystones Theatre at the Wicked Young Filmmakers Festival (August) and awards will be announced and presented at this event.

Closing date for receipt of completed application form is 5.00pm on Friday 26th June 2009. Details from Wicklow County Arts Office at 0404 20155 or wao@wicklowcoco.ie

Fingal Bursaries

Fingal County Council, in partnership with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, is offering four special bursary awards for professional artists in Fingal.

These awards are offered to enhance the development of four specific arts disciplines:

• visual arts
• writing
• music
• dance

Each award will grant successful applicants the opportunity to spend two weeks in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Monaghan. This centre provides an ideal environment for the development of creative projects and an opportunity to network with other artists.

Criteria:

• The applicant must be an emerging or established artist/writer, poet/musician/dancer or choreographer.
• The applicant must be born or currently resident in Fingal administrative area.

Application forms and further information about the bursaries are available through Fingal Arts Office at 01-8906237 or email sarah.oneill@fingalcoco.ie

The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 2 June 2009 at 4pm.

Comedy Busary Win

The Irish Times reports that the first annual Dermot Morgan Foundation Bursary has been awarded to Diarmuid O'Brien - an IPSG member - for his comedy script about the workings of the Irish secret service.

The €5,000 award, in honour of the late Scrap Saturday and Father Ted comedian, was presented to its inaugural recipient, Diarmuid O'Brien, from Co Cork, in Dublin at the weekend.

The bursary is intended to encourage and support Irish comedy writing talent. A script and series proposal, based on his application, will be developed over the coming months. "He's a bit of a dark comic, and is clearly talented, so it's great to be able to give him the bursary to allow him take time off to develop the idea," said Don Morgan, Dermot's son.

FSTI Bursaries

FÁS Screen Training Ireland supported by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish Film Board is pleased to announce that the Bursary Award Scheme 2009 is now opened for applications.

In particular there are two special bursaries of €9,450 for the 2009 Entertainment Master Class. The participation fee for the Entertainment Master Class is €13,500 including didactic material, hotel accommodation and full board. Please note that the fee does not cover travel costs.

The deadline for applications for the Entertainment Master Class is the 23rd of April 2009. Applicants who are successful in securing places on the Master Class will be considered for bursaries. The application deadline for bursaries is also the 23rd of April.

Participants are advised to apply for both concurrently. The applications are separate, and participants who only apply to the Entertainment Master Class will not be considered for a bursary. Both applications must be completed.

All information about applying for bursaries is available on the web site, or contact Emer MacAvin at 01 4830840 for details.

IFB at Hot Docs

Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) announced it will be attending Hot Docs, the documentary film festival which takes place in Toronto from April 30th to May 7th.

The IFB are hosting an Irish delegation and are offering a small number of bursaries to assist with travel and accommodation costs.

Irish delegation members will have the chance to:

• attend the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF), a unique presentation forum that assists independent documentary producers and their market partners to raise co-financing from the international marketplace. TDF is applauded as the most effective international market in North America for those working in the social, political and cultural documentary genres.
• participate in the International Co-Production Day which includes an information session on financing and production in Ireland, a private networking session with other international documentary professionals and a luncheon.

They are also eligible to avail of a host of promotional opportunities and discounts (hotels, passes, entry in Docs for Sale). Discounted passes (half price) will allow admission to the TDF as an observer and to every film in the festival.

It is an excellent opportunity to meet key co-production partners and financiers from North America and around the world.

If you are planning on attending the festival and would like to be part of the Irish delegation please get in touch with Suzanne Murray suzanne.murray@irishfilmboard.ie before close of business on Friday 20th March.

To make an application for one of the bursaries, please download and complete the Application Form from the web site and email it along with an up-to-date CV to Sarah Dillon sarah.dillon@irishfilmboard.ie before close of business on Friday 20th March.

As the IFB is currently prioritizing the funding of feature documentaries with cinematic potential, these projects will be given priority for the bursary award.

Wexford Awards 09

Wexford County Council's Arts Department is accepting applications from artists resident in County Wexford for the 2009 Artist Bursary Award Scheme.

Six Artform Awards, valued at €5,000 each, are available in for the following disciplines: Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Literature, Drama & Theatre studies, Film.

Wexford City Council is also offering two Education / Training Awards valued at €5,000 each open to artists practicing in any artform.

The deadline for submissions is 5 pm, Thursday, 26th February, 2009.

Kildare Film Bursary

The Kildare County Council has announced its Arts Service Awards and Opportunities 2009.

Of particular interest is the Film Bursary Award:

Kildare County Council Arts Service Film Bursary award is open to both established and emerging filmmakers in all genres

• To support and encourage original film production
• Enable formal or informal training : Participation in a professional or post-graduate course, mentoring, or other initiative, which will expand existing practice

The application form can be downloaded from the web site.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm Wednesday 18th March 2009.