Street Performance and Spectacle Project Award (Ireland)

Objectives

• The purpose of the award is to support high-quality, stand-alone initiatives that specifically deliver a presentation to, or an engagement with, an audience or public.
• Potential Street Performance & Spectacle proposals could be those that:
  • Allow artists and companies within these artforms to work with professionals such as dramaturgs, choreographers, producers, directors and costume designers to develop work that is new to both the artists involved and audiences.
  • Involve original artistic ideas, enabling artists to engage with new or experimental collaborative partnerships leading to high-quality, accessible, public performance.

Strategic Priorities

• The Arts Council has identified the following types of project as strategic priorities for support through this award:
  • Projects that create opportunities for increased engagement in the arts by communities, and promote good practice in audience development and public engagement.
  • Projects that demonstrate the capacity to deliver ambitious work of high public impact and visibility.
  • Projects that reflect a strong relationship and/or level of investment between the artist/company and project partner(s), leading to high-quality production values for the completed work.
  • Projects that present innovative artistic creations through high-quality, cross-disciplinary collaboration.
  • Projects that have the potential to be enjoyed widely in their communities, public spaces (real and virtual) and in dedicated venues and centres across the country, especially offering a meaningful access to and/or engagement with the arts and that reach new and diverse audiences.

Funding Information

• You may apply for up to €50,000.

Who can apply?

• The award is open to professional artists and organisations working in the areas of Street Performance & Spectacle. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
  • Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. However, they may accept applications from outside the Republic of Ireland. In this case, you must detail in your application form how your proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland. They would need to be satisfied with your explanation.

Who cannot apply?

• Applicants who are not eligible to apply include the following:
  • Organisations currently in receipt of funding under the following Arts Council programmes: Strategic Funding, Arts Centre Funding, Partnership Funding – though the involvement of such organisations as partners is welcome
  • Individuals who work on an ongoing basis with organisations funded through any of the above programmes
  • Organisations or individuals in receipt of 2025 Arts Grant Funding
  • National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) (or their Council members) directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
  • Individuals or organisations who do not have a demonstrable track record as professional artists or organisations
  • Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses) or who will be during the period for which this award is offered
  • Individuals seeking support towards fees for postgraduate (including unaccredited)/higher education or study

For more information, visit The Arts Council.