Ireland: Mayo County Council’s Arts Service – UPSTART Award

Aims

UPSTART is an initiative of Mayo County Council’s Arts Service which aims to:

• Incentivise quality artistic collaborations between groups/people with disabilities, artists, arts venues and organisations within County Mayo.
• Support opportunities for people with disabilities to develop arts projects in celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3rd December.

Funding Information

• Awards, in the main, range from €500 to €1800.

What You Can Apply For?

• Projects that focus on creative work by people with disabilities.
• Projects that are additional to a groups’ or organisations’ regular programme of work.
• Projects that involve the development of new work in a new art-form.
• Projects that engage people with disabilities as artists, participants or audience members.
• An event to celebrate arts and disability.
• A workshop or a series of workshops in the lead up to December 3rd with a local group of people with disabilities. (This should be facilitated by a professional artist with experience of working with people with disabilities.)
• A performance for an invited audience of a work in progress/ event (film, theatre, dance, music, choral or other event) by a group of people with disabilities, which has come about through collaboration with a professional artist/artist.
• A mainstream performance that will be made accessible for an audience of people with disabilities. (i.e. audio described/ sign language interpreted/ text captioned etc)
• A project/performance/exhibition by emerging artist(s) with disabilities, or a group of people with disabilities who have produced work with a professional artist.
• A closed event for a specific group of people with disabilities.

Who Can Apply?

• Venues that have participated in Mayo County council’s Arts and Disability Programme.
• Artists who have participated in Disability Equality Training or who have experience of working with people with disabilities.
• Emerging artists with disabilities.
• Groups of people with disabilities interested in working with a particular artist and/or venue to develop a project. (The professional artist’s C.V should show evidence of experience of working with people with disabilities).

For more information, visit Mayo County Council.