Street Arts and Spectacle Project Award (Ireland)

Objectives and Priorities of the Award

• The award supports specific projects in the field of Street Arts and Spectacle.
• Potential street arts or spectacle proposals could be those that:
  • Allow artists within these artforms to work with professionals such as 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 a public performance
• The Arts Council has identified the following types of project as strategic priorities for support through this award:
  • Projects that reflect a strong relationship and/or level of investment between the artist and project partner(s), leading to high-quality production values for the completed work.
  • Projects that present innovative formats of artistic creations and dissemination through high-quality elements of cross-disciplinary collaboration.
  • Projects that demonstrate the capacity to deliver ambitious work of high public impact and visibility.

Funding Information

• You may apply for up to €50,000.

Ineligible Funding

Activities and costs that you may not apply for include the following:

• Major capital purchases
• Ongoing core costs
• Activities or costs that do not fit the purpose of the award
• Activities that are more suited to another award funded by the Arts Council or operated by other state agencies, such as Culture Ireland
• Activities that have already taken place or which will have commenced before 1 March 2024
• Activities undertaken for charity-fundraising purposes, for participation in a competition, or for primarily profit-making purposes
• Activities that have already been assessed by the Arts Council, unless you demonstrate that you have substantively developed the proposal since previously applying or if the Council has specifically advised you to redirect your application to this award.
• Projects that solely involve the touring of existing productions
• Projects that are not centred on the creation of new artistic work to be presented to an audience or public.

Eligibility Criteria

• The award is open to professional artists and organisations working in the areas of street arts and/or spectacle. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
  • Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application how the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland, and the Arts Council must be satisfied with same.

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
• Organisations or individuals in receipt of 2024 Arts Grant Funding
• Individuals who work on an ongoing basis with organisations funded through any of the above programmes
• 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
• Note: you cannot apply for the award both as an individual and as part of an organisation – e.g. you cannot apply as artistic director of a company and also apply separately under your own name.

For more information, visit The Arts Council.