CFAs: Arts and Disability Connect Scheme (Ireland)

The Arts and Disability Connect scheme is designed to support artists with disabilities to be ambitious, to develop their practice and to connect with arts organisations and arts professionals in Ireland. There are four different strands within the scheme:

• Arts and Disability Connect New Work
  • For more established artists with a strong track record in their professional practice who wish to work with artists and arts partners to develop new work and present in established arts organisations, venues, and festivals etc.
• Research and Development award
  • This award is for mid-career and established artists who want time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their practice. It can be used to ‘buy time’, develop new relationships with arts partners in order to submit a New Work application in the future or to develop other strategic partnerships.
• Arts and Disability Connect Mentoring
  • For artists at all stages of career development including emerging artists who wish to engage in mentoring opportunities.
• Arts and Disability Connect Training
  • For artists at all stages of career development, including emerging artists, who wish to engage in professional development and other learning opportunities.

Funding Information 

• Arts and Disability Connect New Work: €15,000
• Research and Development award: €5,000
• Arts and Disability Connect Mentoring: €3,000
• Arts and Disability Connect Training: €1,000

Eligibility Criteria 

• To be eligible you must be an individual artist with a disability living in the Republic of Ireland.
• In exceptional cases, an application made by an artist living outside of the Republic of Ireland may be accepted if you can:
  • demonstrate your connection to the Republic of Ireland
  • demonstrate that the outcomes of your proposal benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.

For more information, visit The Arts Council.