Connacht

• Ballina 2023

  Artform: Community Arts

  Location: Mayo

  Building on an existing successful art project, This Giant Tent, the aim of this project is to provide the Traveller Community in Ballina an opportunity to produce, present and host an arts and cultural festival programme to mark 300 years of the founding of the town.

• Ceannairc Beag Bideach - Tiny Mutiny

  Artform: Multi-Disciplinary

  Location: Galway

  Visual artist-performer Jojo Hynes will establish two ensembles of children and collaborate with physical theatre performer Midie Corcoran, Gaeilgeoir singer Róisín Seoighe and ATMOS Collective (a diverse group of music and sound artists). Together they’ll research, develop, and devise an imaginative vision for a child-centred cultural space for Galway.

• StrongWomen Science ISL and Visual Vernacular

  Artform: Street Theatre/Circus/Spectacle

  Location: Mayo

  We’ll create a Visual Vernacular (VV) version of award-winning StrongWomen Science (SWS) to add to our successful touring programme and make an interactive hands-on circus science show for Deaf children and families. There’s currently no VV or ISL interpreted science show available in Ireland. This creation will involve working for 3 weeks with 2 circus artistes (Maria, Aoife), 1 VV artiste (supported by ISL interpreter), producer (Circus250) and Deaf advisor (Dilara).

Leinster

• Carlow Carnival of Collective Joy

  Artform: Street Theatre/Circus/Spectacle

  Location: Carlow

  This year Carlow Arts Festival (CAF) and VISUAL piloted the first Carlow Carnival of Collective Joy. Working with Bridget Ní Dhuinn, we engaged with 5 primary schools across County Carlow, three rural and two urban schools over a six week period. We would like to make this an annual event
  taking place each year as part of Carlow Arts Festival.

• Behind the Mask

  Artform: Theatre

  Location: Dublin

  ‘Behind the Mask’ aims at bringing the Manifesto Method of Theatre Creation to the young people at Ozanam House. Ending with a performance of small 1-2 minute pieces.

• Dublin Youth Theatre - Audio Project - Listen Up

  Artform: Multi-Disciplinary

  Location: Dublin

  In keeping with DYT’s mission to support the personal social and creative development of our community, this project will enable the building of artistic and digital skills and to promote positive mental health and inclusion for young people using participatory art approaches and creative media practices.

• Festival in a Van & We Are Griot for Direct Provision 2023

  Artform: Multi-Disciplinary

  Location: Dublin

  With this funding, Festival in a Van, working directly with We Are Griot, will commission these x3 poets to create a 15-20 minute spoken word piece specifically developed for those living in Direct Provision. This new piece will initially be showcased at two Direct Provision Centres in Ireland (Spring 2023).

• National Concert Hall 'Music in Mind'

  Artform: Music

  Location: Dublin

  National Concert Hall’s Music in Mind programme is a participative music programme for people living with mental health concerns such as depression or anxiety. The programme provides 8-week in-person group percussion and singing workshops to service-users, staff, and families at MHI’s Mental Health Associations across the country.

• Varvara Shavrova: In Flight | On Landing

  Artform: Visual Arts

  Location: Dublin

  This socially-engaged community educational project specifically addresses the human aspect of the crisis associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The artist will offer participatory, haptic-focussed workshops to members of the Ukrainian refugee community.

• Anemoia Project

  Artform: Theatre

  Location: Kildare

  We want to mentor 4 diverse emerging artists to make a theatre performance with 24 multicultural young people. There will be a mentoring programme (delivered by 2 established artists), and a young ensemble.

  This project aims to help young people to express aspects of masculinity in a safe, supportive and creative place. We hope to present a piece of theatre that proposes innovative and inclusive ways to achieve liberation. We aim to assist cultural integration in our community through the active participation of young people from several cultures and ethnicities. The focus of the artwork will also be on exploring what it is like for one person to have two or more ‘national’ identities and how these can be celebrated and used as powerful tools in building confidence.

• Nasrin Golden

  Artform: Visual Arts

  Location: Kildare

  Amount Allocated: €4,000

  The project collaborates with ‘Creative Places Athy’ by engaging various existing community groups in Athy, Kildare. The aim is to create an authentic manifesto related to their own identity, values, and aims through artmaking. In conjunction to individual group work, we plan to host a show to exhibit all the manifestos.

• Bridge Street Creepie Stools

  Artform: Community

  Location: Kilkenny

  Creepie Stools are traditional simple stools that every household in Ireland would have had tucked under the table. They had a handhold through the seat for ease of movement so they could be moved and used quickly when an unexpected guest arrived. We want to host a three-day carpentry workshop in Fennellys Courtyard with Woodworker Alan Smith so every residence on bridge street can make their own stool and then in the next three day workshop the stool can be painted uniquely with Artist Paul Bokslag in the colour pallette of the town. Inclusive design in the public realm.

Munster

• Pádraig Rynne

  Artform: Music

  Location: Clare

  We wish to engage the well-known Traditional band NOTIFY to work with Music Generation Clare’s young aspiring musicians in creating new music compositions and arrangements. This will offer music education and performance opportunities to the children and young people of which they would otherwise be unable to receive.

• Theatre Making and Citizenship Cork for Older Adults

  Artform: Theatre

  Location: Cork

  Each workshop will be designed and facilitated by socially engaged theatre artists Donna and Hanan, and will involve learning drama and performance techniques, script reading and writing, meeting artists working in professional theatre, and discussing what cultural citizenship means.

• Homofónia

  Artform: Film

  Location: Cork

  As their Debs application deadline approaches, a closeted couple must sort their domestic issues as Gaeilge to prevent their classmates from knowing they’re an item. However, translation issues leave their relationship in jeopardy. The partnership aims to share this story through a short film, package it with a learning resource and distribute it to secondary schools and youth groups.

• Coming Out

  Artform: Community Arts

  Location: Kerry

  The project is a large arts installation with audio/visual elements creating an interactive experience for the audience. It consists of twelve closets (wardrobes), each one painted a colour of the Pride Rainbow Flag. They are joined together to create a tunnel as such, where you can go through closet doors on one end and ‘Come out of the closet’ on the other end.

• Mapping Modern Limerick

  Artform: Community Arts

  Location: Limerick

  From February to November 2023 ‘Print Van Go’, travelling print studio and Limerick Printmakers will engage with communities around Limerick City, using the pop-up studio to invite local community groups to participate in a series of conversations, printmaking and audio activities to promote creativity and storytelling.

• Irish Youth Circus Gathering

  Artform: Other

  Location: Tipperary

  IYCG will design and deliver a festival masterclass programme which will to give these young people an opportunity for skill exchange and shared learning as well as access to new and varied experiences of circus as an art form, and give them opportunities to experience youth circus from a national and international perspective.

Ulster

• Action Mental Health

  Artform: Visual Arts

  Location: Antrim

  This project will enable 12 participants to work with artist Kerrie Hanna to explore themes of “Rites of Passage” & “Key Life Events”. Using the MAC’s forthcoming exhibition of Ron Mueck’s sculptures as a catalyst, Kerrie will enable participants to (i) create an illustration which depicts a pivotal moment in their life and (ii) write an accompanying slogan which affirms their resilience and strength.

• DU Dance (NI) - Alternative Energies

  Artform: Dance

  Location: Antrim

  Alternative Energies intergenerational dance project brings teenagers and older people from rural Ballycastle, together to meet, create and have fun. Established to counteract the lack of physical and emotional human connection both young and old suffered due to the pandemic, creating a community shared space to help them reconnect with each other.

• Maiden Voyage Dance - Belfast Movement Choir

  Artform: Dance

  Location: Antrim

  Free workshops will be offered to participants, removing cost as a barrier. The two centres will be based in inner East Belfast (Templemore Avenue) for young mothers and girls and Crescent Arts Centre for participants of all ages up to 80 years+.

• ViewPoint

  Artform: Community Arts

  Location: Antrim

  ViewPoint mental health and wellbeing programme will deliver an annual therapeutic programme to communities across Belfast, benefitting 580+ participants ranging from those experiencing forensic mental health issues (those who would harm themselves or others to those whose needs are aimed at preventing poor mental health (NHS 5 ways to wellbeing).

• Moves and Melodies

  Artform: Music

  Location: Derry

  It aims to reduce the number of older people affected by dementia feeling socially isolated and vulnerable. It provides a safe place for participants and their carers to come together,we promote social interaction and social bonds. We will provide 12 creative events which requires experienced facilitators in song, dance and music.

• Planxty Limavady: Participatory music for health and wellbeing in the rural community

  Artform: Music

  Location: Derry

  Conor and Deirdre will bring the health and wellbeing benefits of live music to approximately 2226 people in the rural catchment of Limavady, through a series of participatory concerts in 11 care homes, day centres and community centres and 9 schools.

• Void Gallery

  Artform: Community Arts

  Location: Derry

  Weekly sessions in Void Gallery with Sinead Crumlish that create spaces for encounters, interactions, conversations and contemplation, while engage with a wide range of artistic processes culminating in an exhibition of work that will be installed in the café of the new Family Justice Centre.

• Inspiring Yarns

  Artform: Multi-Disciplinary

  Location: Down

  The project consists of 56 sampler sessions in textiles and yarn-based craft mediums. There will be 2 groups in each of the 4 areas of Newtownards, Comber, Ballygowan and Saintfield, one group will be for those encountering symptoms of anxiety/stress/depression, the other will be for those seeking support throughout the stages of menopause. We anticipate between 80 and 100 beneficiaries in total across the life of the project.

• Youth Opera

  Artform: Opera

  Location: Fermanagh

  The Youth Opera strategy will involve workshops in rural Fermanagh. These workshops will bring together upper primary school pupils from different religious backgrounds for a one-hour workshop on music and theatre.

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