Arts Council awards 94 commissions to artists and organisations across Ireland

The Irish emigrant experience, the female munitions workers of the First World War, children’s curiosity for nature, and dance during the pandemic feature among 94 new commissions announced the Arts Council this week.

The investment, worth a total of €1.3 million across 20 counties, means that artists will partner with arts organisations to create new work for people in every region of the country and overseas.

Arts Council Director Maureen Kennelly said the agency was encouraged by the response from artists and delighted to be able to fund so many excellent applications.

“Individual artists and arts organisations are facing extraordinary challenges at this time, which makes the response to this year’s call for commissions all the more exceptional. These awards will enable artists to realise brilliant ideas and will help their commissioners make them available to the public,” she said.

Among the commissions funded:

 ANU will commission sound designer and composer Sinéad Diskin to create an environmental score, celebrating the Irish munitions workers of World War One - 4,000 women across Ireland. Provocations will be set by key historians.

 The New York Irish Center will commission award-winning playwright Paul Meade. He will engage in workshops and interviews with Irish people using the centre, and write a script based on the stories focusing on the Irish emigrant experience.

 The Ark will commission visual artist Clare Langan to create an imaginative new work for children to be exhibited at The Ark in 2022. The work will be a 10-minute film piece inspired by the inherent sense of awe and curiosity that children have for nature.

 The Liz Roche Dance Company will commission its associate artist Lucia Kickham to create a choreography exploring how bodies in dance are adapting to changes to dance practice and performance in the pandemic and to define a new approach to making that moves away from studio based ensemble work into more fluid pathways of transmission

Earlier this year, the Arts Council received an additional grant of €25 million from the Government to help alleviate the effects on the arts of Covid-19 . The agency has responded by investing additional resources in a wide range of areas, including enhanced commissions.

All Arts Council funding opportunities can be seen at: http://www.artscouncil.ie/funding/

The full list of Commissions is below:

Architecture	CoisCeim Dance Theatre	Dublin City Council	10000
Arts participation	Age and Opportunity	Dublin City Council	20000
Arts participation	Create	Dublin City Council	20000
Arts participation	Centre For Creative Practices	International	7750
Circus	Irish Aerial Creation Centre	Clare County Council	6550
Circus	Fidget Feet	Dublin City Council	17500
Circus	Gate Theatre, The	Dublin City Council	20000
Dance	United Fall	Carlow County Council	10000
Dance	Galway Dance Project	Dublin City Council	10300
Dance	Tonnta	Dublin City Council	8000
Dance	Dublin Dance Festival	Kerry County Council	12000
Dance	Liz Roche Company	Wexford County Council	11000
Festivals and Events	Live Collision Festival	Dublin City Council	20000
Festivals and Events	Clonmel Applefest	Tipperary County	6400
Film	Copper Alley Productions Limited	Cork City Council	20000
Film	Cork Film Festival	Cork City Council	13000
Film	Aemi	Dublin City Council	20000
Literature (English language)	Ennis Book Club Festival	Clare County Council	8000
Literature (English language)	Banshee	Cork County Council	3000
Literature (English language)	Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann	Dublin City Council	20000
Literature (English language)	Children's Books Ireland	Dublin City Council	20000
Literature (English language)	Museum Of Literature Ireland	Dublin City Council	16000
Literature (English language)	Skein Press	Dublin City Council	7920
Literature (English language)	Irish Pages	Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council	13500
Literature (English language)	Cuirt Intl Festival of Literature	Galway City Council	7800
Literature (English language)	Lilliput Press	Longford County Council	5000
Music	Cork Midsummer Festival	Cork City Council	17500
Music	Great Music in Irish Houses	Cork County Council	8750
Music	Cork International Choral Festival	Cork County Council	8000
Music	Crescent Music Festival	Donegal County Council	6500
Music	Cantairí Óga Átha Cliath	Dublin City Council	12000
Music	Crash Ensemble	Dublin City Council	20000
Music	The Guitar Festival of Ireland	Dublin City Council	7000
Music	Pipeworks Festival	Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council	6000
Music	Glor - Irish Music Centre	Galway City Council	9950
Music	St Canice's Cathedral Choir	Kilkenny County Council	4000
Music	Irish Cultural Centre	Monaghan County Council	20000
Music	New Dublin Voices	Roscommon County Council	10750
Music	Tra Gheall Ltd	Wicklow County Council	5400
Opera	Cork Opera House	Dublin City Council	18000
Spectacle	Cairde Festival Ltd	Donegal County Council	19950
Theatre	Everyman	Cork City Council	16000
Theatre	Once Off Productions	Cork County Council	10000
Theatre	An Grianán Theatre	Donegal County Council	10000
Theatre	ANU Productions	Dublin City Council	16000
Theatre	Mermaid Arts Centre	Dublin City Council	10000
Theatre	New York Irish Center	Dublin City Council	9000
Theatre	Pan Pan Theatre Company	Dublin City Council	16000
Theatre	THISISPOPBABY	Dublin City Council	13500
Theatre	Axis Arts Centre	Dublin City Council	10000
Theatre	Dublin Fringe Festival	Dublin City Council	19800
Theatre	Dublin Theatre Festival	Dublin City Council	18200
Theatre	Gúna Nua Theatre	Dublin City Council	11100
Theatre	Landmark Productions	Dublin City Council	20000
Theatre	Project Arts Centre	Dublin City Council	17511
Theatre	Galway Theatre Festival	Galway City Council	14700
Theatre	Town Hall Theatre	Galway City Council	12000
Theatre	Broken Talkers	Kerry County Council	16000
Theatre	The Performance Corporation	Kildare County Council	6000
Theatre	Dunamaise Arts Centre	Laois County Council	19000
Theatre	The Lime Tree Belltable	Limerick City Council	12410
Theatre	Droichead Arts Centre	Meath County Council	15300
Theatre	Ballina Arts Centre	Sligo County Council	7000
Theatre	Corcadorca Theatre Company Ltd	Sligo County Council	15000
Theatre	Source Arts Centre	Tipperary County	10500
Theatre	Garter Lane Arts Centre	Waterford County Council	10000
Theatre	Decadent Theatre Company	Wexford County Council	13500
Traditional Arts	Islander	Cork County Council	8450
Traditional Arts	Irish Traditional Music Archive	Donegal County Council	19875
Traditional Arts	Oriel Traditional Orchestra	Galway County Council	15000
Traditional Arts	Kilkenny Arts Festival	Kilkenny County Council	18000
Traditional Arts	Hawk's Well Theatre	Sligo County Council	16000
Venues	Ramor Theatre	Cavan County Council	11800
Venues	Riverbank Arts Centre	Kildare County Council	19500
Visual Arts	Carlow Arts Festival	Carlow County Council	20000
Visual Arts	Sirius Arts Centre	Cork County Council	20000
Visual Arts	Áras Éanna	Dublin City Council	5000
Visual Arts	Five Lamps Arts Festival	Dublin City Council	12000
Visual Arts	Lewis Glucksman Gallery	Dublin City Council	20000
Visual Arts	Lismore Castle Arts	Dublin City Council	6000
Visual Arts	Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Ltd	Dublin City Council	20000
Visual Arts	The Gallery of Photography	Dublin City Council	18000
Visual Arts	Imagining Sustainable Glass Network Europe	Dublin City Council	8075
Visual Arts	MART	Dublin City Council	20000
Visual Arts	Pallas Projects/Studios	Dublin City Council	20000
Visual Arts	PhotoIreland Festival	Dublin City Council	5000
Visual Arts	Tipperary Excel Heritage Company	Galway City Council	20000
Visual Arts	West Cork Arts Centre	International	20000
Visual Arts	Ormston House	Limerick City and County Council	16000
Visual Arts	Drop Everything	Longford County Council	20000
Young People, Children, and Education	Draíocht Arts Centre	Dublin City Council	15000
Young People, Children, and Education	Branar Dramaiochta Teo	Galway City Council	19260
Young People, Children, and Education	Baboró International Arts Festival for Children	Galway City Council	16450
Young People, Children and Education	The Ark	Kerry County Council	14000

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20 November 2020

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