There are two primary objectives of the programme
- To support proposals for the research, design and future presentation of specific showcases, performance(s) and/or other forms of public presentation aimed at groups and communities otherwise facing barriers to the arts on a range of platforms
- To engage the arts sector in employment by providing individual artists, creative practitioners, and performers with financial support to create work and make a vital contribution to the well-being of communities
This program will provide an award of up to £5,000 to support individual artists, creative practitioners and performers.
Eligibility criteria:
Freelance individual artists and creative practitioners and performers of all disciplines, genres, skills and practice. Applicant artists, creative practitioners and performers can also choose to work with arts organisations on projects where the leaders and principal beneficiaries are individual artists, creative practitioners or performers.
In addition to practicing individual artists, creative practitioners and performers as freelancers, included in the call are those who work in the arts as curators, editors, directors, creative producers, originators, among other roles.
This programme prioritises applications that:
- Engage with groups, participants and audiences otherwise without easy access to or participation in the arts
- Benefit individual artists, creative practitioners and performers who are currently in difficulties due to work restrictions imposed by COVID-19 protocols
- Propose new or newly imagined projects as interventions of high artistic quality
- Are planned to reach significant audiences through ‘live’, ‘as live’ or recorded digital performance, publication, broadcast, reading, recording, and/or other audience channels
- Provide for an extended life and/or extended public reach and impact for the work or project that has been created
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has temporarily closed this programme until further notice.