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Grants for 2012 are now closed. Details of the 2013 grants will be available in January 2013, with a closing date of mid March 2013

2012 Arts Act Grant Recipients

ARTS ACT GRANT SCHEME 2012
CATEGORY	NAME	AREA	PROJECT DESCRIPTION	Amount Recommended €
Visual Arts : Professional individual artists	Mark McGreevy	Prosperous	Maintaining Artist Studio & material expenses	€650
	David Morrissey	Kildare Town	Project – Portraits of people aged over 60 years of age - celebrating people of the community	€350
	Gay Brabazon	The Curragh	New body of work based on the Curragh and the lives of the Wren Women	€650
	Paul Woods	Ballitore	A series of oil paintings, developed through – photographic transfer	€650
	Colleen Lambe	Kilcullen	Development & completion of visual arts project - body of work intent for exhibition	€650
	Daniel Lipstein	Monasterevin	Creation of a body of work towards a print exhibition	€500
Visual Arts Projects - COLLECTIVES	Siobhan Murphy - Design Snug	Kildare Town	Using unoccupied buildings to offer , create and utilize a multitude of workshops and show case the outcomes	€450
	Frank Butler - Celbridge Camera Club	Naas / Celbridge	Photographic exhibition- costs & venue	€500
	Maeve Mulrennan - Group Residency	Kildare	Residency Based in Kildare – work based on Pollardstown Fen	€1,800
	David Day & Johnny Phelan	Athy	‘Tins n Bins’ – percussion and street performance with Aontas Ogra youth project/Athy Community arts centre	€1,600
Dance : Collectives	Nathalie Grand - Evolultion, Kildare Youth Dance Company	Kildare	Supporting regular activities- dance festivals -research and development and collaboration	€1,000
	Suzanne Hogan / Niall O’ Connell	Newbridge	Barbie V Ken Project in Scoil Bhride Naofa - to develop community, the arts and self-esteem	€1,300
	Clane Musical Society	Clane	Funding for next musical project	€2,000
	Athy Musical Society	Athy	Production costs	€1,500
Theatre - Professionals /Companies	Cliona de Bri - Theatre Rua	Prosperous	Peig –An adaptation of an Irish language book – funding for the theatre	€2,000
	Griese Youth Theatre - Leish Burke	Ballitore	Stage production on June 29^th - ‘It only ever happens in the movies’ General production costs	€1,100
	Bloom Collective - Rachel Lally	Newbridge	Funding for production -exploring the possibilities of creating music & theatre in a symbiotic way.	€1,800
	Sheer Tantrum - Vincent A. O’ Reilly	Newbridge	‘This is not the Seagull’ -touring production costs	€1,600
	Crooked House Theatre Company	Newbridge	General production costs	€2,000
	Aleksandra Rosiak - The Kaleidoscope Project	Ballitore	‘Beyond the seven seas’ - Cost of puppet design and making – new work for children’s theatre	€1,200
Literature	Ann Egan	Clane	Emigration – Voices on the platform- proposed long series of poems examining the theme of emigration in Ireland.	€800
	Wayne Byrne	Kill	Writing his first book – non-fiction Tom DiCillo & his films	€1,000
Arts and Health	Siobhan Bracken Ahearne/ former Creative Well participants	Naas	Mental Health art workshops - funding for framing and materials	€400
Local Publishing Grant			Two awards of €650
	Mario Corrigan	Kildare Town	‘Kildare Footprints’ Walking tours	€650
	Dr. Maebh O’ Regan	Celbridge	Publication about well known visual artists in Co Kildare	€650
Artist in Schools Bursary Award			Two awards of €2,500
	Scoil Mochua NS/ Vera Mc Evoy	Celbridge	Starting a Thread – textile / fibre art proposal	€2,500
	Scoil Dara – (2^nd level) TY Students/ Eimear Crehan	Kilcock	Songwriting & performance	€2,500
Tyrone Guthrie Bursary Award			Three awards valued at € 650	€1,950
	Shauna Gilligan	Celbridge	Literary fiction novel currently redrafting & editing
	Evan Costigan	Moyvalley	To complete a number of poems and create new work for submission to a number of publishing houses.
	Catherine Mann	Edenderry	Celtic Tiger Landscapes ( ghost estates ) exploring memories, feelings through painting.
Youth Arts Residency Bursary	NO APPLICATIONS		One award of €2,500	€0
Drama League of Ireland Summer School Bursary award			One awards x week long summer school
	Geraldine O’ Brien	Celbridge		€500
Recording Studio Bursary Award			3 awards x three days recording valued @ €900	€2,700
	Looking Glass	Kildare	Gain exposure & practical experience in a recording studio
	Thy Sinister Bloom	Newbridge	In conjunction with a theatre performance
	School O Rock	Newbridge	Project with youths writing their own songs
Film Bursary Award			€3,500 plus €500 editing time	€4,000
	John O Connell	Naas	Horsepower
Emerging Visual Artist Bursary Award			Solo exhibition in Riverbank Arts Centre bursary	€2,500
	Brian Cregan	Naas	Completion of ‘The Glass Garden’
CD Lewis Literary Bursary Award
Professional writer	Mairead Rooney	Celbridge	Completion of Novel ‘storm at the door’	€2,000
Emerging writer	Hazel Gaynor	Kilcullen	Research novel about Eliza Doolittle	€1,500
Irish Youth Choir				€400
	Tara Walsh	Maynooth	Financial assistance to attend this years residential training course
			TOTAL VALUE OF ARTS GRANTS AND AWARDS 2012	€47,350

Grants 2012

Kildare County Council Arts Service announce Arts Grants and Award Opportunities 2012

Kildare County Council Arts Service invites applications from individual artists and arts collectives and community groups for the following grant and award opportunities

Arts Act Grant scheme
Artist in Schools Residency Bursary Award
Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award
Drama League of Ireland Summer School Bursary Award
Film Bursary Award
Recording Bursary @ Platform4 Recording Studio
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary Award
Youth Arts Residency Bursary
Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award
Local Publishing award

Additional awards for 2012 are

Tyrone Guthrie Printmaking Residency Bursary Award
Irish Youth Choir bursary (as auditions are in Feb/March, please register your interest immediately by contacting the arts service)
NYCI Certificate in Youth Arts (accrediting body NUI Maynooth) bursary. Course dates will be announced in summer 2012. (Register your interest by contacting the arts service)

Application forms and further information are available from

Kildare County Arts Service, Riverbank, Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare

Tel: 045-448328; Email: arts@kildarecoco.ie, or service

Closing date is strictly 12 noon TUESDAY 20^th March 2012

Download the application forms below