Arts Grant Applications On The Increase
Under Waterford City and County Council’s ambitions for Arts and the Community, we are pleased to support thirty nine projects under our Arts Practice Grant Scheme for 2019. This investment of €90,000 supports the local authority’s aim to maintain and develop excellence in artistic programming across the City and County.
Amongst the successful projects are funding towards Waterford Musical Society’s production of South Pacific, a recording project by Katie Kim, Traces Dance ensemble’s 10th anniversary show, Brideview Drama’s Brian Friel play, a film on the residents in the Cultural Quarter and a Mozart production by Lismore Choir.
The grants were judged in the light of the central three themes in the Arts Strategy 2016-2021
- Participation & Access
- Support for Artists
- Identity and Place
Proposals were invited under the headings of:
- Voluntary/Amateur Arts grants
- Professional Project grants
- Rural Arts grants
- Playwright & Producer team grant
- Screenwriter & Producer team grants
Voluntary /Amateur Grants. |
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| TheatreBrian Coady
Play – God Of Carnage. |
€600 |
| TheatreCurtain Call Productions Dungarvan.
Spring/ Autumn Productions |
€1000 |
| Classical/ChamberWaterford Music Club
Local Authority Funding |
€2500 |
| Orchestral MusicSymphony Club of Waterford
Annual programme |
€2500 |
| Barrack Street Concert BandAnnual programme | €1500 |
| De La Salle Scout Band85th Anniversary Celebrations | €1500 |
| Dungarvan Brass BandPublic Performances | €1500 |
| City Of Waterford BrassAnnual programme | €1500 |
| Thomas Francis Meagher BandAnnual programme | €1500 |
| Magdalena LipinskaPiano Day 2019 Choral | €1500 |
| Lismore ChoirSummer Sounds & Missa Brevis in G Major by Mozart KV 140 | €1250 |
| Musical TheatreWaterford Musical Society 2019 – Musical Theatre Production of South Pacific | €660 |
| TheatreBrideview Drama
Festival Production Philadelphia here I come by Brian Friel |
€1000 |
| Edmund Rice Choral Society.Annual Choir concert to take place April 2019 | €300 |
| Notable Works Choir.Notable Works 2019 | €1000 |
| Total | €19,810 |
Professional Grants |
|
| MusicConor Clancy
Tusk EP |
€1040 |
| Theatre DevelopmentA Little Room Theatre Development Centre | €2000 |
| Young Person’s Arts & TheatreJenny Clooney
Little Red Kettle Interactive Touring Play |
€6500 |
| Jenna WhelanBeyond the Gallery Exhibition | €4000 |
| Young Person’s Arts & Drama / TheatreWaterford Youth Arts
Summer Youth Theatre project directed by Grace Dyas |
€4500 |
| Professional Project Grant Contemporary DanceTraces, Dance Ensemble
‘Ten out of ten’, 10th Anniversary Showcase |
€3000 |
| Young Person’s Arts & FilmWaterford Youth Arts
Social History Documentary – Cultural Quarter |
€3000 |
| Visual Art & Creative WritingWaterford Healing Arts Trust
Arts Programme in Palliative Care (Pilot) |
€3680 |
| Arts SupportTed and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary
Arts Bursaries |
€2000 |
| Jenny Fennessy‘Lovesong’ by Abi Morgan | €2500 |
| Katie SullivanExploration, Development and Recording of fifth full length release 2019. | €4920 |
| Martina, CollenderProduction Of “Still, We Sing” | €5000 |
| Visual ArtsRayleen Clancy
Solo Exhibition. |
€1500 |
| TheatreGround Floor Theatre Company
Company’s Programme of Work, 2019 |
€1500 |
| TOTAL | €45,140 |
Rural Arts Grants |
|
| Visual ArtChristine O’Brien
Immrama – East meets West |
€2000 |
| Music, Song & DanceMary Rafferty
Húlaí Iúil |
€1800 |
| PoetryAnna Moore
Cappoquin Poetry day Ireland |
€500 |
| Visual ArtAiláse O’Neill
Rural Pinhole Camera Project |
€3000 |
| Public artWaterford Walls
Art on the Greenway |
€2000 |
| Total | €9,300 |
Playwright & Producer Team Grant |
|
| Ciara O Connell & Luke Corcoran‘The Eight’ | €1500. |
| James Power (Stagemad) & Nicola Spendlove‘Five Year Plan’ | €1500. |
| Derek Flynn‘Memoirs of a Ghost’ | €1500 |
| Total | €4,500 to date |
| 2nd Stage to be paid in March 2019 | €3,000 |
Screenwriter & Producer Team Grant |
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| Mary Keane‘The Way To Here’ | €250 |
| Ollie Breslin‘Who Cares?’ | €250 |
| Seamus Waters‘The Invisible Boy’ | €250 |
| Shauna Farrell‘So this is it’ | €250 |
| Steven Stubbs‘High Austerity’ | €250 |
| Total | €1,250 to date |
| 2nd Stage to be paid in March 2019 | €6,250 |
Total Allocation 2019
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€90,000.
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Venue Grants
The following Venues received funding under Waterford City and County Council’s Arts Venue Grants Scheme 2019.
Arts Venue applications were examined under the following criteria:
- Contribution to the community
- Accessibility to Public and Practitioners
- Education & Outreach
- Value for money
- 2019 AND 2018 Programme of activities
Venue |
2019 |
| •Garter Lane | €65,000 |
| •Theatre Royal | €65,000 |
| •Central Arts | €11,000 |
| •Coastguard Cultural Centre | €10,000 |
| •GOMA Gallery | €11,000 |
| •Rogue Gallery & Studios | €3,000 |
| TOTAL | €165,000 |