Happy New Year everyone! We hope you had a restful end to 2020.
TYAI are very excited to continue to work and support our members and hope for a brighter and more positive 2021.
Here are details of upcoming events & opportunities, along with some details from our last members meeting:
December Members Meeting Summary
Arts Council Capacity Building Support Scheme Update
You, Fin and the Play Between - Callout
Opportunities
December Members Meeting Summary
On December 10th, we had our final Members’ Meeting of the year.
During the meeting we discussed the difficulties our members faced in 2020 and some of the positive outcomes from a very strange and challenging time. TYAI summarised our yearly activities, including our application for Capacity Building Support Scheme, see more details below.
Members shared thoughts on bridging and building on connections with Creative Schools and Creative Associates, creating a directory of school-friendly workshops & productions and Child Protection Policies - the need for a workshop to better understand the nuances of the documents required.
During the meeting we were joined by Seona Ní Bhriain, Head of YPCE at Arts Council. Seona gave us an update on the way many TYA artists and companies were supported financially in 2019 and 2020 by the Arts Council:
YPCE Bursary 2020: 59 applications were received for the Young People Children & Education Bursary 2020, with a total demand of € €752,790. Within the available fund, 34 applications were awarded grants totalling €400,000.
YPCE Bursary 2019: 26 applications were received for the Young People Children & Education Bursary 2019, with a total demand of €223,568.99. Within the available fund, 14 applications were awarded grants totalling €121,150.
YPCE Project Award (introduced 2020): 50 applications were received for the Young People, Children and Education Project Award 2020/2021, with a total demand of €2,088,188. Within the available fund, 22 applications were awarded grants totalling €1,000,000.
Capacity Building and Professional Development Award (introduced 2020) - currently still continuing to be assessed. Totals not available yet.
Arts Council Capacity Building Support Scheme - Update
TYAI is delighted to announce that we were successful in our application to the Arts Council for Capacity Building Support Scheme.
Engage a committee member to provide regular administrative support to the organisation and increase communication between the membership, the committee, the international community and the sector as a whole. Engage the services of a professional strategic consultant to develop Strategic Goals and a Diversity & Inclusion Policy for TYAI. Curate and co-ordinate a series of tailormade workshops to provide training opportunities in different areas of diversity and inclusion for our members.
We will be in touch with the TYAI membership with further details about our plans in the coming weeks.
You, Fin and the Play Between - Callout
Baboro, Graffiti Theatre Company and TYAI are delighted to open a callout to established and emerging writers, for "You, Fin and the Play Between", a 6-month playwriting programme with internationally acclaimed TYA playwright and user of all the best words, Finegan Kruckmeyer.
'In a year when people can't travel great distances, it's an enduring pleasure that words can. I'm really excited to begin an artistic conversation - as supported by Graffiti and Baboro - with writers far across the seas, which thumbs its nose at these insular times but also embraces hibernation, as an opportunity for the imagining of stories large and small' - Finegan.
Full details and application details attached below..
Application Deadline: 8th Feb
Course starts in March.
Opportunities
The Young People, Children and Education Bursary Award supports the professional development of artists by enabling them to spend time developing their practice. The award is specifically focussed on helping artists to improve their capacity to develop or present high-quality arts experiences with or for children and young people. It is open to individual artists and practitioners working in a creative capacity in any artform, including arts facilitators, curators or programmers.
The Markievicz Award was established to honour Constance de Markievicz – herself an artist – as the first woman to be elected to Parliament and appointed to Cabinet and is intended to provide support for artists from all backgrounds and genres to buy time and space in order to develop new work that reflects on the role of women in the period covered by the decade of centenaries 2012–2023 and beyond. http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Markievicz-Award/
Funding available: up to €25,000
Closing date: 4th February 2021
The Grand Stretch / Coiscéim Coiligh is a unique artistic response to a unique chapter in Ireland's history. This season of arts events, ambitious in purpose, scale and scope will be brought to life by artists and cultural organisations across Ireland in June 2021. www.thegrandstretch.com
Closing date: 8th February
Touring & Dissemination of Work Award: Applications are invited for proposals seeking funding to support touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and art practices. This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work starting between May 2021 and December 2021. http://www.artscouncil.ie/funds/Touring-and-dissemination-of-work-scheme/
Closing date: 11th February 2021
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At this time, TYAI is trying to find ways to reach and engage with our members in new and different ways. If any members have any suggestions of anything they would like us to look into, please let us know.
Thanks for reading,
TYAI Committee: Aislinn Ó hEocha, Jennifer Ahern, Phil Kingston, Maria Fleming, Ursula McGinn, Mona Considne, Mary Lou McCarthy, Phillida Eves, Sadhbh Barrett-Coakley, Cliodhna Noonan, Niall Cleary & Al Russell
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--TYAI Committee Aislinn O hEocha, Jennifer Ahern, Phil Kingston, Maria Fleming, Ursula McGinn, Sadhbh Barrett-Coakley, Cliodhna Noonan, Niall Cleary, Mary-Lou McCarthy, Mona Considine, Phillida Eves & Al Russell.
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