Tag: Arts Council Agility Award

Of Interest: Zoom Workshop on Arts Council Agility Award Application – 26th of March

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Workshop - The Arts Council Agility Award Application Basics - with Cli Donnellan.

Clí Donnellan of Minding Creative Minds will explain the application for the Arts Council of Ireland’s Agility Award.

This Zoom class includes an introduction, support materials, information for collaborations and the application process, and the application form.

Wednesday, the 26th of March- 13:00 -14:00 PM

For more information and to register, visit the Minding Creative Minds website – https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/events/the-arts-council-agility-award-application-basics-march-26/

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News: Deirdre Crofts – Awards and Exhibition

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Feltmakers Ireland committee member Deirdre Crofts, who tirelessly organises our Sunday Sessions, has been awarded an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland to further her multi-faceted practice. Besides feltmaking and weaving, she works with clay and automata. In addition, she has won an EU workshop and the opportunity for an international exhibition in Italy or Spain.

Moreover, she has a vessel displayed in the juried Ceramics Ireland Selected Members Exhibition, which is at Rathfarnham Castle and runs until the 8th of September.

Deirdre’s piece

For more information about the exhibition, visit the Rathfarnham Castle website – https://www.rathfarnhamcastle.ie/exhibitions/

Image: Grainne Watts Vortex Vessel

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Education: Workshop on Agility Award via Minding Creative Minds

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Important Update: Join Minding Creative Minds via Zoom for a Workshop with Cli Donnellan. She will teach you how to apply for the Arts Council of Ireland’s valuable Agility Award. This online webinar will also include how to reference your introduction, support material, and work with collaborators.

When: Wednesday, April 3rd 13:00 – 14:00 PM.

For more information, visit the Minding Creative Minds website – https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/events/the-arts-council-agility-award-application-basics/

Here is a link to the Agility Award page on the Arts Council website – https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Agility-Award/

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Opportunity: Agility Awards – Arts Council of Ireland

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The Arts Council of Ireland has opened up applications for its Agility Awards.

The Agility Award aims to support individual professional freelance artists and arts workers at any stage in their careers, with awards up to €5,000. The Agility Award grant is of up to €5,000. It is open to musicians, actors, writers, dancers, filmmakers, and visual and other artists so that they can develop their practice and are based in all four provinces of Ireland.

In 2023, 597 successful participants received funding of up to €5,000 each. (You can apply for any amount between €1,500 and €5,000.)

Deadline: Thursday, the 25th of April, 2024.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Agility-Award/


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Exhibition and Education: Exhibition of Architectural Drawings and 3 Felting Workshops

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A close look at revitalising church buildings as part of Architecture at the Edge 2023; an exhibition of drawings & series of felting workshops.

This exhibition presents a study of St. John’s ‘Church on the Hill‘ in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, through survey work, mapping, and archival material, alongside exploratory drawings of church repurposing projects in Flanders, Belgium.

Additionally, as a form of church revitalisation, a series of wool-felting workshops will take place, where up to 20 participants will be guided through the process of wet-felting a large-scale textile artwork together to be displayed within the church as part of the exhibition.

No previous experience is needed – the workshops are intended to be inclusive and convivial, bringing people together for conversation, storytelling, and exploring a shared vision for the future of St. John’s.

The project is led by Feltmakers Ireland member Beibhinn Delaney, in collaboration with Marie-Caroline Kawa and Lara Clifford, and is based on previous research supported by the Arts Council Agility Award 2022 and assisted Prof. Sven Sterken and Charlotte Ardui of KU Leuven, whose expertise is in adaptive reuse of Flemish churches.

Support kindly comes from the Arts Council of Ireland, Galway County Council, and Donegal Yarns, who have provided beautiful Irish wool, locally sourced from Galway sheep.

The exhibition runs from the 29th of September through the 8th of October. Open 12:00 – 17:00 PM.

There are three felting workshops on the following dates: Friday, the 29th of September, Tuesday, the 3rd of October, and Friday, the 7th of October. Each runs from 14:30 – 16:30 PM and needs to be booked.

For more information and to book the free workshops, visit the Architecture at the Edge (AATE) website – https://www.architectureattheedge.com/events-2023/faith-in-the-future

To learn more about church repurposing, read this interesting article by Beibhinn Delaney on Type, a website focussing on the design of the built environment. – https://www.type.ie/blog/this-is-my-church