Artists have just a few more days to apply to Laois Council for support
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The clock is ticking down for artist who would like avail of the support on offer from Laois County Council.
Laois County Council Arts Service invites applications for the following awards and opportunities to individuals/groups and organisations.
Arts Act Grants 2021
Provision has been made by Laois County Council for the payment of grants to Laois arts organisations and individuals who meet the artistic and financial criteria set down by Laois County Council and who provide adequate information on their proposed activities. The maximum amount payable will not exceed €1000.
There is a young woman, wrong, there is not. She’s not yet an adult, but she’s not still a child. She’s in her teens. She wants to consider herself an adult, let it be that she’s accorded that. Begin again.
There is a young adult sitting beneath a tree under a grey-blue sky. There may be a seven-week-old foetus buried inside her, there may be not.
What’s to be said about the tree? Well, first, this is no wind-shook sapling. It’s immense, measured against the young adult, who’s no longer a child but only recently, quietly so. It’s fully grown, compared to the soft changeling who sits cross-legged on damp ground at dusk. It’s a lone, cold-blooded ash tree in the middle of a field. At the first autumnal winds, it’ll shed its leaves, easy, without thought, even while they’re still working green. But, for this evening, its soft new leaves glisten unhindered, twisted hopeful towards an inkling of faded sun. For now, its dark roots bury, disappearing into the earth.
A STUNNING array of works were submitted for the annual 1FT SQ exhibition hosted by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, which for the first time in its 13-year history is taking place virtually via Strule Arts Centre s Facebook page. Having opened on December 4 with a virtual event live-streamed from the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh via the Council s YouTube page, the exhibition runs until January 9. A Council spokeswoman said: This is the 13th year of 1FT SQ exhibition – an event that has grown annually and attracts artists of all genres and creative backgrounds, both locally and further afield. There was an excellent response to the open call to the arts community in November from 39 artists, who are showing 117 works of art in a variety of mediums, including photography, porcelain, ceramics, oil, acrylic, pencil, mixed-media and prints.
Bursaries up for grabs for Kilkenny artists in 2021
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Kilkenny artists are being encouraged to apply for a number of bursaries to help them develop their work.
Applications for their Arts Act Grant, Tyrone Guthrie Bursary Award and Moth Bursary Award 2021 are now being accepted by Kilkenny County Council.
The 2003 Arts Act allows a local authority to provide financial assistance for the purposes of stimulating public interest in the arts, promoting the knowledge, appreciation and practices of the arts or improving standards in the arts. In this act, the expression “the arts” means creative or interpretative expression (traditional or contemporary) in whatever form and includes in particular visual arts, theatre, literature, music, film, literature, dance and Multi-disciplinary events.