Kildare County Council Arts Service Awards and Opportunities Decsions 2008
Adjudicated by Marian Higgins, Senior Executive Librarian KCC, Olga Conway, Drama practitioner and Neili Conroy, Actress
- 60 applications were received,
- 24 awards are recommended
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Category:
Visual Arts
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Named Recipient
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Project
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Location
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Visual Arts
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Association of Kildare Artists
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Development of an online artists website
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Prosperous
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Visual Arts
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Athy Arts Committee
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Towards an arts development plan
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Athy
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Visual Arts
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Liadain de Butler
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Facilitation of “Me myself and I” project
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Newbridge
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Visual Arts
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Castle Keep Art Group
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Art class facilitation
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Maynooth
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Visual Arts
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Fabian Doyle
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Development of visual arts practice
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Ballitore
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Visual Arts
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Saidhbin Gibson
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Delivery of visual arts project
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Celbridge
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Visual Arts
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Colleen Lamb
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Development of visual arts practice
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Kilcullen
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Visual Arts
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Sheena Maher
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To create photographic catalogue of work
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Naas
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Visual Arts
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Lorraine Walsh
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Development of practice
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Newbridge
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Visual Art
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Daphne Wright
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Development of practice
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Athy
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Visual Art
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Helena Zeeman
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Development of practice
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Athy
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Visual arts
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Zita Mcgarry Kelly
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Conversion of studio space
(Marian Higgins abstained)
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Sallins
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Visual Art
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Dominic Thorpe
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Towards material and research
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Newbridge
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Visual Arts
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Parking Meter Arts Ltd.
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Public art interventions in Naas
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Naas
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Category:
Performing Arts
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Recipient
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Project
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Location
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Performing Arts
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Susan Boyle
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Facilitation of street performance project
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Kildare and Newbridge
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Performing Arts
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Crooked House Theatre Company
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Community based drama initiative
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Newbridge
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Performing Arts
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Griese Youth Theatre
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Towards workshops on the Irish famine
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Ballitore
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Performing Arts
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Herbert Lodge Arts Centre
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Delivery of music festival
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Kill
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Performing Arts
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Mend and Make Do Theatre Company
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Towards touring costs
(Marian Higgins abstained)
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Athy
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Category:
Film
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Recipient
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Project
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Location
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Film
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Ken Walsh
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Towards cost of Kildare cast and crew
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County Kildare
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Category: Community Arts
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Recipient
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Project
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Location
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Community Arts
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Croi Anu Creative centre
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Facilitation of classes
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Moone
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Category:
Arts in Health
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Recipient
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Project
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Location
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Arts In Health
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Bridge Community Arts
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To cover trip to art gallery
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Newbridge
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Arts In Health
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EVE Ltd.
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Delivery of arts in health project
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Kildare
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Category:
Literature
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Recipient
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Project
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Location
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Annie Morris
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Poetry in schools festival
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County Kildare
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Total value of Arts Act Grants Awards
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€25,070
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DRAMA LEAGUE OF IRELAND SUMMER SCHOOL BURSARY AWARDS
Kildare County Council Arts Service offered two bursary awards for the DLI Summer School 2008 at University Limerick. The bursary will cover course fees, including tuition, single room en-suite accommodation, meals and social programme.
Adjudicated by Marian Higgins, Senior Executive Librarian KCC, Olga Conway, Drama practitioner and Neili Conroy, Actress
- 3 applications were received
- 2 awards are recommended, as advertised
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Frank Houlihan
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David Culinane
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KILDARE DANCE BURSARY AWARD
Kildare County Council Arts Service offered two bursary awards for the Dance initiatives in County Kildare. The bursary is for dance development in County Kildare.
Adjudicated by Marian Higgins, Senior Executive Librarian KCC, Olga Conway, Drama practitioner and Neili Conroy, Actress
- 6 applications were received
- 2 awards are recommended
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Category
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Named Recipient
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Project
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Dance
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Paula Reilly
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Development of dance practice
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Dance in education
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Scoil Mhuire
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Dance in education project
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TYRONE GUTHRIE BURSARY AWARD
Two bursary awards are made to artists from all fields born or living in Co Kildare to enable them to spend two weeks at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, the artists’ workplace in Monaghan.
Adjudicated by Marian Higgins, Senior Executive Librarian KCC, Olga Conway, Drama practitioner and Neili Conroy, Actress
- 10 applications were received
- 2 awards are recommended
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Category
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Recipient
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Project
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Visual art
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Linda Marshall
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Development of her work in a new media
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Literature
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Maria Murphy
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Development of her writing practice
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CECIL DAY LEWIS BURSARY AWARD
The annual Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award, established in 2006, was open to both established and emerging writers and critics to enable: Research: towards the production of new writings; Formal or informal training: Participation in a professional or post-graduate course, mentoring, or other initiative, which will expand existing practice
Adjudicated by Marian Higgins, Senior Executive Librarian KCC and Eoghan Doyle, Acting County Arts Officer, KCC
- 11 applicants were received
- 1 award, as advertised
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Award Recipient
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Project
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Terry Donnelly
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To compile a list of short stories based in Leinster
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The total value of Arts Awards in 2008 is € 32,430
The total value of Arts Awards in 2007 was € 27,600
