The deadline for applications to all awards was 18th March 2021.
Kildare Creative Ireland Artistic and Creative Bursary Awards 2021
As part of Kildare's 2021 Creative Ireland programme bursaries are awarded to develop bodies of work with a public interface/engagement.
For the Kildare Creative Ireland Artistic and Creative Bursary Awards applications were invited from individuals and groups to creatively explore themes of:
- Well-being
- Sense of place
- Heritage (which may include historical exploration)
- Music
- STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics)
- Irish language
- Climate change
| Organisation / Surname | First Name | Municipal District (Kildare) | Project Description | Funding Awarded | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run of the Mill Theatre / Byrne | Aisling | Celbridge / Leixlip | A community film project that will explore the history and legacy of the St. Raphaels campus in Celbridge, led by a group of its former residents. | €8,000 | ||
| Conway | John | Naas | An immersive virtual reality (VR) and live-performed theatre work occurring in people's homes, informed by lived-experiences of older people in the area. | €6,000 | ||
| Speak Up Sing Out | Clane / Maynooth | Choral and performance festival in Kilcock to include performances, workshops and activities for people within the community. | €6,000 | |||
| Creative Sewing | Kildare / Newbridge | Community project involving transition year students and members of the local community, working, learning and connecting together to create textile wall hanging that depicts life around the RATH | €3,000 | |||
| Foster | Angelina | Athy | Exploring burial grounds of County Kildare, through the process of gravestone rubbing, revealing stories from our past which connect with our sense of place, heritage and language. | €5,000 | ||
| Creative Rathangan - Meitheal | Kildare / Newbridge | Explore the transformation of Rathangan's people and environs, its streetscapes, bog lands, and waterways through a programme of interdisciplinary and arts-based workshops. | €6,000 | |||
| Gilligan | Shauna | Kildare / Newbridge | Explore the heritage symbolising Brigid through place and archival artefacts, creating new representations of her as an archetype of the sacred feminine in corporating public readings, workshops and a publication. | €4,000 | ||
| Hardiman | Josephine | Naas | Develop 'The Book of Kildare', facilitate calligraphy workshops with schools, exhibition in Kildare. | €5,000 | ||
| Kearney | Brenda | Clane / Maynooth | Develop a series of public workshops to develop a community seed-sharing project 'Tea by Post'. | €4,000 | ||
| Kildare Art Collective | Kildare / Newbridge | Miniature outdoor exhibition installed within a specified radius in Newbridge, as part of an outdoor art trail for JuneFest. | €3,000 | |||
| Lynch | Roseanne | Clane / Maynooth | An online Work-in-Progress performance of extracts of a new play about motherhood and climate change with post-show discussion and creative workshop. | €6,000 | ||
| St John of God's | Celbridge / Leixlip | A sound art project that creatively explores themes of cultural rights and happiness using the human voice and accessible recording editing software applications. | €3,000 | |||
| Down at Heel Productions | Maynooth | A War of Independence podcast soap opera set in Kildare, telling the story of a Maynooth family living through this turbulent period. | €1,500 | |||
| Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann | Celbridge / Leixlip | Four 30 minute programmes as part of Fleadhfest to showcase the rich cultural heritage of Kildare through music, song, dance and the language. | €2,000 | |||
| John Sullivan Centre Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) Clane | Clane / Maynooth | Biodiversity Citizen Scientist Workshops with members & local schools on new habitats which have been created in a Biodiversity Garden. | €6,000 | |||
| O'Brien | Martina | Naas | 'Mapping the Significant' will look to activated phenological methodologies and practices throughout the county. This will be done through the creation of a novel network of phenological observers; the installation of digital wild-sensing cameras in seven sites; the creation of a limited-edition publication and production of a film to be screened at a pop-up event. | €8,000 | ||
| Woods | Paul | Naas | A series of public artworks exploring local fauna, flora and biodiversity in Monasterevin. | €4,000 |
Creative Ireland CRUINNIÚ NA NÓG Bursary Award 2021
Cruinniú na nÓg, the national day of creativity for children and young people takes place on Saturday, 12th June 2021. It aims to celebrate and encourage children and young people’s participation in culture and creativity by providing free, activity-based action in their own locality.
For the Creative Ireland Cruinniú na nÓg Bursary Award 2021, Kildare County Council’s Creative Ireland team accepted proposals from creative practitioners and organisations to host and facilitate creative engagements for and with children and young people across the county for Cruinniú na Óg 2021. More details on projects supported through this award can be found here.
Creative Ireland is a Government of Ireland Initiative.
Kildare Decade of Commemorations Bursary Award 2021
Image credit: Kildare Local Studies Collection
The Decade of Commemorations Bursary Award 2021 welcomed applications from individual artists, art groups, and community projects from county Kildare for artistic and creative community-led responses in all artforms based on some of the following themes:
It is envisaged that the interpretation of the historical events by Kildare based artists and creative practitioners will provide a platform to encourage reflection and the consideration of issues, both past and present, which may be challenging, difficult and sometimes deeply personal.
| Surname | First Name | Project Description | Funding Awarded | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greene | Sharon | Artist's reconstruction of the scene of the Graney Ambush (24 October 1922). | €3,300 | |||
| Woods | Paul | Large scale mixed media artwork exploring personal, national and social-political aspects of the 1921-1923 timeline combining imagery, objects, photography, soundscapes, portraiture and textures. | €5,600 | |||
| Walsh | Lorraine | Research into local & national archive collections and exploration of the Civil War through drawing. | €7,500 | |||
| Coy | Stephen | 100th anniversary of the handover of the Curragh Camp | €1,600 |
Decade of Commemorations Short Grass Film Award
Kildare County Council Decade of Commemorations/Short Grass Films further develops its support for film production in the county. This commission welcome applications for films with a Kildare focus which may focus on human/personal stories, real or imagined. Under this commission scheme, one award of €12,500 was made available towards the cost of the film production. Short film, feature film, documentary, animation, experimental and artist films were welcomed.
Supported by Kildare County Council’s Decade of Commemorations Committee and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 Initiative.
No funding was awarded.