Artist Marie Connole at the launch of Seaweeds from Clare, which received Project Award funding in 2023. Photo: John O’Neill.
COMMUNITIES working with practitioners to enable creativity in Clare communities are encouraged to apply for a funding award.
Clare County Council is inviting applications to the Creative Communities Project Award, previously known as the Creative Ireland Project Award. The award is funded by Creative Ireland, an all-of-government culture and wellbeing programme, with an ambition to inspire and transform people, places, and communities through creativity.
A multi-disciplinary Culture and Creativity Team of representatives from the Arts, Heritage, Rural and Community Development, Enterprise, Libraries, Archives, Museum, Climate and Biodiversity sections of Clare County Council deliver the Clare Creative Ireland Programme.
Four strategic themes underpin the award, they are to enrich communities, to celebrate sense of place and belonging including the Irish language, to promote climate action and biodiversity, to strengthen and develop Creative Ireland’s impact in Clare
Helen Walsh, County Librarian and Creative Ireland Clare Coordinator, Clare County Council, explained, “It is our vision to ensure that the people of Clare can discover and have access to cultural expression through creative activity. Our aim is to support creative projects that reflect our evolving communities through projects that are shaped around the need and interests of our changing demographic”.
Applications to the ‘Creative Communities Project Award’ can be submitted through an application form until the closing date of Monday 19th February 2024.
Awards of up to €2000 are available to support projects that will develop bodies of creative work in the community with a public interface or engagement.
For more information about the Creative Communities project award, visit: https://www.clarecoco.ie/services/arts-culture/grants/creativeirelandawards/
