Arts Act Grants 2018
Below is a list of available grants from Kildare County Council Arts Service in 2018 and a listing of the successful applicants in 2018.
- Arts Act Grant Scheme
- Artist in School Residency Bursary Award
- Dennis O'Driscoll Literary Bursary Award
- Drama League of Irleand Summer School Bursary Award
- Recording Bursary - Platform4 Audio and Digital Media Studio
- Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary Award
- Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award
- Local Publishing Award
- Short Grass Shorts, film bursary award
- Youth Arts bursary Award
- Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary in partnership with County Kildare Chamber
ARTS ACT GRANT SCHEME 2018 | |||||
SURNAME | FIRST NAME | ORGANISATION | MD AREA | PROJECT DESCRIPTION | AMOUNT AWARDED |
ARTS ACT GRANT | |||||
McGovern | Lorraine | Ballyshannon National School | Naas | 1 day w/shop with Paul Maher: Simply Music in May | €250 |
Davis | Jacinta | Muiriosa Foundation | Athy | Continuing Artistic development | €200 |
Leonard | Mae | Naas |
Nat Poetry Day 26.04.18: 'An Evening with Mae Leonard' McAuley Place Naas |
€500 | |
Leahy | John | South Kildare Photography Club | Kildare / Newbridge | Outdoor exhibition of large format photo's for Junefest | €400 |
Kelly | Jim | Celbridge Camera Club | Leixlip / Celbridge | A grant to help defray the costs of annual exhibition | €400 |
Foley | Martina | Emerald Lakes Academy of Irish Dancing | Athy |
Competitive Irish dancing competitions in Maastricht, Netherlands 04 April '18 |
€300 |
Gilligan | Shauna | Leixlip / Celbridge |
Collaborative project using the Curragh architecture & land memory as basis |
€1,269 | |
Doyle | Eileen | In Cantorum Choir | Athy |
Purchase of hard back personalised choir folders with inserts for storing music |
€300 |
O'Reilly | Sadie | Clane Musical & Dramatic Soc | Maynooth | Towards cost of sound for production of Calamity Jane | €400 |
Field | Sinead | Maynooth Gospel Choir | Maynooth | Maynooth Gospel Choir Big Gig 2018 | €1,060 |
Lawless | James | Leixlip / Celbridge | To complete novel 'Letter to Jude' | €500 | |
Murphy | Colm | Down at Heel Productions | Maynooth | Application for support to stage a play x 4 shows | €700 |
Deegan | Eimear | Ballymore Eustace Concert Band | Naas | Masterclass Series 2018 | €2,000 |
Carty | Sharon | Leixlip / Celbridge | Assistance to record CD of Schubert works | €1,500 | |
Ní Nualláin | Sionnán | Drawn with Strings | Leixlip / Celbridge | Production costs to stage 'Ambrosia's Bazaar' | €600 |
Walsh | Tara | Naas Community College | Naas | Attend 'Kodály Summer Institute and Seminar | €800 |
McEvoy | Vera | Leixlip / Celbridge | Attend 5 day masterclass in Glass fusion | €735 | |
Boyd | Pat | St. Mary's Brass nd Reed Band | Maynooth | Attend international music festival in Germany | €1,000 |
Carey | Billy | Millicent Singers | Naas | Strategic development of choir | €2,000 |
McCarthy | Tamara | Explore Youth Theatre | Leixlip / Celbridge | 6 x 2 hour workshops exploring 'Theatre of the Oppressed' | €1,000 |
O'Carroll | David | Maynooth |
Costs to attend 'singing Taster Course' Guildhall School of Music |
€896 | |
Quigley | Bryan | Maynooth | Purchase 35 Ukeles for Gaelscoil Uí Fhiach | €1,575 | |
O'Meara | Lousie | Leixlip / Celbridge | Develop new stage production 'Bunny Hopp' | €1,500 | |
Baxter | Sarah | Maynooth | Costs to stage 'The Roaring Banshees' | €2,000 | |
Kane-Rowe | Margaret | Kildare / Newbridge | funding to attend intense screenwriting course | €500 | |
Nolan | Melissa | Speckintime | Naas | Continued development of 'I am Mrs Daisy Bates' | €1,896 |
Day | David | Athy |
Develop and rejuvenate Rhythm Remedies in St. Vincents Hospital Athy |
€700 | |
Moran | Brian | Prosperous Dramatic Society | Maynooth |
Update Power and Lighting packs for Dramatic Society |
€1,500 |
Beck | Claire | Girls to the Front | Naas | Female focused music industry event | €1,000 |
Conway | John | Leixlip / Celbridge |
Continued development of Artist practice and development of previously funded work |
€750 | |
Boyle | Susan | Kildare / Newbridge |
Present devised Theatre piece at Oxford Symposium |
€600 | |
Higgins | Patricia | Kildare / Newbridge |
Funding for 'The Golden Age of Italian Opera' lecture series |
€800 | |
DeBrí | Pamela | Naas | Costs to mount exhibition in Santander | €800 | |
Cregan | Brian | Naas | Frame prints and create new artworks | €700 | |
Kelly | Denis | Leixlip / Celbridge | Costs for solo exhibition | €1,500 | |
O'Sullivan | Sadhbh | Naas |
Funding for project that encourages creative epxression in older people |
€900 | |
Clane Youth Project | Maynooth | Purchase of guitars for youth music initiative | €1,000 | ||
Hallahan | Paul | Naas |
Materials, framing, travel & accomodation for sols show RHA Nov '18 |
€1,500 | |
RECORDING BURSARY AWARD | |||||
Field | Sinead | Maynooth Gospel Choir | Maynooth | Recording with full band for an EP release | €900 |
Byrne | Peter | Joint app with Conor Mahony | Kildare / Newbridge | 10 track recording recorded live in studio | €900 |
Boyd | Pat | St Mary's Brass & Reed Band | Maynooth | Record Christmas CD with St Mary's parish Choir | €900 |
Phelan | Emer | Maynooth | Record CD of famous Irish Singers | €900 | |
ARTIST IN SCHOOLS RESIDENCY BURSARY AWARD | |||||
Caesar | Pádraigin | Athy College | Athy |
Intense Compositional & storyboard w/shops in collaboration with Peter Baxter Createschool |
€2,500 |
Keating | Mary | St Patricks Primary School | Leixlip / Celbridge |
6th class residency: Series of self - portraits as they move from primary to secondary school. Artist: Brian Cregan |
€2,500 |
Fenlon | Jacqueline | St Conleth's Infant Sch | Kildare / Newbridge |
Mosaic Artwork to celebrate schs 65th anniversary. Artist: Katy Palmieri - Seddiq |
€2,500 |
Behan | Jennifer | Scoil Bhride | Athy |
Theatre as an artform, discussing / aspects of theatre making process, with a focus on devising and improvisation. Artist: Alex Rosiak |
€2,500 |
Shanley | Deirdre | Scoil Chóca Naofa | Maynooth |
Residency will offer an inquiry based, self directed way of experiencing art to scaffold their creative curiosity. Artist: Marta Golubowska |
€2,500 |
ARTISTIC ENTREPRENEUR BURSARY AWARD | |||||
Ralli | Matthew | In The Round (Executive Coaching for Creative Professionals) | Naas | To develop a panel of coaches to support artists country wide | €1,500 |
DENIS O'DRISCOLL LITERARY BURSARY AWARD | |||||
Doyle | Elizabeth | Emerging | Naas |
Emerging Category: Editing & Mentoring of her novel 'Mirror Language' |
€1,500 |
O'Donoghue | Brendan | Professional | Leixlip / Celbridge |
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY: ''Thinking Adventurously'' to introduce philosophy & critical thinking to 10 - 14 yr olds |
€2,000 |
LOCAL PUBLISHING AWARD | |||||
Serjeantson | Deirdre | and Geraldine Parsons | Kildare / Newbridge |
Book to accompany TY module which studies the site & its effect on literary & cultural imagination |
€650 |
Broughal | Celine | Wordsmiths Writers Group | Kildare / Newbridge |
To produce visually impressive book containing poetry & prose from 13 members of the group |
€650 |
TYRONE GUTHRIE CENTRE RESIDENCY BURSARY | |||||
Clooney | Pauline | Kildare / Newbridge |
To complete her 'abstract' in relation to application Ph.D in Creative Writing MU |
€350 | |
Ní Chatháin | Eithne | Inni -K | Maynooth |
To develop a new electronic component to her musical performance |
€700 |
Shine | Sara | Kildare / Newbridge |
Allow her time to finish two novels & two collections - one of poetry & one of short stories |
€350 | |
DRAMA LEAGUE OF IRELAND SUMMER SCHOOL BURSARY AWARD | |||||
Reade | Michelle | Volunteer in Youth / community groups | Clane | Course E: Pysical Theatre | €450 |
Kenny | Gerard | Riff Raff Drama Group | Newbridge | Course A: Do Ri Mi Chrissie Poulter | €450 |
McMahon | Maryclare | National Learning Network | Narraghamore | Course A: Do Ri Mi Chrissie Poulter | €450 |
EMERGING VISUAL ARTIST SOLO EXHIBITION BURSARY AWARD | |||||
McBride | Michelle | Newbridge |
Mixed media approach paint/video/audio to obtain an insight into what has shaped modern Middle Eastern cultures & nations |
€2,500 | |
SHORT GRASS SHORTS FILM BURSARY AWARD | |||||
Nevin | Matthew | Naas |
Documentary:A reach into the minds of 1 person from every country on Earth revealing their views hopes & fears for the future |
€1,500 | |
O'Regan | Maebh | Celbridge |
Doc: Forging an Irish Art Identity: Featuring Visual Artist Martin Gale |
€1,500 | |
Lane | Peter | Newbridge | Riverbank Sessions Revisited | €1,500 | |
YOUTH ARTS RESIDENCY BURSARY AWARD | |||||
O'Brien | Geraldine | PlayActing Youth Theatre | Celbridge |
Training in stage combat skills& showcase them in hour long version of Macbeth using Shakespeares language. Artist: Colin Malone |
€2,500 |