Cork County Council’s Arts Grants Scheme and Municipal Districts Arts Development Fund will provide financial assistance for 167 artists and arts organisations this year.
A total of 35 Arts Festivals across the county, including Skibbereen, Kanturk, Midleton, Mallow and Clonakilty submitted successful proposals for expanding their activities and developing innovative new programmes.
With a budget of €162,000, the Arts Grants Scheme is the Council’s main scheme for funding arts events and activities while the Municipal District Arts Development Fund, totalling €150,000, supports new initiatives that enhance public access to the arts and support cultural development in each of the 8 Municipal Districts.
Cork County Council is one of the few local authorities in the country that has a specific scheme supporting Irish Language Arts.
Supporting Irish Language Arts
The purpose of this scheme is to encourage artists to develop projects using the Irish Language and to encourage organisations to programme Irish Language events and activities.
Welcoming the Council’s funding decision, Mayor of the County of Cork Cllr Ian Doyle said: “This year we have seen a record number of applications for funding which points to a vibrant arts and culture sector across Cork County. The funding we are able to allocate this year will be put to great use enabling festivals, artists and voluntary arts organisations deliver projects which will have real impact in local communities.
“As a Gaeltacht county, we have an important role in promoting Irish language use and supporting gaelgóirí artists. We are very proud to have a scheme in place to accomplish this.”
Chief Executive of Cork County Council Tim Lucey highlighted the role of the Council in making Arts accessible throughout the county: “Last year Cork County Council’s support of the Arts enabled over 23,000 people county-wide to actively participate in the creative arts, including the elderly, young people and those with special needs.
“Arts funding has helped organisations and artists to reach an audience of at least 250,000 both locally and visitors. While the economic benefit of Arts Festivals funded by the Council is estimated to be in excess of €4.3million the social, cultural and community impact is invaluable.”
Cork County Council
Arts Funding approved by Council for 2010
| Arts Centres | Sirius Arts Centre Cobh | 800 |
| Arts Centres | Yew Wood Venues | 2500 |
| Arts Centres | Village Arts Centre Kilworth | 6500 |
| Arts Centres | Clonakilty Community Arts Centre | 1200 |
| Arts Centres | Sarah Walker Gallery Castletownbere | 1200 |
| Arts Centres | Working Artist Studios Ballydehob | 1200 |
| Arts Centres | Greywood Arts CLG, Killeagh | 2500 |
| Arts Centres | Youghal Business Alliance | 1500 |
| Arts Centres | West End Art Studios | 3000 |
| Arts for Older People | Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Freemount | 800 |
| Arts for Older People | Newmarket Thursday club | 400 |
| Arts for Older People | Tír na nÓg Active Retirement Kilbrin | 400 |
| Arts for Older People | Creative Gems Art Studio Macroom | 400 |
| Arts for Older People | Deerpark House Nursing Home (Bantry) | 600 |
| Arts for Older People | Friends of Skibbereen Day Care Centre | 750 |
| Arts for Older People | Schull Community Care | 400 |
| Arts for Older People | Skibbereen Luncheon Club, Skibbereen Geriatric Society | 200 |
| Arts for Older People | West Cork Arts Centre | 4000 |
| Arts for Older People | Cumann na Daoine [Social Care Project for Older People] | 2000 |
| Community Arts | Bandon Art Group | 400 |
| Community Arts | Capel Painters, Knockadoon | 350 |
| Community Arts | Firmount Art Group | 250 |
| Community Arts | Clonakilty Community Arts Centre CLG | 1100 |
| Community Arts | Cork Mental Health Foundation Trading as Clonakilty Community Resource Centre | 800 |
| Community Arts | Dunmanway Family Resource Centre | 2000 |
| Community Arts | Pobal Hub Schull | 1000 |
| Community Arts | Sherkin Island Development Society | 600 |
| Community Arts | Skibbereen FeelGood Festival | 2000 |
| Community Arts | Carrigaline Musical Society | 1000 |
| Community Arts | Castletownroche Community Council | 2000 |
| Community Arts | Fermoy Community Resource Centre | 1300 |
| Community Arts | Newmarket Community Development Association | 1000 |
| Community Arts | Bantry Creates | 2650 |
| Craft | Cork Craft and Design | 4500 |
| Craft | Ellen Hutchins Festival | 500 |
| Craft | Society of Cork Potters | 2000 |
| Craft | West Cork Craft and Design Guild | 1500 |
| Dance | Croi Glan | 3000 |
| Disability Arts | Irish Wheelchair Association Mallow | 700 |
| Disability Arts | Irish Wheelchair Association Clonakilty | 600 |
| Disability Arts | Rehabcare (Bantry) | 800 |
| Disability Arts | Rehabcare Resource Centre (Bantry) | 800 |
| Disability Arts | The frienDS Club | 2000 |
| Ethnic Arts | Clonakilty Friends of Asylum Seekers | 1200 |
| Festival | Timoleague Harvest Festival c/o Timoleague Community Association | 1200 |
| Festival | First Cut Youth Film Festival 2020 | 7000 |
| Festival | North Cork Classical Music | 2100 |
| Festival | Maurice O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival, Kiskeam | 1000 |
| Festival | Ballydehob Jazz Festival | 2000 |
| Festival | Bantry Tourism and Development Association | 2200 |
| Festival | Drimoleague Singing Festival | 2000 |
| Festival | Feile Atha Da Chab | 1800 |
| Festival | GEATA ARTS | 8000 |
| Festival | Jim Dowling Uileann Pipe & Trad festival | 1000 |
| Festival | Secret Song Festival Ballydehob | 1200 |
| Festival | Skibbereen Arts Festival | 6800 |
| Festival | St. Barrahane’s Church Festival of Music and the Barrahane Music Series | 1800 |
| Festival | Ortus Chamber Music Festival | 2000 |
| Festival | Midleton Arts Festival | 5500 |
| Festival | Doneraile Arts FesT | 2000 |
| Festival | Kanturk Arts Festival | 3200 |
| Festival | Scullys Fest Newmarket | 2275 |
| Festival | Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann – Millstreet Branch | 1500 |
| Festivals | Courtmacsherry Songs and Stories by the Sea | 600 |
| Festivals | East Cork Early Music Festival | 800 |
| Festivals | Cork Film Festival | 1000 |
| Festivals | Baltimore Fiddle Fair | 3500 |
| Festivals | Clonakilty International Guitar Festival | 4000 |
| Festivals | Fastnet Film Festival | 5300 |
| Festivals | Fastnet Maritime and Folk Festival | 500 |
| Festivals | IndieCork Film Festival | 2800 |
| Festivals | South of Ireland Band Championships | 1000 |
| Festivals | Kinsale Arts Weekend | 1200 |
| Festivals | Tracton Arts Committee | 3000 |
| Festivals | Mallow Arts Collective | 3500 |
| Festival | Beara Film Fest | 1000 |
| Literature | Midleton Writers Group | 500 |
| Literature | Working Artist Studios Ballydehob | 500 |
| Literature | Creative Bandon | 1600 |
| Literature | Words by Water Literary Festival | 2500 |
| Music | Summer Songbook Courtmacsherry | 400 |
| Music | Ruti Lachs Pop-Up Klezmer | 400 |
| Music | Cobh Carilllon Committee | 900 |
| Music | Barony Choir, Midleton | 200 |
| Music | The Voices (Killeagh) | 500 |
| Music | West Cork Living Room Concerts | 3000 |
| Music | East Cork Early Music Festival 2020 (Kinsale Concert Programme) | 2500 |
| Music | Kinsale Amateur Orchestral Society | 1450 |
| Music | Fermoy Musical Society (FMS) | 1000 |
| Music | Feile an tSamhraidh | 250 |
| Pipe and Brass Bands | Cobh Confraternity Brass and Reed Band | 1000 |
| Pipe and Brass Bands | Youghal Pipe Band | 800 |
| Pipe and Brass bands | Fermoy Concert Band | 800 |
| Pipe and Brass Bands | Thomas Kent Pipe Band | 800 |
| Pipe and Brass bands | Kiskeam Brass Band | 800 |
| Pipe and Brass bands | Buion Phiobairi Beal Atha’n Ghaorthaidh | 800 |
| Theatre | Barryroe NS | 300 |
| Theatre | Words By Water Literary Festival | 1500 |
| Theatre | Lantern Productions | 1000 |
| Theatre | Minnow Productions (cloyne) | 2000 |
| Theatre | Youghal Little Theatre | 300 |
| Theatre | Castlemagner Sinsir Club | 300 |
| Theatre | North Cork Drama Festival | 800 |
| Theatre | BrokenCrow Theatre Company | 2000 |
| Theatre | Mitchelstown Musical Society | 1000 |
| Traditional Arts | Palace Players | 400 |
| Traditional Arts | Cullen Pipe Band | 800 |
| Traditional Arts | Irish Piobaireachd Society | 400 |
| Traditional Arts | Mallow Art Club | 400 |
| Traditional Arts | Captain Francis O’Neill Memorial Ltd, Tralibane | 600 |
| Traditional Arts | Comhaltas Craobh Dunmaonmhui | 1000 |
| Traditional Arts | Rockchapel Comhaltas | 2000 |
| Traditional Arts | Aisling Gheal | 2000 |
| Traditional Arts | Ionad Culturtha, Baile Mhuirne | 3500 |
| Verbal Arts | De Barra’s Spoken Word | 600 |
| Visual Arts | Mallow Camera Club | 900 |
| Visual Arts | Some of the Parts | 300 |
| Visual Arts | Aoife Claffey | 300 |
| Youth Arts | First Cut Youth Film Animation workshops (Youghal) | 3000 |
| Youth Arts | Midleton-Cobh School Completion Programme | 700 |
| Youth Arts | Conna Community Council | 300 |
| Youth Arts | Lightbulb Youth Theatre | 1100 |
| Youth Arts | Ard Rath Drama Group | 350 |
| Youth Arts | Beara Youth Development Project – Foroige | 800 |
| Youth Arts | Foroige Garnish Youth Club Glengarriff | 400 |
| IRISH LANGUAGE ARTS | ||
| Traditional Arts | Caomhnoiri Amhrain Traidisiunta Oirthir Chorcai | 500 |
| Music | Claisceadal na gCarad,Fearmai – Flan Groarke | 200 |
| Traditional Arts | CCE Craobh Lachtain Naofa, Cill na Martra – Pet Ui Chonaill | 400 |
| Traditional Arts | Eigse Dhiarmuid Ui Shuilleabhain. | 900 |
| Festival | Fastnet Film Festival – Fastnet Film Festival | 500 |
| INTERNATIONAL TOURING AND EXHIBITION | ||
| Visual Arts | Don Cronin | 1500 |
| Visual Arts | Tomasz Madajczak and Mairead Vaughan | 500 |
| ARTIST BURSARIES | ||
| Literature | Arnold Thomas Fanning | 3950 |
| Theatre | Fiona McGeown | 3500 |
| Music | Ilse de Ziah | 1500 |
| Film and Video | Michael Twomey | 4050 |
| Dance | Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin | 2000 |
| TYRONE GUTHRIE BURSARY | ||
| Visual Arts | James L Hayes | BURSARY |
| Writer | Laura McKenna | BURSARY |
| BALLINGLEN FOUNDATION BURSARY | ||
| Visual Arts | Roisin O’Sullivan | BURSARY |
| Visual Arts | Julia Pallone | BURSARY |
| ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS | ||
| Visual Arts | Little Island NS | 1950 |
| Theatre | Charleville CBS Donna O’Keeney | 800 |
| Visual Arts | Davis College Mallow | 1000 |
| Music | Cloughduv NS Crookstown | 1500 |
| Visual Arts | Timoleague National School | 1500 |
| MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS ARTS DEVELOPMENT FUND | ||
| Community Arts | East Cork Music Project The Paris Project Part 1. | 3000 |
| Craft | Blackwater Valley Arts Centre Fermoy | 8000 |
| Dance | Comharchumann Chleire Teoranta Oilean AiR | 8000 |
| Festival | Ballydehob Jazz Festival | 1650 |
| Festival | Ballymoney Theatre Fest, Enniskeane | 1500 |
| Film and Video | Cork Young Filmmakers Kinsale Harbour of History – A Documentary Film Project for Young People | 4850 |
| Film and Video | Cork Young Filmmakers Capturing Crosshaven – a documentary by Crosshaven Young Filmmakers | 4850 |
| Music | East Cork Early Music Festival 2020 (Kinsale Concert Programme) – Caitriona O’Mahony | 2500 |
| Music | East Cork Early Music Festival 2020 – Education & Outreach Programme – Caitriona O’Mahony | 1000 |
| Pipe and Brass Bands | Thomas Davis Pipeband, Mallow – Theresa Hartnett | 800 |
| Theatre | Blackwater Valley Fit-up Theatre Festival. – Geoff Gould | 2450 |
| Visual Arts | Cobh Tidy Towns Carrigaloe Mural Project | 5000 |
| Visual Arts | Youghal Community Health Project | 1250 |
| Visual Arts | Mitchelstown Community Council | 1000 |
| Visual Arts | West End Art Studios – West End Art Studios c/o Sarah Buckley | 975 |
| Visual Arts | Chapel Hill School of Art Macroom | 5000 |
| Visual Arts | Dunmanway Family Resource Centre | 1750 |
| Youth Arts | Cork Young Filmmakers Bandon Summer Film Week 2020 | 4650 |
| Youth Arts | Allihies Inspires Emerging Talent | 400 |
| Youth Arts | Skibbereen Arts Festival Artist in Schools – Roisin Foley | 2800 |
