Arts and Disability Connect includes Mentoring, Training, New Work, and Research and Reflection awards for individual artists with disabilities.
Arts and Disability Connect Round One 2025
Opens: Monday 24 March
Deadline: Wednesday 7 May at 4pm
Come and Ask Questions session via Zoom: Wednesday 9 April at 12 noon
Arts and Disability Connect Round Two 2025
Opens: Monday 18 August
Deadline: Tuesday 7 October at 4pm
Come and Ask Questions session via Zoom: Wednesday 3 September at 12 noon
The Arts and Disability Connect scheme is designed to support artists with disabilities to be ambitious, to develop their practice and to connect with arts organisations and arts professionals in the Republic of Ireland.
Application forms, guidelines and other resources can be found here from 24 March. If you have questions about the scheme, please email connect@adiarts.ie.
The Arts and Disability Connect scheme is funded by the Arts Council and managed by Arts & Disability Ireland.
Information sessions
Click here to listen to previous information sessions on SoundCloud, including interviews with previous awarded artists for Training, Mentoring, Research and Reflection and New Work awards. Click here to watch previous information sessions on YouTube.
One-on-one Applicant Support
Artists and people supporting them to apply for Arts and Disability Connect funding can book in applicant support.
We recommend that you read the guidelines of the award you are applying for before attending the meeting.
You can have up to 1 hour of support either on the phone, Zoom or by email.
During this time, we can review a draft application, answer any queries, and give feedback.
‘Come Ask Questions’ Live Q&A on Zoom
Join the ADI team online on Zoom and ask any questions you have about making an application to the Arts and Disability Connect scheme.
For one hour we’ll chat to you about your application ideas and answer questions you have about the New Work award, the Research and Reflection award, the Mentoring award and the Training award.
The Arts and Disability Connect information sessions are for individual artists with disabilities who are applying for funding and for people who are supporting them to apply.
Speech to text will be provided by MyClearText.
ISL will be provided by Bridge Interpreting
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