Open Call
The Acorns Programme
Following on from the success of our Little Acorns Project in 2021, An Grianán Theatre is proud and excited to announce The Acorns Programme, an artist-led development initiative which aims to support six artists of all disciplines and career levels to buy time, space and creative brain power.
Applicants can apply to take part in one of two strands of The Acorns Programme.
With Strand One, four successful applicants will be awarded a bursary of €1000 to use for an activity or purpose with which they’ve applied.
For Strand Two, two successful applicants will be awarded a bursary of €2000 to use for the activity or purpose with which they’ve applied.
All successful applicants will also be awarded free tickets throughout selected shows as a part of our professional theatre programme and can avail of four creative conversations or development support sessions with our Artist in Residence and Leadership team. They will also be enabled to avail of rehearsal, development, writing or thinking space, when available, within An Grianán Theatre.
Who, What & Why:
We don’t want to prescribe what we’re looking for here.
What we want to do is allow artists to come to us and say:
€1000 right now would help me begin seed development on a new script, or it would allow me to pay for three conversations between myself and a costume designer I’ve been dying to work with. Or it’d allow me to invest time in developing a new composition, or write a few songs for a musical I’ve been dreaming up. Or allow me to work on a design installation.
€2000 right now would let me pay a few actors to come into a room and read my new script or allow me to produce that audio drama I’ve been dying to do. Or host a day long symposium on developing a creative practice or run a paid Stanislavsky workshop or help get this show off the ground which I’ve been dying to do.
We want you to tell us Who you are, What you’d like to do and Why.
We don’t want an arduous application process, we understand the bursary awards are seed funding and so we do not expect an A4 page application or a week’s worth of work to apply. A few lines or a paragraph will do.
We encourage applications from artists based in or with a connection to the North-West of Ireland. However, all applications from theatre artists working on the island of Ireland today will be considered.
We also welcome and encourage applications from artists of all gender identities, nationalities, races, cultural backgrounds, ages, religions, languages, different abilities and sexual orientations.
Applicants must be 18 years of age or over and cannot be currently in full time education.
Please email your application with a copy of your CV or short theatre biography alongside your application.
If you have any questions about the programme, or would like to run any thoughts by us, you can contact our Artist in Residence Ultan by email.
Closing Date for applications is the 20th February 2025.
Successful applicants will be chosen by a panel comprising members of the An Grianán Theatre team and successful applicants will be announced by the 7th March 2025.
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