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The Connect mentoring programme, a partnership from Create and Common Ground, is an Arts Council funded initiative that responds to the needs of the collaborative arts sector, in specifically addressing the community as an active partner and co-author of collaborative arts.
The aim of the Connect Mentoring programme - and the learning resource tool that has been developed from it - is to enable and build capacity within the collaborative arts sector to undertake mentoring.
Read more on the Connect Mentoring Programme blog. This blog is intended as a platform through which the learnings of the Connect programme, the DVD and accompanying Booklet, can be further debated, explored and tested by mentors and mentees.
Connect Mentoring Award:
Arts and Health and Cultural Diversity
Over an eighteen month period Create and Common Ground undertook an action research project – Connect Mentoring Programme – to examine mentoring for collaborative and participative arts.
As a result of the research findings Create and Common Ground are administering two mentoring awards available to artists working in collaborative/participative arts in the specific context areas: Arts and Health and Cultural Diversity.
The Connect Mentoring Programme learning resource – DVD, Booklet and blog – will be formally launched at IMMA on Wed July 21, 2-4pm.
The launch will provide an opportunity for interested applicants to the Arts and Health and Cultural Diversity Mentoring Awards to understand more about the Connect programme and the eligibility criteria for the Create/Common Ground Mentoring Awards.
The Connect Mentoring Programme is an Arts Council funded initiative.
Arts and Health Mentoring Award - €1,000
The mentoring award is open to artists, across all art forms, working collaboratively in health care contexts. The award is intended to support the establishment and development of mentoring support with a named mentor.
Eligible applicants will need to describe arts and health practice which is of a collaborative nature – i.e. work produced with staff, service users and/or families in a health care setting. This seed funding will not be available to support mentoring in arts and health where the practice prioritises therapeutic outcomes.
For full details on application process and criteria please visit: www.create-ireland.ie or www.commonground.ie
Deadlines for applications Wednesday August 4, at 5pm. Applications to be received by post to Create, Mentoring Award, 10/11 Earl Street South, Dublin 8
Cultural Diversity Mentoring Award - €1,000
The mentoring award is open to artists, across all art forms, working collaboratively in culturally diverse contexts. The award is intended to support the establishment and development of mentoring support with a named mentor.
Eligible applicants will need to describe collaborative/participative arts practice produced with communities of place and/or interest where the focus of interest is cultural diversity. This seed funding is not to support the facilitation of international exchange, where either the mentor or mentee is not formally resident in Ireland.
For full details on application process and criteria please visit: www.create-ireland.ie or www.commonground.ie
Deadlines for applications Wednesday August 4, at 5pm. Applications to be received by post to Create, Mentoring Award, 10/11 Earl Street South, Dublin 8
Additional Details for applicants:
Arts and Health Mentoring Award – €1,000
Interested applicants need to provide the following to be considered eligible for the award:
- Project Description – 500 word description of current arts project detailing artistic aims and objectives and collaboration with healthcare staff, service users and/or families.
- Mentoring Needs – 300 word description of identified mentoring needs indicating how mentoring support would assist skills and practice development
- CV of mentee, and examples of art work(s)
- CV of mentor
- Letter of agreement from mentor
- Budget
- Schedule and framework of the proposed mentoring relationship over a minimum 6 month period.
Please note the successful applicant will be asked to use the Connect Mentoring Programme learning resource and actively contribute to the Connect Mentoring Programme blog, provide a short interim progress report and a final report.
Please note if you are in receipt of the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme, Research and Development and/or Project Realisation award you are ineligible to apply.
Cultural Diversity Mentoring Award – €1,000
Interested applicants need to provide the following to be considered eligible for the award:
- Project Description – 500 word description of current arts project detailing artistic aims and objectives and collaboration with participants. Please note the project description needs to evidence the culturally diverse/intercultural nature of the art project
- Mentoring Needs – 300 word description of identified mentoring needs indicating how mentoring support would assist skills and practice development
- CV of mentee, and examples of art work(s)
- CV of mentor
- Letter of agreement from mentor
- Budget
- Schedule and framework of the proposed mentoring relationship over a minimum 6 month period.
Please note the successful applicant will be asked to use the Connect Mentoring Programme learning resource and actively contribute to the Connect Mentoring Programme blog, provide a short interim progress report and a final report.
Please note if you are in receipt of the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme, Research and Development and/or Project Realisation award you are ineligible to apply.
Artist in the Community Scheme (AIC)
There is a new Research & Development/Mentoring award in the 2010 AIC scheme. It is open to artists who wish to develop a community based project and who have identified an artist mentor they want to work with a during the research and development phase. The maximum award is €1500, which includes €500 fee payable to the mentor. The next deadline is Friday 25 June 5pm.
Recipients of the 2010 AIC Research and Development/Mentoring Award:
- Martina Cleary
- Tadgh McGrath
- Fiona Hallinan
All information posted on the blog will be collated for cumulative learning and research.
Connect Mentoring programme participants
Mentors and mentees taking part in the year long programme are: Paul Roe, Pia Dunne, Elaine Agnew, Nick Roth, Fiona Whelan, Anne Maree Barry, Jay Koh, Mark Ellison.
List of Partners:
- Roscommon County Council Arts Office
- Fishamble: The New Play Company
- Civic Theatre Tallaght & Tenderfoot
- Artlink, Donegal
- Daghdha Mentoring Programme, Limerick
- Limerick School of Art and Design
- Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)
- Northside Learning Hub, Limerick
- Irish Chamber Orchestra
- Arts Council’s Artist in Community Scheme
- Ealaín na Gaeltachta
- Firestation Artists Studios
- Artlinks, South East
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