The Arts Council has announced successful funding details for the first round of the Projects Once-off Awards 2006.
The Projects: Once-off Award is a new funding programme that seeks to provide support to individual artists and organisations to carry out stand-alone. For the first round of Projects: Once-off, the Arts Council received 140 applications. Funding totalling 2.1m has been offered to 57 applicants.
Film Funding was awarded to:
Cathal Black 70,000
Jim Cahill 26,000
Fiona Bergin 50,000
Vanessa Gildea 40,000
Wildfire Films 57,000
Visual Arts funding was awarded to:
Joyce 40,000
Human Resources 15,000
Sonia Shiel 25,000
Michael Dempsey 10,000
Sarah Farrell 8,000
Megs Morley 20,000
Niall Flaherty 15,000
Denis McNulty 24,000
Niamh Smyth 50,000
Kinsale Art Week 35,000
The deadline for the next round of Projects is 2 March 2007. www.artscouncil.ie