The Incu \ space award is aimed at Sligo-based professional artist/collectives from the performing arts sector who already have a project/new work in development and would now benefit from time, space and resources to progress the project further.
Incu \ space seeks to support independent professional artists living in Sligo or who can demonstrate that their practice is primarily based here.
What the Award Includes:
- An award of €4,000 to support time, resources and artist/creative fees
- Access to a 5 day incubation space at The Factory Performance Space
- One-to-one session at a later date with an Arts Consultant on Writing Successful Funding Applications / Developing Funding Streams for your Artistic Project.
Sligo Arts Service abides by The Arts Council’s ‘Pay the Artist Policy’, Link here: https://shorturl.at/oMR1z and subscribes to the Arts Council’s vision for an Ireland where artists and practitioners can have productive and rewarding careers. We are committed to ensuring that all professional artists and arts workers who receive our support are appropriately contracted and remunerated and that we provide an environment in which artists can make work of ambition and quality.
Your attention is also drawn to Safe to Create where you will find more information about the Safe to Create Dignity at Work programme which aims to impact change on the culture and practices of the arts sector in Ireland to provide safer working conditions for artists and arts workers. Link here: https://www.safetocreate.ie/
Applications will be independently assessed and scored under the following criteria:
- Artistic Quality of the Proposal (50)
- Benefit to Project (20)
- Future Plans: are there plans in place and are these ambitious in nature (20)
- Budget: does this represent value for money & pay artists fairly (10)
Applications will only be accepted online via Sligo County Council’s Grants Portal