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Are you a professional artist aged 50+? Age & Opportunity’s Arts programme invites applications for three awards intended to support the development of older artists in Ireland and to increase the knowledge around the arts and ageing in general: the Creative Ageing Writing Bursary, Professional Development Artist Award and Emerging...

Bealtaine Festival , Ireland’s National celebration of arts and creativity as we age, announces its highly anticipated return for 2024. The festival invites arts organisations of all kinds to register their events and join the vibrant festivities set to unfold across Ireland throughout the month of May. The Bealtaine Festival...

Calling all writers! Apply to the IWC National Mentoring Programme 2024 Each year, the Irish Writers Centre sets up over 30 mentorships across the island of Ireland. Writers receive sustained creative and professional mentoring from an acclaimed Irish writer of their choosing. Writers living in all thirty-two counties can apply...

Welcome to the Winter 2023 edition of Meath County Council Arts Office Newsletter.

Meath County Council Arts Office, in partnership with the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, is pleased to announce the 2024 artist’s residency bursary.

This exhibition is one of a series of exhibitions by Meath Arts Group on the theme of Nature's Way. The artwork in this exhibition is created from the artist experiences of how being in and observing nature can be represented in so many different disciplines, media and styles. The exhibition...

Meath Arts Office and the Toradh Gallery are delighted to present The Ashbourne Story in partnership with the Ashbourne Historical Society (AHS). The AHS have put a considerable amount of work into compiling this exhibition which was due to be presented as part of the Ashbourne 2020 celebrations. Ashbourne 2020...

Welcome to the Autumn 2023 edition of Meath County Council Arts Office Newsletter.

Hinterland Festival & Meath County Council Arts Office are delighted to launch Kieran Slynes exhibition ‘Angles’ . Kieran Slyne is an award winning documentary cameraman and photographer who now lives in Kells. He has been fortunate to travel the high roads and by roads of this country, as well as...

Welcome to the Summer 2023 edition of the Meath Arts Office Newsletter.

Celebrating Bealtine 2023, Meath Arts Office are delighted to announce The Age and Opportunity Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award in partnership with Louth County Council Arts Office. Two artists (one based in Meath, and one based in Louth) will receive a funded week-long residency in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre including...

Meath Arts Office are pleased to announce the launch of the CULTURE NIGHT 2023 EVENT GRANT SCHEME. Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts, taking place on September 22nd 2023. This award supports artists, venues and local arts/cultural organisations who wish to...