Creative Ireland: Cruinniú na nÓg 2023

Enabling the Creative Potential of Children and Young People

Open Call Roscommon

Roscommon County Council in association with Creative Ireland and Galway Roscommon Local Creative Youth Partnership (LCYP), wishes to create a programme of events to celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg on Saturday June 10th, 2023. Cruinniú na nÓg is a national day of creativity for children and young people (0-18) which celebrates and encourages participation in culture and creativity with free, local, activity-based events. It’s a day for ‘doing’, ‘making’ and ‘creating’! Further details about the Programme can be found at https://www.creativeireland.gov.ie/

Invitation to Submit your Proposal

Roscommon County Council invites applications from youth organisations together with creative practitioners who have the capacity to devise and deliver creative content and activities for children and young people (age 0-18). We are looking for submissions for events, programmes or projects in any medium or artform (examples include theatre, music, dance, film, circus, performance, fashion, photography, visual arts, digital arts, literature, storytelling, street art, architecture, coding, architecture, biodiversity, folklife, heritage, archaeology, landscape).

Child and Young Person Focused

Events should be focused on children and young people with children and young people themselves consulted and included in creating the event. We particularly welcome applications that give access to groups of children who haven’t had such opportunities before.

We are interested in receiving applications for innovative activities that foster creativity and engage a diverse participation from visual and performing arts to workshops and adventures in heritage, culture, science, technology or climate action.

Selection Criteria

1. a) The extent to which the proposed project maximises children, youth and community engagement and participation in creativity.
2. b) The extent to which the proposed project demonstrates the voice of the child/young person in its planning.
3. c) The extent to which the proposed activity-based event fits into the overall County Roscommon Programme of Events. The programme needs to reflect a diverse range of creative activities and reflect the interests of young people county-wide.
4. d) The potential scope of the event and anticipated target audience, including culturally diverse participants and audiences.
5. e) Your experience in delivering creative programmes with young people and for young audiences.

Conditions

• Any proposed suite of events and initiatives can be programmed to take place both in advance (where young people can try out different activities or get a taster of a new craft or creative practice) and on the day itself. Please note there must be activities, initiatives or showcase events available on Saturday 10th June.
• Grants are available up to a maximum of €1000. Grants will typically be in the region of €500 to €1000. While there is no fixed number of awards, there will generally be a larger number of lesser value awards and a small number of higher value ones.
• Only proposals with completed applications will be considered. 
• It may not be possible to approve all proposals in which case funding will be allocated to those events which best meet the objectives of Cruinniú na nÓg and our selection criteria above. The aim is to provide variety in terms of cultural and creative experience for a wide audience (youth and family), county-wide.
• All applicants must be compliant with relevant legislation including Children First and any project involving young people must have the appropriate Child Protection Policies in place.
• Applicants may submit a maximum of 3 images, recordings, video or relevant work in other media that you have produced. Acceptable document formats are: .doc, .pdf and .jpg. For video and sound files, include links to online content only. Please remember to include passwords for password protected content.

How to Apply

The application form and all supporting material must be completed and submitted by email to creativeireland@roscommoncoco.ie

For all enquiries, please contact Roscommon Arts Office 090 663 7271  Email creativeireland@roscommoncoco.ie

or Louise Ryan, Galway Roscommon Local Creative Youth Partnership, Tel 087 3295002 Email Louise.Ryan@gretb.ie.

Closing date for receipt of completed proposals is Monday 20th March 2023

Cruinniu-na-nOg-2023-Open-Call-Application-Form.docx (size 94.3 KB)