Opportunity: Arts + Health Bursaries 2024

The national arts and health website is offering two bursaries in 2024, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE.

The Documentation Bursary will support the production of a short film, audio documentary or publication about an arts and health project. The Emerging Artist Bursary is available for an early-career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice. Applications are now open for both bursaries with a closing date of Wednesday 12 June 2024.

Documentation Bursary 

Are you involved in an arts and health project? Would you like to showcase your work to a larger audience?

The national arts and health website invites applications for a €4000 bursary to produce a short film, audio documentary or publication about an arts and health project.

Applications are invited from artists working in healthcare settings, healthcare professionals, arts and health organisations/partnerships and others working in the field of arts and health.

The documentation bursary aims to:

• Showcase arts and health practice to national audiences
• Raise awareness around the impact of arts and health practice
• Inspire artists, healthcare staff and health service users involved in arts and health projects.

This bursary is applicable to the documentation of arts and health projects across all artforms and arts practice areas (participatory arts, performance arts, environmental enhancement initiatives) in the Republic of Ireland.

To download the application form, eligibility criteria and FAQs, visit artsandhealth.ie.

Emerging Artist Bursary 

Professional artists with an emerging arts and health practice are invited to apply for the artsandhealth.ie artist bursary 2024 to reflect on their practice.

Early-career artists working in healthcare contexts are not always afforded the same opportunities to reflect on and interrogate their practice as their more experienced peers. This bursary is purposely designed to provide early-career artists with the headspace for reflective enquiry as they develop and shape their arts and health practice.

The bursary is open to individual early-career artists working in any artform within the field of arts and health practice in the Republic of Ireland. The bursary awardee will share learning arising from the bursary with the wider arts and health community via artsandhealth.ie. How this learning is presented is at the discretion of the selected artist. One bursary award of €2000 will be offered to the successful applicant.

To download the application form, eligibility criteria and FAQs, visit artsandhealth.ie

The closing date for both bursary awards is Wednesday, 12 June 2024 at 12pm.

artsandhealth.ie is the national website for arts and health in Ireland, managed by Réalta, the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts and health in Ireland. The artsandhealth.ie bursaries 2024 are funded by the HSE and the Arts Council.

Image: Helga Deasy and participants of the Fuse Arts & Health Programme led by MusicAlive. Photo credit: Clare Keogh.