Week 12
For budget for Fuinseoga, I would apply for the Traditional Arts Project Award from the Irish Arts Council. I would ask for a grant of €17,500 to make £15,000 (The grant goes to €20,000). This grant is for works that ‘are performance oriented and focus on repertoire new to audiences across all traditional-arts genres (music, song, dance and/or the oral arts, such as storytelling and agallamh beirte), and/or offer experiences unique in the context for which they are intended’. (https://artscouncil.ie/funding-opportunities/project-award/traditional-arts-project-award/)
I would divide the £15,000 as follows:
Artist Fees: £10,000.
- £9,293.04 for 24 days of work, presuming he would take one day off a week (four weeks)
- £256 for collection/drying/transport of Ash trees from Axe Forestry, based in Athlone
- £200 for transport
- £2200 for finishing materials and additional tools needed
Graphic Design: £1,750
- Harry Mayston, Graduate artist
- Booklets at exhibition and Posters
- Five days work @ £350/day (https://craftagency.co.uk/jobs/uncat/685268/?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic)
Gallery Technician: £500
- Install and deinstall rate £250/day
- https://members.bectu.org.uk/advice-resources/library/3170
Sign Language Interpreter:
- x3 days work, 2.5 hours/day
- For purpose of workshops
Seanachoiche residency: Free
- Seanchoíche hire the venue and make money from ticket sales.
Gallery Hire: £1281
- Luan Gallery has no prices listed. However, if I compare it to the prices of Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh which is a rental exhibition space in New Town which charges £1,500 per week during September (https://www.dundas-street-gallery.co.uk/cost/), Luan Gallery would probably charge less. This is due to its smaller scale, location in the countryside, as well as its municipal function.
- This would include invigilators and other gallery staff.
Website/Youtube: £192
- I would pay for one year of Wix Core package. This would allow me to place up to 50GB of recordings on the site.
- After the year is up I would enquire if the OPW (Culture and Heritage sector in Ireland) would be interested in paying for the website upkeep. If not, I would move the recordings to YouTube.
- https://www.wix.com/plans
Publication: £175.50
- www.Edinburghcopyshop.co.uk
- 250 A4 8 Panel Leaflets
- 100 A4 Posters for locality
Advertising: Free
- Visual Arts Ireland – free service (https://visualartists.ie/adverts/)
- Instagram – free service
- Arts Council – free service (https://artscouncil.ie/find-arts-near-you/)
Equipment: Free, ECA Book-it
- Microphones x2
- Cables for mics
- Recording equipment
Wine and soft drinks for workshops: £150
£541 remain
