Upstart Awards 2025

About

The Mayo County Council Arts Service is seeking nominations for the Upstart Awards 2025, offering funding for projects that focus on creative work by people with disabilities and aim to incentivize quality artistic collaborations within County Mayo.

Benefits

• Awards ranging from €500 to €2000
• Incentivizing quality artistic collaborations
• Opportunity to develop arts projects in celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Eligibility Criteria

• Projects focusing on creative work by people with disabilities
• Additional projects to regular programs
• Development of new work in a new art form
• Engagement of people with disabilities as artists, participants, or audience members
• Events celebrating arts and disability
• Workshops with people with disabilities facilitated by professional artists
• Performances by groups of people with disabilities in collaboration with professional artists
• Mainstream performances made accessible for people with disabilities
• Projects/exhibitions by emerging artists with disabilities or groups of people with disabilities
• Closed events for specific groups of people with disabilities