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Ontents Ontents Introduction 02 Contents ontents Introduction 02 Foreword by the Chairman of Council 03 Director’s Report 05 Implementing the Arts Plan 06 Artforms 08 - Architecture 08 - Dance 09 - Drama 10 - Film 11 - Literature 12 - Music 13 - Opera 14 - Visual Arts 15 - Aosdána 16 The ArtsCouncil - International Arts 18 - The Arts in Irish 19 Development 20 - Policy Development and Partnerships Annual Report1999 - Local Authorities 20 - Údarás na Gaeltachta 21 - Arts and Health 22 - Arts and Disability 22 - Arts and Science 22 - Venues Development 23 - Audience Development 23 01 - Education, Children and Young People 24 - Combined Arts - Arts Centres 25 - Festivals 25 - Community Arts 26 Public Affairs 27 Capital 28 Finance 29 Membership and Staff 33 Awards and Grants by Artform 37 Financial Statements 53 Introduction Foreword by the Chairman of Council troduction foreword by the chairman of the council The Arts Council is an autonomous body established Besides the preparation of the Arts Plan, the Council in 1951 to stimulate public interest in, and promote during 1999 was actively engaged in the process of the knowledge, appreciation and practice of the arts. appraising proposals for bursaries, project awards The Council is the Government’s principal instrument and annual revenue grants. So much detail involved for the development and funding of the arts in a steep learning curve for those members (all save Ireland, and acts as an advisory body to Government two) who had been newly appointed to the Council on arts matters, operating under the Arts Acts of in 1998. Members gave generously of their time in 1951 and 1973. committees devoted to the performing, creative and combined art forms. In the second half of the year, As an advocate for the arts, the Council commissions they also participated actively in working groups and publishes research and information, and concerned with support for the individual artist, and undertakes a range of development projects, often with various aspects of the implementation of the in partnership with other public sector or non- Plan. Having identified a more developmental role, governmental agencies. we set about realising one aspect of this - the experimental introduction of multi-annual offers of The Ar The Arts Council is a voluntary body comprising 16 funding - immediately on securing Government members and a chairman appointed by the Minister approval for our plan. ts Council for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands for a Dr Brian Farrell term of five years. The eleventh Arts Council was The Plan itself is radical. It involves not merely new appointed in 1998 under the chairmanship of Dr 1999 was a year of significant activity for the Arts ways of operating but fundamentally new ways of Annual Repor 1 Brian Farrell . It has an executive staff of 32. Council, one in which it formulated and published a conceptualising the relationship between the Council second strategic plan for the arts, 1999 - 2001. and the arts communities. Inevitably this gave rise to The Arts Council supports all aspects of the arts, in Funding in 1999 increased to £28m, and in some internal tensions and misunderstandings. These t 1999 Irish and English, including architecture, dance, announcing Government’s adoption of the plan, were part - sometimes a rather painful part - of the drama, film, literature, music and visual arts. The Minister Síle de Valera indicated that its £100m cost necessary process of change and adaptation. Like Council funds individual professional artists through would be funded in full over the three years. The many busy organisations operating in the direct awards and bursaries and through Aosdána, Arts Plan reaffirms the Council’s long-standing challenging climate of greater transparency and 03 the affiliation of creative artists. The Council also commitment to artistic excellence and innovation, public accountability, we found ourselves “refitting supports multi-disciplinary arts through activities and and to extending opportunities for access and at sea”. Even had a “dry dock” been available, facilities such as arts centres, festivals and participation in the arts. In addition, as a means of however, it would not necessarily have been community arts. The Council annually assists achieving these primary objectives for the arts, the desirable. Our ideas and our understanding of the hundreds of organisations involved in the arts Council has identified the need to build capacity in feasibility of putting them into practice need to be throughout Ireland through grants or project the arts sector. continually challenged by the process of live debate funding. with the people who have most at stake in their Consultation with the broad community of artistic realisation. In partnership with local authorities and with Údarás practitioners played an important part in helping the Na Gaeltachta, the Council part-funds 31 county, city Arts Council to make a new plan. The Council was and Gaeltacht arts officer posts and their year-round encouraged by the welcome that was extended to programmes. The Council co-operates closely on a the Plan by the sector on its publication in mid-1999. wide range of programmes and projects with the Continuing dialogue with the sector will Arts Council of Northern Ireland. undoubtedly contribute to the achievement of the plan’s targets, which are ambitious ones. But we must not rest with dialogue between our immediate community and ourselves. Too many people still feel a sense of exclusion from the arts, and it is the responsibility of all of us who are active in the arts to reach out to the wider community. Triskel Arts Centre Cork - “Intermedia 2000” - Photographer: Peter Casey Note: 1 Dr Farrell resigned in February 2000 and was replaced by Mr Patrick J. Murphy. Firkin Crane’s European Youth Start Iniative with members of the Youth Movement to Dance Foreword by the Chairman of Council (continued) Director’s Report oreword by the chairman of the council directors’report Many other aspects of the Plan were put into place Not everything in the Plan has moved forward as in the course of 1999. We made a submission to the rapidly as the Council would wish. We fully agree The way we chose to put a new set of funding National Development Plan, published in October, with the suggestion, made in a submission to the possibilities into place was a prototype exercise with stressing the need for a co-ordinated approach to Arts Plan, that “a child...is entitled to the about 16 organisations, representing a gamut of the development of a better arts infrastructure development of his/her artistic intelligence in the artistic interests. We had some precedents from throughout the country. As part of our own same way as his/her scientific, mathematical, abroad but mostly we, and they, trusted the process contribution to the achievement of this, we put in historical or linguistic intelligence”. of intensive discussion to yield the conditions under place a project team (called Auditoria), to provide which multi-annual targeted funding could be accurate information and advice on how this We met with the then Minister for Education and introduced. Many of the things that emerged infrastructure could be developed with the maximum Science, Michéal Martin, to stress to him directly our through this process were not new: people had been benefit. serious concerns about the place of art in the formal telling us for years about their longer-term and out-of-school education system. The Arts development needs. In 1999, we started to address We published a four-year perspective on local Council has offered every possible assistance to the these in a meaningful way. authority expenditure on the arts, which suggests Departments of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the that growth in local funding has not kept pace with Islands, and of Education and Science, in realising At the same time, we also brought forward a The Ar that from central government. If the arts in Ireland better policy provision for this crucially important comprehensive review of our support for individual are to achieve their full potential, central area. artists, and towards the end of the year saw the ts Council government must enable local authorities to have Patricia Quinn emergence of a clearer and more dynamic approach. access to more funding and resources to enable At the end of 1999, the death of Kevin Kieran, them to take a more proactive approach to planning Consultant Architect to the Arts Council, was a To support a more strategic approach to funding, Annual Repor and providing for the needs of the arts in their local tremendous loss, not just to those within the Council 1999 was an important year for the Arts Council, and to make our work easier to understand, we area. Supporting the local authorities in making this but to many outside, including his students and the beginning of a process of transformative change adopted a wholly new approach to analysing and case represents a major priority for the Arts Council. professional colleagues. A man of considerable within the organisation. The preparation and planning for expenditure in the second and third t 1999 intellectual presence and personal charm, Kevin submission to Government of our second strategic years of the Plan. Traditional artform budgets have demonstrated a deeply-felt commitment to plan for the arts provided an opportunity to confront been replaced by activity-based — or functionally- developing greater understanding and appreciation some demanding issues in the interpretation and based — programmes of expenditure which cross all 4 of architecture as art. His passing leaves colleagues, realisation of our brief. The decision of Government, artforms and arts development areas. 05 students and family with much to mourn, remember on the recommendation of the Minister for Arts, and celebrate. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dhilis.
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