Dublin City Council – ARTS GRANT APPLICATION FORM for 2020

Closing Date Monday 4th November 2019 at 12 noon

Office Use Only:

REFERENCE NO:

____________________________

Date Received:

ORGANISATION/GROUP/ARTIST NAME:

MARGARET FITZGIBBON

Completed Applications, One signed original plus 4 photocopies (Total of 5)

with relevant accompanying material must be submitted in hard copy only
NO LATER THAN Monday 4th November 2019 at 12 noon to:
Arts Grant Applications
Dublin City Arts Office
The LAB, Foley Street
Dublin 1, D01 N5H6

Please ensure you have read the Guidelines and completed the form in
full before submitting your application.
PLEASE NOTE, NO LATE SUBMISSIONS CAN BE ACCEPTED

Please submit typed application forms. If you do have to submit a handwritten

form please write in BLOCK CAPITALS to ensure legibility.
 Dublin City Council – ARTS GRANT APPLICATION FORM for 2020
All applicants must read the accompanying Criteria and
Guidelines in full before completing the application form
1. DETAILS & FUNDING CATEGORY

a. Organisation/Artist/s Legal Name: MARGARET FITZGIBBON

b. Contact Person: MARGARET FITZGIBBON

c. Full Postal Address: APT 3, NO 13 PALMERSTON PARK, RATHMINES, DUBLIN 06

d. Telephone / Mobile: 085 7356585_______________________________

e. Email: Fitzgibbonmargaret1@gmail.com______________________________

f. Website: www.margaretfitzgibbon.net_______________________

g.
APPLICANT CATEGORY Tick one box only
REVENUE (No new applicants)
VOLUNTARY
NEIGHBOURHOOD /
PROJECT

h.
ORGANISATION DESCRIPTION Tick one box only
ARTS CENTRE/VENUE
DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECT
FESTIVAL
PRODUCTION COMPANY/COLLECTIVE
RESOURCE ORGANISATION
ARTIST /

i.
ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Tick one box only ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE Tick one box only
ARCHITECTURE MUSIC
CIRCUS OPERA
DANCE THEATRE
LITERATURE VISUAL ARTS /
ALTERNATE FOCUS * MULTI-DISCIPLINARY*
(SEE GUIDELINES) (SEE GUIDELIINES)

j.

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Dublin City Co FUNDING HISTORY From ARTS OFFICE From OTHER Unit of
Dublin City Council.
FUNDING RECEIVED 2019 € 3,000 € N/A
FUNDING RECEIVED 2018 € 3,000 € N/A
FUNDING RECEIVED 2017 € 4,000 X 2 € N/A

k.
INCOME € EXPENDITURE €
PROJECTED 2020 In Kind only PROJECTED 2020 14,000
5,000
PROJECTED 2019 4,914.65E PROJECTED 2018 13,541.65E

ACTUAL 2019 ACTUAL 2019

Amount requested
from Dublin City 9,000
Council 2020

l. Number of Staff Employed: FOR REVENUE applicants only.

FULL TIME PART TIME CONTRACT

m. Please state your organisation’s policy on disability and your approach to making
your work available to diverse audiences. (less than 150 words)
The barracks has accessible for all with disabilities and we actively accommodate people with
disabilities to visit or participate in all our schedule of events.

2. DETAILS OF ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES

a. Please state briefly (less than 120 words) your organisation’s primary purpose &
principal objectives:
1. This funding is crucial to sustain an Artist in Residence who creates important cultural links
between Cathal Brugha Barracks and key organisations in neighbouring Rathmine. This
approach puts imagination and creative process at the core believing that artistic expression has
something different and inclusive to offer all culminating in a large scale public opening on
Culture Night 2020

2. 8th March, International Women’s Day to celebrate women’s contribution in the very male
environment of the barracks. Invited speakers, high ranking female military individuals,barracks
personnel, neighbourhood groups and local transition students share a day of art, talks, discussion
b. Please
and provide
sit down a together.
lunch brief (less than 250 words) summary of your organisation’s
artistic / developmental activities for the last year, highlighting those initiatives you found
3. particularly
to be Mid May Garrison Review of the 7th Battalion – Family Day (new) The personnel of the
successful.
barracks andoftheir
Note: Recipients families
an Arts Grantandinfriends
2019 alongside our invited
must separately community
submit partners
a detailed and on
report guests,
how
Novas and staff, Gateway to Mental Health participants
their actual programme met targets set in their original proposal. and staff will come together for to a day
long event of art workshops, music, food, games and entertainment in the heart of the barracks.
The Minister for Defence will attend the event
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During 2019, as the ongoing 'artist in residence' in Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines, I
progressed the existing arts programme by curating three significant public events (a)
International Women’s Day; (b) National Drawing Day and (c) Another successful opening
of this working barracks to the public for Culture Night with a footfall of 900 people. We
continued to foster partnerships with; ‘Gateway to Health, Rathmines’ and Novas Shelter
and Support Centre for Homeless Women and developed new ones with a mentoring
programme for an artist in the local community. The military opened its gates and provided
advertisement, personnel, hospitality, venues and sites. From the very positive feedback we
received, these events enriched the others view of the other and the barracks and its role in
society with the the organisation more embedded in its immediate community - just outside
its gates.

The barracks see the benefits for their personnel and organisation of this arrangement and
are totally committed to this residency but only continued funding from DCC, will allow
me the time necessary to expand and build on these positive experiences. Gateway to
Mental Health “Novas” Shelter and Suppport Centre for Homeless Women and local artist
(Gateway member) Sheila Melvin have all expressed a keen interest in continuing a
dialogue with the barracks (see letters of endorsement). These groups are very diverse in
age, background and ethnicity with social and personal experiences that make them
vunerable and isolated from their communities, and, have stated that they do not have
much/no funding for cultural or artistic pursuiits .Participation in art processes a joint

C
For Revenue applicants Only
Please describe the primary target group for each separate piece of work.

N/A

For all other applicants:

Please describe your target group and, where relevant to the proposal, the level of their
involvement in the project design.

Our desire is to reach out to the immediate surroundings of the barracks and make new
connections through art and culture (see statement from the Colonel Sean O’Faherty
enclosed) so our target group is wide and varied. Our partners we have chosen are also
mixed from a self-helf group across the road to the local shelter and support centre for
Homeless Women “Novas” (recently relocated to Rathmines) (new). As an artist my
audience is the general public, the immediate personnel of the barracks and invited
cultural practioners in the city that are invited to my new art installations. E.G Pat Murphy
Dirctor RHA Maoliosa Boyle Rua Red Tallaght, Independent curator and writer Catherine
Marshall to see and discuss her new artwork “Kitty Dear Dear Kitty” in situ.
In addition this year we will reach out internationally to a Defence Forces Project
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specifically connected 7th Battalion which is stationed in Cathal Brugha Barracks. This is a
children’s orphanage in Tibehan in the heart of the lebonon where the Irish DF troops are
located. This orphanage is under the direct

d. Please provide details of your organisation’s planned work programme for 2020,
highlighting how you believe it contributes to the artistic and developmental goals of your
selected category. It is also advised to prioritise specific projects/work areas presented
here, in respect of funding sought from Dublin City Council (DCC). You may duplicate this
page if there is insufficient room for the work you wish to describe.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY / EVENT / PROJECTED AMOUNT AMOUNT

PROJECT/SERVICE COST SOUGHT FROM OTHER
*please refer to the attached guidelines FROM SOURCES
before completing this section. DCC
Cathal Brugha
Name of activity/event/project/service barracks to
supply approx.
Culture Night 2019 80 military and
Navy
All our neighbourhood partners: Gateway, Artist fee to personnel and
Women’s Refuge; Stratford College; Military curate and Refer to multiple
personal and their friends and families and the coordinate costing venues and
broader cachement of Rathmines and the all events sheet with public
wider area of Dublin City and beyond for the all details insurance,
evening and lighting ,
liase with heating,lecture
all rooms,
participants posters,
flyers,and
projectors and
IT backup for
lectures and
March 2019: International women’s Day Artist’s fee Military band
for art and pipers.
Cathal Brugha Barracks Personal and members of materials
the Defence Forces Ireland; Stratford College TY workshops Cathal Brugha
students; Gateway to Mental Health Group and barracks to
UCD students (new) research supply venue
and costs of Refer to and personnel
paying costing and hot buffert
invited sheet with lunch for 50
speakers all details people and
hearing ,
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 projector and
2019 Mid June: Family Day in the Barracks Artist’s fee screen.
to research
Personell and families of all staff officers and and Venues, buffet
privates (1,000 staff) plus invitation to other
purchase hot food,
McKee barracks personnel; invited neighbours
art invigilating
Gateway to Mental Health; Novas Homeless
Shelter for Women materials personnel,
and to give lighting , tents
multiple heating,
workshops insurance for
and pay 1,000
costs of
additional
invited
artists/
speakers

e Payments to artists – please outline what and how you will pay artists.

Once again, a range of Cultural Speakers will be invited to participate and contribute to
Culture Night 2020; International Women’s Day 2020 and this year 7th Battalion Review Day
at the Barracks (civilians only are paid). The fee set for this is the recommended A/C fee of
200E per talk (approx. 45 – 60 mins).

f Please identify if you are outlining a Marketing Plan or an Audience Development

Strategy.

Marketing Plan Audience Development Strategy

Please outline your plan here.

N/A

3. FINANCIAL AND GOVERNANCE DETAILS

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 a. Please complete Income & Expenditure Sheet below.
Total income for Organisation for Revenue Organisation.
INCOME 2019 (Actual) 2020 (Projected)
Dublin City Council Arts Grant 3,000 9,000
Arts Council Grant
Other Grant Income (give details)†

Sponsorship/ Donations
Box office
Sales
Membership fees
Other earned Income (give details)

TOTAL INCOME
EXPENDITURE
Arts Programme Costs 6,000
Salaries/ Wages (Gross) OTHER ARTISTS’ FEES 1,750.00
Artists Fees (Artist in Residence ) 6,250.00
Training
Marketing & PR
Materials
Equipment Hire
Rent
Insurance
Repairs/ Maintenance
Light & Heat
Printing/ Postage/ Stationery
Telephone
Accountancy Fees
Legal Fees
Bank Charges
Travel/ Accommodation
Entertainment/ Hospitality
Other Costs (give details)

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 14,000

 For Project, Voluntary and Neighbourhood applicants – only artists’ fees and
programme costs are eligible for support.
 † Please specify if you are receiving any income from any other Dublin City Council
Department.
 You must also indicate sources of funding which are unconfirmed.

b. Is your organisation tax registered: Yes________ No____/_____

c. Is your organisation VAT registered: Yes________ No____/_____

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d. Is your organisation a registered charity? Yes________ No____/_____

e. Please indicate your organisation’s legal status:

Unincorporated Club or Association Company Limited by Guarantee
Trust Company Limited by Shares
Other (Please specify, sole trader etc)

f. Please provide details of your Board of Directors:

Name of Board Member Position on Board Skills/ Expertise Area

g. How frequently do the Board meet, e.g. monthly, bi-monthly? ______________

h. When was the organisation established? ________________
i. If membership based organisation, how many members do you currently have?
_______

j. Account Details (NB: The only method of payment of any grant approved will be by
Electronic Funds Transfer. Successful applications will be required to complete an Electronic
Funds Transfer form (EFT) when requesting the drawdown of funds awarded.

PRIVACY (General Data Protection Regulation G.D.P.R.).

The purpose for processing your data is to process your application for an Arts Grant in
according with the Arts Act 2003. This information you provide will be assessed by a panel
made up of staff of Dublin City Arts Office and external invited arts specialists. Your
information will be retained for five years if you are granted an Arts Grant and for one year if
not granted an award.

If you do not furnish the personal data requested, Dublin City Council will not be able to
process your application.

APPLICANT STATEMENT

I have completed all relevant sections of this application form and confirm that all
information provided is truthful and accurate.

Name (Printed): MARGARET FITZGIBBON Signature: ________________________

Position: Artist in Residence Date: ___________________________