Age & Opportunity’s Bealtaine Festival, in partnership with Nursing Homes Ireland, wish to recognise three outstanding arts projects through the National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award.
We invite applications from care settings who wish to facilitate their residents’ artistic and creative expression by organising interactive and engaging arts workshops, sessions and events led by professional artists. These care settings will aim to create an exciting and suitable Bealtaine project that celebrates their residents’ arts and creative talents, culminating in a festival event. This will be presented as part of National Arts in Nursing Homes Day which will take place Friday 16th May 2025 during the Bealtaine Festival. It presents an opportunity to bring together residents, families, care staff and artists to promote the arts in your care setting, to support residents in expressing their creative talents and to take joy from a creative arts initiative.
Participation might involve planning a new arts project/initiative (which may be online, blended or in-person) for their setting and must involve at least one professional artist. An ideal project would consist of a number of artist engagements/workshops with residents before a final celebration event. The National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award is not expected to cover the total costs of the event (which must be contributed to by the care setting).
One award of €1,000 and two awards of €500 will be made to the three successful applicants.
Call for Applications
Those wishing to apply for the National Arts in Care Homes Day Award should email the following documents to arts@ageandopportunity.ie no later than 12pm, Wednesday 26th February 2025.
- Application Form
- Artist’s CV and 3 x examples of their work
The application guidelines should be read carefully before submission, and any further questions can be emailed to arts@ageandopportunity.ie.
National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award 2025 application form
National Arts in Nursing Homes Day Award 2025 guidelines
