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🐇 Wondering where an Arts and Disability Connect application might lead?Our deadline reminder comes with 'The Rabbit Hol...
18/09/2026

🐇 Wondering where an Arts and Disability Connect application might lead?

Our deadline reminder comes with 'The Rabbit Hole' by artist Ciara Chapman, whose My Chronic Pain Diary project was supported through an ADC New Work award.

Arts and Disability Connect supports individual artists with disabilities to be ambitious, develop their practice and connect with arts organisations and arts professionals across Ireland.

Applications are currently open for:

🎨 New Work
🔎 Research & Reflection
🤝 Mentoring
📚 Training

If you're planning to apply, now is a good time to make sure you've read the guidelines for your award and have everything you need ahead of the deadline.

Application forms, guidelines, FAQs, Easy Read information and other applicant resources are available on our website:

👉 https://adiarts.ie/connect

📅 Deadline: Tuesday 29 September, 4pm

For questions about the scheme, contact [email protected].

Arts and Disability Connect is funded by the Arts Council and managed by Arts & Disability Ireland.

This Sunday! 🤟In celebration of International Week of Deaf People, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art Horizons and Disrup...
17/09/2026

This Sunday! 🤟

In celebration of International Week of Deaf People, IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art Horizons and Disrupt Disability Arts Festival present Dis-cussion: Intro to Irish Sign Language and ISL Gallery Tour at IMMA on Sunday 20 September.

From 12.30pm, take your first steps in Irish Sign Language with artists Omar Lorenzo Garcia and Lydia Gratis, with an introduction to the basics of ISL and Deaf culture designed especially for beginners.

At 2pm, join IMMA's first ever ISL-interpreted gallery tour, exploring IMMA Collection: Art as Agency with Senan Dunne and Omar Lorenzo Garcia.

📅 Sunday 20 September
⏰ 12.30–3pm
📍 IMMA, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8
🎟️ Free, booking required

Find out more and book: https://adiarts.ie/event/disrupt-disability-arts-festivals-dis-cussion-intro-to-irish-sign-language-and-isl-gallery-tour-at-imma/

📣 Applying for Arts and Disability Connect ?With the Round Two approaching, you can watch back our Arts and Disabilit...
10/09/2026

📣 Applying for Arts and Disability Connect ?

With the Round Two approaching, you can watch back our Arts and Disability Connect Information Session for guidance on the scheme and the application process.

The recording is a useful resource for anyone preparing an application and looking to learn more about Arts and Disability Connect and the supports available.

📺 Watch the Information Session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLbtJl6icyk

📅 Deadline: Tuesday 29 September at 4pm

Arts and Disability Connect offers , , , and awards for individual artists with disabilities.

📣New funding opportunity for arts and disability projects in Galway!Galway County Council has launched its new Arts & Di...
08/09/2026

📣New funding opportunity for arts and disability projects in Galway!

Galway County Council has launched its new Arts & Disability Project Award, supporting professional artists to develop and deliver inclusive, collaborative arts projects with groups of people with disabilities in County Galway.

The award can support collaborative projects, research and development, training or mentoring as part of a project, as well as personal and participant access costs.

Funding of between €500 and €3,000 is available, with €12,000 to be awarded in total.

📅 Deadline: Friday 2 October 2026, 4pm

Find out more about eligibility, what the award can support and how to apply:

https://adiarts.ie/2026/09/08/arts-disability-project-award-2026/

Image credit: LimeLight Creative Arts

Join visually impaired artist and aesthetic accessibility consultant Emilie Conway for Listening With Your Skin, an audi...
07/09/2026

Join visually impaired artist and aesthetic accessibility consultant Emilie Conway for Listening With Your Skin, an audio-described and tactile tour of Dr. Siobhán McGibbon’s exhibition Love Beyond the Species and the Sexual at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.

Created and led from a blind and low-vision perspective, this multisensory tour invites visitors into the speculative world of Xenophon through Emilie’s live audio description and spatial guidance.

Explore tactile biomaterial sculptures and mycelial webs, experience sculpted forms and scale through touch, and discover custom olfactory scents created with artist Frank Bloem.

📅 Wednesday 9 September, 1–2pm
📍 Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
🎟️ Free, with limited places. Pre-booking essential.

https://adiarts.ie/event/listening-with-your-skin-audio-described-and-tactile-tour-with-emilie-conway-at-uillinn-west-cork-arts-centre/

07/09/2026

In celebration of International Week of Deaf People, IMMA IMMA Horizons and Disrupt Disability Arts Festival are proud to present two Irish Sign Language events, including IMMA’s first  ISL interpreted gallery tour 🤟🏻

💙12:30 - 1:30pm
Begin your Irish Sign Language journey with an introduction to the basics of ISL and an exploration of Deaf culture. Led by Omar Lorennzo Garcia and L Y D I A G R A T I S ♡ this session is designed for beginners and welcomes all who would like to take their first steps in learning ISL.

💙2 - 3pm
This is followed by an Irish Sign Language gallery tour of  the exhibition ‘IMMA Collection: Art As Agency’. Supported by Senan Dunne and Omar Lorenzo Garcia, this tour welcomes everyone - Deaf and hearing communities to experience the exhibition in celebration of International Week of Deaf People 2026.

🗓️ 20 September 2026

📍Creativity Hub at IMMA, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8

🎟️ Free Event, booking required at link in bio

⏰ Full event: 12:30 - 3pm

What happens when performers surrender control to their audience?Croi Glan Integrated Dance’s The Act of Existing, chore...
04/09/2026

What happens when performers surrender control to their audience?

Croi Glan Integrated Dance’s The Act of Existing, choreographed by Philip Connaughton, comes to Dublin Fringe Festival from 7–11 September at Project Arts Centre.

Performed by Bobbi Byrne and Ben Sullivan, this provocative new dance duet blurs the boundaries between observation and participation, as rules shift, choices have consequences and the audience’s influence becomes part of the work.

Playful, unsettling and revealing, The Act of Existing explores power, responsibility and what it means to simply exist in relation to others.

📍 Project Arts Centre, Dublin
📅 7–11 September
♿ Home Ground performance: 9 September, 9pm, for disabled and queer/LGBTQIA+ audiences

Find out more and book:
https://adiarts.ie/event/croi-glans-the-act-of-existing-at-dublin-fringe-festival/

📷 Bobbi Byrne and Ben Sullivan in The Act of Existing by Philip Connaughton for Croí Glan. Photo: Patricio Cassinoni.

📣 Arts and Disability Connect Round Two 2026 is now open for applications!Arts and Disability Connect supports artists w...
01/09/2026

📣 Arts and Disability Connect Round Two 2026 is now open for applications!

Arts and Disability Connect supports artists with disabilities to develop their practice, realise ambitious ideas and build connections with arts organisations and arts professionals.

Applications are open across four award strands:

• New Work
• Research & Reflection
• Mentoring
• Training

The Arts & Disability Ireland team will also be at Visual Artists Ireland’s 2026 at TU Dublin, Grangegorman on Friday 11 September.

If you’re attending, come and say hello! We’ll be happy to chat about Arts and Disability Connect and answer questions about the scheme.

📅 Applications close Tuesday 29 September 2026.

Find guidelines, application information and applicant supports:
https://adiarts.ie/artists/funding/connect/

Arts and Disability Connect is funded by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and managed by Arts & Disability Ireland.

🎭 Chronically Hopeful at Dublin Fringe FestivalCreated by artists living with chronic illness and invisible disabilities...
25/08/2026

🎭 Chronically Hopeful at Dublin Fringe Festival

Created by artists living with chronic illness and invisible disabilities, Chronically Hopeful is a bold interdisciplinary performance from Musici Ireland exploring the realities behind the words “I’m fine.”

Blending live music, movement, text and visual design, the work explores the cost of getting out of bed, the absurdities of medical bureaucracy, experiences of exclusion, and the beauty and solidarity that make it possible to carry on.

📍 Smock Alley Theatre
📅 6–9 September 2026
♿ All performances are Relaxed
🤟 ISL-interpreted Home Ground performance: 9 September at 6.15pm, for Deaf and disabled audiences.

Find full details on the ADI website:
https://adiarts.ie/event/chronically-hopeful-at-dublin-fringe-festival-isl-interpreted-and-relaxed-performances/

Image credit: Ruth Medjber

📣 Arts and Disability Connect 2026: Round Two is now open!Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) offers funding to individual...
25/08/2026

📣 Arts and Disability Connect 2026: Round Two is now open!

Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) offers funding to individual artists with disabilities to develop their practice.

Round Two includes:

🎨 New Work
💡 Research and Reflection
🤝 Mentoring
📚 Training

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 29 September 2026.

Thinking of applying? You can also book a one-to-one applicant support session with the Arts & Disability Ireland team in advance of submitting your application.

🎟 https://calendly.com/connect-adiarts/adc-round-2-2026-one-on-one-support?month=2026-08

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