Circusful is excited to announce that applications for the Mike Moloney Award for young people in circus are now open!

This award aims to support young people, based in Northern Ireland, aged 16-30 who want to develop their Circus Arts/Street Theatre performance and/or related circus practice. Additional Support will be provided to those who have disabilities.

This award is designed to help you to change and/or improve your Circus/Street Theatre practice and/or performance. 

For instance, an award could be used to help you to: 

• create new work 
• learn new skills that will help you to develop your performance/teaching/producing work. 
• gain inspiration from other artists or organisations.  
• You could spend the award on formal or informal courses, mentoring, coaching, supervision, research and cultural/research visits or other similar things that will help you to achieve the impact you describe in your project plan. 

 How much is the award? 

• Individual awards range from £500 to £5,000 – Micro Awards and Larger Awards
• Depending on the quality of applications received, the decision-making panel may choose to make a number of small awards or one larger award. 

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Dates: 17- 21 February 2025

The Bill Cashmore Award is presented by the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and is a Young Lyric new playwriting award for young writers aged 18-30. Young Lyric is funded to support and provide opportunities for children and young people aged up to 30 years through programmes, workshops and activities.

The Bill Cashmore Award prize offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The prize is for writers aged 18 – 30 to submit new scripts for selection by an industry-leading panel of the Lyric’s Artistic Associates. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2025.

PARAMETERS OF THE AWARD

• The script must be written for stage (see FAQs on the type of work we accept)
• The script must be no more than 20 pages
• The script must be suitable for a cast of 5 actors aged 18-25
• Running length to be 30 minutes

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 23 December 2024 at 12pm

See FAQs for more details on our criteria.

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Dates: 20 - 24 January 2025