The Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme will run over a three year period (2022 – 2025) and will be open to eligible artists and creative arts sector workers.

The overarching objective of the scheme is to address the earnings instability that can be associated with the intermittent, periodic, and often project-based nature of work in the arts. The scheme will research the impact on artists and creative arts workers creative practice of providing the security of a basic income, thereby reducing income precarity.

Who is Eligible to Apply?
– Practicing artists;
– Creative arts workers or
– Recently trained applicants.

Grants to the value of €325 per week will be paid to successful participants. Payments will be made on a monthly basis.

The application portal will open from 1pm on Tuesday April 12th 2022.
Deadline for receipt of all applications is 1pm on Thursday 12th May 2022.

See link below for further details.