15 Seed Grants to support communities’ creative exploration of grief or memorialisation are available.
IHF are inviting applications from groups and /or individuals nationwide before the closing date of Friday 28th October at 5.00pm. This IHF programme offers communities across Ireland multiple ways to process the impact of death, dying, grief, and more general losses.
IHF Seeds programme piloted in early 2021 and was extended through to 2022. To date, 39 projects have been supported with micro grants, expertise, and resources enabling communities of place or interest to develop their own tools or articulate their needs.
Previous awardees includeindividual artists, writers, nursing homes, secondary schools, community groups, disability support centres, local choirs, and hospitals. This year IHF are encouraging as wide a group of people as possible to apply with a simple application process and lots of support.
As part of previous Seeds Grants programmes, there were a number of awardees from several counties in Leinster. Some examples include:
- Offaly – Remembering Tree by Michelle O’Donell
Glass artist Michelle O’Donnell of Glasshammer Studios in Rhode, Co. Offaly, invited local people who had lost loved ones during the pandemic to come to her studio and make fused glass leaves in their memory.
https://hospicefoundation.ie/remembering-tree
- Dublin – Over the Bridge by Eamon Clery
Eamon Clery made a short film (sizzle reel) on Ringsend’s decade’s old tradition of families arranging for a deceased relative’s coffin to be carried over Ringsend Bridge into the village church for a funeral service. https://hospicefoundation.ie/overthebridge
- Kildare – Murmurations by Embrace Music
Sadhbh O’Sullivan and Sharon Murphy of Embrace Music wrote Murmurations – a cycle of three pieces of music reflecting and drawing upon the breadth and depth of loss experienced by older people and those living in residential care, known to them through their work as music and health practitioners. https://hospicefoundation.ie/murmurations
- Louth – Bringing The Outside In by St Joseph’s Nursing Home
Residential Care Practice Developer, Vicky McGauley, engaged with the residents, visitors, and staff of St Joseph’s Nursing Home in Ardee, Co Louth, in the creation of a mural to enhance a room designated as a quiet space for anyone in need of time out for reflection. https://hospicefoundation.ie/bringing-the-outside-in
- Meath – Absent Voices by Dunshaughlin Choral Society
Róisín Freeney and the 45 members of Dunshaughlin Choral Society, an amateur community choir, composed and recorded ‘Absent Voices’ an original collaborative piece to reflect the loss of members and loved ones in their village.
https://hospicefoundation.ie/absentvoices
Previous Seed Grants Projects