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The Dublin Contemporary 2011 Noone Casey Mentorship - Deadline extended!

To mark the seminal event that is the opening of Dublin Contemporary 2011, the capital’s major new international contemporary visual art exhibition which runs from Sept 6th to Oct 31st, Noone Casey announces details of a competition for artists to win a year’s worth of bespoke business mentoring.

The Noone Casey Mentorship Award will give a young artist collective, emerging gallery space or start-up arts organization the opportunity to benefit from key tax, accounting and business affairs advice over one year in 2012. The sessions will follow a strategic planning process to empower the winners and develop a five-year plan for growth of their arts-based business. This prize has a value of just over €10,000.

Noone Casey has been providing commercial, financial and taxation advice to clients since 1992. During that period it has provided accounting, auditing, taxation and corporate finance advice to some of Ireland’s fastest growing companies. Noone Casey is a client-focused professional accountancy practice, and also has an interest in supporting the arts. In 2009 the company sponsored and facilitated the Twelve Doors project at its former Dame Street premises. An antidote to the relentless recession gloom, Noone Casey took an artistic risk by offering the front door of its offices to twelve street artists to “use, abuse, deface and delight over twelve months”.  Now Noone Casey has again stepped up to support the vibrancy and dynamism of the cultural landscape with a mentorship programme.

Noone Casey partner Anthony Casey enthuses, “Noone Casey is delighted to be involved with a seminal event such as Dublin Contemporary 2011, and wants to invest in the future sustainability of the art community in Ireland by mentoring a new wave of creative entrepreneurs.”

To enter:
Entrants must tweet the following declaration in 140 characters or less:
“We deserve the @dubcon @noonecasey Mentorship because…………………………”
These tweets must be accompanied by an application sent to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) quoting NOONE CASEY MENTORSHIP in the subject line.

Applications must include:
Description of the group / business
Biogs of the key individuals
Strategic Plan for 2012
Overview of work to date

Deadline for applications has been extended until Wednesday October 12th

Winner to be announced at a reception in Dublin Contemporary in the final week of the exhibition Tuesday evening October 24th.

Entry Criteria:
Start-up or less than 24 months in existence

Open to all emerging art professionals, from artists, to art historians, gallerists, designers, photographers, young artist collective, new gallery space, or start-up arts organisation etc.

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