Galway City Council has awarded €425,000 in grants to over 60 arts organisations this week.
The 2020 Arts Grants (Organisations) approved by the city council this week is the full budget which was agreed on before the pandemic.
Despite the affect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the city’s finances, the council said that the same level of funding was kept due to the “recognition of the importance of contemporary arts” to the city.
“Galway’s world reputation as a creative place is thanks to the innovative and imaginative work of its great artmakers.”
“Galway City Council values the powerful projects and programmes delivered right throughout the city in participation, access and diversity.”
“The grants to over sixty artist-led organisations will help keep them in business, reward them for the great work achieved online and offline throughout the pandemic and assist them in developing programmes in the future.”
The largest single grant went to Galway International Arts Festival, which is currently in the middle of its revised Autumn programme for 2020.
The city council awarded €46,000 to Galway International Arts Festival. This was followed by Galway Arts Centre, which received €35,000.
Other large grants went towards Druid Theatre (€29,000), The Galway Music Residency (€26,000), and Macnas (€24,000), all of whom are putting on performances, concerts, and events this year as the cultural life of Galway revives itself.
The full list of grants awarded for 2020 is:
| APPLICANT | 2020 Award |
| A Little Door | €1,000 |
| Architecture at the Edge | €4,000 |
| Artspace Studios | €9,000 |
| Baboró | €19,000 |
| Blue Teapot Theatre Company | €5,000 |
| Branar Theatre | €7,000 |
| Brú Theatre | €3,000 |
| Cáca Dána Theatre Company | €570 |
| Clay Galway | €1,200 |
| Crannog | €2,000 |
| Cúirt Galway International Literature Festival | €15,000 |
| Decadent Theatre Company | €3,000 |
| Druid Theatre | €29,000 |
| Eastside Community Drama | €2,500 |
| Engage Art Studios | €13,000 |
| Eva’s Echo Theatre Company | €1,000 |
| Forge Clay Studios | €2,000 |
| Galway African Diaspora | €2,000 |
| Galway Art Club | €1,000 |
| Galway Arts Centre | €35,000 |
| Galway Baroque Singers | €2,130 |
| Galway Baytones | €1,000 |
| Galway Beginners Trad Sessions | €500 |
| Galway Cathedral Recitals | €1,500 |
| Galway Choral Association | €2,000 |
| Galway Community Circus | €10,000 |
| Galway Dance Project | €6,500 |
| Galway Early Music | €8,000 |
| Galway Film Fleadh | €19,000 |
| Galway International Arts Festival | €46,000 |
| Galway Musical Society | €3,000 |
| Galway Percy French Society | €500 |
| Galway Steinway Trust | €600 |
| Galway Theatre Festival | €11,000 |
| Galway Uke Group | €1,000 |
| Galway Youth Theatre | €3,000 |
| Hot Potato Productions | €900 |
| Impressions | €1,100 |
| Junior Galway Film Fleadh | €1,500 |
| Keera Sheeran Music (Ignite Gospel Choir) | €1,000 |
| Little Cinema Galway | €5,000 |
| Luminosa Music | €4,000 |
| Macnas | €24,000 |
| Misleór | €1,500 |
| Moonfish | €6,000 |
| Moth & Butterfly Festival | €1,000 |
| Music for Galway | €16,000 |
| New Moon | €1,500 |
| No Ropes | €800 |
| 126 Artist Led Gallery | €10,000 |
| Over the Edge | €3,500 |
| Red Bird Youth Collective | €1,000 |
| Renmore Pantomime | €2,000 |
| Saolta Arts | €10,000 |
| Speckled Egg Dance | €500 |
| St Nicholas Schola Cantorum | €3,500 |
| Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe | €2,000 |
| That’s Life | €4,000 |
| The Galway Music Residency | €26,000 |
| The Galway Sessions | €5,000 |
| TRIBES Youth Arts Festival | €2,000 |
| Tulca | €14,000 |
| Visionation | €1,000 |
| Westside Arts Festival | €2,400 |
| Write on Group | €300 |
| Youth Ballet West | €2,500 |
| €425,000 |
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