CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS ARTS GRANTS ALLOCATION

Date Published: 12-Oct-2009

The city council has adopted the allocation of arts grants for 2009.Just under half a million euro has been allocated to 84 arts organisations around the city.It's been a mixed bag of fortunes for the arts in the city, with some groups such as the Galway Arts Festival having their funding boosted by 20 thousand to 68 thousand euro while others such as the Galway Film Fleadh had their funding halved from 28 thousand euro to 16 thousand euro.Galway Jazz Festival had their funding cut by 5,000 euro to ten thousand euro.Macnas received the second largest sum this year at 35 thousand euro, Galway Ensemble in residence was allocated 24,400, and Galway Arts Centre received 19,000 again.