€385,000 in city arts grants for 2015

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At a meeting of the City Council held this week, arts grant funding was approved for a total of 73 organisations in the city, across the spectrum of professional, community and amateur groups producing, presenting and engaging in the arts.

The total amount to be distributed for 2015 is €385,000.

Applicant Amount
Access Music Project €3000
Ala €2000
Artspace Studios €9000
Away With Words (Brothers of Charity) €1500
Baboro €15500
Blue Teapot Theatre Company (Brothers of Charity) €4000
Branar Téatar do Pháisti €3000
Chrysalis Dance €1000
Claddagh Community Music €500
Club Shine €300
Cois Cladaigh €3500
Colours Street Theatre Company €1000
Contemporary Clay €1200
COPE Galway (Sonas Day Centre) €500
Crannog Media €1000
Cuirt €15000
Decadent Theatre Company €1000
Druid €28000
Engage Art Studios €4050
Expanded Draught €1000
Forge Clay Studios €1000
Fregoli Theatre Company €1000
Galway African Film Festival (with Galway One World Centre) €500
Galway Art Club €600
Galway Arts Centre €19000
Galway Baroque Singers €4250
Galway Cathedral Recitals €2000
Galway Choral Association €2000
Galway Community Circus €4000
Galway Dance Project €4450
Galway Early Music €8000
Galway Film Centre (ID Films) €12000
Galway Film Fleadh €16000
Galway Film Society €7000
Galway Fringe Festival €4000
Galway International Arts Festival €46000
Galway Jazz Festival €3750
Galway Music Residency €23000
Galway Musical Society €3000
Galway Patrician Musical Society €5000
Galway Percy French Society €300
Galway Steinway Trust €500
Galway Theatre Festival €4000
Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust €9000
Galway Youth Arts Alliance €2000
Galway Youth Orchestra €5000
Galway Youth Theatre €8000
Irish Patchwork Society – Western Branch €500
John Rogers Theatre €200
Junior Galway Film Fleadh €1500
Keep the Beat Klub €400
Little Cinema €2000
Lorg Fine Art Printmakers €2000
Macnas €24000
Moonfish €5200
Music for Galway €13500
126 Artist Run Gallery €5000
Oscailte – Galway artists €300
Over the Edge €3000
Renmore ARA €400
Renmore Pantomime Society €3000
Saint Nicholas Schola Cantorum €3000
Salthill ARA €400
ShOUT! / LGBT €400
Soundscape (Brothers of Charity) €4000
The Collective Fringe (Formerly Colours Fringe) €1500
The Galway Review €500
The Galway Sessions €8000
Tulca €9500
Tunes in the Church €1750
Western Writers' Centre €350
Westside Arts Festival €2000
Youth Ballet West €1200
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