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Longford Lights Festival Takes Place From 24-26 February

By Ryan Harmon 16 February 2023

Longford Lights Festival, Ireland’s largest community-based lantern festival, takes place in Connolly Barrack in Longford Town at 5.30-8.30pm from 24-26 February. Longford County Council Cathaoirleach Cllr Turlough McGovern will open the festival at 6pm on Friday, 24 February. All are welcome to attend. Longford Lights Festival is a partnership between artist Tom Meskell

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Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing 2023

By Ryan Harmon 14 February 2023

Good Vibrations, Celebrating Love, Life and Magic, and Standing Shoulder to Shoulder are some of the highlights of this year’s Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing. Taking place in Waterford Monday 13 to Saturday 18 February, the Well Festival features an inspirational line-up of fun, free, inventive and sociable arts events for all ages. In this, its tenth year, […]

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Latest Shared Island Dialogue Focuses On Arts and Culture On the Island of Ireland

By Ryan Harmon 13 October 2022

Artists, musicians, writers, members of cultural and creative community organisations, and government agencies North and South will come together in Mandela Hall in Belfast to discuss shared challenges and opportunities facing the arts and cultural sector across the island. Arts and Culture on a Shared Island is the twelfth event in the Shared Island Dialogue […]

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Launch of Mayo Social Inclusion Awareness Week 2022

By Ryan Harmon 11 October 2022

Mayo Social Inclusion Awareness Week 2022 was officially launched by Cllr Al McDonnell. This year Mayo Social Inclusion Awareness Week will take place from October 10th to 16th, inclusive. The aim of the week is to highlight and support initiatives throughout the County that foster inclusion and equality. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the diversity […]

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Galway City Council Awarded Funding for Cross Border Projects to Support the Arts in Galway

By Ryan Harmon 5 October 2022

€300k has been awarded to Galway City Council for two very exciting cross border collaborations that will directly support the arts and artists. This will be awarded under the Shared Island Local Authority Development Funding scheme. Speaking at an event for the awards in the Townhall Theatre in Cavan, Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD said, “I […]

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Culture Night Kildare 2022

By Ryan Harmon 2 September 2022

Kildare County Council is pleased to confirm that Culture Night will take place on Friday 23rd September 2022 from 4pm till late. Culture Night is an annual island-wide public event that shines a light on all aspects of culture, creativity and the arts. On this night, doors are open late and all venues and events are available to the public free […]

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National Symposium On Role of Creativity and Arts in Wellbeing

By Ryan Harmon 27 May 2022

Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health, have announced a national symposium on creativity, health and wellbeing to be held on Wednesday 22 June 2022. The all-of-government Creative Ireland Programme, the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland), the Health Service Executive and the Arts

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Dublin City Council Launches New Arts and Culture Survey

By Ryan Harmon 3 March 2022

Dublin City Council has launched a new survey into the provision of arts and culture spaces, programmes, activities and services within the Dublin North-Central area of the city.  The study will seek to explore how artists and arts organisations interact with the local community, identify existing barriers to participation, and generate new ideas to improve […]

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Kildare County Council Announce New Arts, Health & Wellbeing Awards and Supports

By Ryan Harmon 9 February 2022

Kildare County Council Arts Service has announced a new suite of grants and workshops to support creative projects and artists working in the areas of Arts, Health & Wellbeing in the county in 2022. The programme includes the Arts, Health & Wellbeing Award 2022, First Fortnight Award 2022, and the Connect & Discover workshop programme. […]

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Cork County Council Supporting the Arts

By Ryan Harmon 22 November 2021

Cork County Council’s 2022 funding opportunities in the Arts have been announced, including details of the Arts Grants Scheme through which applications for financial support can be made for a wide range of arts events and activities. Commenting on the announcement, Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Gillian Coughlan, said “every year, Cork County […]

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Have Your Say on Arts and Culture Strategy in Cork City

By Ryan Harmon 10 November 2021

An online public survey has been launched with the aim of gathering hopes and ideas for the future of arts and culture in Cork City over the next few years. A European City of Culture, Cork has a rich and dynamic arts scene across all art forms that strives to cater to all corners of […]

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Arts and Creativity Play Important Role for Elderly

By Ryan Harmon 29 September 2021

Arts and creativity has an important role to play in health and wellbeing in later life and can help improve physical, psychological, and social health and wellbeing for the elderly, a new report published by the Institute of Public Health (IPH) has found. The report, ‘Arts and Creativity in Later Life: Implications for Public Health […]

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Wainfest Promises Family Fun From Afar this October

By Jack Mullen 2 October 2020

Speaking about the line-up, festival co-ordinator Sinéad McLaughlin, says “while we’re disappointed at Level 3 restrictions coming into place during the festival, we understand it’s for the greater good and we still have a wide range of family entertainment available that will ensure Fun From Afar in line with public health advice. We have also […]