Kilkenny County Council awards Arts Act Grants

Kilkenny County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce the awarding of Arts Act Grant supports to Kilkenny groups and organisations and to individual artists in all art forms, to promote the arts and enable them to pursue their practice, to develop within their chosen discipline and deliver projects.

The 2003 Arts Act permits a local authority to provide financial assistance for the purposes of stimulating public interest in the arts, promoting the knowledge, appreciation and practices of the arts or improving standards in the arts. In this Act, the expression "the arts" means creative or interpretative expression (traditional or contemporary) in whatever form and includes in particular visual arts, theatre, literature, music, film, dance and multi-disciplinary events.

The 2019 grants were advertised in December and a panel was convened Tuesday 5th February to assess the applications. Decisions were approved by the Council to award a number of grants totalling just over €15,000 to 18 individuals, organisations and groups involved in the arts in Kilkenny.

We wish all of these groups and individuals the very best of luck with their projects and look forward to hearing about the fruits of their labour.