Castles, Forts and Holy Wells: the Archaeology of Dublin 15

Did you know that St. Patrick established one of his first churches in Coolmine? Or that Corduff Park was highly populated 1500 years ago?

The Castles, Forts and Holy Wells Exhibition, composed by archaeologist Christine Baker (Fingal County Council's Field Monument Advisor) will open at the Blanchardstown Centre on Friday 12th October, and run until Wednesday 24th October before moving to the Civic Offices at Grove Road (until 9th November). The exhibition will be officially launched by Mayor of Fingal Cian O'Callaghan on Tuesday 16th October 2012 at 12.45pm at the Blanchardstown Centre.

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Commissions+ An International Symposium on Public Art & Commissioning

Commissions+ is an International Symposium on Public Art & Commissioning presented by Fingal County Council on the 8th/9th October at the The Waterside House Hotel, Donabate,Fingal County Dublin

 

The symposium will bring together a range of international organisations to discuss current trends and approaches towards commissioning in Europe and beyond. 

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National Drawing Day 2012 at Farmleigh House

The Fingal Arts Office is presenting a series of events to celebrate National Drawing Day on Saturday 19^th of May at Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park. 

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International Music Day Ireland

love:live music | international music day | Ireland | 21st June.

The nationwide event is produced by Music Network in association with RTE Lyric fm and funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Arts Council.  

 love:live music will be launched by Minister Deenihan on 16^th May.  

The nationwide event will be presented on the love:live music website as a County by County programme.  

We are encouraging local musicians (professional and amateur), venues/bars, businesses, schools and places of healthcare, to register their free music events on www.lovelivemusic.ie before 16^th May.

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Applications for Arts Funding.

An application for funding under the Council's Community Arts Funding Scheme has been received from the organisation listed below. It is proposed to make funding available to this organisation, in accordance with the conditions of the scheme, up to the amount set out hereunder:-

  AMOUNT                     GROUP 

Duo Chagall     Three Day Classical Music Festival             € 600.00
Blanchardstown Youth Performing Arts Programme        €1,000.00
Service 
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                                                                                     TOTAL:  €1,600.00


* The award of funding should represent the difference between income and expenditure for each event, up to the amount recommended.

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Funding for the Arts

Report of Castleknock/Mulhuddart Area Committee (Services B) held on THURSDAY 4th March 2010

"The following Report by the Manager which had been circulated was CONSIDERED".

Applications for Arts Funding.


Applications for funding under the Council's Community Arts Funding Scheme have been received from the organisations listed below. It is proposed to make funding available to these organisations, in accordance with the conditions of the scheme, up to the amount set out hereunder:-

GROUP CATEGORY OF FUNDING AMOUNT


Coolmine Musical Society Production of “Mack & Mabel” €4,000.00

Fingal County Youth Staging of Concert in Draoicht € 500.00

Orchestra

Phoenix Writers Group Publication of Annual Collection of € 500.00

Short Stories & Poetry

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TOTAL: €5,000.00



* The award of funding should represent the difference between income and expenditure for each event, up to the amount recommended.


It was proposed by Councillor P. Hamill seconded by Councillor K Dennison and RESOLVED:

"That this Committee recommends that the County Council APPROVE of the funding."

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Only 1% for Fingal from Arts Council

Arts council grants were published last week. Despite being Ireland’s fourth most populous county council, grants from the Arts Council to Arts groups in the Fingal area amounts to less than 1% of the total.

Fingal County Council is the fourth most populous area in the country, and represents just shy of 6% of the national population. Based on that, you would expect a relatively high allocation of funding to the area. However, the latest grant figures show that only four out of 347 grants were made to bodies in Fingal, and the total amount of such grants - €312,000 – equates to just .5% of the total €58million allocation.

The arts in Fingal deserve to be supported on an equal basis to anywhere else in the country. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case as demonstrated from these figures. I believe this is indiciative of a general trend whereby Fingal does not get a fair slice of central government funding.

Arts Council Grants:
County Organisation 2009
Fingal County Council Coisceim/Cosanic Teoranta €50,000
Fingal County Council Draiocht Ltd / Blanchardstown Arts €162,000
Fingal County Council Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre €70,000
Dublin Fingal County Council €30,000

Fingal County Total €312,000
National Total €58,494,080

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