Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020

9:30 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

That is all right. There is plenty happening in the Deputy's area through Creative Ireland. Some of the Culture Ireland events affected include the performance of a Samuel Beckett piece at the Coronet Theatre in London, which was postponed, and the presentation of The Second Violinistby Mr. Donnacha Dennehy and Mr. Enda Walsh at Park Avenue in New York, which was cancelled. An exhibition by Ms Jane Fogarty in the new Orleans gallery in Ottawa, Canada, was postponed. A presentation by Poetry Ireland in The Writing Center at Harvard in Boston was cancelled. There are more as well. The purpose of Culture Ireland is to fund artists going abroad and make presentations. The 20th Annual Irish Film Festival in Boston, screening contemporary Irish film in Somerville, Massachusetts, was postponed. The Fidget Feet presentation with Arcadia Spectacular at the Glastonbury music festival was postponed. A presentation of the Pan Pan Theatre's Eliza's Adventures in the Uncanny Valleyat the Forum Freies Theater in Düsseldorf, Germany, was withdrawn. There is a list and I can send it to the Deputy.

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