Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Paul Fahy:

Perhaps Mr. Crumlish will talk about Creative Ireland. One of our defining characteristics has always been helping people to reimagine the world and the way they live in it. That is one of our biggest ways of communicating in terms of the work we produce and present and the way we engage with our audience. We bring audiences and artists together to experience the world through a different kind of lens. The one thing we always like in Galway, and I know that we might be blessed because of the shape of the city, is the fact that someone could be blindfolded and pop down to Shop Street, High Street or Quay Street at any time during the two weeks in July never having heard of what we do, take the blindfold off and know that a big cultural expression is happening on the streets of Galway that is penetrating through to all areas of the community. That is a key expression of how we like to connect with our people.