Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Challenges Facing Arts Venues and Theatres as a result of Covid-19: Discussion

Ms Anna Walsh:

Returning to a comment from Deputy Mythen, this crisis has highlighted how urban-rural divides can fall away and become less important. Access to conversations like this one, to production methods, to presentations or to new forms of streaming and video on demand can be assimilated into how the arts and cultural sector reforms, adapts and learns from this crisis to become broader, more inclusive and more available to everybody, no matter where they live. This is perhaps one of the few good outcomes to emerge from this crisis, but it is a good one.