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Arts Council to support traditional arts
The Arts Council for Ireland has announced it will implement a 3-year Traditional Arts Initiative, intended to prioritise the traditional arts toward realising its ambition of fully mainstreaming the traditional arts within the Councils activities. For the initiative’s first full year (2006) the Council has allocated €3 million and is committed to on-going significant financial support; a further €500,000 has been received from the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism to allow work under the initiative to begin in 2005. The traditional arts are defined as comprising: traditional music, song and dance and oral art forms such as story-telling and agallamh beirte. The initiative is ‘designed to stabilise existing key players and consolidate a basic infrastructure for the traditional arts while allowing scope for new ideas, projects and partnerships to emerge. Its success will depend largely on a pro-active response from the traditional arts community.’ The following funding opportunities already available to the traditional arts sector will be maintained:
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