The Arts Grants for 2025 sought applications for the annual scheme under the following two stands:
Strand 1: Arts Infrastructure: Venues, Workspaces & Organisations
Strand 2: Arts Festivals & Events
29 applications were approved for funding by the Arts Assessment Panel having met the prescribed criteria within the competitive context as follows:
Arts Infrastructure:
Yeats Society (incorp Hyde Gallery)
Kid’s Own
Sligo Concert Band
Sligo Jazz Project
Blue Raincoat Theatre Company
Binder Arts (Incorp Pulled, Spilt Milk & Art for Blind)
Hawk’s Well Theatre
The Model Sligo
The Coleman Centre, Gurteen
Ard Voltas Ballisodare
Arts Festivals:
Cáirde Sligo Arts Festival
Easkey Street Festival
Spilt Milk Festival
The Yeats Summer School
The Wipeout Festival
Sligo Festival of Baroque Music
Sligo Youth Choral Festival
CCE County Fleadh
Ballintogher Festival
Coleman Festival
Fiddler of Dooney Festival
Paddy Killoran Festival
James Morrison Festival
South Sligo Summer School
Arts Events:
Feis Shligigh
Con Brio Music Series
Sligo Orpheus Choir
Informal Music Afternoons
Pop-Up Theatre
ARTS INFRASTUCTURE
Annual fund for Arts Venues, Workspaces & Arts Organisations
The 2025 scheme is now closed.
Online Applications Only
Full details available at: www.sligococo.ie/grants
ARTS FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Aimed at independently run not-for-profit arts festivals through Sligo (single & multi-disciplinary artforms) & arts event(s) that promote public engagement with the arts as their core aim.
The 2025 scheme is now closed.
Online Applications Only
Full details available at: www.sligococo.ie/grants