Culture Night Late is designed to support events that will begin after 9pm and continue late into the night on Culture Night, Friday 20 September 2024. The award is offered in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Night Time Economy Taskforce to offer audiences a greater diversity in their Culture Night experience late into the night, and to encourage more-inclusive and innovative late-night arts events suitable for a range of audience types into the future.

The award is open to local authority arts offices (including Ealaín na Gaeltachta), arts festivals, arts centres, production companies and arts organisations only to create a Culture Night Late event in a public space or place. The maximum you can apply for is €12,500.

The scheme is rooted in the policies set out in the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016–25), Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland (see here: http://www.artscouncil.ie/arts-council-strategy/) and in the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Report of the Night-Time Economy Taskforce (see here: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/c1ba7-report-of-the-night-time-economy-taskforce/).

The award will support:

a)     local-authority- arts office identified-and-led late-night flagship events with an audience capacity of over 500 people in partnership with one or more arts centres/arts organisations/arts festivals and/or curators,

or 

b)     arts centre/arts organisation/production company /arts festival-led late-night flagship events with an audience capacity of over 500 people in partnership with the respective local authority arts office  and other arts partners.

Deadline is 5.30pm, Thursday, 7 March 2024.

For any other enquiries, please email Eimear.Kelleher@artscouncil.ie