Filmbase is set to receive a €65,000 cash boost from the Arts Council, and is one of 27 arts organizations to benefit from an extra €845,000 government funding for 2008.
Filmbase was originally allocated €299,860 for the year, but will now receive a payout of €364,860 in total. The extra cash is thanks to additional Arts Council funding announced by Minster for Arts, Sports and Tourism Mr. Seamus Brennan in December 2007.
Other groups to receive a financial boost include Kilkenny Arts Festival (€25,000), Druid Theatre Company (€20,000), Galway Arts Festival (€25,000), Project Arts Centre (€25,000), Fingal County Council (€25,000) and Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent (€10,000).
“These additional funds have enabled the Council to make progress towards fulfilling a number of existing policy commitments, including those in Traditional Arts, Opera and Ballet,” said Mary Cloake, Director of the Arts Council. “We are also pleased to offer additional funding to organisations where the timing of increased resources was of critical importance, and to others where the activities of organisations are crucial for developing audiences for the arts.”
These funding decisions mark the final offers of financial support from the Arts Council to arts organisations for 2008 under its main funding programmes.
