Galway International Arts Festival this week launched a fundraising campaign ahead of the 44th annual Festival, which this year will take place from August 28 to September 18.
As a non-profit organisation, GIAF partially depends on donations to continue delivering events and staging concerts, theatre shows, visual arts, and on street events. It also provides creative and professional development opportunities for artists and aspiring practitioners as well as many ways to engage with the festival through volunteering.
This year, an additional support for Irish artists will be introduced through a new commissioning/bursary strand, Elevate, which is open for submissions until Friday May 28. GIAF’s professional development internship programmes, SELECTED and the Visual Arts Internship Programme, which will be offered in an all-digital format this July.
How to donate
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Donations can be made by visiting giaf.ie and clicking the ‘Donate’ box on the top right of the webpage. Ticket buyers can also add a donation to their online ticket purchase. During the Festival, cash boxes and card tap boxes can be found in the Festival Gallery and other locations.
“While the last 15 months have been challenging for us all we hopefully now are on the home stretch with regard to beating the pandemic,” said GIAF CEO, John Crumlish. “We are very much looking forward to the festival later this year which we hope will be part of an ongoing recovery and we very much appreciate your support in making that happen.”
