Our Aims

Facilitate International and EU Relationships and Funding

Support and Develop Place-based Cultural Programming

Provide Supports to the Cultural and Creative Sector

Our Values

Partnership

We believe that progress and delivery can only be achieved through meaningful partnership and respectful collaboration with other key stakeholders in the work that we want to achieve to better support culture, creative industries, and placemaking.

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Place

Our place is Galway. We will celebrate our place through our programme but also celebrate our place in Europe and in the world in how we utilise our Networks, build on our partnerships to ensure a strong cultural recognition of our place.

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People & Participation

We want to ensure that our people and their participation in Culture is at the heart of what we do. We will create opportunities for people to engage and participate in exciting opportunities that make Galway the truly exciting place that it is to live.

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Opportunities

Europe Challenge 2024 Programme

The Europe Challenge is an annual programme that kicks off with an open call and brings together teams from libraries and communities across Europe. The Europe Challenge is initiated by  the European Cultural Foundation and supported by Fondazione Cariplo, the Scottish Libraries and Information ...

NordArt – Open Call for Artists

Open call for artists for NordArt 2024 NordArt 2024 will take place 1 June – 13 October 2024. NordArt, one of the largest annual contemporary art shows in Europe, is inviting artists from all over the world to ...

About us

Galway Culture Company was established to create opportunities to engage with EU and International partners and local place-based programming which honours the relationships and builds on the learnings, outcomes and legacies of Galway’s many European and Global designations including Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture, UNESCO City of Film, European Green Leaf, European Region of Gastronomy. The company will work closely with Galway City Council and Galway County Council to deliver a collective creative vision for Galway..

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Projects

International Artistic Residency at Atelier Samuel Beckett in France 

Project Name: International Artistic Residency at Atelier Samuel Beckett in France  Project Partners: Galway Culture Company, Atelier Samuel Beckett, Gare St Lazare Ireland and the University of Galway Role of ...

Dear PrEUdence: A positive headspace in the EU

Project Name: Dear PrEUdence: A positive headspace in the EU Project Partners: Galway Culture Company, Maria Walsh MEP, ATU Galway School of Design & Creative Arts, European Parliament in Brussels ...

Feasibility Study for the Development of a Shared Island ‘Atlantic Region of Creative Content’ (ARCC) including Virtual Production Facilities in the Northern & Western & North-Western Region of Ireland

Project Name Feasibility Study for the Development of a Shared Island ‘Atlantic Region of Creative content’ (ARCC) including Virtual Production Facilities in the Northern & Western & North-Western Region of ...