€15,000 In Government Funding Allocated To Help Promote Night Time Activities In Wicklow

The funding allocation will support 51 organisations nationwide including the Arklow Maritime Museum and Russborough House and Gardens in Blessington.

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D., has today allocated awards of just over €620,000 to museums and galleries under the After Hours at the Museum Grant Scheme announced earlier this year. The scheme aims to support museums and galleries to open their doors later by hosting innovative events to encourage people to enjoy a more diverse nightlife in our towns and cities across the country.

Events due to take place include:

• EPIC will host 4 concerts in November and December of Choir Performances and Spoken word.
• Airfield Estate in Dundrum will host a series of concerts and late evening tours.
• The Glucksman in Cork, will host five evenings of Art, Poetry, Music and DJs from Sep 28th-Oct 26th, running on Thursday evenings.
• UCD Classical Museum, in Dublin, will host 6 events including poetry, storytelling, art, and music until mid-November.
• Hunt Museum Limerick, running 9 nights of secret events, clues will be left through their social media in the week coming up to the events.
• 14 Henrietta Street, in Dublin City, will provide tours, live drawing, music from all eras of the house's life, a journey through the city's poetry and tenement plays.
• Russborough House in Co. Wicklow, will host a performance of Firestorm by Rogu. The Dark Maze will run for four nights and they will host a Halloween storytelling evening
• Dublin Castle will host a ball in November and will also run 6 late night tours.
• Joyce Tower Museum in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin are to run a week of late night events in September, including readings and musical performances.
• National Famine Museum in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, will host a Samhain Ecotherapy Workshop and also Murder Mystery Nights.
• The Dock in Carrick On Shannon, Co. Leitrim, The Northern soul exhibition will open late for two weekends and have guided tours, a film screening and a DJ set. 
• Ballinglen Museum of Art in Co. Mayo, will run a series of events which will consist of theatre, musicians, actors and storytellers.
• Tipperary Museum of Hidden History will host music sessions in the museum from local musicians and artists from September to October.

Funding was also made available to the National Cultural institutions to support new initiatives and build on some of the pilots initiated from last year.