Culture Night Late is designed to support events that will begin after 9pm and continue late into the night on Culture Night, Friday 19 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 award has two strands.

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:

Strand 1: Culture Night Late Flagship Events

Strand 1 will support innovative, large-scale, flagship late-night events, beginning after 9pm, 
with an audience capacity of over 500 people. The lead applicant must be either a local 
authority arts office, arts centre, arts organisation, arts festival or production company.
Applications must be made in partnership and involve a local authority arts office, either as 
lead applicant or project partner.

Each local authority arts office can only submit one application as lead applicant or 
supporting partner under Strand 1. The maximum you can apply for is €16,500

In 2025 it is anticipated that up to eight awards will be made under Strand 1.

Strand 2: Culture Night Late Events

Strand 2 will support innovative late-night events for a unique audience experience, 
beginning after 9pm, with an audience capacity of over 200 people. The lead applicant must 
be either a local authority arts office, arts centre, arts organisation, arts festival or 
production company.

Applications must be made in partnership and involve a local authority arts office, either as 
lead applicant or project partner.

Each local authority arts office can only submit one application as lead applicant under 
Strand 2. The maximum you can apply for is €5,000–€8,000.

In 2025 it is anticipated that up to ten awards will be made under Strand 2.

Deadline is 5.30pm, Thursday, 6 March 2025.

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

Information clinic

There will be a Culture Night Late 2025 Information Clinic on the Thursday 6 February from 10.30am - 12 (noon).

Please click here to register for the clinic. 

Access Supports

If you have a disability and would like help applying, contact our Access Officer as early as possible before the deadline.

Phone:      

• 01 618 0200
• 01 618 0243

Email: access@artscouncil.ie

You will be able to apply for additional costs if you have access needs relating to your application.

Note: applications will only be accepted through the Arts Council’s Online Services site. If you have not used Online Services before you must register for a login to be able to apply for funding. It is important that you register as early as possible as it may take up to five working days for your registration to be processed.