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Patricia Forde • Festival Director 1992 is the Fifteenth Birthday of Galway Arts Festival. The brainchild of Ollie JeMings, the Festival first saw the light of day in 1978, its inaugural line-up including John McGahem, De Danaan and Ronnie Scott. The former two have made several return appearances as the Arts Festival has steadily expanded beyond anything its founders could have imagined as they plotted and organised that first tentative yet fateful event. It's worth pausing for a moment to reflect on the Galway in which that Festival occurred. Druid were still operating out of the tiny Fo'c'sle Theatre in Dominic St , the Arts Centre didn't even exist, Kennys was the only gallery worthy of the name and the very word "Festival" suggested little beyond Horse-racing or Oyster-swallowing. Today of course it's all very different. Galway Arts Centre operates out of two premises, new Gal111ries have opened in Bridge Mills, UCG, and Abbeygate St. (River-run). Druid are internationally-renowned and new theatre groups have emerg ed; Na Fanaithe, Punchbag, Galway Youth Theatre and, most spectacular of all, Macnas.
Of course, GAF cannot claim sole credit for this eruption or artistic talent but it has cer• tainly helped create the ideal conditions for its emergence. One or its greatest successes has been its ability to display, year in year out, that "arts festivals" needn't be high brow, elitist affairs but can appeal to large numbers of the public, while still embodying the very highest standards of artistic excel lence. Thanks to its imaginative program ming, featuring such unforgettable groups as Footsbarn, Els Comediants, and last year's Royal de Luxe, the people of Galway, includ· ing its businesspeople and administrators can clearly see the real worth of the Arts to the Community. Subsequently, support for the Festival from these sectors has grown over the years, enabling it to be ever more ambitious in both scale and diversity. The vital role played by all the Arts Festival sponsors c annot be under-estimated, whether they be bodies like the Arts Council, Galway Corporation or FAS, large firms like Northern Telecom, Thermo-King or Smith· wicks, or the many "Friends of the Festival",
There remains a real problem in terms of suitable venues, which has to be conclusively resolved in the near future if all the good work and progress is not to be wasted. Galway Arts Festival will continue to fea ture the very best in international and 'native' talent. Hopefully, the next 15 years will be every bit as exciting, vibrant and sue· cessful as the first 15 have been!