Arts and Culture Award for Glenamaddy Theatre Festival

Glenamaddy Theatre Festival were this year’s proud winners of the Arts and Culture Award at the annual Cathaoirleach’s Awards, which were presented by Cllr. Michael ‘Meogie’ Maher in the Meadow Court Hotel, Loughrea, on Saturday, May 27th The Arts and Culture Award aims to recognises groups who enhance their local area by promoting arts and culture, with the annual awards celebrating the best of the county’s goodwill and generosity through volunteerism.

Given Glenamaddy’s rich tradition in drama over the past sixty years, this award is well deserved, especially considering the great success with which the festival committee recently undertook the mammoth organisation and staging of the 69th All-Ireland Confined Drama Finals in April of this year.

Glenamaddy Theatre Festival are delighted to be this year’s award winners. The committee were very fortunate to have age diversity in its

Executive and General committees, linking in with most of all local clubs and committees including GAA and soccer clubs. All very graciously reached out in support, and offered assistance during the finals. The local schools, both primary and secondary, partook in the art competition, and their teachers were enthusiastically involved in creating awareness of this specific area of the arts and the significance of the All-Ireland Finals being held on their doorstep.