Second Round GASD Awards
10 July 2006
The projects and organisations who had received funding awards were announced at a special GASD Reception, in conjunction with the 10th Anniversary celebrations of the award winning Ceolas Summer School on South Uist. It was especially appropriate to announce the awards at Ceolas as the summer school received funding for both a Musician in Residence and a Trainee Manager from the GASD programme.
The evening saw a host of figures from the Gaelic arts enjoying a great night with the Uist community, with plenty of good food and drink, not to mention great company. The party then moved to St Peters for a Ceolas concert where they were entertained with an evening of Gaelic song was provided by the likes of Rona Lightfoot, Kathleen Macinnes and Cathy Ann Macphee.
“The GASD funding scheme has been, by definition, an opportunity to encourage new and innovative artistic endeavour in the Gaelic Arts. The range and quality of applications received in response to the invitation for Round 2 applications has been tremendous and demonstrates the energy and vitality across all art forms in the Gaelic Arts at the moment. The GASD fund is very small compared to the total amount of funding applied for, but this will reinforce the case for both Bord na Gaidhlig and The Scottish Arts Council to continue to support and develop the Gaelic Arts”.
The Forum is chaired by Agnes Rennie
