The key aim of the pilot "Live Performance Support Scheme" was to assist commercial venues, producers and promoters of live performances to provide employment to workers in the creative industries while also producing high quality live performances for the public.
The grant funding allocated allowed venues, technicians, artists, producers, promoters and other creatives to ensure performances continued during COVID-19, while adhering to public safety guidelines, whatever level of lock-down restrictions or reduced capacities were in place.
The success of the pilot scheme can be seen in a recent report published by the “Live Venue Collective” who received over €1 million in funding under this pilot scheme. The collective stated in their report that they presented a total of 405 shows of the highest cultural quality, involving 2110 employees, 655 artists, over 416,259 online audience members and 24,000 minutes of digital content created. The Live Venue Collective report also published a full list of artists who received funding from their grant allocation.
It should also be noted that thousands of creatives were involved in the pilot scheme, right across Ireland, and a full list of recipients of grant funding and their locations has already been published on the Department website;
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/a415f-minister-martin-announces-recipients-of-funding-under-the-5-million-pilot-live-performance-support-scheme/#
While the listing of all creatives is not being published by the Department, the Deputy will find the majority of the live streamed events supported by the LPSS free on line. These carry credits for performers and "behind the scenes" creatives, organisations and individuals and they can be viewed by everyone.
