MAKING WAVES

Contents
(with acknowledgement to
our friends in Rijeka 2020)
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Introduction
& General considerations
express our compelling desire in 2020 to make
cultural waves across Galway City and County using
our strong cultural profile to create a European
programme that is conceptually based and in tune
with our citizens desire to ensure a very significant
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Contribution
to Long Term Strategy
as anticipated by Galway’s ambitious
Cultural Strategy to 2025 and to build
essential cultural capacity, monitoring and
evaluation, to ensure that the surge of our
creative force will be measured by its
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European
Dimension
and which will display our commitment to being
culturally diverse and embracing of European
intercultural dialogue through our multiple coproduction
partnerships and our ground-breaking
virtual presence around the world, delivering
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Cultural
& Artistic Content
that displays vision, scale, excellence with a
European sensibility, and most importantly,
resonates with the citizens of Galway who
demanded that this great cultural event must speak
to them and enrich their lives and bind them to
Europe long into the future, proving that Galway’s
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Capacity
to Deliver & Outreach
has been enhanced not just for 2020 but has
formed new foundations for the long-term
viability and sustainability of Galway’s cultural
life in terms of physical infrastructure, creative
capacity, audience development and
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Management
practices, thus ensuring the highest professional
standards in governance, transparency in delivery
and effective risk management and providing
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Additional
Information
to summarise our USPs, to thank you for
reading our proposal and to leave you with
a tale of two Queens and their bulls!
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SHORT-LISTED CITY
EUROPEAN CAPITAL
OF CULTURE
Galway 2020 / Bid Book Two 1