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Sponsors
Ulster Bank
In 2008, Ulster Bank Group announced a new sponsorship deal with the Festival. With an investment of over £1 million over three years, the support of the Festival marks a growing commitment by Ulster Bank Group to be at the heart of the performing arts sector across the island of Ireland.
Speaking about the sponsorship, Cormac McCarthy, Ulster Bank Group Chief Executive said:
“I have always believed that one of the roles of a large business and employer such as Ulster Bank is to contribute to the communities in which we do business. One of the important ways we can do this is through engaging with people who enrich our lives through arts and sports. A healthy society will not only express itself through its industries and institutions, but also through its literature, drama, dance, art and music.
“The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s is one of the clearest expressions of renewed confidence in Northern Ireland as it chooses to position itself prominently and positively among its neighbours in Europe and beyond. The Festival shows Belfast continues to be an attractive destination not just for tourists but also for long term inward investors.
“Belfast is punching well above its weight. I would find it difficult to find a city of comparable size anywhere else which boasts an international-class orchestra, theatres, museums, visual arts galleries, concert halls and music venues as plentiful and of such high quality as are evident in Belfast. These are the essential components which investors look for. They want vibrancy and expression and a high quality of life, something the arts with all their range of entertainment, provocation and emotion bring to the city. This range is personified by the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s.”
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
The Arts Council is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland. It is the main support for artists and arts organisations, offering a broad range of funding opportunities through our Exchequer and National Lottery funds.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is the Festival’s main public funder and longest running partner.
“One of the lessons from the festival is that public subsidy of the arts makes good economic sense”, said Roisín McDonough, Chief Executive of the Arts Council. “A relatively small investment in the arts goes a very long way indeed and can mean all the difference to the success of our arts organisations, to their ability to lever additional funds from other sources, and to their capacity to generate substantial return to the local economy.”
For more information visit www.artscouncil-ni.org
Queen’s University
A thriving sporting and cultural scene plays an ever increasing role in ensuring that Queen’s University is highly regarded as a modern, dynamic and progressive organisation. It offers students, staff and the wider public with which it engages the total “Queen’s Experience”.
From the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s to the QFT, from the Naughton Gallery to the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, from Queen’s Sport to the School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen’s University offers access to a unparalleled wealth of sporting and cultural activity. In addition to the University’s reputation as one of the leading research driven universities within the UK, it is this “Queen’s Experience” that represents us on a local, national and international stage.
For more information visit Queen's in the Community
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