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CLICK HERE TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER Tuesday 5 February CAP AT THE ARC ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY ARDS AND NORTH DOWN ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON BELFAST CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS DERRY AND STRABANE FERMANAGH AND OMAGH LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH MID AND EAST ANTRIM MID ULSTER NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN REST OF IRELAND MORE FUNDING MORE OPPORTUNITIES SUBMIT AN ITEM TO THE WEEKLY (Deadline: 3pm sharp each Tuesday) CAP NEWS Community Arts Partnership Focus Group Discussion on ACNI’s Strategic Framework for the Arts 2019-2024 – 18 Feb ArtsMatterNI Brexit Statement from ArtsMatterNI ARTS RESOURCE CENTRE Lit Up – A New Monthly Poetry Event – 21 Feb SECTOR NEWS Public consultation is now open for Draft 5-year Strategic Framework for Developing the Arts 2019-2024 Imagine Festival – (25 to 31 Mar) – Launch – 19 Feb MORE SECTOR NEWS NEW! New Film Project ‘Relocate’ invites people from Dungannon to Open Workshop – 6 Feb   The Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Expressions of Interest for Four Commissions - closing 8 Feb   NEW! British Youth Music Theatre auditions – 10 Feb   NEW! Arts Council Strategic Framework, 2019-2024 – Consultation Workshops – Belfast 11 Feb, Derry/Londonderry 13 Feb, Armagh 14 Feb   NEW! Rewriting the Future – Creating New Worlds with Post-Conflict Visionary Fiction – 11 to 16 Feb   Together: Building a United Community Engagement Forum – 12 Feb   The Prince’s Trust Get Started with Fashion Programme – 13 to 22 Feb   Partnership Programmes 2019/20 Now Open for Applications - closing 15 Feb   NEW! BBC Ten Pieces Coaching Scheme – applications close 15 Feb   NIMHAFF: Call Out for an image that represents ‘Moving Forward’ – closing 15 Feb   Open Call | Collection Open Submission Scheme, Arts Council Northern Ireland – closing 15 Feb   Lit Up – A New Monthly Poetry Event – 21 Feb   Two Minute Masterpiece 2019 – closing 25 Feb   NEW! Belfast City Council – Culture Forum II 2019 – 28 Feb   Belfast Photo Festival: 2019 Open Submission - closing 6 Mar   Belfast Children’s Festival 2019 – 8 to 13 Mar   Scratchworks – 9 Mar   MAC International – Shortlist and Exhibition –  to 31 Mar 2019   The Mairtín Crawford Award is open for submissions – closing 1 May   Get Creative Festival – 11 to 19 May 2019   NEW! New Cultural Strategy for Belfast 2020-2030:Focus Panels   NEW! MA in Arts Management   NEW! New Lodge Arts are seeking Performers, Circus Acts, Musicians, Actors for this year’s Spring Awakening Event   NEW! Theatre for Young Audiences Northern Ireland Showcase   NEW! Daniele Rustioni to become new Chief Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra   Cafe Culture for Kids – call for submissions for organisations to provide creative entertainment for children   Mervyn Smith and Hannah Anderson, Community artists recognised with Arts Council legacy awards   Public consultation is now open for Draft 5-year Strategic Framework for Developing the Arts 2019-2024   2018 Vision Express NI Young Artist of the Year awards   Lisburn Harmony Earlybirds – call out for members   Sole Purpose Productions – Plays for Social Impact – For Sale Now   A Year in the Arts 2017-2018   Join the Northern Irish Composers Collective   The Lexicon Writing Group – call-out for members   Movement for Cultural Democracy – Discussion Paper on Lottery Funding   Story tellers wanted: “Aitch” or “Haitch”?   Resilience Fund   Five-year strategic plan for the Arts in Northern Ireland 2019-2024   Young Network Leaders programme – open for applications   Join the Reading Round every Friday!    Alzheimer’s Society’s 'Side by Side' project – request for volunteers Please note: the following items are listed in chronological order ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY menu / prev / next EVENTS Age on Stage! – 5 and 6 Feb The Old Courthouse Is That Too Hot? – 15 Feb The Old Courthouse TRAINING Young people and adult drama workshops - Tuesdays and Saturdays St. Gerard's Hall, Blackbird Theatre, Theatre ARDS AND NORTH DOWN menu / prev / next EVENTS NEW! Time to Talk Day Songwriters – 7 Feb Deep Down Arts and Well-Being, Music Frank – 9 Feb Portico, Theatre Borrowed Tales – to 17 Feb Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Playing Maggie – 23 Feb Portico, Theatre Beyond the Sea | Lelia Henry – to 23 Feb Ards Arts Centre, Visual Arts NEW! And Thus: A Stream Wept in the Garden – through to 23 Feb Ards Arts Centre, Visual Art The Trials of Oscar Wilde – 2 Mar Theatre Freak Show – 15 Mar Portico, Theatre Ards and North Down Borough Council’s latest Arts & Heritage Guide is out now – to Apr Art for Children, Crafts, Music, Visual Arts Loaf Pottery – Autumn/Winter Programme Loaf Pottery JOBS Open Call | Tyrone Guthrie Centre Studio Residency – 25 Feb The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Seacourt – Artist/Printmaker Facilitator – ongoing Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking NEW! Deep Down Arts and Well-Being – call out for volunteers for the Lived Experience Arts Festival Deep Down Arts and Well-Being, The Ivy Bar FUNDING Arts and Heritage Funding – Arts Project Funding – closing 15 Feb Ards and North Down Borough Council Individual Artists Grant – closing 25 Feb Ards and North Down Borough Council Youth Arts Training Bursary – closing 25 Feb Ards and North Down Borough Council Heritage Grant – closing 25 Feb Ards and North Down Borough Council TRAINING Wood cut and Monoprint – 17 Feb Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Ards and North Down Borough Council’s Outreach Taster Programme – starts 19 Feb Donaghadee Leisure Centre, Crafts General Printmaking – 19 Feb Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Introduction to Printmaking for over 50’s – 20 Feb Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Salt Etch – 2 Mar Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Copper Etch Introduction – 23 Mar Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Cyanotype – 23 Mar Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Screen Printing – 30 Mar Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Textile Printing with Heat Reactive Dyes – 7 and 19 Apr Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Aquatint – Copper Etching – 13 Apr Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking Photo Intaglio – 27 and 28 Apr Seacourt: The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking NEW! Dementia Friendly Art Workshops Ards Arts Centre, Disability Arts ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON menu / prev / next EVENTS Open Mic Night – last Friday of every month Abbey Lane Theatre Armagh NEW! Arts Council Strategic Framework, 2019-2024 – Consultation Workshops – Armagh - 14 Feb Arts Council of Northern Ireland Flash Fiction at St Patrick’s Festival – 14 Mar Mulbery Bistro, Flash Fiction Armagh, Literature and Verbal Arts, Mulbery Bistro Crossing Permissions – to 27 Mar Millenium Court Arts Centre, Performance Art OPPORTUNITIES MADS! are looking for Volunteers Moyraverty Arts & Drama Society Creative office space in Lurgan BNL Productions TRAINING Lough Neagh Writers Meetings – every Tuesday Lurgan Town Hall, Literature Moneypenny’s Blacksmith Workshop – every Saturday Moneypenny’s Blacksmith, Workshops BELFAST #SaveCQ menu / prev / next EVENTS Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun – 6 Feb to 2 Mar ArtisAnn Gallery, Visual Art NEW! Real Sketchy – 7 Feb The Black Box, Visual Art, Drawing, Seedhead Arts, The Question of Feeling At Home – 7 to 23 Feb PS² Gallery, Visual Art Alternative Perspective | Karl Hagan and Aimee Melaugh – 7 to 28 Feb Platform Arts, Visual Arts NEW! Exhibition – MUAMUA – 7 Feb to 3 Mar The Black Box, Visual Art NEW! British Youth Music Theatre auditions – 10 Feb British Youth Music Theatre, The Lyric Theatre NEW! Street Art Walking Tour – 10 Feb Dark Horse, Seedhead Arts, Street Art NEW! Arts Council Strategic Framework, 2019-2024 – Consultation Workshops – Belfast 11 Feb Arts Council of Northern Ireland Look Closer – 13 Feb to 25 Apr An Culturlann, Theatre Subject to Change | Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish – 14 Feb to 7 Apr Naughton Gallery, Visual Arts Radar Station – St Vitus Dance – 16 Feb The Pavilion, ArtisAnn Gallery Imagine Festival – (25 to 31 Mar) – Launch – 19 Feb Imagine Festival Lit Up – A New Monthly Poetry Event – 21 Feb Arts Resource Centre, Lit Up, Literature and Verbal Arts, Poetry Breaking the Mould – Linda Conroy –  to 23 Feb Belfast Exposed, Photography NEW! BookTrust Conference – 5 Mar Crescent Arts Centre, BookTrust, NEW! Belfast Children’s Festival – 8 to 13 Mar Belfast Children's Festival, Art for Children NEW! Scratchworks – 9 Mar Belfast Children's Festival NEW! International Touring – 10 Mar Belfast Children's Festival NEW! Collective Voices, Collective Plays – 11 Mar Belfast Children's Festival NEW! Pitch Perfect – 11 Mar Belfast Children's Theatre NEW! Creative Accounting – 12 Mar Belfast Children's Festival The Body Politic – to 14 Mar Catalyst Arts, Visual Arts Arts Council NI Collection – Exhibition – to 16 Mar Belfast Exposed, Photography NEW! ‘The Invisible In-between: An Englishman’s Search For The Irish Border’ – 28 Mar Belfast Exposed Gallery, Photography NEW! The Waterworks – John Price – 4 Apr to 27 Apr Engine Room Gallery, Visual Arts Making Her Mark – to 14 Apr 2019 Ulster Museum, Visual Art Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing at Ulster Museum – to 6 May Ulster Museum Creative Writing Workshops – every Thursday 174 Trust, Creative Writing, Poetry Mini Moon – on selected Saturday afternoons The Black Box, Disability Arts, Music JOBS Programming Officer – Full Time – closing 11 Feb The MAC Youth Engagement Assistant – closing 15 Feb Oh Yeah Music Centre, Music NEW! Funding Assistant (Maternity Cover) – closing 15 Feb Northern Ireland Screen NEW! Casual Technician LX - closing 15 Feb Grand Opera House Expression of interest for Co-Directors – closing 22 Feb Catalyst Arts Artist in Residence – 2 positions – closing 22 Feb Millenium Court Arts Centre OPPORTUNITIES Charity Art Exhibition – closing 20 Mar South Belfast, Exhibition Join the Reading Round every Friday! Golden Thread Gallery, Literature, Verbal Arts Alzheimer’s Society’s Side by Side volunteering – request for volunteers Alzheimer's Society, Volunteering TRAINING Photography Courses – to Feb Belfast Exposed, Photography Photography Workshops – through Feb Belfast Exposed, Photography Belfast Print Workshop Courses – Feb through Mar Belfast Print Workshop, Printing NEW! All About Tales – 9 Feb Art for Children, Young at Art Screenprinting for Graphic Design & Typography – 9 and 10 Feb Belfast Print Workshop, Screenprinting NEW! Babaithe Cultuir – Spring term – 12 Feb to 12 Mar Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Art for Children NEW! All about Art – 23 Feb Young at Art Collagraph Printing – 23 and 24 Feb Belfast Print Workshop Belly Dance Craft Teacher Training – to Mar 2019 Dance Colour Monoprinting – 23 and 24 Mar Belfast Print Workshop NEW! Creative Adventures for Children – to 6 July Ulster University, UNIQUE, Kids Young people and adult drama workshops - Tuesdays and Saturdays St. Gerard's Hall, Blackbird Theatre, Theatre The Lexicon Writing Group – call-out for members The Lexicon Writing Group, Literature CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS menu / prev / next EVENTS Blurring The Edge – 8 Feb to 23 Mar Flowerfield Arts Centre, Visual Art NEW! Snow | James Hughes and John Brown – 8 Feb to 30 Mar Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Visual Arts JOBS Artist in Residency – closing 15 Feb Flowerfield Arts Centre, Visual Arts FUNDING Culture Arts and Heritage Grant Scheme Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Youth Creative Skills Bursary Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council TRAINING Alternative Energies – to 12 Apr DU Dance, Dance DERRY AND STRABANE menu / prev / next EVENTS NEW! Two Minute Masterpiece – Info Session – 8 Feb Nerve Centre, BBC Opened Ground – Preview – 9 Feb The Void Gallery, Visual Art Opened Ground – 12 Feb to 30 Mar The Void Gallery, Visual Art NEW! Arts Council Strategic Framework, 2019-2024 – Consultation Workshops – Derry/Londonderry 13 Feb Arts Council of Northern Ireland Partnership Programmes 2019/20 Now Open for Applications - closing 15 Feb Nerve Centre Director’s Tour - Opened Ground - 20 Feb The Void Gallery, Visual Art Urgencies – to 9 Mar Centre for Contemporary Art, Exhibition Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger – to 16 Mar 2019 Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Visual Arts NEW! Troubles Art | Group Exhibition – through to 29 Apr Nerve Visual, Visual Art JOBS Call for Technicians Centre for Contemporary Art Centre for Contemporary Art – call out for Board Members Centre for Contemporary Art NEW! Creative Media Trainer – closing 15 Feb Nerve Centre OPPORTUNITIES Call for Volunteers (Ad Hoc) Centre for Contemporary Art Volunteers for Board of Directors – ongoing Carnival Arts, In Your Space Circus Theatre Space and Rooms for Hire Waterside Theatre City Centre Office Space to Rent The Playhouse Your Space to Create The Playhouse Rooms Available for Hire Eighty81 Room hire Holywell DiverseCity Community Partnership TRAINING Theatre of Witness Workshops – to Mar 2019 The Playhouse FERMANAGH AND OMAGH menu / prev / next EVENTS 1 FT SQ Expo – 8 Feb to 9 Mar Hambly and Hambly, Visual Art NEW! Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition - through to 2 Mar Waterways Ireland Headquarters, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Visual Art FUNDING The Challenge Fund – Arts and Culture Arts Council of Northern Ireland Grant Aid: Project Development Fermanagh and Omagh District Council TRAINING Weekend Ceramic Workshop at Ashbrooke House – 8 to 10 Mar Ashbrooke House, Ceramics Introduction to Authentic Chinese Cooking – 23 Mar An Creagan Intermediate Photography – 6 Apr An Creagan, Visual Art Japanese Watercolours – 13 Apr An Creagan Felt Making Workshop – 14 Apr An Creagan LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH menu / prev / next EVENTS Carson’s Last Stand – 15 and 16 Feb Belvoir Players, Theatre NEW! New Wallace Collection # 2 – ‘The Hope Bell’ by Vincent McDonnell – to 1 Mar R-Space Gallery, Visual Arts Eye on the ISLAND – Gallery Tours ISLAND Arts Centre, Visual Arts OPPORTUNITIES Young Network Leaders programme – open for applications Young Leaders Network Call-out for volunteers R-Space Gallery, Visual Arts Call-out for Community Group’s artworks ISLAND Arts Centre Lisburn Harmony Earlybirds – call out for members Community Choir, Lisburn Harmony Ladies Choir, Music TRAINING Precious Porcelain Valentine Heart – 9 Feb R-Space Gallery Chinese Ink & Watercolour – 23 Feb ISLAND Arts Centre, Visual Arts Living With Loss, Writing With Heart with Nuala McKeever – 3 Mar ISLAND Arts Centre Revamp & Restyle Fashion / Recycling – 9 Mar ISLAND Arts Centre Silver Jewellery – 23 Mar ISLAND Arts Centre Crafternoon Tea: Make a Vintage Skirt in a Day – 30 Mar ISLAND Arts Centre Millinery with Grainne Maher – 13 Apr Fashion, ISLAND Arts Centre Sculptural Jewellery – 11 May ISLAND Arts Centre Arm Knitting a Blanket – 18 May ISLAND Arts Centre Printmaking – 25 May ISLAND Arts Centre Never Too Old to Join the Circus – 25 May ISLAND Arts Centre, Circus Decorate a Bunny with Nigel Cheney – 15 June ISLAND Arts Centre MID AND EAST ANTRIM menu / prev / next NEWS 2018 Vision Express NI Young Artist of the Year awards The Braid Arts Centre, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Vision Express EVENTS Midtown Sounds – through Feb 2019 Music, The Braid Arts Centre Northern Ireland Young Artist of the Year Exhibition – to 9 Feb 2019 The Braid Arts Centre Ballymena Festival for Music, Speech & Dance – to 16 Mar 2019 The Braid Arts Centre Drawn Together Thursdays New Leaf Hub, Visual Arts The Braid Comedy Club – last Saturday of each month The Braid Arts Centre, Comedy OPPORTUNITIES The Braid Real Music Club – last Friday of each month Music, The Braid Opening Doors Arts Programme – through to Mar 2019 The Braid Arts Centre FUNDING Good Relations Grants Scheme Mid and East Antrim Borough Council MID ULSTER EVENTS NEW! New Film Project ‘Relocate’ invites people from Dungannon to Open Workshop – 6 Feb DU Dance, Dance FUNDING Community Local Festivals Grant Mid Ulster District Council Good Relations Grant Mid Ulster District Council TRAINING DU Dance – Suteminis – 8-11 years – to 10 Apr DU Dance, Dance DU Dance – Youth Engagement Project – Alternatives – to 12 Apr DU Dance, Dance DU Dance – Youth Engagement Project – Sutemos – ongoing DU Dance, Dance NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN menu / prev / next EVENTS Gavin Porter – 8 Feb to 2 Mar Down Arts Centre The Suitcase – 10 Feb Down Arts Centre, Theatre Fil Campbell - 15 Feb Down Arts Centre Is That Too Hot – 23 Feb Down Arts Centre, Theatre Stripey Socks – Curious World – 21 July Newcastle Promenade, Street Theatre JOBS Operations Manager – closing 8 Feb Sticky Fingers OPPORTUNITIES Call out for photographers in Mourne Region Photography TRAINING Wire Work Class – through Feb Down Arts Centre Pottery – through Feb Down Arts Centre Illustration – through Feb Down Arts Centre, Kids Fashion Club! – through Feb Down Arts Centre, Kids Draw and Paint – through Feb Down Arts Centre Painting – through Feb Down Arts Centre Intermediate Dressmaking – through Feb Down Arts Centre Creative Writing Workshop – through Feb Down Arts Centre, Literature I have a story in me… – through Feb Down Arts Centre Pottery for Beginners – through Feb Down Arts Centre The Thursday Singers – through Feb Down Arts Centre Rock School – through Feb Down Arts Centre, Kids Beginners Dressmaking – through Feb Down Arts Centre Ossia Guitar – through Feb Down Arts Centre, Music Sewing/Felting – through Feb Down Arts Centre Kids Pottery classes – through Feb Down Arts Centre, Kids An Introduction to Knitting – through Feb Down Arts Centre Dance Classes with Jennifer Rooney – from 8 Feb Down Arts Centre Let’s Talk – 9 Feb Down Arts Centre Hand Embroidered Scented Lavender Decorations – 9 Feb Down Arts Centre Tiffany Stained Glass – 16 Feb Down Arts Centre, Crafts Wild Dark Trees – 23 Feb Down Arts Centre, Crafts MORE FUNDING Small Grants Arts Council NI Travel Awards Arts Council NI Corporate Responsibility Fund Belfast Harbour People and Communities Big Lottery Fund Empowering Young People Big Lottery Fund Audience Fund British Film Institute Film Fund British Film Institute Clanmil Community Fund Clanmil Housing Main Grants Clore Duffield Foundation Main Grants Programme Clothworkers Foundation Small Grants Programme Clothworkers Foundation Telecommunity Fund Community Foundation NI Micro grant programme Community Foundation NI Grants Enkalon Foundation Small Grants Scheme Foyle Foundation Community Grant Programme Halifax Foundation NI Matched Giving Scheme Halifax Foundation NI Conferences, lectures and publications Henry Moore Foundation Research and development Henry Moore Foundation Sharing Heritage Heritage Lottery Fund Arts Grant Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund Arts Access and Participation Fund Paul Hamlyn Ideas and Pioneers Fund Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund Paul Hamlyn Foundation Creative Paths Bursaries Play Resource Brighter Communities Power NI Development Awards Prince's Trust Improving Lives The Henry Smith Charity Strengthening Communities The Henry Smith Charity Charitable Grants The Honourable Irish Society Grants for charitable and not-for-profit organisations The Rayne Foundation Community Centres and Village Halls Grants Trusthouse Charitable Foundation Grants Programmes Trusthouse Charitable Foundation Small Grants Fund Wesleyan Foundation MORE JOBS & OPPORTUNITIES menu / prev Creativity & Change masterclasses – Feb to June Creativity & Change Join the Northern Irish Composers Collective Northern Irish Composers Collective Lighting, Props and Costumes for hire DU Dance Connect to Success NI Department for the Economy NI Share on facebook Tweet forward by email Disclaimer: Community Arts Partnership cannot be held responsible for the content of externally linked sites. 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