The Weekly on 23 February 2021: The arts in your area

[Community Arts Partnership]

The Weekly offers links to events and online offerings from arts organisations and community groups in Northern Ireland.

NOT SEEING THE FULL WEEKLY? CLICK HERE TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER Tuesday 23 February 2021 The Weekly offers links to online offerings from arts organisations and community groups, as well as tutorials and ideas about how we can all keep creative! If you have an item to submit for inclusion, please email us at: in...@capartscentre.com Stay safe everyone! 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 MORE FUNDING MORE OPPORTUNITIES Submit an event to the Weekly (Deadline: 3pm sharp each Tuesday) Dates listed may not be accurate, so please check with the organisation or event first. CAP NEWS Community Arts Partnership’s TRASH Fashion Cithrah Showcase Community Arts Partnership’s TRASH Fashion Programme – Update on Selah House Take Heart Make Art – the voices of our young poets The CAPtain’s Blog – Birthday celebrations and thanks Update on Community Arts Partnership’s TRASH Fashion Take Heart and Make Art NEWS NEW! Pathfinder 2021 Awards - Open for application - closing 22 Mar NEW! Creative Practitioner Bursary Programme - Open for applications - closing 22 Mar NEW! Enabling Growth Fund – closing 12 Mar i-Portunus 2020 – open for applications - closing 28 Feb (for music and literature) £10.86 million emergency funding offered to 168 arts and cultural organisations across Nl Multi Language Info Sheets On Census 21 - Helping everyone take part - 21 Mar Appointment of Chair, Vice-Chair and Members to the Board of the Arts Council NI £494,000 public funding awarded to musicians to help develop talent Arts Council publishes findings from 2019/20 Annual Funding Survey Arts Council announces £110,000 for arts projects benefitting older people £3.25 million for Individuals Emergency Resilience Prog.2 Coronavirus: Ulster University warns of creative sector impact Arts Council awards £1million to support the creative sector to safely re-open Culture, Languages, Arts and Heritage Support Programme 2020-2021 breakdown Carál Ní Chuilín announces £2 million funding for community based culture, arts and heritage projects National Lottery offers support to artists to develop new work Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Guidance Manual for Safe Reopening Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Free Advice Sessions SECTOR NEWS Visual Arts Ireland January/February News Sheet   Strand Arts Centre Launches Virtual Screenings With A Resonant Documentary About Martin Luther King Jr   Tinderbox Theatre’s online workshops – Pay what you can – Feb   A Mental Health Theatre Project – started 20 Feb   NEW! c21 Theatre Company Competition: Cover illustration needed for ‘The Reminiscence Poems’ Booklet – closing 26 Feb (EXTENDED)   China Now Conference – Cultural Exchange – 26 Feb   Collection Acquisitions Open Submission Scheme – closing 26 Feb   Arts Council invites artists to submit work for its Collection – closing 26 Feb   NEW! Echo Echo Festival Presents 2021 – to 27 Feb   British Youth Musical Theatre’s Online Auditions – to 27 Feb   NEW! NI Showcase - Jaipur Literature Festival - to 28 Feb   NI Science Festival Returns for 7th Year! - to 28 Feb   i-Portunus 2020 – open for applications - closing 28 Feb (for music and literature)   NEW! FREE Capacity Building Training Courses for Belfast Groups – Feb and Mar   NEW! Self-Care: A resource in a time of uncertainty – 1 Mar   NEW! Féile An Earraigh 2021 – Virtual Festival – 1 to 17 Mar   Open Call | Belfast Photo Festival 2021 (Submission Fee) – closing 5 Mar   Belfast Children’s Festival – 5 to 14 Mar   100 Years of Causeway! Creative Arts Competition – closing 6 Mar   NEW! Why Women’s Writing Matters: Festival of Women’s Writing 2021 – 6 to 12 Mar NEW! Enabling Growth Fund – closing 12 Mar   NEW! Ulster Orchestra seeks new Board Member - closing 12 Mar   IMBOLC International Arts Festival – to 19 Mar   NEW! Imagine! The Seventh Annual Belfast Festival of Ideas And Politics – 22 to 28 Mar   NEW! NI Writers Day - 23 Mar   OPEN CALL for creative writing – closing 11 Apr   Anthology Magazine Short Story and Poetry Competitions - closing 31 July   NEW! £94,000 awarded to d/Deaf and Disabled Artists   NEW! The Black Box’s ‘Gig Buddies’ project for people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism – Survey   Belfast Exposed Survey   Our Lives Our Voices – call out for participants   Dunseverick Primary School awarded funding for new harps   Warrenpoint band awarded funding   “Arsala Khan” – Remixed by Black Star Liner   DANCE 2021 is warming up! – Applications OPEN NOW for the national youth dance festival   Arts projects in Northern Ireland receive a boost from Bank of Ireland’s Begin Together Arts Fund   Kabosh Theatre Company - Call Out for Creative Collaborators and Drama Facilitators   £494,000 public funding awarded to musicians to help develop talent   Online activities from RNIB   English Conversation Project for Refugees   Matthew Rice – The Eventful Truth – A Poetic response to Peter Liversidge’s exhibition, Sign Paintings for Belfast   Arts Council publishes findings from 2019/20 Annual Funding Survey   Young Musicians’ Platform Award   Grayson’s Art Club Season 2 – open for submissions   Northern Ireland Opera relaunches the Northern Ireland Opera Studio paid training programme with opportunities for a wide range of creatives   Youth Programme launch: call for participants   NI Arts Projects Secure Funding for International Digital Collaborations   Restoration of Grand Opera House – Video   Maker Opportunities from Craft NI   Arts Council provides update to Communities Committee on impact of Covid-19   Paul Muldoon reads a new poem for the John Hewitt Society   Stendhal 2021 to celebrate 10th anniversary with two separate events   Northern Ireland’s Oldest Cinema turns 85 with the launch of Strand Stories   Gift Vouchers – Belfast Exposed   Stephen Sexton wins the Rooney Prize and Jim McElroy wins Francis Ledwidge award   Linda McKenna wins 2020 An Post Irish Book Awards Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year Award   New cohort of artists for PS² Freelands Artist Programme 2021-22   Preparing for Brexit | Trading and Customs – EORI Numbers   Community Tribal Drummers – available for workshops   Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Funding   Stage Beyond wins an Achates Philanthropy Prize UK   New Lodge Arts Lockdown “Boredom Buster” Book nominated for an Aisling Award   Buy Local Art Campaign – Call out For Submissions   Tinderbox Theatre Company’s ‘Motion 21’ programme   Through The Glass – c21’s Reminiscence Project    Organisations join up to promote Seven inclusive principles for disabled people in Arts & Culture   Arts Council of Northern Ireland's Weekly What’s On Guide   Wheelworks' ArtCart Restart - Make, Do, Create   Theatre Search – Spun Glass Theatre launch ‘Theatre Search’ in response to Covid-19   Fill Your Books! blog   The 2020 Rome Charter – promoting the right to participate in cultural life as a condition for a better society   Artists NI – for Freelance Artists   MA in Arts Management   Join the Northern Irish Composers Collective ONLINE ARTS & EVENTS NEW! Neither here, nor there, New Voices of Ireland Series 8 – 25 Feb Arts Council of Ireland, Centre for Creative Practices, Literature, Poetry NEW! Open House Presents The Court House Sessions – from 26 Feb Open House Festival NEW! Echo Echo Festival Presents 2021 – to 27 Feb Echo Echo Dance Company, Dance NEW! Féile An Earraigh 2021 – Virtual Festival – 1 to 17 Mar Féile An Earraigh “Before you go” – 2 to 4 Mar Kabosh Theatre Company, Theatre, Community Arts NEW! In Resonance: An Exhibition by Saffron Monks-Smith – 3 to 27 Mar ArtisAnn Gallery, Visual Arts Belfast Children’s Festival – 5 to 14 Mar Belfast Children's Festival NEW! ‘Through Our Eyes’ screening at BCF21 – 5 to 17 Mar DU Dance, Young at Art, Dance NEW! Why Women’s Writing Matters: Festival of Women’s Writing 2021 – 6 to 12 Mar Festival of Women's Writing, Women Aloud NI, Literature Turnabout – 6 to 14 Mar Belfast Children's Festival, Belfast Philharmonic Society, Dance, Maiden Voyage Dance NEW! IMMACULATE by Louise Mathews - 12 to 14 Mar Feile an Earraigh, Tinderbox Theatre Company IMBOLC International Arts Festival – to 19 Mar IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music The McCooeys – LIVESTREAM – 20 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music NEW! Imagine! The Seventh Annual Belfast Festival of Ideas And Politics – 22 to 28 Mar Imagine Belfast Festival NEW! NI Writers Day - 23 Mar Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Royal Society of Literature, Northern Ireland Writers Day, Literature, Poetry Aesthetic Distance by Vera Ryklova – to 25 Mar An Cultúrlann, Exhibition, Video, Visual Arts Strand Arts Centre Launches Virtual Screenings With A Resonant Documentary About Martin Luther King Jr. Strand Arts Centre, Film Online activities from RNIB RNIB (Royal National Institute for Blind People) Spanner in the Works Theatre Company – Scamwise Spanner In The Works New Lodge Arts – Amazing Buddies – Video New Lodge Arts, Community Arts Shared Music of Dalriada – Miss McLeod’s Reel Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Glens of Antrim Comhaltas, Mull of Kintyre Music Festival, Music Visual Arts Ireland – VAN Podcast – Episode 1 – Cornelius Browne and Frank Wasser Visual Arts Ireland The Duncairn Podcast available now! Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts, Podcast Buy Local Art Campaign – Call out For Submissions Golden Thread Gallery, Visual Arts Steven McNamara – Culture Lab at the Ulster Museum – ongoing Belfast Design Week, Ulster Museum Little Lullabies: A first opera experience for 0-18 month babies Northern Ireland Opera, Kids, Music Francois Matarasso’s Parliament of Dreams Website Community Arts Bluebell Arts Derry - SpeakEasy Spoken Word Events Online Bluebell Arts Project Bluebell Arts Derry – Creative Arts Videos Online Bluebell Arts Project Cultivating Voices – Live Open Mic Poetry Cultivating Voices, Poetry ABC Get Creative Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Kids The Carlingford/Duncairn Summer Sessions 2020 – episodes 1 to 3 Carlingford Heritage Centre, Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts, Music ‘Well-Being Through Photography’ – Staff Engagement Project Belfast Exposed, Photography, Well-being BookTrust NI have launched a new digital hub, BookTrust Home Time BookTrust ONLINE TRAINING & WORKSHOPS Tinderbox Theatre’s online workshops – Pay what you can – Feb Tinderbox Theatre Company NEW! Smashing Times – Creative Connections – Online Workshops and Discussions – throughout Feb to 22 Mar Smashing Times, Imagine Belfast Festival, Central Good Relations Fund Creative Writing Workshop: How to Write a Short Story – 23 Feb to 30 Mar The Ardhowen, Creative Writing, Literature IMBOLC International Arts Festival – to 19 Mar IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music Voluntary Arts’ Online Creative Learning Events – 22 Mar Voluntary Arts Open Arts presents ZoomFest! - 17 Workshops - 22 Mar to 1 Apr Open Arts NEW! NI Writers Day Workshop - 23 Mar Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Literature, Northern Ireland Writers Day, Poetry, Royal Society of Literature Zoom, Paint, Create – Book Now – to 31 Mar Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre NEW! Zoom, Create, Collaborate with Wheelworks Arts Wheelworks Arts Dún Uladh music classes – available now Dún Uladh, Music Online Creative Writing Workshops - every Thursday The Writers Centre, Creative Writing, Literature Cork Community Art Link Comic-Making Workshops! Cork Community Art Link, Illustration, Visual Arts Let’s Craft NI with Kelli Johnston Craft, Visual Arts Learning in Lockdown – Online Traditional Music Classes Dún Uladh The Write Time! Virtual Creative Writing & Poetry Workshops – Mondays ISLAND Arts Centre, Poetry, Creative Writing ONLINE RESOURCES Creative Kids Activity Pack! Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre Wheelworks Arts' 'Make, Do, Create Festival 2020' catch up Wheelworks Arts Visual Artists Help Desk – free for member and non-members – every Wednesday Visual Artists Ireland Keeping Safe Online Volunteer Now #GetCreativeAtHome campaign Get Creative At Home Campaign My Wellread is FREE to join Kids, Literature, No Cost Free audible audio books Kids, Literature ArtsProfessional’s Covid Culture ArtsProfessional ONLINE COMMUNITY ARTS Pyjama Boy – Short Film University of Atypical A Restless Art – Guest Blog – “Art as vaccination against the Covid misery” A Restless Art, Community Arts New Lodge Arts – Amazing Buddies – Video New Lodge Arts, Community Arts New Lodge Arts Lockdown “Boredom Buster” Book nominated for an Aisling Award Community Arts, New Lodge Arts Black Moon on Vimeo Black Moon, Disability Arts Meet Share Dance (Video) Open Arts, Community Arts, Disability Arts Beatndrum Samba Band Beatndrum Samba Band Open Arts – Community Choir Open Arts, Disability Arts, Music, Open Arts Community Choir Access All Areas Podcast University of Atypical Holiday Scam Spanner in the Works Theatre Company Luminous Soul – “When I Hear Music” Open Arts, Dance, Disability Arts Terra Nova Productions Terra Nova Productions, Intercultural Arts Arts for All – Quarantine Heroes Arts for All Sticky Fingers Arts Sticky Fingers Arts Greater Shantallow Community Arts Greater Shantallow Community Arts Spanner in the Works Online Theatre Spanner in the Works Theatre Company Northern Visions Television Northern Visions TV The Poetry Programme Poetry Prison Arts Foundation Prison Arts Foundation Play Resource Centre Play Resource Centre Please note: the following items are listed in chronological order ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY menu / next OPPORTUNITIES NEW! c21 Theatre Company Competition: Cover illustration needed for ‘The Reminiscence Poems’ Booklet – closing 26 Feb (EXTENDED) c21 Theatre Company Antrim’s Junction Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops The Junction Retail and Leisure Park Recreational Engagement Programme Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, WheelWorks TRAINING & WORKSHOPS POSTPONED Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School - 2020 Blackbird Theatre, Kids ARDS AND NORTH DOWN menu / prev / next EVENTS AND ONLINE NEW! Open House Presents The Court House Sessions – from 26 Feb Open House Festival Kathryn Rudge & Christopher Glynn - 6 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Theatre The Scott Flanigan Trio – LIVESTREAM – 13 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music The McCooeys – LIVESTREAM – 20 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Paddy and Nigel On Tour – rescheduled to – 26 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Comedy Ida Pelliccioli Piano Recital – 16 May Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Ruby! - rescheduled - 29 May (update) Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Theatre Lore & Saffyre: Take Me Home – A Night of Contemporary Irish & American Music – LIVESTREAM – 5 June Portico Arts & Heritage Centre Friends In Low Places – 10 July Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Ryan McMullan 2021 Tour - 4 Sept Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Shane Todd: Someone Told Me - 9 Oct Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Comedy Simon & Garfunkel Through The Years - 16 Oct Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music The Bjorn Identity – 6 Nov Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Dolly & Shania: Queens of Country – 29 Jan 2022 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Chamber Philharmonic Europe – 2 Apr 2022 Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Jake O’Kane: Walks The Line – date TBC Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music OPPORTUNITIES Online Clinic – How to Apply for Funding with Neva Elliot (Ards & North Down only) Visual Arts Ireland Bangor’s Bloomfield shopping centre offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops Bloomfield Shopping Centre TRAINING & WORKSHOPS SAME/Difference – To See Ourselves – Sign Up Today – Feb to Mar Ards and North Down Borough Council, Creative Writing, Photography, Quotidian – Word on the Street Online Relief Printmaking Course with Clinton Kirkpatrick Seacourt: Print Workshop, Visual Arts Community Tribal Drummers – available for workshops Community Tribal Drummers, Music Traditional Heritage Crafts – ongoing Welig Heritage Crafts ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON menu / prev / next EVENTS AND ONLINE “Arsala Khan” – Remixed by Black Star Liner Beyond Skin ABC Get Creative Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Kids TRAINING & WORKSHOPS POSTPONED Lough Neagh Writers Meetings – every Tuesday Lurgan Town Hall, Literature POSTPONED Moneypenny’s Blacksmith Workshop – every Saturday Moneypenny’s Blacksmith, Workshops BELFAST #SaveCQ menu / prev / next EVENTS AND ONLINE Paul Moore – Fionnglas – to 25 Feb Golden Thread Gallery, Visual Art Street View by Tristan Poyser – to 27 Feb Belfast Exposed, Photography On the Shoulders of Giants – An Exhibition by Harry McMahon – to 27 Feb ArtisAnn Gallery, Visual Arts LOVE ART BUY ART – through Feb, Mar Golden Thread Gallery “Before you go” – 2 to 4 Mar Kabosh Theatre Company, Theatre, Community Arts NEW! In Resonance: An Exhibition by Saffron Monks-Smith – 3 to 27 Mar ArtisAnn Gallery, Visual Arts Belfast Children’s Festival – 5 to 14 Mar Belfast Children's Festival NEW! ‘Through Our Eyes’ screening at BCF21 – 5 to 17 Mar DU Dance, Young at Art, Dance Turnabout – 6 to 14 Mar Belfast Children's Festival, Belfast Philharmonic Society, Dance, Maiden Voyage Dance NEW! Imagine! The Seventh Annual Belfast Festival of Ideas And Politics – 22 to 28 Mar Imagine Belfast Festival Aesthetic Distance by Vera Ryklova – to 25 Mar An Cultúrlann, Exhibition, Video, Visual Arts GoGo Penguin / European Tour 2020 – 29 Apr The Black Box, Music, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – 29 Apr to 9 May Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival PAUSE - to 14 June Interactive Art, Visual Arts Seamus Heaney – Homeland – to 3 Aug Belfast Exposed, Photography Paul Muldoon reads a new poem for the John Hewitt Society The John Hewitt Society Make Magical Memories on the Maritime Mile this Christmas Maritime Mile The Carlingford/Duncairn Summer Sessions 2020 – episodes 1 to 3 Carlingford Heritage Centre, Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts, Music Duncairn Arts' Virtual Cabaret Duncairn Arts Centre, Music, Poetry, Visual Arts JOBS AND PAID OPPORTUNITIES Assistant Curator – Full Time Permanent – closing 3 Mar The MAC Creative Learning Manager – Full Time Permanent – closing 3 Mar The MAC Thrive Audience Development is looking for a Chair – closing 29 Mar Thrive Audience Development OPPORTUNITIES NEW! Ulster Orchestra seeks new Board Member - closing 12 Mar Ulster Orchestra Picture This – 23 Mar Belfast Exposed Our Lives Our Voices – call out for participants Kids in Control Blast106 Radio – Call for Artists Blast106, Local Radio Acting & Singing – 15th century Style – open now Terra Nova Productions, Intercultural Arts Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope Buy Local Art Campaign – Call out For Submissions Golden Thread Gallery, Visual Art The People’s Gallery – Call out for submissions – ongoing Belfast Design Week Calling All North Belfast Creatives! Duncairn Centre for Culture & Arts, The 174 Trust The Barracks is available to hire Kabosh Theatre Cityside Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops Cityside Retail and Leisure Park Platform Arts - Studios Available Platform Arts Alzheimer’s Society’s Side by Side volunteering – request for volunteers Alzheimer's Society, Volunteering FUNDING NEW! Pathfinder 2021 Awards - Open for application - closing 22 Mar Belfast City Council NEW! Creative Practitioner Bursary Programme - Open for applications - closing 22 Mar Belfast City Council Community Arts, Culture and Heritage Fund – ongoing Community Foundation Northern Ireland TRAINING & WORKSHOPS Photography Courses in 2020/2021 – Feb Belfast Exposed, Photography NEW! Smashing Times – Creative Connections – Online Workshops and Discussions – throughout Feb to 22 Mar Smashing Times, Imagine Belfast Festival, Central Good Relations Fund NEW! FREE Capacity Building Training Courses for Belfast Groups – Feb and Mar Volunteer Now New Photography Courses – Feb to May Belfast Exposed, Photography Level 1: Learn the Basics of Video – 27 Feb Belfast Exposed Open Arts presents ZoomFest! - 17 Workshops - 22 Mar to 1 Apr Open Arts NEW! Come and Sing Online! – Mozart’s Requiem – 20 Mar Belfast Pilharmonic Society, Music New Photography Courses – to May Belfast Exposed, Photography Level 4: Design & Develop a Photography Project – to 1 July Belfast Exposed, Photography Mentoring programme with New Lodge Arts New Lodge Arts Online Creative Writing Workshops - every Thursday The Writers Centre, Creative Writing, Literature POSTPONED Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School Blackbird Theatre, Kids Call for ArtCart Artists/Creative facilitators - ongoing Wheelworks CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS menu / prev / next EVENTS AND ONLINE 100 Years of Causeway! Creative Arts Competition – closing 6 Mar Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre The Bishops Trail from a Different Perspective Virtual Exhibition – to 30 Apr L.C.D.I Adult Disability Day Centre, Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre Stendhal 2021 to celebrate 10th anniversary with two separate events Stendhal Festival of Art Shared Music of Dalriada – Miss McLeod’s Reel Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Glens of Antrim Comhaltas, Mull of Kintyre Music Festival, Music JOBS AND PAID OPPORTUNITIES Invitation to Tender for: Ballycastle town centre street art project – closing 23 Feb Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council TRAINING Zoom, Paint, Create – Book Now – to 31 Mar Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre DERRY AND STRABANE menu / prev / next EVENTS AND ONLINE A Mental Health Theatre Project – started 20 Feb Solace House, Sole Purpose Productions The Druids - 27 Feb The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy, Music IMBOLC International Arts Festival – to 19 Mar IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music Curatorial Ethics Workshop – 19 Mar Void Gallery Van returns to the Forum - 30 April and 1 May Millennium Forum, Music, The City of Derry Jazz Festival Imelda May announces rescheduled concert date for 2021 City of Derry Jazz Festival - 2 May Millennium Forum, Music Bluebell Arts Derry – Creative Arts Videos ONLINE Bluebell Arts Project Bluebell Arts Derry - SpeakEasy Spoken Word Events Online Bluebell Arts Project JOBS AND PAID OPPORTUNITIES EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCAL ARTISTS! – closing ASAP In Your Space Circus Bookkeeping Support Needed The Playhouse Health Promotion Officers x4 – closing 22 Feb Verbal Arts Centre Call for Technicians Centre for Contemporary Art OPPORTUNITIES Youth Programme launch: call for participants Void Gallery Studio2 – Open Call Greater Shantallow Community Arts, Studio 2 City Centre Office Space To Rent The Playhouse Theatre Space and Rooms for Hire Waterside Theatre Your Space to Create The Playhouse Rooms Available for Hire Eighty81 Room hire Holywell DiverseCity Community Partnership TRAINING NEW! Online Workshop to accompany Vera Ryklova’s “Aesthetic Distance” Exhibition – 27 Feb Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin Void Gallery Workshops – 27 Feb Void Gallery Slowtime – Online Workshops with David Beatty – 6 Mar Void Gallery English Conversation Project for Refugees Sole Purpose Productions, Community Arts FERMANAGH AND OMAGH menu / prev / next OPPORTUNITIES Fermanagh & Omagh Council introduce their Arts & Culture Database Fermanagh and Omagh District Council TRAINING Creative Writing Workshop: How to Write a Short Story – to 30 Mar The Ardhowen, Creative Writing, Literature Dún Uladh music classes – available now Dún Uladh, Music LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH menu / prev / next EVENTS AND ONLINE Community Circus Lisburn’s weekly circus skills videos Community Circus Lisburn OPPORTUNITIES NEW! Re:New Wallace #4 – Open Call – closing 9 Mar R-Space Gallery, Visual Arts Lisburn’s Bow Street Mall offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops Bow Street Mall Call-out for volunteers R-Space Gallery, Visual Arts MID AND EAST ANTRIM menu / prev / next EVENTS AND ONLINE POSTPONED The Braid Real Music Club – last Friday of each month The Braid, Music POSTPONED The Braid Comedy Club – last Saturday of each month The Braid Museum and Arts Centre, Comedy FUNDING Good Relations Grants Scheme Mid and East Antrim Borough Council MID ULSTER menu / prev / next FUNDING Community Local Festivals Grant Mid Ulster District Council Good Relations Grant Mid Ulster District Council NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN menu / prev / next OPPORTUNITIES Hanging Space for Artists or Photographers Castlewellan Library, Photography, Visual Arts FUNDING DEADLINES i-Portunus 2020 – open for applications - closing 28 Feb (for music and literature) Creative Europe NEW! Enabling Growth Fund - closing 12 Mar Department for Communities, The ARN Foundation, The Community Foundation NEW! Pathfinder 2021 Awards - Open for application - closing 22 Mar Belfast City Council NEW! Creative Practitioner Bursary Programme - Open for applications - closing 22 Mar Belfast City Council MORE FUNDING menu / prev / next Travel Awards - ongoing Arts Council of Northern Ireland Corporate Responsibility Fund - ongoing Belfast Harbour BLF People and Communities - ongoing Big Lottery Fund BFI Film Fund - ongoing British Film Institute Clanmil Community Fund - ongoing Clanmil Housing The Elephant Trust - ongoing The Elephant Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - Arts Funding - ongoing Esmée Fairbairn Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries Programme - Opens 20 Oct 2021 Jerwood Arts Main Grants - ongoing Clore Duffield Foundation Open Grants Programme - ongoing Clothworkers Foundation Telecommunity Fund - ongoing The Community Foundation Northern Ireland Enkalon Foundation General Fund – ongoing Enkalon Foundation Small Grants Scheme - ongoing Foyle Foundation Community Grant Programme - ongoing Halifax Foundation NI Matched Giving Scheme - ongoing Halifax Foundation NI Sharing Heritage - ongoing Heritage Lottery Fund Arts Access and Participation Fund - ongoing Paul Hamlyn Ideas and Pioneers Fund - ongoing Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund - ongoing Paul Hamlyn Foundation Creative Paths Bursaries - ongoing Play Resource Development Awards - ongoing Prince's Trust Improving Lives - ongoing The Henry Smith Charity PRS International Showcase Fund - ongoing PRS Foundation Strengthening Communities - ongoing The Henry Smith Charity Charitable Grants - ongoing The Honourable Irish Society Grants for charitable and not-for-profit organisations - ongoing The Rayne Foundation Community Centres and Village Halls Grants - ongoing Trusthouse Charitable Foundation Grants Programmes - ongoing Trusthouse Charitable Foundation Small Grants Programme - temporarily closed Arts Council of Northern Ireland 2021/22 Central Good Relations Fund – currently closed Central Good Relations Fund, Executive Office Arts Organisations Emergency Programme reopened – currently closed Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Department for Communities Common Call Fund - currently closed Common Call Artists Emergency Programme - temporarily closed Arts Council of Northern Ireland Arts Grant - currently closed Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund Carn Hill Community Benefit Fund - currently closed Carn Hill Community Benefit Fund The Wesleyan Foundation – Large Grants Programme - currently closed Wesleyan Foundation Audience Fund - currently closed British Film Institute Commissioning Programme for Creative Innovation – currently closed Arts Council of Northern Ireland Rural Needs Small Grants Programme – currently closed Arts Council of Northern Ireland MORE JOBS, EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES menu / prev NEW! Neither here, nor there, New Voices of Ireland Series 8 – 25 Feb Arts Council of Ireland, Centre for Creative Practices, Literature, Poetry Live Now Commissions – closing 26 Feb The Lowry Share Your Voice – Get Involved in Cork St. Patrick’s Day 2021 Cork Community Art Link Development Officer, NI Museums Council – closing 1 Mar Northern Ireland Museums Council Studio Wayne McGregor – Studio Programme Curator - closing 8 Mar Studio Wayne McGregor Percent for Art Commission – closing 2 April Coláiste Chú Chulainn Beir Bua – Poetry and Art – February Issue Avant Garde Art, Poetry Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival – Round Up Smashing Times 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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