The Weekly on 14 January 2020: The arts in your area

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CLICK HERE TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER Tuesday 14 January 2020 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) CAP NEWS NEW! CAP’s welcome to Deirdre Hargey, new Minister for Communities Annagh Social Farm – Project Update Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing – Hall of Fame Seamus Heaney Award for Achievement – Hall of Fame SECTOR NEWS Waterways Storymaking Festival 2019/20 – Annual Photographic Competition – closing 17 Jan   Commissioning Programme for Creative Innovation – closing 17 Jan   Rural Needs Small Grants Programme – closing 17 Jan   Arts in Education Portal Documentation Award 2020 – closing 24 Jan   Creative Industries Seed Fund - closing 27 Jan   NEW! Imbolc International Arts Festival - 29 Jan to 9 Feb   New Funding for Northern Ireland Creative Employment Programme - closing 7 Feb   The Castlegate Prize – closing 14 Feb   Make Music Day – Networking Event– 14 Feb   Pilot Premium Payments Programme – closing 13 Mar   NEW! Visual Artists News Sheet – Jan/Feb 2020   Making Music appoints first Northern Ireland Manager   NEW! Community artist, Darren Ferguson, recognised with Anne O’Donoghue Award   NEW! Csilla Toldy, local poet and film-maker, selected for International Video Poetry Festival   Belfast Community Planning Partnership – Community Plan Information   Voting starts in Irish Festival Awards   Leading artists honoured with £15,000 awards by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland   Artists appointed to design and create award pieces for the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards   Shortlist Announced for the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards   CRAFT NI exhibits works from Arts Council Contemporary Art Collection   Creative Schools Partnership Evaluation Report   International Showcase Fund – ongoing   Making Music – List of Groups in Northern Ireland   Antrim’s Junction Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops   Cityside Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops   Bangor’s Bloomfield Shopping Centre offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops   Lisburn’s Bow Street Mall offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops   MA in Arts Management   Join the Northern Irish Composers Collective Please note: the following items are listed in chronological order ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY OPPORTUNITIES 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 Beginners Guitar - starts 9 Jan (10 weeks) Eyre Studio, Music Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School - 2020 Blackbird Theatre, Kids ARDS AND NORTH DOWN menu / prev / next EVENTS Colin Murphy : Colinization Tour – 25 Jan Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Comedy Ards Arts Centre Welcomes Selected Works from Arts Council NI Collection – to 25 Jan Ards Arts Centre, Visual Art Organ Recital with Matthew Owens – 26 Jan Portico Arts & Heritage Centre Wretches: Revolutions, Rights & Wrongs - 1 Feb Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Lassus - 22 Feb Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music The Rapparees - 28 Feb Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music The Bjorn Identity - 7 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Piano Recital with Cahal Masterson - 15 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Into Film: The Biggest Little Farm – 24 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre Ruby! - 28 Mar Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Theatre Lore & Saffyre: Take Me Home – 4 Apr Portico Arts & Heritage Centre Jake O’Kane: Walks The Line – 30 May Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Friends In Low Places – 6 June Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Dolly & Shania: Queens of Country – 20 June Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music JOBS Position of Artist in Residence – ongoing Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council OPPORTUNITIES Bangor’s Bloomfield shopping centre offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops Bloomfield Shopping Centre Guided Tour of Portico Heritage, Portico TRAINING Painting Your Way through the 20th century - 10 week course Boom Studios ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON menu / prev / next EVENTS Being There – Hugh O Connor – to 18 Jan Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Visual Art Evolve | Arts Care 2020 - 26 Jan to 29 Feb Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Exhibition. Arts Care Flash Fiction Armagh – 1 Feb Flash Fiction Armagh, Literature, Literature and Verbal Arts Stray Sod Artworks | Orlaith Cullinane – to 22 Feb Armagh County Museum Life Through The Lens: Ballydown Photography Club – to 29 Feb Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Ballydown Camera Club Open Mic Night – last Friday of every month Abbey Lane Theatre Armagh OPPORTUNITIES Creative office space in Lurgan BNL Productions TRAINING Pottery Throwing & Hand Building Workshop – 18 Jan Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre Life Drawing – 21 Jan to 11 Feb Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre Woodturning – 25 Jan Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre 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 Opera for Lunch – Soup and Song – 15 Jan The Black Box, Out to Lunch Festival Val McDermid – 16 Jan  The Black Box NEW! Live Skills Project – 16 Jan Belfast Metropolitan College, British Council Lunch with Julie Andrews – 16 Jan Music, The Black Box, Out to Lunch Festival NEW! Keep Dry – MFA Year Interim Exhibition – to 17 Jan Catalyst Arts Glasshouse : Berlin Trilogy – 18 Jan The Black Box NEW! Miscast - 18 Jan The Lyric Theatre, Music Resilient Earth | Pauline Little at FCBStudios - to 19 Jan Exhibition, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios NEW! Street Art Walking Tour – 19 Jan Dark Horse, Seedhead Arts, Street Art Seth Lakeman – 22 Jan  Empire Music Hall Remembering Bunting Festival 2020 -  Official Launch – 23 Jan Dún Uladh Burns Night - 23 Jan Libraries NI, Ulster Scots Community Network, Literature, Verbal Arts Xylouris White – 23 Jan The Black Box Cup O’Joe – 23 Jan The Black Box, Music Jane Weaver – 25 Jan Ulster Sports Club, Music Cassetteboy VJ Show – 25 Jan The Black Box, Out to Lunch Festival NEW! We are a frame in time being played in a different space – to 25 Jan PS² NEW! Calamity Jane Sing-A-Long – 26 Jan The Strand Arts Centre Réalta with support Luke Daniels – 26 Jan Out to Lunch Festival, The Black Box Out to Lunch Festival – to 26 Jan Out to Lunch Festival NEW! Anne Frank: Parallel Stories – 27 Jan The Strand Arts Centre When it Rains, it Pours – to 31 Jan Platform Arts Gallery, Exhibition NEW! The Open Mic Night for Original Music – 2 Feb Music Paths, Music Exhibition – Jude Bailey-O’Hare – to 2 Feb The Black Box NEW! Kinky Boots the Musical  – 4 and 9 Feb The Strand Arts Centre NEW! Colouring The Past - 5 Feb to 31 Mar Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Exhibition Maritime Mile Giant Explorers' Trail – 15 Feb Titanic Foundation “MURKTACKTISS” by Gerard Carson – to 21 Feb Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Exhibition, Visual Art Abstracts by dmcq – to 21 Feb Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Exhibition, Visual Art Catherine Bohart – Lemon – 30 Apr Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival GoGo Penguin / European Tour 2020 – 30 Apr The Black Box, Music, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival The Handsome Family – 7 May Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Connected Voices Choir – every Wednesday Accidental Theatre Creative Writing Workshops – every Thursday 174 Trust, Creative Writing, Poetry JOBS Community Engagement Officer - closing 17 Jan Linen Hall Library, National Museums Northern Ireland, Nerve Centre NEW! Director of Music - closing 17 Jan Down and Connor Diocesan Trust Community Engagement Officer (PT) - closing 17 Jan National Museums Northern Ireland, Nerve Centre, Linen Hall Library Marketing & Sales Coordinator (Freelance) – closing 17 Jan Belfast Photo Festival NEW! Payroll and Finance Assistant - closing 20 Jan The Lyric Theatre Marketing Executive – Permanent Full Time – closing 20 Jan The MAC Head of Events (full-time Feb – June) – closing 23 Jan Belfast Film Festival Inclusion / Audience Development Co-Ordinator (full-time) – closing 23 Jan Belfast Film Festival NEW! Administrative & Project Assistant – closing 24 Jan The John Hewitt Society NEW! Funded PhD Researcher – closing 7 Feb Ulster University Call out for Young Film Programmers – ongoing Queen's Film Theatre OPPORTUNITIES NEW! Belfast Philharmonic Choir Open Rehearsals - 15 Jan Belfast Philharmonic Choir Craft NI – latest offers Craft NI 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 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 NEW! Andersonstown Music School – Music Classes Andersonstown Traditional and Contemporary Music School Call for ArtCart Artists/Creative facilitators - ongoing Wheelworks The Belly Dance Academy Belfast is now open for enrolment - starting now Belly Dance Academy, Shakti Wellness Studio Creative Writing Workshops – First Tuesday of the month Falls Road Library, Libraries NI Advanced Lithography with Raquel Amat Parra – 6 week course from 8 Jan Belfast Print Workshop Youth Dance Theatre Classes – Belfast Boys – commences 11 Jan Crescent Arts Centre, DU Dance Level 1: Introduction To Your Digital Camera – 11 and 18 Jan Belfast Exposed, Photography Level 3: Landscape Photography – 11, 18 and 25 Jan Belfast Exposed, Photography NEW! Wire Bending for Costume – 18 and 19 Jan Beat Carnival NEW! Photography Classes – Feb Belfast Exposed Winter Photography Courses - through to Feb Belfast Exposed Gallery Collagraph Printmaking with Ivan Frew – 8 and 9 Feb Belfast Print Workshop Colour Linocut with Jonathan Brennan – 22 and 23 Feb Belfast Print Workshop Level 4: Design & Develop a Photography Project – First Thursday of Every Month – to July Belfast Exposed, Photography Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School - 2020 Blackbird Theatre, Kids CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS menu / prev / next EVENTS NEW! Singin' In The Rain - Dementia Friendly Screening - 22 Jan Flowerfield Arts Centre, Film NEW! A Bump Along The Way - 30 Jan Flowerfield Arts Centre, Film NEW! Princess Mononoke - 1 Feb Flowerfield Arts Centre, Film, Kids NEW! Dreamer's Space by Corrina Askin - 17 Feb Flowerfield Arts Centre, Visual Arts NEW! The Science of Harry Potter - 17 Feb Flowerfield Arts Centre, Kids NEW! The Science of Star Wars - 17 Feb Flowerfield Arts Centre, Kids NEW! True Confessions –Music and Dance Day for Older People – 19 Feb Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre NEW! Tenx9 – Love – 21 Feb Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre NEW! The Twilight Music Sessions presents: Trad Sessions with Kern – 22 Feb Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Traditional Music NEW! World Illustration Awards Exhibition – through to 23 Feb Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre NEW! Whiskey Galore! - Dementia Friendly Screening - 26 Feb Flowerfield Arts Centre, Film NEW! The Salterello Trio - 29 Feb Flowerfield Arts Centre, Music NEW! Beard and Herington - from the iconic band Steely Dan - 14 Mar Flowerfield Arts Centre, Music NEW! Embracing Human Rights: Conflict Textiles’ Journey – to 12 Apr Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre FUNDING Culture Arts and Heritage Grant Scheme Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Youth Creative Skills Bursary Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council TRAINING Alternatives: Youth Dance Theatre Classes in Ballymoney – commences 17 Jan Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre, DU Dance Alternative Energies – Youth Dance Theatre Classes in Ballymoney – commences 17 Jan DU Dance, Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre NEW! The Saturday Animation Club - 8 Feb to 14 Mar Flowerfield Arts Centre, Animation, Kids DERRY AND STRABANE menu / prev / next EVENTS Poetry evening with spoken word artist Frank Rafferty – 15 Jan The Void Gallery NEW! The Great Unwashed, an exhibition by Damien Duffy – 17 Jan to 15 Feb Wild Tulip Gallery Remembering Derek – 18 Jan The Void Gallery The Walled City: 400 Years – to 26 Jan Tower Museum, Visual Art NEW! IMBOLC Festival - The Camino Voyage - 29 Jan Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Film NEW! IMBOLC Unsigned - 30 Jan Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music NEW! IMBOLC Festival - Bitches Brew - 2 Feb Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music NEW! IMBOLC Festival - Luke Daniels & Rihab Azar - 5 Feb Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music NEW! IMBOLC Festival – Festival Club – 7 Feb Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music Blood Brothers 2020 Tour - 3 to 7 Mar Millennium Forum, Music, Theatre ‘Conversations With Roddy Doyle’ – 2 June Millennium Forum JOBS Call for Technicians Centre for Contemporary Art OPPORTUNITIES DEEDS Volunteering Opportunities – Mondays Hillcrest House DEEDS Volunteering Opportunity – Tuesdays Old Library Trust Health Living Centre Call for Volunteers (Ad Hoc) Centre for Contemporary Art 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! IMBOLC Festival Lifelong Learning: Acting Workshop - 1 Feb Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival NEW! IMBOLC Festival – Tin-Whistle Workshop With Kieran Munnelly – 9 Feb Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music FERMANAGH AND OMAGH menu / prev / next FUNDING Grant Aid: Project Development Fermanagh and Omagh District Council TRAINING Youth Theatre – starts 8 Jan (6 weeks) Ardhowen Theatre, Drama, Theatre Saturday Theatre Club - starts 11 Jan (12 weeks) Ardhowen Theatre, Drama, Theatre Set & Sean Nos - starts 15 Jan (12 weeks) Strule Arts Centre, Dance LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH menu / prev / next EVENTS NEW! Horizon opens – Sharon Adams – to 7 Feb R-Space Gallery Eye on the ISLAND – Gallery Tours ISLAND Arts Centre, Visual Arts FUNDING Making Art in Communities (MAC) 2020/2021 – closing 31 Jan Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council The John Hewitt International Summer School – Residency Award 2020 – closing 29 May John Hewitt International Summer School The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary 2020/2021 – closing 29 May Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council OPPORTUNITIES Position of Artist in Residence – Self Funded – closing 31 Jan Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Lisburn Historic Quarter Arts Group Urban Regeneration – ongoing Lisburn Historic Quarter Arts Group Urban Regeneration 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 The Braid Comedy Club – last Saturday of each month The Braid Museum and Arts Centre, Comedy OPPORTUNITIES The Braid Real Music Club – last Friday of each month Music, The Braid FUNDING Good Relations Grants Scheme Mid and East Antrim Borough Council MID ULSTER menu / prev / next EVENTS Art From The Lough Shore - to 31 Jan Burnavon Theatre, Exhibition FUNDING Community Local Festivals Grant Mid Ulster District Council Good Relations Grant Mid Ulster District Council TRAINING Suteminis: Youth Dance Theatre Classes in Dungannon – commences 11 Jan The Junction Retail and Leisure Park, DU Dance Sutemos – Youth Dance Theatre classesin Dungannon – commencing 15 Jan Dungannon Youth Resource Centre, DU Dance NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN menu / prev / next OPPORTUNITIES Call Out for Artists – ongoing Down Arts Centre Hanging Space for Artists or Photographers Castlewellan Library, Photography, Visual Arts FUNDING DEADLINES Commissioning Programme for Creative Innovation – closing 17 Jan Arts Council of Northern Ireland Rural Needs Small Grants Programme – closing 17 Jan Arts Council of Northern Ireland The Elephant Trust - closing 26 Jan The Elephant Trust Creative Industries Seed Fund - closing 27 Jan Arts Council of Northern Ireland New Funding for Northern Ireland Creative Employment Programme - closing 7 Feb Northern Ireland Creative & Cultural Skills Pilot Premium Payments Programme – closing 13 Mar Arts Council of Northern Ireland Empowering Young People - closing 31 Mar 2021 Big Lottery Fund MORE FUNDING menu / prev / next Small Grants - ongoing Arts Council of Northern Ireland 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 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 Jerwood Bursaries - currently closed (open 22 Jan 2020) Jerwood Bursaries Arts Grant - currently closed Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund i-Portunus – currently closed Creative Europe 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 MORE JOBS, EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES menu / prev Stéphanie Heckman Visual Facilitation Visual Facilitation 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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