The Weekly on the 30th of June 2026: The arts in your area

[Community Arts Partnership]

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

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CLICK HERE TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER Tuesday, 30th of June 2026 If you have an item to submit for inclusion, submit it here or just email us at: in...@capartscentre.com SECTOR NEWS 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 FUNDING DEADLINES MORE OPPORTUNITIES Submit an event to the Weekly (Deadline: 3pm sharp each Tuesday) CAP NEWS Announcing the Longlist for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2026 NEW! The launch of the ImmerseHER Project – Photos Artwork from the Joining the Dots Project featured as part of Fermanagh Mental Health Awareness Week CAPtain’s Blog – Don’t Scrap the Play Resource Warehouse – a plea and petition May Day Belfast 2026 recap – photos CAPtain’s Blog – Fool me twice… expect the worse Community Arts Partnership – ‘Sharing Songs, Unforgettable Voices’ Gala at Stormont Sharing Songs, Unforgettable Voices - Video Dolmens Interwoven subgroup embarks on an arts project to raise awareness of marine litter CAP and The ARC have Moved! Caroline Shimmons and Elaine McComb are working on the CEMENT project with the METIS Initiatives CIC in Castlewellan Community Arts Partnership seeks YOUR input about our information services (5-min Survey - Google form)  CAP’s Arts Resource Centre – Rooms available for hire in the centre of Belfast Community Arts Partnership – Breathe Project and Online Resource Buy copies of CAP's publications on our ebay store SECTOR NEWS PETITION: Save Play Resource: protect Belfast's capital of childhood creativity (links to change.org) National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Major Individual Artists – closing 20 July National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Artists’ International Development Fund – closing 30 July National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Artists’ International Development Fund (Orgs) – closing 30 July National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Project Funding for Individuals – closing 30 July National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Creative Progression Scheme – closing 20 Aug Arts Council of Northern Ireland Annual Review 2025 Arts Council: Rural Engagement Arts Programme Evaluation SECTOR NEWS PETITION: Save Play Resource: protect Belfast's capital of childhood creativity (links to change.org)   Beyond Skin – Support for Visa for Afghan musician Soraya Hossaini   Ulster Youth Orchestra perform at prestigious Young Euro Classic Festival Berlin   Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble Beijing to Belfast   Fighting Words – NI Young Writers take centre stage at Belfast Book Festival   Wheelworks Create Against Hate NI Initiative   eduSOIL – Design for Change – I Can Challenge   Belfast Trust’s Royal Victoria Hospital awarded three-year grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to preserve and document its historic legacy with ‘RVH 125’ project   Five Northern Ireland projects receive funding from the Four Nations International Fund   Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s ‘All-In’ collaboration recognised at Arts Professional Awards in London   ForM Sculpture Exhibition 2026 Winners Announced   Visual Artists’ News Sheet – June Edition   Audience research has new focus at Arts Council NI   Meet Beat Carnival's New Board Members   Spin: New Music for Violin and Orchestra from Northern Ireland by Darragh Morgan    3rd Edition of the Working Safely in a Youth Club – Free Copy available   MAC Website Survey   John McCann Foundation – Survey – Artists and Ill Health or Injury   Replay Theatre Company announces international collaboration with swedish production houses Estrad Norr and Folkteatern for Rotviska   Arts Council England Cultural Tax Reliefs Impact Review   Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland (CPOI) – Resource for Arts Practitioner   €2m Shared Island investment to support cross-border creative collaboration   Northern Ireland Screen – Creative Industries New Entrants programme (CINE)   Creative Lives – Get involved in the National Year of Reading with the ‘Go All In’ campaign   Paper Hearts – A Short Film Celebrating Connection, Creativity, and Deaf Culture   eduSOIL – Art for Change – Racial Violence Processing Tool – Available Now   Digital Arts Academy – Summer Programme – Special Offers – 2026 – July/Aug   eduSOIL - Art for Change – Online – In Response to Racial Violence and Social Upheaval – throughout June   Flax Art Studios – New Artist Studios available from 1 July   Design Hothouse Residency by Belfast Design Week and Blick Studios – closing 3 July   Stendhal Festival 2026 – 2 to 4 July   Merrow Hotel and Spa – Time Inspires Every Story – A Creative Competition for Local Artists and Storytellers – Submissions close 3 July   Delivery of Omagh Music Festival 2026 – Expressions of Interest now open! – closing 8 July   eduSoil - Art for Change Showcase – 10 July   The 145th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition Call for Entries is Now Open – closing 14 July   NEW! Belfast Tradfest launches its Full 2026 Programme – 26 July to 2 Aug   The Radcliffe Trust – Heritage & Crafts Fund – Open for applications – closing 31 July   Source Writing Prize 2026 – closing 1 Aug   Mobile Digi Hub – Bringing Digital Innovation to Rural Communities – Mobile Labs on the Move – available 17 to 28 Aug and 14 to 21 Sept   Belfast Mela is turning 20 and you’re invited to the city’s biggest birthday party! – 22 to 30 Aug   Ó Bhéal’s 14th Poetry-Film Competition is open for submissions – closing 31 Aug   eduSOIL – Be The Change Summit – 26 to 29 Nov – register by 10 Sept   NEMO – Northern European Mobility Opportunity 2026 – closing 18 Sept    RNIB NI Community Connection – updated bimonthly ONLINE COMMUNITY ARTS & EVENTS Northern Visions Television Northern Visions TV Please note: the following items are listed in chronological order. ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY menu / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Flax Gallery – Amanda Montgomery – Fragments of Life and Nature – 6 July to 31 Aug Mossley Mill, Flax Art Studios, Visual Art Spinning Yarns Festival 2026 – 29 Aug Theatre at the Mill, Spinning Yarns Festival WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Decorate a Bird Box with Decoupage – 1 Aug Antrim Castle Gardens, Visual Arts ARDS AND NORTH DOWN menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE NEW! Creative Peninsula 2026 is now live and open for bookings Ards Arts Centre and North Down Museum Ards and North Down Borough Council Announces Vibrant Arts and Heritage Summer Line-Up Ards and North Down Borough Council Space Theatre at SERC – Out of the Box – 8 and 9 July Space Theatre Exhibition | Ade Adesina at Seacourt Print Workshop – to 25 July Seacourt Print Workshop Bangor Castle to Welcome Antiques Roadshow – 26 July Bangor Castle NEW! The Salty Scrimshaws – 1 Aug Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music 13th Open House Festival Announced – 1 to 31 Aug Open House Festival NEW! Paul Rose – Geordie Guitarist – 7 Aug Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music New Exhibition at North Down Museum Celebrates 100 Years of the Ulster Automobile Club – to 9 Aug North Down Museum NEW! Bach, Bows and Arrows! – An Audience with Julian & Jiaxin Lloyd Webber – 29 Aug Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music Aspects Festival announces participation in the Southbank Centre’s A Poet In Every Port project with ambassador Roger McGough – to 26 Sept Aspects Festival WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Flexible Mosaic Workshops – 10-Week Studio Course – starts 1 July (to 2 Sept) Blue Cube Arts, Visual Arts ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon borough – Artisan Food and Craft Markets Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre’s New Season brochure – to Aug 2026 Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre John Hewitt International Summer School – 27 July to 1 Aug John Hewitt International Summer School, Literature, The Market Place Theatre Armagh Among Communists: A Memoir Sinéad Morrissey in conversation with Maureen Boyle – 27 July John Hewitt International Summer School, Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre NEW! Millennium Court – Wear Your Courage – Barnardos Exhibition – 1 (opening) to 31 Aug Millennium Court, Ubuntu NI Youth Voice Network NEW! Millennium Court – ‘Worry Worlds’ by Samantha & Annita McKee – 1 (opening) to 31 Aug Exhibition, Millennium Court, Visual Art NEW! Millennium Court – ‘Story Threads’ Exhibition By Students From Queen’s University Belfast – 1 (opening) to 31 Aug Millennium Court, Queen's University Belfast, Textiles, Visual Art Support Clinics – 5 Aug Millennium Court, Arts & Business NI Scarva Band Stand – to 27 Sept Scarva Band Stand, Music OPPORTUNITIES Submissions Open Flash Fiction Armagh at Crannagael House – closing 3 Aug Flash Fiction Armagh, Literature WORKSHOPS & TRAINING John Hewitt International Summer School – three-day Creative Writing Workshops – 27, 28 and 30 July John Hewitt International Summer School, Literature NEW! Millennium Court – Silk Painting with Hand Embroidery Workshop – 1 Aug Millennium Court, August Craft Month 2026, Visual Arts NEW! Millennium Court – Teens – Learn How to Crochet a Bumble Bee – 1 and 8 Aug Millennium Court, August Craft Month 2026, Visual Arts NEW! Millennium Court – Introduction to Mosaic Sessions – 1, 8, 15 and 22 Aug Millennium Court, Visual Arts BELFAST #SaveCQ menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Belfast Trust’s Royal Victoria Hospital awarded three-year grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to preserve and document its historic legacy with ‘RVH 125’ project Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Trust, The National Lottery Heritage Fund Cinemagic Young Consultants 2026 Summer Programme – Now Open for Registration! Cinemagic New Perinatal Arts Programme to Support Maternal Mental Health Comedia of Errors Beyond Skin – An interpretation of “Az Khoon-e Javanan” performed by Omid Asghari Belfast City of Music, Beyond Skin, Music MAC Website Survey The Mac Studio Miscellany – An Exhibition by Diarmuid Delargy RUA RE – 1 July (opening) to 29 Aug Artis, ArtisAnn Gallery, EastSide Arts Festival, Fleadh Fringe Festival NEW! University of Atypical – What Lies Within – 2 July to 21 Aug University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Bruiser Theatre Company – Facilitator Skill-sharing Day – 4 July Bruiser Theatre Company NEW! The Ignorant Art School: Outside the Circle x Belfast – 4 July (launch) to 29 Aug Photography, The Golden Thread Gallery The MAC – Michelle Williams Gamacker, Kwok Tsui, Dawn Richardson and Chad Alexander – to 5 July The MAC The Lyric Theatre – Steel Magnolias – to 10 July The Lyric Theatre, Concord Theatricals Ltd When Belfast Danced – dance hall night – 18 July Belmont Bowling Club, Dance, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, The Strand Arts Cinema Dark Forest Theatre – A Filthy Dirty Rumour – 22 to 25 July The Lyric Theatre NEW! Free Family Fun at Parliament Buildings this Summer – 22 July and 14 Aug Northern Ireland Assembly Beneath the Surface – Students of UU MFA Program – to 23 July Belfast Exposed Gallery EastSide Arts Festival – 24 July to 2 Aug EastSide Arts Festival NEW! Queen Street Studios – Paper Palace – to 25 July Queen Street Studios Michael McGoldrick Big Band – 26 July Mandela Hall, Belfast TradFest, Music Earth to Alice – Free As A Word, An Evening with Alice McCullough – 26 July EastSide Arts Festival NEW! Belfast Tradfest launches its Full 2026 Programme – 26 July to 2 Aug Belfast TradFest, Music KPOP Demon Disco – 28 July Belmont Bowling Club, Strand Arts Centre The Seán Maguire Memorial Concert – 28 July The Lyric Theatre New Lodge Arts – Shrek Junior – Tickets on Sale Now – 28 and 29 July New Lodge Arts Moya Jane Productions – The Pitch – 28 to 31 July The Lyric Theatre Exhibition: Ceastóireacht Bridget Cleary / Stitching the Silence: The Interrogation of Bridget Cleary by Lorraine Cleary – to 30 July An Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich Exhibition: Cumha i ndiaidh an Bhaile / Longing for Home by Sophia Sickorova – to 30 July An Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich 2 New Exhibitions at The MAC - Susan Hughes' 'A Feeling in the Blood', and Mary McIntyre and Robert Anderson's 'Reconstructions' - 30 July to 18 Oct The MAC NEW! Fleadh Fringe events at The Commons at Ballynafeigh – August The Commons at Ballynafeigh, Fleadh Fringe Festival Flesh and Stone – Public Programme – to August Household Belfast Flook + Special Guests: An Chéad Ghlúin Eile – 1 Aug Mandela Hall, Belfast TradFest, Music Tokyo Jazz Joints – Presents – Scenes Stories and Sounds – 2 Aug Harland and Wolff Staff Club Belfast City Council will host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann for the first time - 2 to 9 Aug Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann Finn MacCool & the Scottish Giant – 3 to 9 Aug Arts for ALL The MAC – Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann – 4 to 6 Aug Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann Belfast Mela is turning 20 and you’re invited to the city’s biggest birthday party! – 22 to 30 Aug Arts Ekta, Belfast Mela The MAC – Wonderland – 28 to 30 Aug The MAC Celtic Heart shows at Waterfront Hall – to Sept Waterfront Hall, The Music Yard, Music The MAC – Orange Crush – Ivo Graham – 3 Sept The MAC The Seamus Heaney Centre Presents our Summer Exhibition: Something To Say – to 20 Sept Exhibition, Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s Belfast Cathedral – Lise McGreevy – I am Woman – to 30 Sept Belfast Cathedral, Lise McGreevy Belfast Parks Photography Competition 2025-2026 is open to entries – closing 30 Oct Belfast Parks, Belfast City Council, Photography House of Play | Exhibition & Events at The Lyric Theatre – to 8 Nov The Lyric Theatre THE RETURN | Alice Berger Hammerschlag at The Lyric Theatre – to 8 Nov The Lyric Theatre No Room at The Flat – A DLA Christmas Story – 3 to 31 Dec The MAC Belfast Art Gallery Walking Tour – every first Thursday of the Month Belfast Art Gallery Walking Tour ASCERT Recovery choir – every Thursday ASCERT, Music Sing Happy Choir – Thursday mornings Sing Happy Choir JOBS & PAID OPPORTUNITES Sticky Fingers Arts – inviting applications for Creative Play Workers Sticky Fingers Arts NEW! The Avenue Arts Centre are looking for a freelance dresser/seamstress – closing 5 July The Avenue Arts Centre Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Arts Development Officer – Visual Arts & Collection – closing 6 July Arts Council of Northern Ireland NEW! The MAC – Assistant Operations Manager – closing 8 July The MAC Arts & Business NI – Membership Engagement Officer – closing 9 July Arts & Business NI Facilitator Opportunities with Commedia of Errors – closing 17 July Commedia of Errors Principal Bassoon No.2 – closing 19 July Ulster Orchestra, Music Young at Art – Education & Engagement Officer – applications closing – 20 July Young at Art NEW! Ulster Orchestra – Section Leader Viola – closing 2 Aug Ulster Orchestra OPPORTUNITIES Cinemagic Young Consultants 2026 Summer Programme – Now Open for Registration! Cinemagic Space for Rent – Northern Whig House – Arts and Business Centre – UNIT 7 – First Floor – Available Now Northern Whig House Applications are now open for The Sound Stage at Titanic Belfast Titanic Belfast Flax Art Studios – New Artist Studios available from 1 July Flax Art Studios Design Hothouse Residency by Belfast Design Week and Blick Studios – closing 3 July Belfast Design Week, Blick Shared Studios Digital Arts Studios – Home Residency – applications close 8 July Digital Arts Studios Commedia of Errors Board Members Call Out – closing 10 July Commedia of Errors Volunteer at Belfast TradFest (26 July to 2 Aug) Belfast TradFest, Music Ledger Studio – Rent Studio Space – £10 per hour – to August University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Thrive: Free Hire of iPads & iPad Stands Thrive Audience Development We Are A River Of Many Voices Kathryn Mary Crowley Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (2-9 Aug 2026)  – Volunteering Opportunity Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, Volunteer Now FUNDING Belfast City Council - The Belfast Healthy Cities Explorer Bursary - Applications closing 30 June Belfast City Council,  Belfast Healthy Cities WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Summer Accessibility Programme – July to August University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Digital Arts Academy – Summer Programme – Special Offers – 2026 – July/Aug Digital Arts Academy Writing With – Writing workshop with Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe – 4 July PeasPark, Catalyst Arts, Literature eduSOIL – Art for Change – Summer Programme – 6 to 10 July eduSOIL eduSoil - Art for Change Showcase – 10 July eduSOIL NEW! Adult String Player Day – The Benedetti Foundation – 26 July Benedetti Foundation, Music Belfast TradFest Summer School – 27 to 31 July Belfast TradFest, Music Tiny’s Summer Drama Camp (6-8yrs) – 27 to 31 July Girdwood Hub, New Lodge Arts, Kids Theatre Summer Workshops – to August Belfast Playwrights Junior Drama Camp – 3 to 7 Aug New Lodge Arts Beat Carnival Arts Summer Scheme 2026 – registration now open – 10 to 14 Aug Beat Carnival Fundraising Bootcamp – to Sept Crescent Arts Centre, Arts & Business NI Fundamentals of an Arts Board Membership – 23 Sept (in-person) Arts & Business NI Fundraising Connections – 24 Sept Black Box Belfast, Arts & Business NI Foundation Degree in Journalism and Documentary Production – starting sept Belfast Metropolitan College Arts for ALL – Artscape – Age 7-11 yrs – Art Workshop – Saturdays 2-4pm Arts for ALL Arts for All – Baby Picasso – every Monday Arts for ALL Arts for All – Thread with Care – Adult Sewing Class – Every Friday Arts for ALL Arts for All – Inspire – Tues – Wed – Fri Arts for ALL Arts for All – Connected Canvas – Adult Painting Class – Every Thursday Arts for ALL Thrive: Free Advice Sessions – ongoing Crescent Arts Centre, Thrive Audience Development CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Stendhal Festival 2026 – 2 to 4 July Stendhal Festival Looking at God – Stephen Wilson & John Brown – to 11 July Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Visual Arts Ballycastle Rock & Blues Festival 2026 – 17 to 19 July Ballycastle Rock & Blues festival, Music Saturday Lunchtimes Live in the Park – 18 July to 22 Aug Flowerfield Arts Centre, Music Exhibition: 30 Years of Roe Valley Cycling Club – to 25 July Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Exhibition OPPORTUNITIES VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Ballycastle Rock & Blues Festival 2026! Ballycastle Rock & Blues festival Merrow Hotel and Spa – Time Inspires Every Story – A Creative Competition for Local Artists and Storytellers – Submissions  - Application Date extended - Now closing 17 July Merrow Hotel and Spa DERRY AND STRABANE menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE NEW! Animale | Hanna Tuulikki at Void Arts Centre – 4 July to 5 Sept Void Art Gallery NEW! The Cramlington Train Wreckers – 8 July The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy The City is the Gallery – The Orchard Gallery: Lecture by Declan McGonagle – 18 July Void Art Centre Global Voices – One City – International Choirs to compete for the Oak Tree of Derry Trophy – 22 to 25 Oct City of Derry Choir Festival Dementia Friendly Tea Dance - Monthly on Last Thursday of the month – to 26 Nov Millennium Forum Millennium Forum – Snow White – 27 Nov to 31 Dec Millennium Forum OPPORTUNITIES CCA – Call for artists: URGENCIES (2027) – closing 1 Sept Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry JOBS & PAID OPPORTUNITIES The Playhouse Derry – Casual Event & Tech Staff for Spring Summer 2026 The Playhouse In Your Space Circus – Programmes & Operations Coordinator (Circus School) – closing 6 July In Your Space Circus FERMANAGH AND OMAGH menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE NEW! Exhibition of Botanical Watercolour Paintings – 1 to 31 July Enniskillen Library, Visual Art NEW! The Journey | Mary Kpakra at Strule Arts Centre – 2 to 26 July Strule Arts Centre, Visual Art Delivery of Omagh Music Festival 2026 – Expressions of Interest now open! – closing 8 July Fermanagh & Omagh District Council WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Ceramic Flower Workshop with Rachel Leary – 4 July Strule Arts Centre, Ceramics Make Your Own Ceramic Bird feeder or Fairy House with Shauna McCann – 18 July Strule Arts Centre, Ceramics, Kids NEW! Kev F’s Comic Art Masterclass – 21 July Strule Arts Centre, Illustration, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! Space Aliens – 22 July Strule Arts Centre, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! Slimy Snails – 22 July Strule Arts Centre, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! Ceramics Summer Camp – 3-day Workshop – starts 29 July Strule Arts Centre, Ceramics, Kids, Visual Arts LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Anna Cheyne: Life of a Lisburn Artist – to 7 Nov Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum The Downtown Choir – every Thursday First Lisburn Presbyterian church, Lisburn Downtown Centre, Music MID AND EAST ANTRIM menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE NEW! Summer Serenades – Every Sunday in July & August Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Music NEW! Echoes in the Landscape – to 25 Sept The Braid Museum and Arts Centre, Photography MID ULSTER menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Comedy Night with Emer Maguire – 4 July An Carn, An Coire Arts Centre, Verbal Arts Film Screening: Christy – 4 July (rescheduled) Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Film NEW! Hoppers (In Association with Hope Magherafelt Foodbank) – 8 July Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Cinemagic, Film, Kids Strand Strollers – 6-week series (every Tuesday) – starts 21 July Lough Beg, Seamus Heaney HomePlace Senior Strolls – 6-week series (every Tuesday) – starts 23 July Lough Beg, Seamus Heaney HomePlace PodCamp by WheelWorks – 29 July Seamus Heaney HomePlace The HomePlace Book Club – monthly – to 2 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature Bernard MacLaverty In Conversation – 7 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature Indoor Play – Every Monday from 6 July – 17 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace Pam Ayres – Doggedly Onward: A Life in Poems – 21 and 22 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature, Poetry Paul Muldoon: A History of Ireland in 12 Poems – 29 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature, Poetry The HomePlace Storytelling Brunch: The People of the Sea – 29 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature, Brian Kennedy In Concert – 17 Oct Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Music Edge Street Live presents Brian Bilston – 6 Nov Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature Kieran Goss and Annie Kinsella – 20 Mar 2027 Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Music WORKSHOPS & TRAINING 3-Day Summer Tote Bag – three-day workshop – 1 to 3 July Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Kids, Visual Arts Illustration and Storytelling Workshop With Paul Howard – 9 July Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Kids, Verbal Arts, Visual Arts DU Dance – Dance and Circus Skills – 27 to 31 July DU Dance NI Silver Stacking Rings – 1 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace 3-Day Leporello Art Booklet Workshop – starts 3 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Kids, Visual Arts Backstage Pass: Sing, Dance, Act – 5 days – starts 3 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Dance, Kids Craic Theatre and Arts Centre – Masterclasses Sessions – 3 to 8 Aug Craic Theatre and Arts Centre HomePlace Summer Poetry Lab – 3 days – starts 10 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Poetry An Introduction to SFX Makeup Workshop – 18 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Cinemagic NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE Down Arts Collective – 1st Thursday of every month Down Arts Collective An Cuan – Community Art Space – Every Friday Rose Room at An Cuan, Visual Arts, Youth With A Mission Ec(h)oe(s) – Csilla Toldy – 2 July (opening) to 31 July Down Arts Centre, Visual Art FUNDING DEADLINES RSL Hawthornden Literature Matters Grants – closing 8 July Royal Society of Literature, Hawthornden Foundation, Literature National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Major Individual Artists – closing 20 July National Lottery, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for Individual Artists Programme National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Project Funding for Individuals – closing 30 July National Lottery, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for Individual Artists Programme National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Artists’ International Development Fund – closing 30 July National Lottery, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for Individual Artists Programme National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Artists’ International Development Fund (Orgs) – closing 30 July National Lottery, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for Individual Artists Programme The Radcliffe Trust – Heritage & Crafts Fund – Open for applications – closing 31 July The Radcliffe Trust National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Creative Progression Scheme – closing 20 Aug National Lottery, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for Individual Artists Programme (SIAP), Creative Progression Scheme NEMO – Northern European Mobility Opportunity 2026 – closing 18 Sept Northern European Mobility Opportunity Change Maker Funding Programme - ongoing to 2027 Change Maker Funding Programme, PEACEPLUS Grand Plan – £1,000 grants for UK artists of colour Grand Plan Community Foundation NI – Micro Community Investment Fund – rolling fund Community Foundation Northern Ireland Community Foundation NI – The Inspiring Growth Fund – ongoing Community Foundation Northern Ireland Travel Award for Bands – rolling programme Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Music National Lottery Awards for All – Open Now The National Lottery Community Fund Grants for physical activity providers – applications open Parkinson's UK Power NI - Brighter Communities Fund - ongoing Power NI MORE JOBS, NEWS, EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES menu / prev U.Dance National Festival “Set Me Free” by High Points Youth Ballet CIC – 3 to 5 July U.Dance National Festival, Dance, High Points Youth Ballet The 2026 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize is now open for entries – closing 20 July Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize, Literature Mobile Digi Hub – Bringing Digital Innovation to Rural Communities – Mobile Labs on the Move – available 17 to 28 Aug and 14 to 21 Sept DS3, MIni Digi Hub Ó Bhéal’s 14th Poetry-Film Competition is open for submissions – closing 31 Aug Film, Ó Bhéal Cork Poetry, Poetry  eduSOIL – Be The Change Summit – 26 to 29 Nov eduSOIL Kilbaha Gallery – Eadaoin Harding Kemp – Available Now Kilbaha Gallery Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland (CPOI) – Resource for Arts Practitioners Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland (CPOI) 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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