The Weekly on the 23rd 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.

NOT SEEING THE FULL WEEKLY? CLICK HERE TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER Tuesday, 23rd 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 NEW! Announcing the Longlist for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2026 Anne O’Donoghue Award 2026/27 is Open for Applications – closing 26 June Artwork from the Join 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 NEW! National Lottery Support for Individual Artists Programme – Creative Progression Scheme – closing 20 Aug Audience research has new focus at Arts Council NI 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)   NEW! Beyond Skin – Support for Visa for Afghan musician Soraya Hossaini   NEW! Ulster Youth Orchestra perform at prestigious Young Euro Classic Festival Berlin   NEW! Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble Beijing to Belfast   NEW! Fighting Words – NI Young Writers take centre stage at Belfast Book Festival   NEW! Wheelworks Create Against Hate NI Initiative   NEW! 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   eduSOIL - Art for Change – Online – In Response to Racial Violence and Social Upheaval – throughout June   Culture Night Belfast 2026 (18 Sept) Submissions Now Open – closing 26 June   Anne O’Donoghue Award 2026/27 Opens for Applications – closing 26 June   The Inaugural PFGi Poetry Award 2026 – Applications now open – closing 26 June   PEACEPLUS Change Maker Funding Programme – closing 30 June   Announcing the 2026 Irish Writers Centre New Writing Prize in association with The Stinging Fly – closes 30 June   Creative Places Edenderry Co-ordinator – (Maternity Cover) – 30 June   ImmerseHER – Get involved in an exciting new project: Open call for young women female Creatives (16-25years) – closing 30 June   PRS Foundation’s Beyond Borders is Open for Applications – closing 30 June   NEW! Belfast City Council – The Belfast Healthy Cities Explorer Bursary – Applications closing 30 June   Flax Art Studios – New Artist Studios available from 1 July   NEW! Design Hothouse Residency by Belfast Design Week and Blick Studios – closing 3 July   Digital Arts Academy – Summer Programme – Special Offers – 2026 – July/Aug   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   NEW! 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   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   European Heritage Open Days 2026 – 12 and 13 Sept – Open for registration   NEW! eduSOIL – Be The Change Summit – 26 to 29 Nov – register by 10 Sept   NEW! NEMO – Northern European Mobility Opportunity 2026 – closing 18 Sept    RNIB NI Community Connection – updated bimonthly ONLINE COMMUNITY ARTS & EVENTS Beyond Skin – An interpretation of “Az Khoon-e Javanan” performed by Omid Asghari Belfast City of Music, Beyond Skin, Music 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 Ards and North Down Borough Council Announces Vibrant Arts and Heritage Summer Line-Up Ards and North Down Borough Council Lumen by Ross Miley – to 24 June Ards Arts Centre Nostromo: Scenes from the Raft and Other Stories by Paul Reid – to 24 June Ards Arts Centre SPRINGSTEEN – A Tribute – 27 June Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music ForM Sculpture Exhibition Returns to Bangor Castle Walled Garden – to 30 June Bangor Walled Garden 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 Exhibition at North Down Museum Celebrates 100 Years of the Ulster Automobile Club – to 9 Aug North Down Museum 13th Open House Festival Announced – 1 to 31 Aug Open House Festival Aspects Festival announces participation in the Southbank Centre’s A Poet In Every Port project with ambassador Roger McGough – to 26 Sept Aspects Festival OPPORTUNITIES Call for Artists! – Join the AND Arts Network Ards and North Down Borough Council 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 NEW! Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon borough – Artisan Food and Craft Markets – next 27 June Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre’s New Season brochure – June to Aug 2026 Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre Colin McGookin: Expulsion from Paradise – A Modern Twist on a Classical Piece – to 30 June Millennium Court, Visual Art 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 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 – Creative Writing Workshops – 27, 28 and 30 July John Hewitt International Summer School, Literature 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 Amy Goodman to Headline Docs Ireland 2026 as Festival Honours Manchán Magan Docs Ireland, Film Flesh and Stone – Public Programme – June to Aug Household Belfast Music in the Parks – Black Moon Disco – 24 June Belfast City Council, Black Box Belfast, Black Moon Disco, Music in the Parks Future Screens NI – The Final Countdown (1 July) – RSVP by 24 June Ormeau Baths, Future Screens NI The Seamus Heaney Centre Presents our Summer Exhibition: Something To Say – 24 June to 20 Sept Exhibition, Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s East Belfast Streets 2: Origin and Evolution – 25 June Strand Arts Centre St Joseph’s Church Sailortown – Borrowed Time – 25 and 26 June St Joseph's Church, Beat Carnival Golden Thread Gallery – ‘Look at Me Now’ exhibition – 25 to 27 June Golden Thread Gallery, Aware NI, Exhibition Ciaran Lavery – 26 June Harland and Wolff Staff Club, Strand Arts Centre Culture Night Belfast 2026 (18 Sept) Submissions Now Open – closing 26 June Culture Night Belfast NEW! Everywhere At Once – 26 to 28 June Everywhere At Once, Music Flesh and Stone Exhibition – to 28 June Antrim Road, Household Belfast, Exhibition Irish Photo Network Symposium – 27 June Belfast Exposed, Belfast Photo Festival, Photography Eminent Authors – An Exhibition by Neil Shawcross – to 27 June ArtisAnn Gallery, Visual Art NEW! Engine Room Gallery – Lise McGreevy – Females are Gems – to 27 June The Engine Room, Lise McGreevy The Shelley Lowry School Actors’ Showcase – 28 June The MAC Belfast Photo Festival – Camera Obsolete? – to 28 June Belfast Exposed Gallery We influence everything – to 28 June Black Box Belfast Belfast Stories – Stakeholder Forum – 30 June – RSVP by 29 June Belfast Stories Belfast Photo Festival – ‘Horizons’ – to 30 June Belfast Photo Festival 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! Bruiser Theatre Company – Facilitator Skill-sharing Day – 4 July Bruiser Theatre Company 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 NEW! 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 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 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 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 NEW! 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 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 NEW! 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 NEW! The MAC – Wonderland – 28 to 30 Aug The MAC Celtic Heart shows at Waterfront Hall – to Sept Waterfront Hall, The Music Yard, Music NEW! The MAC – Orange Crush – Ivo Graham – 3 Sept The MAC NEW! 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 NEW! 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! Wheelworks – Immersive Tech Facilitators – closing 23 June Wheelworks Arts University of Atypical – Access and Inclusion Officer – closing 24 June University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Section Leader 2nd Violin & Sub Principal 2nd Violin No.3 – closing 25 June Ulster Orchestra, Music NEW! The MAC – Box Office Assistant Part Time – closing 29 June The MAC NEW! Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Arts Development Officer – Visual Arts & Collection – closing 6 July Arts Council of Northern Ireland NEW! 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 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 Catalyst Arts – Co-Director call out – apply immediately Catalyst Arts Applications are now open for The Sound Stage at Titanic Belfast Titanic Belfast Ledger Studio – Rent Studio Space – £10 per hour – June to August University of Atypical for Arts and Disability Culture Night Belfast 2026 (18 Sept) Submissions Now Open – closes 26 June Culture Night Belfast Flax Art Studios – New Artist Studios available from 1 July Flax Art Studios NEW! 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 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 NEW! Belfast City Council - The Belfast Healthy Cities Explorer Bursary - Applications closing 30 June Belfast City Council,  Belfast Healthy Cities WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Art for Change – Online – In Response to Racial Violence and Social Upheaval – throughout June eduSOIL Shakespeare Sessions – workshops for performers – 24 June Accidental Theatre HAP School – to 24 June The MAC, Tinderbox Theatre Company University of the Streets: Joan Littlewood, Fun Palaces and Culture as a Political Act – 25 June Sunflower Pub, Fun Palaces The Incubate Intensive – 25 to 27 June The MAC, Tinderbox Theatre Company Fundraising Connections – 25 June and 24 Sept Black Box Belfast, Arts & Business NI Ciaran Lavery workshop – From Your Thoughts To The Page – 26 June Ciaran Lavery Arts for All – Dramalab  - (Still places available) – to 27 June Arts for ALL, Dramalab eduSOIL – Art for Change – Masterclass – 27 June eduSOIL eduSOIL – Art for Change at Schools and Community Centres – to 30 June eduSOIL 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 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 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 5th Element NI – Youth Theatre workshops (each Saturday) 5th Element NI, Theatre 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 Tea Dance – 24 June Ballyclare Town Hall, Dance 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 Act Your Age Drama Group presents ‘Last Orders’ – 24 June Millennium Forum FUSE arts to Present Interactive STEAM Activities, Youth Dance Performances and Community Art at Foyle Maritime Festival 2026 – 25 to 28 June Foyle Maritime Festival, FUSE arts NEW! 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 NEW! 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 N.I. Photographic Association | Group Exhibition at Strule Arts Centre – to 27 June Strule Arts Centre AMH Photography & Creative Writing Exhibition – to end of June Enniskillen Library, Action Mental Health, Community Arts Partnership, Mental Health Awareness week, Photography, Visual Art NEW! Delivery of Omagh Music Festival 2026 – Expressions of Interest now open! – closing 8 July Fermanagh & Omagh District Council WORKSHOPS & TRAINING Environmental Art Club (Monthly) – to 27 June Strule Arts Centre, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! Ceramic Flower Workshop with Rachel Leary – 4 July Strule Arts Centre, Ceramics NEW! Make Your Own Ceramic Bird feeder or Fairy House with Shauna McCann – 18 July Strule Arts Centre, Ceramics, Kids 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 Maurice Shannon Art Exhibition of Botanical Watercolour Paintings – to end of June Carrickfergus Library, Visual Art MID ULSTER menu / prev / next NEWS, EVENTS & ONLINE The Mikel Murfi Triology: The Man in the Woman’s Shoes – 25 June Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Theatre DU Dance – Cultural Connections – Ceili – 25 June Craic Theatre and Dance Centre The Mikel Murfi Triology: I Hear You And Rejoice – 26 June Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Theatre The Mikel Murfi Triology: The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey – 27 June Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Theatre NEW! Mindful Reset Day 2026 – 27 June An Carn, Drumnaph Nature Reserve NEW! 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! Strand Strollers – 6-week series (every Tuesday) – starts 21 July Lough Beg, Seamus Heaney HomePlace NEW! Senior Strolls – 6-week series (every Tuesday) – starts 23 July Lough Beg, Seamus Heaney HomePlace NEW! 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 NEW! 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 Speculative Fiction Workshop with Rosemary Jenkinson – 27 June Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Literature NEW! 3-Day Summer Tote Bag – three-day workshop – 1 to 3 July Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! 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 NEW! 3-Day Leporello Art Booklet Workshop – starts 3 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Kids, Visual Arts NEW! Backstage Pass: Sing, Dance, Act – 5 days – starts 3 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Dance, Kids NEW! Craic Theatre and Arts Centre – Masterclasses Sessions – 3 to 8 Aug Craic Theatre and Arts Centre NEW! HomePlace Summer Poetry Lab – 3 days – starts 10 Aug Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Poetry NEW! 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 NEW! Ec(h)oe(s) – Csilla Toldy – 2 July (opening) to 31 July Down Arts Centre, Visual Art FUNDING DEADLINES PRS Foundation’s Beyond Borders is Open for Applications – closing 30 June PRS Foundation, Music, Arts Council of Northern Ireland PEACEPLUS Change Maker Funding Programme – closing 30 June PEACEPLUS NEW! Belfast City Council - The Belfast Healthy Cities Explorer Bursary - Applications closing 30 June Belfast City Council,  Belfast Healthy Cities 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 NEW! 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 NEW! 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 The Inaugural PFGi Poetry Award 2026 – Applications now open – closing 26 June PFGi, PFGi Poetry Award, Poetry Ireland Creative Places Edenderry Co-ordinator – (Maternity Cover) – 30 June Creative Places ImmerseHER – Get involved in an exciting new project: Open call for young women female Creatives (16-25years) – closing 30 June Dundalk Institute of Technology, ImmerseHER, PEACEPLUS, WheelWorks Arts 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  NEW! eduSOIL – Be The Change Summit – 26 to 29 Nov eduSOIL NEW! Kilbaha Gallery – Eadaoin Harding Kemp – Available Now Kilbaha Gallery Kilbaha Gallery – Carmel T. Madigan – exhibiting now Kilbaha Gallery Kilbaha Gallery – Delaney Davis – exhibition on 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. Community Arts Partnership aims to ensure that all information contained in the Weekly is valid at the time of posting.   Community Arts Partnership supports and promotes artistic activities taking place in the 11 Northern Ireland Councils. Thank you to our core funders Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The National Lottery, Belfast City Council, Halifax Foundation NI  & The Baring Foundation Copyright © 2026 Community Arts Partnership, All rights reserved. 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