As our Arts Care Here and Now Festival for Older People 2015 draws to a close, I would like to invite you to join us in celebrating the art of ageing well with our Aloud Allowed Aloud performance – a showcase of new, vibrant artistic works featuring our festival’s intrepid participants. With choreography from some of Northern Ireland’s top drama, music and dance practitioners, and work by older people from centres across the province, Aloud, Allowed, Aloud is a cornucopia of music, written, spoken and sung words, and dance and movement. This year’s show will begin at 1:30pm… continue reading
Some of the topice covered include: Benefits to the arts through collaboration Benefits to businesses through collaboration Where the relationship between the 2 sectors is likely to be heading Funding is an ongoing issue -- what's the landscape going to look like 5-10 years from now? Listen to the programme on BBC website (until 22nd March 2015) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053h2b8… continue reading
2 February 2015 DU Dance is a living embodiment of how the arts positively affect the lives of people across Northern Ireland. The Belfast-based professional dance development company works across Northern Ireland and has brought possibility and opportunity to teens and young people, who, in their day-to-day lives too often feel disenfranchised and forgotten. The company, which works with people of all ages but focuses on the development of young people aged 12 to 24 from all communities and ethnic backgrounds, uses the creative arts as a way of building confidence, skills and self-esteem. Through their Youth Engagement Programme disadvantaged… continue reading
23 January 2015 ArtsMatterNI shares the disappointment and frustration of so many that the call to preserve the level of revenue funding to the arts has fallen on deaf ears. Despite 23,000 responses to the DCAL Budget consultation, the current revenue budget for the arts states that cuts in excess of 10% will be made in 15-16. ArtsMatterNI is glad to see that the executive has listened to some of the arguments and responses to the budget consultation and found extra funding for the film exhibition sector and the Ulster Orchestra. DETI has also announced the NITB Events Fund in… continue reading
13,400 showed their support by either signing the online petition and signing the #13pForTheArts postcards placed at venues acros Ni. For a brief overview of the resuklts see below. 4,208 people signed the online petition 9,235 people signed petition postcards at venues across Northern Ireland Social media reached 7 million people and resulted in 30,000 + social interactions The number of independent submissions to the budget consultation is not recorded here The final results will will be released in January and you can find them on the Arts Council Ni website and an updated letter from Roisin McDonough to the… continue reading
Arts Council Chief, Roisin McDonough, calls for No More Cuts To The Arts and launches the #13pForTheArts campaign based on the statistic that the Northern Ireland government currently invests just 13 pence per head of population per week in direct funding for the arts. Arts Council of Northern Ireland Chief Executive Roisin McDonough today called on the NI Executive to implement no more cuts to the arts sector, warning that any further reduction to an already fragile budget will have a devastating impact on arts provision here. To keep up to date with the campaigns you can like the… continue reading