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… 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… 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… 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… Continue Reading
ArtsMatterNI have pulled a list of MLAs on Twitter for you to tweet your opinions to. You can also download the list as an Excel spreadsheet 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… 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… Continue Reading
Why? Every day the Arts are enriching lives across Northern Ireland through direct participation or through citizens and visitors attending events, shows or festivals. Arts and Culture play an important role in promoting social and economic goals through local regeneration, attracting tourists, the development of talent and innovation, improving health and well-being, and delivering essential… Continue Reading
As you are no doubt aware, the arts and cultural sector in Northern Ireland faces a financially precarious future as a result of recent and forthcoming cuts to public investment. The next eighteen months will be a turbulent period with difficult budgetary decisions to be made, a political impasse within the devolved assembly, looming uncertainty from the… Continue Reading
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