ArtsMatterNI in the News

The Big Arts Debate was held in response to the draft NI Budget for 2018/19 which forecasts that the arts sector will face further cuts. Pictured are Dr Jenny Elliott, Arts Care, Nisha Tandon, chief Executive, ArtsEkta, Conor Shields, Community Arts Partnership, Bill Woolsey, MD of Beannchor and Roisin McDonagh, Chief Exceutive,Arts Council Northern Ireland. Picture by Brian Morrison (source: www.irishnews.com)

www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/02/19/news/arts-sector-in-north-needs-investment–1259014/

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/campaign-to-save-arts-funding-from-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-gathers-momentum-at-stormont-36621424.html

www.newsletter.co.uk/news/northern-ireland-arts-sector-needs-investment-1-8384360

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rz34n – David Boyd – Beat Carnival – 1 hour 13 min in to the programme

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3 days ago

** Attention arts community**Please support our campaign to see the Arts, Culture and Heritage sectors reinstated as governmental priorities in the forthcoming Programme for Government. The consultation on the draft PfG ends on November4th so we must mobilise support. Artists, organisations, audiences and participants - this is about your lives and our collective ambition for our community. #ArtsMatterNI #wedomatter ... See MoreSee Less

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WE DO MATTER, despite the NI Executive draft Programme for Government omitting our sectors

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Arts Matter NI

7 days ago

Following up - we had a great meeting where organisational reps and artists agreed a campaign plan. Watch this space - we do matter. ... See MoreSee Less

URGENT – ArtsMatter NI meeting to discuss response to the new Programme for Government – Arts Resource Centre – 2 to 3.30pm – 4 Oct

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It has been some time since ArtsMatterNI called a meeting but, as Conor Shields, Community Arts Partnership’s CEO, pointed out in a blog post recently (you can access the post at the link belo...

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Arts Matter NI

3 weeks ago

Arts Matter NI is calling an urgent meeting to discuss a collective sectoral response to this omission and what might be done to campaign for the sector’s inclusion in the economic plans of the present Executive.The meeting will take place at:The Arts Resource Centre, 7 Donegall Street Place (entry next John Hewitt bar– street view), Donegall Street, Belfaststarting at 2pmFriday 4th October ... See MoreSee Less

URGENT – ArtsMatter NI meeting to discuss response to the new Programme for Government – Arts Resource Centre – 2 to 3.30pm – 4 Oct

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It has been some time since ArtsMatterNI called a meeting but, as Conor Shields, Community Arts Partnership’s CEO, pointed out in a blog post recently (you can access the post at the link belo...

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Arts Matter NI

1 month ago

The NI Assembly think the arts don’t matter - we need to tell them otherwise ... See MoreSee Less

The NI Assembly's new Programme for Government believes the arts don’t matter at all

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The Assembly believes the arts don’t matter – we have to tell them that it does! (An immediate response to the draft Programme for Gover...

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Arts Matter NI

2 months ago

Statement of Solidarity - ArtsMatterNI stands together with our ethnic minority colleagues#hopenothate #NoToRacism #uniteinhope ... See MoreSee Less

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