News Archive

Today (Monday 29th December) marks the deadline for making submissions to the NI Draft Budget Consultation.

The holidays may be here but culture lovers will still have plenty to keep them busy this Christmas.

Brian Irvine announced as Belfast’s first ever Music Laureate and calls upon Belfast citizens to get involved in an exciting community choir project.

Singer-songwriter Duke Special, composer Neil Martin and rock band the Wood Burning Savages, have all spoken out this week over proposed cuts to the arts budget in a series of videos.  

Almost 11,500 people have backed the ‘13p for the arts campaign’, calling for no more cuts to the arts budget. Arts Council Chief Executive Roisin McDonough presented the preliminary results of the budget campaign to the deputy First Minister and the Minister for Culture Arts and Leisure at Stormont on Thursday. 

The all-star cast of Aladdin, currently thrilling audiences at the Grand Opera House, Belfast are the latest high-profile names to support the Arts Council's No More Cuts to the Arts campaign.

South Belfast-based arts and health organisation, Arts Care met today with local MLA Máirtín Ó Muilleoir to outline why the arts matter and make the case for no more cuts to the arts budget.

Talented Northern Ireland musicians to join the line up at the world renowned Celtic Connections and Folk Alliance music festivals as part of the HORIZONS programme supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Arts Council Board Member Leon Litvack writes on the value of arts to society.

Funding and opportunities for Northern Ireland's cultural, creative, and audiovisual sectors.