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As part of their new Upside Down Festival this week, Arts Care has launched the, Say A Great Big Hello campaign, supported by public and National Lottery funding through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Children In Need.

FORTY-TWO arts organisations across Northern Ireland are set to receive over £1 million of Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery funding to bring a series of high-quality arts projects to people living through the Covid-19 pandemic.

This page contains the latest guidance for the arts sector on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We will update this page as the situation develops.

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Exceptional young violinist, Jamie Howe, aged 18, from Lisburn, has been announced as the new Leader of the Ulster Youth Orchestra (UYO), and has been presented by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland with the Milton Violin, an exquisite 240 year-old instrument made by renowned Neapolitan violin maker, Joseph Gagliano, to be played throughout his tenure as leader.

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast has announced the winner of the 2020 Poetry Prize for a First Collection, supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is delighted to learn of the appointment of six new members to its Board, announced today by the Department for Communities.

Communities Minister, Carál Ní Chuilín, today congratulated the local artists who created six innovative, new lockdown dramas for television called Splendid Isolation.

Just three years since they were founded, the Belfast Book Festival Mairtín Crawford Awards for Poetry and Short Story have gone international, attracting entries from countries including the US, Finland and New Zealand for this year’s competition.

Translink is committed to preserving and celebrating the stories that tell the history and heritage of the area surrounding the new Belfast Transport Hub at Weavers Cross.  Located beside the current Europa Buscentre and Gt Victoria Street Station, this NI Executive flagship project will be a catalyst for regeneration, and it is planned to place public art at the heart of these urban transformation plans.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s has  opened its Support for the Individual Artist Programme (SIAP) and is accepting applications for General Art Awards.