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The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in collaboration with Future Screens NI, today (23 November 2021) has announced funding of £85,688 to support nine individual artists from Northern Ireland in the creation of a number of exciting, high-quality arts projects using innovative digital technologies.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland today welcomed Minister Hargey’s support for the recommendations made by her Culture, Arts and Heritage Recovery Taskforce. The Arts Council endorses the published recommendations which seek additional resources and new partnerships across government to bring the arts and culture sectors back to good health. The Council also highlighted the urgent need for strategic investment in talent development in NI post-covid.

Two community arts organisations from Northern Ireland, Beyond Skin and DU Dance, will collaborate with German community arts organisation, Die Villa, based in Leipzig, to develop a youth cultural exchange project entitled, Ode to Earth, based around the theme of environmental issues.

Findings from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Annual Funding Survey* published today highlight the stark pressures placed on the arts sector as a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Employment levels and income generation have experienced substantial shifts and major changes were reported on how audiences access arts programming, as more activities moved online.

Outburst Arts and The Belfast Ensemble, in partnership with the Ulster Orchestra, present MASS, a large-scale, symphonic audio-visual work due to be performed on 17-18 November at the iconic Telegraph Building in Belfast, supported by The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland today announced details of awards worth £107,000 made to 27 minority ethnic artists and creative practitioners for mentoring or residency opportunities.

Northern Ireland Opera’s new film, ‘Old Friends and Other Days’ recently premiered at the Strand Arts Centre as part of the 2021 Belfast Film Festival.

St Colm’s High School in Belfast hosted a special event on Wednesday 10th November to celebrate the launch of a new poetry and photographic anthology, created by pupils, entitled ‘The Times That Shape Us’.

‘BIND’, an innovative contemporary dance and poetry film celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Armagh Robinson Library, will receive its premiere screening at the Market Place Theatre Studio on Thursday 25 November at 8.30pm.

Arts & Business NI have opened applications for their ground-breaking cultural sustainability programme Blueprint. Blueprint is a pioneering 5-year financial growth programme which will enable small to medium-sized cultural organisations in Northern Ireland to take a more long-term approach to their income generation.