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Organisations

Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics 2022 returns with over 150 in-person and online events

4th March, 2022

Festival Director, Peter O'Neill, Nuala McKeever and Liam Hannaway, Chair of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in Belfast’s City Hall holding the programme for the 2022 Imagine Belfast Festival.

Organisations

Belfast TradFest Winter Weekend takes place on 18-20 February, supported by National Lottery Funding

9th February, 2022

Creative Writing Tutor Shelley Tracey, Maire Gaffney from the Waterways Storymaking Festival, Rhonda Glasgow (Photography Category Winner at the 2021 festival) and Sonya Whitefield, Arts Council of Northern Ireland sitting on a small bridge.

General, Artists, Organisations

Beyond Skin and The Duncairn host concert for Musicians at Risk in Afghanistan, supported by The National Lottery

4th February, 2022

Artists Cayenna Ponchione Bailey, Robin Korevaar, Darren Ferguson, Beyond Skin, Yusuf Mahmoud and Katherine Scholfield outside the Duncairn Arts Centre.

Funding, Organisations

Arts Council’s National Lottery Small Grants Programme Reopens

27th January, 2022

Female actress wearing a red wig with an open mouthed expression and holding an open sign.

Funding, Artists, Organisations, Partnerships

Sinéad O’Donnell, Accidental Theatre & Three’s Theatre Company join international cultural exchange

27th January, 2022

Performance artist, Sinead O’Donnell.

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General, Organisations

Giant Imaginations to be inspired at Belfast Children’s Festival

24th January, 2022

Two young girls jumping in St Anne’s Square Belfast wearing Young at Art branded t-shirts

Funding, Organisations

Arts Council announces £749,226 Health and Safety funding to support arts organisations

19th January, 2022

Jenna Hall, Chief Executive of Circusful and Festival of Fools, circus artist, Grant Goldie and Lorraine Calderwood, Arts Council of Northern Ireland stood in front of a wall with graffiti art.

Funding, Organisations

Arts Council opens new £40,000 Organisations Digital Evolution Awards programme

10th January, 2022

Male in blue shirt using virtual reality headset.

Funding, Artists, Organisations

Arts Council opens new £100,000 Creative Industries Seed Fund

10th January, 2022

Two males and one female using virtual reality headset.