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Funding, Artists, Organisations, Partnerships

Arts Council announces recipients of £100,000 digital arts programme

25th April, 2022

Two males and one female using virtual reality headset.

Funding, Organisations

Arts Council announces £40,000 National Lottery funding to support the creation of digital art

6th April, 2022

Male in blue shirt using virtual reality headset.

Organisations

Women’s Aid and Spark Opera join forces

9th March, 2022

Kate Guelke, Artistic Director at Spark Opera and Bronagh O’Boyle, Reconnect Worker at Women's Aid NI holding a painting created during the Reconnect Project and a sign for Women's Aid NI.

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.

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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.

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