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All the latest news from the Arts Council about: Organisations

Book cover of Kilclief and Other Essays by Irish Pages.

General, Organisations

lrish Pages Press named “Small Publisher of the Year 2022 (Island of Ireland)”

30th May, 2022

Participants from the Heart of the Sperrins Arts and Older People Programme supported project enjoying a clay workshop with artist Leona Devine.

Funding, Organisations

£200,000 Arts Council programme promoting positive health and wellbeing of older people now open

23rd May, 2022

Photograph of a house with burn marks

General, Artists, Organisations

New exhibition invites us to view Northern Ireland through a different lens

17th May, 2022

A male and female smiling beside a red door holding a fiddle and a flute.

Funding, Organisations

Ten projects get share of £45,000 Arts Council fund for community projects

28th April, 2022

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

Funding, Organisations

Arts Groups Can Now Apply for National Lottery Project Funding

28th April, 2022

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Two males and one female using virtual reality headset.

Funding, Artists, Organisations, Partnerships

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

25th April, 2022

Male in blue shirt using virtual reality headset.

Funding, Organisations

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

6th April, 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

Women’s Aid and Spark Opera join forces

9th 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 Festival of Ideas & Politics 2022 returns with over 150 in-person and online events

4th March, 2022