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EastSide Arts Festival Reveals Spectacular Line-up of Unique Events

24th July, 2023

Andy McGregor who will perform in With Fife and Drum at Strand Arts Centre, Rachel Kennedy, Festival Director and Timmy Stewart, DJ/promoter from The Night Institute, who will be part of EastSide Electronics sitting on steps outside a red brick building.

Funding, Artists

Magnetic 2, the second edition of the Franco-UK initiative for a bilateral programme of artists’ residencies, is now welcoming applications from visual artists in NI

19th July, 2023

Logos for Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Institut français, French Ministry of Culture, French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales/Wales Arts International, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council.

What's On

What's on in the Arts

17th July, 2023

Five men smiling and laughing holding a selection of instruments, including a fiddle, bodhran, accordion and guitar.

Organisations

Spotlight on Theatre and Dance from Northern Ireland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

13th July, 2023

Molly-Rose Street, TDNI, Ewan McGowan-Gregg. Brunswick Productions NI, Stephen Kelly, C21 Theatre Company, Oisín Kearney, Prime Cut Productions, Una Nic Eoin, Prime Cut Productions, Niamh Flanaghan, TDNI, Alice Malseed, writer, Colette Norwood, British Council NI, front row seated includes, Joyce Greenaway, writer, Alison McCrudden, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Gina Donnelly and Seón Simpson of SkelpieLimmer.

Funding

Applications for Arts Council funding for individual artists now open, supported by The National Lottery

11th July, 2023

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Funding

Arts Council awards £2.25m of National Lottery funding to support arts projects across Northern Ireland

11th July, 2023

Belfast Photo Festival exhibition on the Quad at Queen's University Belfast.

Artists

Iconic International Festival invites Iranian Musicians Living In Belfast

10th July, 2023

Iranian musicians Omid Shir Mohammadi and Nasim Heidari

General

Applications for the Arts & Business NI Awards are Now Open

7th July, 2023

Three people photographed smiling at the camera

Artists

Artist of the Month, July 2023 - Krunalkumar Rajeshbhai Gohil

5th July, 2023

Drawing & woodcut of a horse and two females on plywood.

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