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Tuesday 21 April

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CAP AT THE ARC

ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY

ARDS AND NORTH DOWN

ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON

BELFAST

CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS

DERRY AND STRABANE

FERMANAGH AND OMAGH

LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH

MID AND EAST ANTRIM

MID ULSTER

NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN

MORE FUNDING

MORE OPPORTUNITIES

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(Deadline: 3pm sharp each Tuesday)

CAP NEWS

The Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2020 Virtual Event is Online Now!

Congratulations to Clare Gallagher, Winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2020!

NEW! The CAPtains's Blog - Assurance and Uncertainty

Take Heart and Make Art

NEWS

Minority Community Network – Shared Stories - (new television show)

SECTOR NEWS

NEW! Submit your artwork to Grayson’s Art Club – Week 2 ‘Animals’ – closing 23 Apr

Channel 4, Grayson Perry

The Rosemary James Memorial Trust Award – closing 24 Apr

 

NEW! Remote Family Engagement Fund launched by Arts & Business NI - closing 24 Apr

 

NEW! Belfast Exposed ‘Futures Artists’ – Applications Open – closing 30 Apr

 

NEW! Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble PRSf Commissioning Scheme - closing 1 May

 

NEW! Crescent Arts Centre remembers “a saint of poetry” with Mairtín Crawford Awards – closing 13 May

 

BBC Young Composer – closing 11 June

 

Submissions are invited for the John McGahern Award 2020 – closing 31 July

 

NEW! Lockdown Mixes on Homely Planet

 

ACNI awards £12.9 million in grants to sustain key arts organisations during challenging times

 

The Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2020 Virtual Event is Online Now!

 

NEW! Artist social media takeovers for CCA Derry~Londonderry

 

Damian Smyth selects the best new books to be locked up with (part 2)

 

Cancellation of the John Hewitt International Summer School 2020

 

Congratulations to Clare Gallagher, Winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2020!

 

Arts Council announces £1m Creative Support Fund

 

Arts Council Survey: impact of Coronavirus on arts

  

Arts Care launches Arts Care 4U YouTube channel

 

Your Story And Mine – Booklet Release

 

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Support for Cultural & Creative Businesses & Practitioners in the City of Lisburn and Castlereagh

 

Disappearing Wall Project – call out for submissions

 

“Forum First” Youth Initiative at The Millennium Forum

 

Belfast Exposed Bookshop – New Titles

 

Arts Council of Northern Ireland publishes its Disability Action Plan and Equality Action Plan 2019-24

 

The Big Draw announce their theme for The Big Draw Festival 2020 ' A Climate of Change'

 

Creative Europe Calls - Now Open

 

Mothers in Music – closing soon

 

Fermanagh & Omagh Council introduce their Arts & Culture Database

 

The Millennium Forum Launches ‘Moves & Melodies’

 

Paragon Studios opens new work and exhibition space on Rosemary Street

 

Belfast Community Planning Partnership – Community Plan Information

 

Shortlist Announced for the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards

 

Antrim’s Junction Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

 

Cityside Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

 

Bangor’s Bloomfield Shopping Centre offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

 

Lisburn’s Bow Street Mall offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

 

MA in Arts Management

 

Join the Northern Irish Composers Collective

WANTED

NI SCRUBS GROUP is looking for Sewers and Fabrics

NI SCRUBS GROUP

Sewers wanted to make Masks for the Masses

Masks for the Masses

CREATE AT HOME AND ONLINE

The Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2020 Virtual Event is Online Now!

Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Literature, Verbal Arts

Call out to Groups to Join the Rainbow Trail as a Symbol of Hope

ISLAND Arts Centre

ABC Get Creative

Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Kids

Northern Ireland Opera’s weekly recommendations of operas to watch online

Northern Ireland Opera, Music

NEW! Belfast Exposed – Activities For Children & Teens

Belfast Exposed, Kids

NEW! Community Circus Lisburn’s weekly circus skills videos

Community Circus Lisburn

Duncairn Arts' Virtual Cabaret #3

Duncairn Arts Centre, Music, Poetry, Visual Arts

NEW! Rob Explains… Live - 22 Apr

Accidental Theatre

NEW! TalkAtAt with Accidental Theatre Live! – 23 Apr

Accidental Theatre

Derry Photo Competition - closing 24 Apr

Triax - Neighbourhood Management Team, Void Derry, Museum of Free Derry, Photography

Wheelworks’ Make, Do, Create Festival – to 24 May

Wheelworks

Take Heart and Make Art

Community Arts Partnership, Visual Arts

NEW! ‘Well-Being Through Photography’ – Staff Engagement Project

Belfast Exposed, Photography, Well-being

NEW! Photography Projects During Isolation – ‘Home Life’ Project

Belfast Exposed, Photography

Ghostlight Sessions

Accidental Theatre

NEW! Lockdown Mixes on Homely Planet

Beyond Skin, Homely Planet

Virtual ISLAND Arts Centre Coming to a Device Near You

ISLAND Arts Centre

Sophie Aghajanian and James Allen – A New Online Exhibition

ArtisAnn Gallery, Exhibition

The Gathering Drum: Facebook Live Special Sessions - every Friday

The Gathering Drum, Kids, Music

Virtual Tour of the National Gallery of Ireland

National Gallery of Ireland, Visual Arts, Exhibition

BookTrust NI have launched a new digital hub, BookTrust Home Time

BookTrust

PS² - HOME WORK

Exhibition, PS²

Embracing Human Rights: Conflict Textiles’ Journey

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

ONLINE RESOURCES

Damian Smyth selects the best new books to be locked up with (part 2)

Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Literature

My Wellread is FREE to join

Kids, Literature, No Cost

Weekly online audience appointments with thrive

thrive

Free eBooks, audiobooks and eMagazines

Libraries NI

Free audible audio books

Kids, Literature

ArtsProfessional’s Covid Culture

ArtsProfessional

ONLINE TRAINING

NEW! MindHarp Online Workshop with the Inventors - 23 Apr

Belfast Exposed, MindHarp

Figure This: Life Drawing - 24 Apr

Accidental Theatre

NEW! CCA Supports: Surgeries – 30 Apr and 7 May

Centre for Contemporary Art

NEW! Visual Artists Help Desk – free for member and non-members – every Wednesday

Visual Artists Ireland

Virtual En Plein Air Art & Painting Sessions (20th century art styles) – Wednesday mornings

Boom Studios

DARE to Connect…safely…(updated)

Bryson Intercultural, TIDES Training

Please note: the following items are listed in chronological order

ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY

EVENTS

ABC Get Creative

Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Kids

OPPORTUNITIES

Antrim’s Junction Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

The Junction Retail and Leisure Park

Recreational Engagement Programme

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, WheelWorks

TRAINING

POSTPONED Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School - 2020

Blackbird Theatre, Kids

ARDS AND NORTH DOWN

EVENTS

POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER The Pirates of Penzance – 29 May

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Theatre, Music

POSTPONED Jake O’Kane: Walks The Line – 30 May

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER Grease Singalong – 4 June

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Film, Music

POSTPONED Friends In Low Places – 6 June

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

NI Opera Studio presents SENSATION! – 7 June

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

RESCHEDULED Ryan McMullan - 27 June

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

RESCHEDULED Ryan McMullan - Another Show! - 28 June

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Phil Kay: Cosmicomic Storyteller – 4 July

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Comedy

RESCHEDULED Lore & Saffyre: Take Me Home – 29 Aug

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre

Shane Todd: Someone Told Me 2020 - 25 Sept

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Comedy

RESCHEDULED Paddy and Nigel On Tour – now 26 sept

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Comedy

RESCHEDULED Ruby! - 17 Oct

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Theatre

RESCHEDULED Dolly & Shania: Queens of Country – 6  Nov

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Simon & Garfunkel Through The Years - 14 Nov

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

JOBS

Position of Artist in Residence – ongoing

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

OPPORTUNITIES

Bangor’s Bloomfield shopping centre offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

Bloomfield Shopping Centre

Guided Tour of Portico

Heritage, Portico

TRAINING

POSTPONED Traditional Crafts – ongoing

Welig Heritage Crafts

ARMAGH, BANBRIDGE AND CRAIGAVON

EVENTS

No Time | Martin Boyle – 16 May

Millennium Court Arts Centre

Flash Fiction Armagh Maytime – 21 May

Flash Fiction Armagh, Literature, Verbal Arts

CANCELLED Penumbra – to 30 May

F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Visual Art, Exhibition

POSTPONED Open Mic Night – last Friday of every month

Abbey Lane Theatre Armagh

OPPORTUNITIES

Guitar Group Leader - Magherafelt - closing 21 Aug

Mindwise

Photography Group Volunteer - Ballyclare - closing 21 Dec 2020

Mindwise

TRAINING

POSTPONED Lough Neagh Writers Meetings – every Tuesday

Lurgan Town Hall, Literature

POSTPONED Moneypenny’s Blacksmith Workshop – every Saturday

Moneypenny’s Blacksmith, Workshops

BELFAST #SaveCQ

menuprev / next

EVENTS

Duncairn Arts' Virtual Cabaret #3

Duncairn Arts Centre, Music, Poetry, Visual Arts

POSTPONED Mapping | Karen Daye-Hutchinson

Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

POSTPONED Belfast Film Festival

Belfast Film Festival

MOVING ONLINE More Bad News | Dougal McKenzie – to 25 Apr

Golden Thread Gallery

CANCELLED - Catherine Bohart – Lemon – 30 Apr

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

CANCELLED Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – 2 to 12 May

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

CANCELLED The Handsome Family – 7 May

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

Ian Brown – 19 May

Ulster Hall, Music

EXTENDED Inside Out: New Photography from China | Group Exhibition – to 28 May

Belfast Exposed Gallery, Photography

EXTENDED Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition – to 28 May

Belfast Exposed, Photography

EXTENDED Rohingya – Cathal McNaughton – to 28 May

Belfast Exposed, Photography, Visual Arts

RESCHEDULED GoGo Penguin / European Tour 2020 – 17 Sept

The Black Box, Music, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

POSTPONED Connected Voices Choir – every Wednesday

Accidental Theatre

POSTPONED Creative Writing Workshops – every Thursday

174 Trust, Creative Writing, Poetry

JOBS

NEW! Lecturer (Education) in Arts Management & Cultural Policy - closing 4 May

Queen's University Belfast

Call out for workshop facilitators – ongoing

The Strand Arts Centre

Call out for Young Film Programmers – ongoing

Queen's Film Theatre

OPPORTUNITIES

NEW! Belfast Exposed ‘Futures Artists’ – Applications Open – closing 30 Apr

Belfast Exposed, Photography

Mothers in Music – closing soon

Oh Yeah Music Centre

The Barracks is available to hire

Kabosh Theatre

Cityside Retail and Leisure Park offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

Cityside Retail and Leisure Park

Platform Arts - Studios Available

Platform Arts

CANCELLED Join the Reading Round every Friday!

Golden Thread Gallery, Literature, Verbal Arts

Alzheimer’s Society’s Side by Side volunteering – request for volunteers

Alzheimer's Society, Volunteering

TRAINING

NEW! MindHarp Online Workshop with the Inventors - 23 Apr

Belfast Exposed, MindHarp

POSTPONED Level 4: Design & Develop a Photography Project – First Thursday of Every Month – to July

Belfast Exposed, Photography

POSTPONED Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School - 2020

Blackbird Theatre, Kids

POSTPONED Andersonstown Music School – Music Classes

Andersonstown Traditional and Contemporary Music School

Call for ArtCart Artists/Creative facilitators - ongoing

Wheelworks

The Belly Dance Academy Belfast is now open for enrolment

Belly Dance Academy, Shakti Wellness Studio

POSTPONED Creative Writing Workshops – First Tuesday of the month

Falls Road Library, Libraries NI

CAUSEWAY COAST AND GLENS

EVENTS

ONLINE Embracing Human Rights: Conflict Textiles’ Journey

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

DERRY AND STRABANE

EVENTS

NEW! Artist social media takeovers for CCA Derry~Londonderry

Centre for Contemporary Art

Derry Photo Competition - closing 24 Apr

Triax - Neighbourhood Management Team, Void Derry, Museum of Free Derry, Photography

Imelda May returns – 7 May

Millennium Forum, Music

Van returns to the Forum - 9 and 10 May (extra date)

Millennium Forum, Music, The City of Derry Jazz Festival

Ian Brown – 18 May

Millennium Forum, Music

‘Conversations With Roddy Doyle’ – 2 June

Millennium Forum

JOBS

NEW! Invitation to Quote / Specification – Sound Designer / Composer – closing 27 Apr

The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy

Call for Technicians

Centre for Contemporary Art

OPPORTUNITIES

DEEDS Volunteering Opportunities – Mondays

Hillcrest House

DEEDS Volunteering Opportunity – Tuesdays

Old Library Trust Health Living Centre

Call for Volunteers (Ad Hoc)

Centre for Contemporary Art

City Centre Office Space To Rent

The Playhouse

Theatre Space and Rooms for Hire

Waterside Theatre

Your Space to Create

The Playhouse

Rooms Available for Hire

Eighty81

Room hire

Holywell DiverseCity Community Partnership

FERMANAGH AND OMAGH

EVENTS

POSTPONED Flow & Folds | Des Cullen – 2 to 25 April

Strule Arts Centre, Visual Art

OPPORTUNITIES

Fermanagh & Omagh Council introduce their Arts & Culture Database

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

LISBURN AND CASTLEREAGH

EVENTS

NEW! Community Circus Lisburn’s weekly circus skills videos

Community Circus Lisburn

POSTPONED Visual Arts Ireland – Supporting Careers – 22 Apr and 6 May

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

POSTPONED Slipped Disco – 14 May

ISLAND Arts Centre

POSTPONED Art on the Rails – Launch – 16 May

ISLAND Arts Centre

POSTPONED Project Clinic – 20 May

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

Community Arts Walkway Exhibitions – to July

ISLAND Arts Centre

Eye on the ISLAND – Gallery Tours

ISLAND Arts Centre, Visual Arts

FUNDING

The John Hewitt International Summer School – Residency Award 2020 – closing 29 May

John Hewitt International Summer School

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary 2020/2021 – closing 29 May

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

OPPORTUNITIES

Lisburn Historic Quarter Arts Group Urban Regeneration – ongoing

Lisburn Historic Quarter Arts Group Urban Regeneration

Lisburn’s Bow Street Mall offers FREE spaces for arts events, activities and workshops

Bow Street Mall

Call-out for volunteers

R-Space Gallery, Visual Arts

MID AND EAST ANTRIM

EVENTS

POSTPONED The Braid Comedy Club – last Saturday of each month

The Braid Museum and Arts Centre, Comedy

POSTPONED The Braid Real Music Club – last Friday of each month

The Braid, Music

FUNDING

Good Relations Grants Scheme

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

MID ULSTER

FUNDING

Community Local Festivals Grant

Mid Ulster District Council

Good Relations Grant

Mid Ulster District Council

NEWRY, MOURNE AND DOWN

EVENTS

CANCELLED Valerie Giannandrea McKeag – 10 Apr to 2 May

Down Arts Centre, Exhibition

CANCELLED Ulster Orchestra – On Your Doorstep – 18 Apr

Down Arts Centre, Music

OPPORTUNITIES

Hanging Space for Artists or Photographers

Castlewellan Library, Photography, Visual Arts

FUNDING DEADLINES

NEW! Remote Family Engagement Fund launched by Arts & Business NI - closing 24 Apr

Arts and Business NI

The Rosemary James Memorial Trust Award – closing 24 Apr

The Rosemary James Memorial Trust Award

NEW! Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble PRSf Commissioning Scheme - closing 1 May

Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble

NEW! Crescent Arts Centre remembers “a saint of poetry” with Mairtín Crawford Awards – closing 13 May

The Crescent

Bridging culture and audiovisual content through digital - closing 14 May

Creative Europe Desk UK

MORE FUNDING

Small Grants - ongoing

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Travel Awards - ongoing

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Corporate Responsibility Fund - ongoing

Belfast Harbour

BLF People and Communities - ongoing

Big Lottery Fund

BFI Film Fund - ongoing

British Film Institute

Clanmil Community Fund - ongoing

Clanmil Housing

The Elephant Trust - ongoing

The Elephant Trust

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - Arts Funding - ongoing

Esmée Fairbairn

Jerwood Arts Bursaries

Jerwood Arts

Main Grants - ongoing

Clore Duffield Foundation

Open Grants Programme - ongoing

Clothworkers Foundation

Telecommunity Fund - ongoing

The Community Foundation Northern Ireland

Enkalon Foundation General Fund – ongoing

Enkalon Foundation

Small Grants Scheme - ongoing

Foyle Foundation

Community Grant Programme - ongoing

Halifax Foundation NI

Matched Giving Scheme - ongoing

Halifax Foundation NI

Sharing Heritage - ongoing

Heritage Lottery Fund

Arts Access and Participation Fund - ongoing

Paul Hamlyn

Ideas and Pioneers Fund - ongoing

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Youth Fund - ongoing

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Creative Paths Bursaries - ongoing

Play Resource

Development Awards - ongoing

Prince's Trust

Improving Lives - ongoing

The Henry Smith Charity

PRS International Showcase Fund - ongoing

PRS Foundation

Strengthening Communities - ongoing

The Henry Smith Charity

Charitable Grants - ongoing

The Honourable Irish Society

Grants for charitable and not-for-profit organisations - ongoing

The Rayne Foundation

Community Centres and Village Halls Grants - ongoing

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Grants Programmes - ongoing

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation


The Thomas Devlin Fund - currently closed

Community Foundation Northern Ireland, The Thomas Devlin Fund

Central Good Relations Fund (CGRF) 2020/21 - currently closed

Executive Office, T:BUC

Maurna Crozier Bursary – currently closed

Friends of FE McWilliam Gallery

Arts Grant - currently closed

Matthew Martino Benevolent Fund

i-Portunus – currently closed

Creative Europe

Carn Hill Community Benefit Fund - currently closed

Carn Hill Community Benefit Fund

The Wesleyan Foundation – Large Grants Programme - currently closed

Wesleyan Foundation

Audience Fund - currently closed

British Film Institute

Commissioning Programme for Creative Innovation – currently closed

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Rural Needs Small Grants Programme – currently closed

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

MORE JOBS, EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES

Open Call – Printmaking Residency – closing 31 May

Creative Spark, Visual Arts

Home Work - Heart of Glass - micro-commissions - closing 12 Apr

Heart of Glass

Stéphanie Heckman Visual Facilitation

Visual Facilitation

Join the Northern Irish Composers Collective

Northern Irish Composers Collective

Lighting, Props and Costumes for hire

DU Dance

Connect to Success NI

Department for the Economy NI

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