NEW! Orchardville House worked with Community Arts Partnership’s Heather Douglas

New Town Together – Tracey Mc Verry

ETC Club Morton Centre with artist Clare McComish

Eglinton Community with artist Jasper Mc Kinney

CAP’s welcome to Deirdre Hargey, new Minister for Communities

Annagh Social Farm – Project Update

NEW! The Songbirds - A new play about the realities of living with dementia - 6 and 11 Feb

New Funding for Northern Ireland Creative Employment Programme - closing 7 Feb

Imbolc International Arts Festival - to 9 Feb

Call out for delegates to Output Festival now open – 13 Feb

The Castlegate Prize – closing 14 Feb

Make Music Day – Networking Event– 14 Feb

IDA Awards – 14 Feb

NEW! Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival – 27 Feb to 7 Mar

Visual Artists News Sheet – Feb 2020

NEW! Jerwood Bursaries - closing 9 Mar

Pilot Premium Payments Programme – closing 13 Mar

NEW! Global Recycling Day – 18 Mar

NEW! Féile an Phobail Open Call for Festival Event Proposals – closing 27 Mar

NEW! Small Grants Program – closing 31 Mar

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

Creative Europe Calls - Now Open

NEW! Grand Opera House undergoing Renovation and Restoration

The Millennium Forum Launches ‘Moves & Melodies’

International Opportunities for Northern Irish Artists

Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Annual Review 2018-2019

Registration now open for Central Good Relations Fund (CGRF) 2020/21 applicants

Making Music appoints first Northern Ireland Manager

Community artist, Darren Ferguson, recognised with Anne O’Donoghue Award

Csilla Toldy, local poet and film-maker, selected for International Video Poetry Festival

Belfast Community Planning Partnership – Community Plan Information

Leading artists honoured with £15,000 awards by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Artists appointed to design and create award pieces for the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards

Shortlist Announced for the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards

CRAFT NI exhibits works from Arts Council Contemporary Art Collection

Creative Schools Partnership Evaluation Report

International Showcase Fund – ongoing

Making Music – List of Groups in Northern Ireland

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

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

Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School - 2020

Blackbird Theatre, Kids

EVENTS

Michael McHale & Patrick Rafter – 8 Feb

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Lassus - 22 Feb

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

The Rapparees - 28 Feb

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

The Bjorn Identity - 7 Mar

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Piano Recital with Cahal Masterson - 15 Mar

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Into Film: The Biggest Little Farm – 24 Mar

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre

Ruby! - 28 Mar

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Theatre

Lore & Saffyre: Take Me Home – 4 Apr

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre

Jake O’Kane: Walks The Line – 30 May

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Friends In Low Places – 6 June

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Dolly & Shania: Queens of Country – 20 June

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Phil Kay: Cosmicomic Storyteller – 4 July

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Comedy

JOBS

Position of Artist in Residence – ongoing

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

NEW! Tender: Musical Traditions Programme - Performance/Stage Director - closing 7 Feb (extended)

Blu Zebra

NEW! Tender: Musical Traditions Programme - Choreographer - closing 7 Feb (extended)

Blu Zebra

NEW! Tender: Musical Traditions Programme - Composer and Musical Director - closing 7 Feb (extended)

Blu Zebra

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

Painting Your Way through the 20th century - 10 week course

Boom Studios

EVENTS

Uniting Communities through Sport and Creativity – 11 Feb

Together Building a United Community

Maiden Voyage Dance Presents: Double Bill –  Brink and The Here Trio - 12 Feb

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Dance

A Viennese Strauss Gala – 13 Feb

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Music

I, Elizabeth – 20 Feb

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Theatre

Stray Sod Artworks | Orlaith Cullinane – to 22 Feb

Armagh County Museum

The Dime Notes – 28 Feb

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Music

Life Through The Lens: Ballydown Photography Club – to 29 Feb

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Ballydown Camera Club

Evolve | Arts Care 2020 - to 29 Feb

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Exhibition. Arts Care

Dream, Sleep, Connect – 7 Mar

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Comedy

NEW! Reading Of Come Day, Go Day - 15 Mar

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Verbal Arts

NEW! Vessel - 21 Mar

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Theatre

NEW! The Ulster Orchestra – Beethoven @ 250 - 26 Mar

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Ulster Orchestra, Music

NEW! Keep Telling Me Lies - 2 Apr

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Theatre, Music

Open Mic Night – last Friday of every month

Abbey Lane Theatre Armagh

OPPORTUNITIES

Creative office space in Lurgan

BNL Productions

TRAINING

Life Drawing –  to 11 Feb

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre

Lough Neagh Writers Meetings – every Tuesday

Lurgan Town Hall, Literature

Moneypenny’s Blacksmith Workshop – every Saturday

Moneypenny’s Blacksmith, Workshops

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EVENTS

Kinky Boots the Musical  – 4 and 9 Feb

The Strand Arts Centre

NEW! Women Carers Music Project – meetings on Mondays -  2-4pm – upcoming meetings – 4,11 Feb

Music, The Black Box

NEW! Coole Lady: The Extraordinary Story of Lady Gregory - 5 to 9 Feb

The Lyric Theatre

A Retrospective | Sam McCready – 5 to 29 Feb

ArtisAnn Gallery

Colouring The Past - 5 Feb to 31 Mar

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Exhibition

NEW! The Songbirds - A new play about the realities of living with dementia - 6 and 11 Feb

East Belfast Network Centre, Malone Sports Facilities, An Grianán Theatre, Dementia Friendly East Belfast

Rituals of Preservation – starts 6 Feb

Pollen Studios and Gallery, Exhibition

First We Eat – 6 Feb to 5 Mar

Catalyst Arts

Maiden Voyage Dance Presents: Double Bill – Brink and The Here Trio – 7 and 8 Feb

Maiden Voyage Dance, The MAC

Murmur | Ben Malcolmson – 7 Feb to 29 Feb

Belfast Exposed Gallery, Photography

NEW! Street Art Walking Tour – 8 Feb

Dark Horse, Seedhead Arts, Street Art

NEW! Chinese Film Season – 8 Feb to 15 Mar

Belfast Film Festival

NEW! Devil, Repent! (listening party) - 8 Feb

Moving on Music

NEW! Seven Ages of Sam - 10 Feb

The Lyric Theatre

NEW! Ruby! - 11 to 16 Feb

The Lyric Theatre

The Frequency of Things | Josephine McCormick – 13 to 22 Feb

ArtCetera Studio

Creative City Meetup with NI Opera and the Lyric Theatre – 14 Feb

We Will Thrive

Maritime Mile Giant Explorers' Trail – 15 Feb

Titanic Foundation

This Moment of Being – to 15 Feb

PS² Gallery, Exhibition

NEW! Dream, Sleep, Connect - 18 to 22 Feb

The Lyric Theatre, C21 Theatre Company

“MURKTACKTISS” by Gerard Carson – to 21 Feb

Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Exhibition, Visual Art

Abstracts by dmcq – to 21 Feb

Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Exhibition, Visual Art

NEW! Kiss, Me Kate - to 22 Feb

The Lyric Theatre

NEW! Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival – 27 Feb to 7 Mar

Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival, Music

NEW! Shirley Valentine - 27 Feb to 15 Mar

The Lyric Theatre

“Which Way Next..” – to 29 Feb

Creative Exchange

NEW! The Untold Truth of Captain Hook - 6 to 11 Mar

The Lyric Theatre, Kids

NEW! Wonders of the Wake - 14 and 15 Mar

The Lyric Theatre

NEW! In the Name of the Son - 17 to 29 Mar

The Lyric Theatre

Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition – to 21 Mar

Belfast Exposed, Photography

Inside Out: New Photography from China | Group Exhibition – to 21 Mar

Belfast Exposed Gallery, Photography

NEW! Sauce - 27 and 28 Mar

The Lyric Theatre

NEW! Keep Telling Me Lies - 7 to 12 Apr

The Lyric Theatre

NEW! 1984 - 18 Apr to 16 May

The Lyric Theatre

Catherine Bohart – Lemon – 30 Apr

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

GoGo Penguin / European Tour 2020 – 30 Apr

The Black Box, Music, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

The Handsome Family – 7 May

Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

Connected Voices Choir – every Wednesday

Accidental Theatre

Creative Writing Workshops – every Thursday

174 Trust, Creative Writing, Poetry

JOBS

Funded PhD Researcher – closing 7 Feb

Ulster University

Creative Learning Manager – Permanent Full Time – closing 10 Feb

The MAC

Company Stage Manager (Maternity Cover) - closing 10 Feb

The Lyric Theatre

NEW! Customer Service Agents - closing 10 Feb

The Lyric Theatre

Finance Officer - Arts Council of Northern Ireland - closing 17 Feb

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

NEW! Community Engagement Officer – EastSide Arts – closing 17 Feb

EastSide Arts

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) - closing 21 Feb

Queen's University Belfast

Gallery Assistant – closing 28 Feb

Golden Thread Gallery

Call out for workshop facilitators – ongoing

The Strand Arts Centre

Call out for Young Film Programmers – ongoing

Queen's Film Theatre

FUNDING

IDA Awards – 14 Feb

University of Atypical

OPPORTUNITIES

Art Department Trainee - closing 7 Feb

Northern Ireland Screen

NEW! Call out for volunteers – closing 7 Feb

Belfast Film Festival

Craft NI – latest offers

Craft NI

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

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! Photography Classes – Feb through to May

Belfast Exposed, Photography

Collagraph Printmaking with Ivan Frew – 8 and 9 Feb

Belfast Print Workshop

Wheelworks’ Digicamp – 17 to 19 Feb

Wheelworks, Kids

Colour Linocut with Jonathan Brennan – 22 and 23 Feb

Belfast Print Workshop

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

Belfast Exposed, Photography

Blackbird Theatre New Saturday Drama School - 2020

Blackbird Theatre, Kids

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

Creative Writing Workshops – First Tuesday of the month

Falls Road Library, Libraries NI

EVENTS

Dreamer's Space by Corrina Askin - 17 Feb

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Visual Arts

The Science of Harry Potter - 17 Feb

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Kids

The Science of Star Wars - 17 Feb

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Kids

True Confessions –Music and Dance Day for Older People – 19 Feb

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

Tenx9 – Love – 21 Feb

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

The Twilight Music Sessions presents: Trad Sessions with Kern – 22 Feb

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Traditional Music

World Illustration Awards Exhibition – through to 23 Feb

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

Whiskey Galore! - Dementia Friendly Screening - 26 Feb

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Film

The Salterello Trio - 29 Feb

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Music

Beard and Herington - from the iconic band Steely Dan - 14 Mar

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Music

Embracing Human Rights: Conflict Textiles’ Journey – to 12 Apr

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

FUNDING

Culture Arts and Heritage Grant Scheme

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council

Youth Creative Skills Bursary

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council

TRAINING

The Saturday Animation Club - 8 Feb to 14 Mar

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Animation, Kids

Spring Floristry – 29 Feb

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

Lego Animation – 21 Mar

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

EVENTS

IMBOLC Festival - Luke Daniels & Rihab Azar - 5 Feb

Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music

IMBOLC Festival – Festival Club – 7 Feb

Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music

The Great Unwashed, an exhibition by Damien Duffy – to 15 Feb

Wild Tulip Gallery

Blood Brothers 2020 Tour - 3 to 7 Mar

Millennium Forum, Music, Theatre

Ima-Abasi Okon – Sur-[infinite Slippage: production of the r~e~a~l as an intensive magnitude starting at zero-eight] – to 9 Apr

The Void Gallery

NEW! Van returns to the Forum - 10 May

Millennium Forum, Music, The City of Derry Jazz Festival

‘Conversations With Roddy Doyle’ – 2 June

Millennium Forum

JOBS

NEW! Chief Executive Officer - closing 21 Feb

The Playhouse

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

TRAINING

IMBOLC Festival – Tin-Whistle Workshop With Kieran Munnelly – 9 Feb

Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin,  IMBOLC International Music Festival, Music

FUNDING

Grant Aid: Project Development

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

TRAINING

Saturday Theatre Club - started 11 Jan (12 weeks)

Ardhowen Theatre, Drama, Theatre

Set & Sean Nos - started 15 Jan (12 weeks)

Strule Arts Centre, Dance

EVENTS

Horizon opens – Sharon Adams – to 7 Feb

R-Space Gallery

Eye on the ISLAND – Gallery Tours

ISLAND Arts Centre, Visual Arts

JOBS

Finance Officer - Arts Council of Northern Ireland - closing 17 Feb

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

FUNDING

NEW! Young Artist of the Year Award – 7 Feb

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

NEW! LCCC Arts Grants Scheme – closing 17 Feb

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

NEW! Making Art in Communities (MAC) – closing 17 Feb

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

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

EVENTS

The Braid Comedy Club – last Saturday of each month

The Braid Museum and Arts Centre, Comedy

OPPORTUNITIES

The Braid Real Music Club – last Friday of each month

Music, The Braid

FUNDING

Good Relations Grants Scheme

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

FUNDING

Community Local Festivals Grant

Mid Ulster District Council

Good Relations Grant

Mid Ulster District Council

TRAINING

Suteminis: Youth Dance Theatre Classes in Dungannon – commenced 11 Jan

The Junction - STEP Dungannon, DU Dance

Sutemos – Youth Dance Theatre classesin Dungannon – commenced 15 Jan

Dungannon Youth Resource Centre, DU Dance

OPPORTUNITIES

Call Out for Artists – ongoing

Down Arts Centre

Hanging Space for Artists or Photographers

Castlewellan Library, Photography, Visual Arts

TRAINING

X Creative – closing Mid Feb

Newry Mourne and Down District Council

New Funding for Northern Ireland Creative Employment Programme - closing 7 Feb

Northern Ireland Creative & Cultural Skills

NEW! Jerwood Bursaries - closing 9 Mar

Jerwood Arts

NEW! Experiment – Call for Applications for New VAI Research Residency Funding – closing 12 Mar

Visual Arts Ireland

Pilot Premium Payments Programme – closing 13 Mar

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

NEW! Cultural Cooperation Projects in the Western Balkans - closing 17 Mar

Creative Europe Desk UK

Empowering Young People - closing 31 Mar 2021

Big Lottery Fund

NEW! Bridging culture and audiovisual content through digital - closing 14 May

Creative Europe Desk UK

Registration now open for Central Good Relations Fund (CGRF) 2020/21 applicants

Executive Office, T:BUC

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

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

NEW! Marketing and Network Coordinator – closing 7 Feb

The Hunt Museum

NEW! Open Tender | Coordination and Development Services for Culture Night 2020 – closing 7 Feb

Culture Night

Artistic Programme Consultant (PT) - closing 21 Feb

Galway Dance Project, Dance

NEW! Resident Director - closing 31 Mar

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig

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