NEW! Announcing the longlist for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2020

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! TG4 – Fringe Festival – 20 to 23 Feb

Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival – 27 Feb to 7 Mar

NEW! Vacancies for Volunteer Board Members at Kabosh Theatre – closing 3 Mar

NEW! Submit your event to Belfast Council's 'City Matters' Magazine - closing 6 Mar

NEW! The Belfast Children’s Festival is back for Take 22! – 6 to 11 Mar

Jerwood Bursaries - closing 9 Mar

Pilot Premium Payments Programme – closing 13 Mar

Global Recycling Day – 18 Mar

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

Small Grants Program – closing 31 Mar

NEW! Stendhal Festival 2020 – Non-Music Open Submissions – closing 31 Mar

NEW! Music Education and Learning – closing 4 Apr

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

Creative Europe Calls - Now Open

NEW! Mothers in Music – closing soon

NEW! Fermanagh & Omagh Council introduce their Arts & Culture Database

Grand Opera House undergoing Renovation and Restoration

The Millennium Forum Launches ‘Moves & Melodies’

International Opportunities for Northern Irish Artists

NEW! Paragon Studios opens new work and exhibition space on Rosemary Street

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

JOBS

NEW! Debutots Mid Ulster is looking for Drama Practitioners

Debutots

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

NEW! Easter Egg Decorating for Children & Adults – 15 Mar

Let's Craft NI, Kids

NEW! Birdhouse Crafting (Decoupage) Children/Adult Workshop – 18 Mar

Let's Craft NI

NEW! Easter Egg Decorating Workshop with Decoupage - Adults - 23 Mar

Adults, Let's Craft NI

EVENTS

Lassus - 22 Feb

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

Sunday Afternoon Recital: Michael McHale & Patrick Rafter – 23 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

NEW! M’ANAM: Between Heaven and Earth – 20 Mar

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre

NEW! Malojian with full band – 21 Mar

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre

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

Ryan McMullan – 18 Apr

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre, Music

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

Assistant Caretaker/ Cleaner - closing 20 Feb

Ards Art Centre

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

Traditional Crafts – ongoing

Welig Heritage Crafts

EVENTS

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

Reading Of Come Day, Go Day - 15 Mar

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Verbal Arts

Vessel - 21 Mar

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Theatre

The Ulster Orchestra – Beethoven @ 250 - 26 Mar

Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Ulster Orchestra, Music

Flash Fiction Armagh Maytime – 21 May

Flash Fiction Armagh, Literature, Verbal Arts

Penumbra – to 30 May

F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Visual Art, Exhibition

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

JOBS

NEW! Media Youth Facilitators – closing 28 Feb

BNL Productions

NEW! Film Project Manager – closing 1 Mar

BNL Productions

NEW! Freelance Camera Operators and Video Editors – closing 1 Mar

BNL Productions

NEW! Event Manager – closing 1 Mar

BNL Productions

OPPORTUNITIES

Creative office space in Lurgan

BNL Productions

TRAINING

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

Dream, Sleep, Connect - 18 to 22 Feb

The Lyric Theatre, C21 Theatre Company

Lit Up (Poetry) – 20 Feb

Arts Resource Centre, Creative Writing, Lit Up Poetry, Poetry

NEW! Program & Schedule for the Belfast International Festival of Performance Art 2020 – 20 and 21 Feb

Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, Ulster University

“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

The Frequency of Things | Josephine McCormick – to 22 Feb

ArtCetera Studio

NEW! The Art - Installation - to 22 Feb

St. Anne's Cathedral, Visual Arts

Kiss, Me Kate - to 22 Feb

The Lyric Theatre

Slime Dynamics III – to 23 Feb

PS²

NEW! Street Art Walking Tour – 23 Feb

Dark Horse, Seedhead Arts, Street Art

NEW! Quantum | Caireann McElligott – 27 Feb to 27 Mar

Ballaí Bana Gallery, Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich

NEW! Mapping | Karen Daye-Hutchinson – 27 Feb to 27 Mar

Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich

Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival – 27 Feb to 7 Mar

Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival, Music

Shirley Valentine - 27 Feb to 15 Mar

The Lyric Theatre

A Retrospective | Sam McCready – to 29 Feb

ArtisAnn Gallery

Murmur | Ben Malcolmson – to 29 Feb

Belfast Exposed Gallery, Photography

“Which Way Next..” – to 29 Feb

Creative Exchange

NEW! Adventures on Old MacDonalds Farm - 30 Feb

Belvoir Studio Theatre, DreamWorld Promotions, Kids, Theatre

First We Eat – to 5 Mar

Catalyst Arts

NEW! The Belfast Children’s Festival is back for Take 22! – 6 to 11 Mar

Belfast Children's Festival, Young at Art

The Untold Truth of Captain Hook - 6 to 11 Mar

The Lyric Theatre, Kids

Mulit Matrix | Print Symposium – 13 Mar

Belfast Print Workshop

Wonders of the Wake - 14 and 15 Mar

The Lyric Theatre

Chinese Film Season – to 15 Mar

Belfast Film Festival

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

Sauce - 27 and 28 Mar

The Lyric Theatre

Cathal McNaughton – Masterclass – 28 Mar

Belfast Exposed Gallery

Colouring The Past - to 31 Mar

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Exhibition

NEW! CinePunked Presents An Introduction to Orson Welles - 5 Apr

The Crescent, Cinepunked, Film

Keep Telling Me Lies - 7 to 12 Apr

The Lyric Theatre

1984 - 18 Apr to 16 May

The Lyric Theatre

Dissolving Histories: An Unreliable Presence – to 25 Apr

Golden Thread Gallery

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

NEW! Irish Language Broadcast Fund Officer – 19 Feb

NI Screen

Motion Graphics Artist / Animator (Full time / Permanent post) – closing 20 Feb

Whitenoise Design Limited

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

Queen's University Belfast

Social Media and Digital Advertising Specialist – closing 21 Feb

Whitenoise Design Limited

Gallery Assistant – closing 28 Feb

Golden Thread Gallery

NEW! Camera, Sound and Electrical Trainees – closing 28 Feb

NI Screen

Heritage Projects Officer: Heritage At Risk - closing 2 Mar

Ulster Architectural Heritage

Call out for workshop facilitators – ongoing

The Strand Arts Centre

Call out for Young Film Programmers – ongoing

Queen's Film Theatre

OPPORTUNITIES

NEW! Vacancies for Volunteer Board Members at Kabosh Theatre – closing 3 Mar

Kabosh Theatre

NEW! Mothers in Music – closing soon

Oh Yeah Music Centre

NEW! 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

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

Photography Classes – Feb through to May

Belfast Exposed, Photography

Colour Linocut with Jonathan Brennan – 22 and 23 Feb

Belfast Print Workshop

NEW! Basic Finance for Small Organisations – 3 Mar

Arts and Business NI

NEW! The Fundamentals of Board Membership – 19 Mar

Arts and Business NI

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

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

Spring Floristry – 29 Feb

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

The Saturday Animation Club - to 14 Mar

Flowerfield Arts Centre, Animation, Kids

Lego Animation – 21 Mar

Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre

EVENTS

NEW! Silver Tongued Deviance – 19 Feb

The Void Gallery, Poetry

Blood Brothers 2020 Tour - 3 to 7 Mar

Millennium Forum, Music, Theatre

The Dark – to 7 Mar

Centre for Contemporary Art, Exhibition, Visual Art

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

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

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 Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy

Chief Executive Officer - closing 21 Feb

The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy

NEW! Project Development Officer – Street Talk – closing 24 Feb

The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy

NEW! Invite to Quote – Lighting Designer / Production Manager – closing 24 Feb

The Playhouse Theatre & Peacebuilding Academy

Call for Technicians

Centre for Contemporary Art

OPPORTUNITIES

CCA Supports: Portfolio reviews – 4 Mar

Centre for Contemporary Art, Visual Arts

CCA Supports: Document your work – 10 to 13 Mar

Centre for Contemporary Art, Visual Arts

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

EVENTS

NEW! Flow & Folds | Des Cullen – 2 to 25 April

Strule Arts Centre, Visual Art

FUNDING

Grant Aid: Project Development

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

OPPORTUNITIES

NEW! Open Auditions with Just Stage It NI - 21 and 28 Mar

The Ardhowen, Just Stage It NI

TRAINING

NEW! School’s Masterclass – 22 Mar

The Ardhowen, Theatre

EVENTS

NEW! Community Arts Walkway Exhibitions – Feb to July

ISLAND Arts Centre

NEW! Visual Arts Cafe – 8 Apr

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

NEW! Visual Arts Ireland – Supporting Careers – 22 Apr, 6 May

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

NEW! Project Clinic – 20 May

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

NEW! Slipped Disco – 14 May

ISLAND Arts Centre

NEW! Art on the Rails – Launch – 16 May

ISLAND Arts Centre

Eye on the ISLAND – Gallery Tours

ISLAND Arts Centre, Visual Arts

JOBS

NEW! Development and Training Officer – closing 27 Feb

Dún Uladh

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

OPPORTUNITIES

Mayor’s Carnival Workshop Programme – Stilt Walking Course – 24, 25, 26 Apr

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

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

JOBS

NEW! Debutots Mid Ulster is looking for Drama Practitioners

Debutots

FUNDING

Community Local Festivals Grant

Mid Ulster District Council

Good Relations Grant

Mid Ulster District Council

EVENTS

NEW! Micky Bartlett – Love It! – 21 Feb

Down Arts Centre, Comedy

NEW! Seefin – 22 Feb

Down Arts Centre, Music

NEW! Northern Ireland Photographic Association Annual Exhibition – to 29 Feb

Down Arts Centre, Exhibition, Northern Ireland Photographic Association, Photography, Visual Arts

NEW! Dream, Sleep, Connect – 6 Mar

Down Arts Centre, C21 Theatre Company, Comedy

NEW! Arts Council of Northern Ireland – Recent acquisitions – 6 Mar to 4 Apr

Down Arts Centre, Exhibition

NEW! Ruby! – 13 Mar

Down Arts Centre, Theatre

NEW! Border Stories – 13 Mar

Sticky Finger

NEW! Kieran Goss & Annie Kinsella – 14 Mar

Down Arts Centre, Music

NEW! Valerie Giannandrea McKeag – 10 Apr to 2 May

Down Arts Centre, Exhibition

NEW! Ulster Orchestra – On Your Doorstep – 18 Apr

Down Arts Centre, Music

OPPORTUNITIES

Call Out for Artists – ongoing

Down Arts Centre

Hanging Space for Artists or Photographers

Castlewellan Library, Photography, Visual Arts

TRAINING

NEW! Bees Wax Wraps and Body Butter – 18 Apr

Down Arts Centre

NEW! Arm Knitting – 25 Apr

Down Arts Centre

NEW! Traditional Stone Carving – 6 and 7 Mar

Down Arts Centre

Jerwood Bursaries - closing 9 Mar

Jerwood Arts

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

Cultural Cooperation Projects in the Western Balkans - closing 17 Mar

Creative Europe Desk UK

Empowering Young People - closing 31 Mar 2021

Big Lottery Fund

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

Artistic Programme Consultant (PT) - closing 21 Feb

Galway Dance Project, Dance

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