Community Arts Partnership welcomes you to the vibrant and dynamic world of community arts

Trying something for the first time can be a difficult. Looking for something hidden can be an impossible task. Here at Community Arts Partnership, we offer the widest possible range of assistance and opportunity to get creative and engage in community-based arts activity.

We can celebrate what we have in common, share what makes us different and explore what makes us unique.

Community arts can help us find creative solutions to a whole range of challenges, as individuals and communities. Community arts can motivate us, building our confidence to create brilliant art and in turn can create real positive change.

Remember: ‘Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.’ – Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 27, 1948

Who We Are and What We Offer

Community Arts Partnership began in 2011 out of New Belfast Community Arts Initiative and Community Arts Forum, and it builds on the success of these two leading community arts organisations.

Community Arts Partnership is committed to championing community arts in the belief that they can positively transform our society. We support and collaborate with community groups, schools, artists, community arts, arts centres and other organisations in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Through our work we offer:

Arts workshops
Information about arts programmes people and communities can take part in
Information and research about community arts
Training for those interested in developing and running community arts programmes
Opportunities to meet, share information and discuss how community arts can help individuals and communities
Initiatives to promote and advocate community arts

Latest CAP News

Poetry in Motion Schools now open for applications for Autumn 2013!

Poetry in Motion Schools is Community Arts Partnership’s innovative literary programme for primary, secondary, grammar and special schools. Supported by principal funder the Arts Council of Northern Ireland with additional funding from Belfast City Council, this successful programme is now in its eleventh year.

Since 2001 more than 10,000 students have taken part in this project, and over 1,850 poems have been published. Poetry in Motion for Schools aims to develop the creative abilities of young people and enable their poetic voice through language and image. We achieve this through workshops conducted in schools by published/producing poets most of whom have a wealth of experience in working with young people, helping to foster creativity. Schools that have taken part in this project see it as an enriching experience for both pupils and teachers and find that it also forges many links with the curriculum. Click here to see highlights from 2012-2013 Anthology launch at the Waterfront Hall.

We reach out across the whole of Northern Ireland and look forward to welcoming schools from across the region to participate in this year’s programme.

The project will focus on both the writing and the performance of the work created by the participants. Students’ poems will be audio-recorded by a technician and collected in an audio anthology and a book.