County Down | Community Arts Partnership

Call for Artists – Community Arts Partnership closing 2/7/2013

June 17, 2013 in County Antrim, County Armagh, County Derry/Londonderry, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Tyrone, Greater Belfast, Jobs & Opportunities

Community Arts Partnership (CAP) is calling for artists from a variety of artistic backgrounds to facilitate our community arts workshop programme across Northern Ireland.

We are looking for creative, dynamic and innovative practitioners with an approachable attitude, a passion for community arts, and experience of working on arts projects in community and school settings.

Artists are invited to submit a CV (word or pdf format), up to three images of recent work (jpeg), and complete a short application form: Facilitator form with details of their expertise, experience and availability. Applications should be submitted no later than 5pm Tuesday 2 July to Peggy Fisher via email peggy@comartspartner.org or in the post to Community Arts Partnership, 3-5 Commercial Court, Belfast BT1 2NB.

CAP has been delivering very successful community arts workshop programmes for over 10 years. With this year’s programme, we wish to renew our commitment to championing community arts and promote access to and participation in the arts to all sections of society.

Between July 2013 and March 2014 we will be offering poetry workshops to schools and writers’ groups. We will also deliver a wide range of participant-led projects to community groups, including film, photography, animation, fashion, sculpture, textile art, carnival arts, crafts, dance, drama, music, and mural making.

Community Arts Partnership is currently supporting and promoting interculturalism in the arts (through our InterCultural Arts Support Programme and within the framework of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Intercultural Strategy). We are keen to hear from artists from or working with ethnic minorities who are interested in facilitating intercultural creative projects engaging diverse communities.

For more information about our programme and to download applications forms, visit www.comartspartner.org.

Artists who have previously sent us details are invited to reapply as we require consent to publish contact details on a new online artist database which will be accessible to registered organisations looking for arts practitioners.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The deadline for this application is 5:00pm on Tuesday July 2nd, 2013

Somewhereto_re:store Bangor

June 11, 2013 in County Down, Events, News

Place NI are the regional delivery partners for somewhereto_, a project that uses access to free space (physical and digital) to help young people in communities across every nation and region of the UK. Re:store is a UK-wide summer 2013 campaign that seeks to highlight the positive role that young people can play in the revitalisation of town centres. Somewhereto_ is holding an information and brainstorming session on 13 June about the 6-week campaign launching in Bangor in July 2013.

The networking event, running from 4- 6pm, will offer a valuable opportunity to network and engage with like-minded people to talk about a campaign with the potential to radically transform the Bangor high street. Somewhereto_ re:store aims to encourage young creative entrepreneurs to address the problem of declining high streets.

The six-week campaign, which commences on the 20th July and runs until the end of August, will strive to bring colour and creativity to high streets UK-wide. Somewhereto_ regional delivery partners in Northern Ireland, PLACE, are focusing on Bangor, delivering a feast of youth-led activities, workshops, exhibitions, performances and showcases to a vacant shop in the town centre.

Somewhereto_ wishes to invite and unite youth organisations, partners, volunteers, artists, creative entrepreneurs, independent retailers, and young people from across North Down to meet in the Flagship Shopping Centre on the 13th June to open up a discussion about the aims and ambitions of somewhereto_ re:store and possibilities for creative collaborations and a positive legacy for Bangor and the surrounding areas.

https://www.facebook.com/events.

Film project for Banbridge Groups

June 4, 2013 in County Down, Jobs & Opportunities, News

A film project aimed at building positive relations is currently looking for two community groups based in the Banbridge area. The project aimed at tackling racism, sectarianism and intergenerational issues has a number of objectives as part of the Investing in Our Future Priority to identify tomorrow’s leaders and build their capacity today and to encourage active participation within and between local communities. The project, which aims to build positive relations at a local level in the Craigavon, Banbridge, Armagh, Newry & Mourne council areas, is seeking to recruit two groups from Banbridge to participate in the project.

The project led by Craigavon Borough Council through their Investing in Our Future priority, as part of the PEACE lll Southern Partnership, recently commenced and will run in conjunction with Northern Ireland’s leading film training company Giga Training. The participants will not only have the opportunity to work with industry professionals but they will receive free training, a study visit, a residential and produce films which will be shown at an event to mark the completion of the project in September.

This project has been managed by the PEACE III Southern Partnership’s Investing in Our future priority and supported by the European Union’s Regional Development Fund through the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (PEACE III) managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.

If you are part of a group of any age who would like to take part in this project or to find out more information visit www.gigatraining.com. or call 028 9581 1202.