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Youth in the County Antrim village of Crumlin are about to embark on a fascinating creative journey involving local knowledge, teamwork, community empowerment, a magical Clock Tower and time travel!

Cahoots NI are taking the magical madness of Madam Tip Tops’s performing fleas to the streets of Bremen, West Germany for this year’s La Strada – international festival of street theatre August 17 –20.

How many potential young filmmakers that you know, have got what it takes?

The Volunteer Development Agency has launched their 4th annual Volunteering Photo Competition, aiming to capture the spirit of volunteering across Belfast and Northern Ireland.

The Ulster-Scots Agency's published its business plan earlier this year showing the breakdown of funding to programmes. The largest proportion of funding is on its own staff and running costs (34% or £717,000).

Arts Council reopens Support for Individual Artist Programmes and pays for General Arts Awards with National Lottery funds. (General Arts Awards were previously supported by exchequer funds).

A new £3.3 million arts programme aimed at tackling visible signs of sectarianism and racism has been launched by Ministers David Hanson and Maria Eagle.

The Arts Council has opened a new scheme modelled on the Awards for All scheme but not funded by the National Lottery for Protestant communities. Place, Identity and Art is a £200,000 programme.

To gain an understanding of the position of Arts Council funding programmes, NICVA has provided this table showing the schemes currently open, closed and under review.

A total of four students from Northern Ireland have won awards at this year’s HP Digital Imagination photography competition ahead of 6300 other entries across primary and secondary school students, North and South.

The Arts Council is pressing ahead with moves to make the National Lottery pay for previously exchequer funded programmes.

The newly reconstituted Forum For Local Government And The Arts (FLGA) met on Thursday 6th April at the Bill Clinton Centre in Enniskillen to confirm the strategic plan for future regional arts development across Northern Ireland’s district councils.

The Awards for All scheme from the National Lottery has increased its grants awards to enable groups to apply for grants from £500 to £10,000.

As part of the "Learning to Microwave" project, Arts for Older People Network is calling for examples of good practice of working with older people in the arts in NI.

Children’s charity the Youth Empowerment Scheme (YES) is hoping for box-office success at their annual fundraising event this Wednesday evening at the Sheridan IMAX movie theatre.

Projects that commemorate the victims of the Second World War who were deported to concentration camps can apply for funding from the European Commission.

The European Commission has announced funding for media projects of various types under the Media Plus programme. Television, film and other audiovisual projects can apply under one of four categories.

Maria McManus facilitated the creative writing aspects of the RESPECT project. Here she shares her thoughts on how creativity can transform us and world in which we live.

The deadline for applying to ADAPT is fast approaching. This is likely to be the last opportunity for arts organisation to secure an incentive grant for adaptations (with access guidance & awareness training offered to staff & volunteer).

A new exhibition entitled RESPECT has opened in the grounds of Belfast City Hall to challenge the negative stereotypes attributed to children and young people.
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