Luail’s Artistic Director Liz Roche is seeking skilled professional dancers and we are holding #auditions for full time company #dancers for contracts mid-November 2024 through 2025.

For more information please visit 👉 luail.ie/wp-content/upl…

BREAKING :

Happening now in Bologna, Italy.

Protesters are occupying train stations, demanding justice for Palestine and condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

🇵🇸🔥

All eyes on Rafah. 💔

It's only weeks until the end of term! But don't panic because our popular #BelfastBoys Summer Session is back from 1 - 5 July, 10am - 12 noon @themacbelfast.

All boys aged 7 - 11 yrs welcome & no previous dance experience needed.

To book: 028 9023 0877 / [email protected]

Craic Youth Theatre campaigning for adequate funding for the arts in rural areas.
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360,000+ attended NI football in 2022-23. The same year saw 1.06 million tickets sold for arts events. Football is to get £36 million from Communities NI; last year the arts got £9.7 million. Time for fair play Gordon Lyons MLA. thrive: making culture count Arts Matter NI/NoI
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We are launching our pilot Mental Health & Arts Programme at the Crescent Arts Centre next Thursday. The event will provide an opportunity for artists, arts organisations & organisations working in the field of mental health to learn more about the programme.
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Fantastic first day at our 14th Primary School Dance Festival in partnership with Belvoir Players.

Here we are warming up for five awesome performances where we travelled round the 🌍 and back in time for some vogueing!

REVEALED: Arts Council England’s guidelines warning arts organisations that “political statements” could break funding agreements was formulated in relation to the Israel-Gaza war

Read The Guardian’s exclusive uncovered by our Freedom of Information request

theguardian.com/culture/articl…

New research from the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre exposed an overwhelming lack of diversity.

In film, TV and radio, just over 8% of creatives are from working class backgrounds - the lowest in a decade - while over 60% are middle or upper class.

New research exclusively seen by Channel 4 News shows just 1 in 12 creatives working in TV and Film in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are from working class backgrounds.

Actor Samira Ahmed says her experience of drama school made her realise 'you need connections'.

President Higgins this afternoon received the President of the Palestinian FA, Jibril Rajoub, Ambassador Dr Jilan Abdalmajid and players and managers of the Palestine and Bohemian Football Club women's football teams at Áras an Uachtaráin ahead of Wednesday's match at Dalymount Park

Dr. Jill Biden, the UN estimates that two mothers are killed every hour in Gaza. On this Mother’s Day, we call on you as mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers and as humans to use your voice and your power

⁦Jill Biden
#AllEyesOnRafah
#PermanentCeasefireNow
#Artists4Ceasefire

Join us at the Crescent Arts Centre on Thursday 30th May 2024 for the launch of the Arts Council's new Mental Health and Arts Programme jointly funded by The Baring Foundation and the #NationalLottery .

Visit tickettailor.com/events/artscou… to register.

.gary lightbody asks politicians, asks all of us, to imagine our best lives without music, dance, theatre, the arts, and questions how close to perfect is it now? Says government needs to value our artists in NI over next 10 years.

#ChampioningTheArts #ACNI10YrStrategy

What would you do with a FREE venue for a whole week? If you're a d/Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent artist or organisation, or are from another disadvantaged or marginalised group, write us a very quick pitch and enter our competition!

Deadline Friday 10 May at 5pm - link below

Marie O’Donoghue, Education Authority & Programme Manager of the #CreativeSchoolsProgramme highlights the importance of arts in the classroom.
 
#ChampioningTheArts #ACNI10YrStrategy

Edel Murphy, Chief Executive of the UniversityOfAtypical and Grace Fairley artist and illustrator, talk about the inclusiveness of the arts and the opportunities that the arts create for d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists and audiences.
 
#ChampioningTheArts #ACNI10YrStrategy