Delighted to be (virtually) at Poems on a Sunday! Join us. I will be reading from 'In the Museum of Miaremembered Things'. Doire Press PAGE & STAGE NI Down Arts

📢 Financial Assistance 2021-2022 – Call 1
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council invites applications for financial assistance towards the programme area outlined below 👇👇👇

🎄✨Don't forget to join Visit Mourne Mountains at 7pm ⏰ for tonight's free to view 'Hope' concert streamed to the comfort of your home! 🎄✨

Come together virtually this Christmas & join via @VisitMourne to enjoy their ‘Light and Hope’ festive concerts streamed over two nights, Sunday 20 & Tuesday 22 December at 7pm.

Check out the post below for more details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
#VisitMourne

⚡️1 MONTH⚡️ left to go, to accept entries for our AWESOME 'Eat My Shorts!' short film making competition! Submit your 2 minute masterpieces before the end of October, to be in with a shout of lifting £300 worth of filmmaking equipment! 📽️
newcastlecinema.org/eatmyshorts @FibrusFullFibre

Our Chairperson, Cllr Laura Devlin appeals to residents to do all they can to reduce COVID-19 cases in the district: tinyurl.com/y53rep7n

👣 Walk through the wardrobe in Kilbroney Park and be transported into the land of Narnia on this popular C.S. Lewis inspired family trail.

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3i7SVuf

Remember, wherever you go in #VisitMourne leave nothing but your footprints. 👣💜

#LeaveNoTrace

The Arts Council opens Health and Safety Capital Programme, a new fund, worth £500,000, to support the safe re-opening of the arts and culture sectors after the Covid-19 lockdown.

Closing date: 4pm, 1st October 2020

artscouncil-ni.org/news/500000-fu…

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And not just to the salaried sector and bid venues. Should be enough to go around.

Arts Council re-opens the Organisations Emergency Programme (OEP) for Arts and Cultural organisations across Northern Ireland with grants of up to £25,000.

Closing date: 4pm, Thursday 17th September 2020.

Read more: artscouncil-ni.org/news/arts-coun…

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Tune in to FM105 Down Community Radio (wed 2 Sept, 7-8pm) for interview with Banbridge artist Michelle Wilson and her animal artworks. More info below:

The Council is working with the Emergency Services on a major flooding incident in Newcastle. The Newcastle Centre is now operating as an Emergency Rest Centre in conjunction with the South Eastern Trust and the PSNI.
The Centre is not open to the general public.

£1.1m available inc venue support staff, singer songwriters, session musicians, set designers, lighting & sound technicians, artists, actors, rappers, writers/poets, comedians, open mikers, musicians, tutors, dancers, choreographers, editors, proof readers, craftspeople ...

ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND NEW FUNDING FOR INDIVIDUALS OPEN RIGHT NOW
until 17 August

artscouncil-ni.org/funding/scheme…

To help us determine where financial support is most urgently required, we have developed a survey for individual artists, practitioners and creative freelancers to find out how Covid-19 has affected them.

Have your say: consultations.nidirect.gov.uk/arts-council-n…

Closes 22nd July 2020

Heading outdoors? Don’t forget #socialdistancing , avoid crowds and #keep2metresapart . Please also be responsible for taking your rubbish home. #YouCanMakeADifference #StaySafeSaveLives this summer #COVID19 newrymournedown.org/coronavirus

There’s only a few days left to complete our box-office survey 💻

All venues generating income through their box-office are encouraged to share their views on the impact #COVID19 has had on them.

➡️forms.gle/3PYKtUKEPriMa1… thrive: making culture count

Are you a young person experiencing abuse at home or online? Are you worried things are not okay at home? We want you to know #YouAreNotAlone

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