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NEWS AND EVENTS
FUNDING, PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
BASE at Trans presents International Street Art and Music Festival
Sat 17th July & Sun 18th July, 2 - 6pm
St Anne's Square, Cathedral Quarter
Free
With artists; Will Barras (London), Mr Kern (Bordeaux), Graham Dews (Bristol). Also Featuring...KVLR, Frizelle, Redmonk, Danleo, Dog Boy, Bad Seed, Koncrete Tekniques, Miguel Martin, and many more to be announced...
Building on the success of last summer's Eurocultured and the subsequent winter BASE in the Ulster Hall we're pleased to announce that this summer's BASE will bring international street art and music back to the Cathedral Quarter for two days of live painting and live music in St Anne's Square.
Featuring street artists from across Ireland, Britain and Europe, BASE is a showcase of some of the finest underground artists creating work around European cities today.
ponydance
Where did it all go right?
6th - 8th August, 6.30pm
The Kilkenny Arts Festival, The Left Bank
11th - 22nd August (exc. 16th), 9pm
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, GHQ
Where Did It All Go Right? - Four people in a bar, trying to get out of it. You've probably met some of them before. Nearly outrageous, mostly clever, always inventive. A hearty lumpy mix of humour, honesty, careening and cavorting. The ever-industrious ponydance, champions of comedy dance theatre and all things brilliantly average, serve up their latest and tastiest. A confection of moves and movement to a soundtrack of garish music and nervous tension. Four outstanding performers dance their way into hearts, minds and underwear.
You'll laugh and cringe!
ponydance: good-looking, funny, charming... what's not to like?
ponydance are a Belfast-based theatre company founded by Leonie McDonagh and assisted by Paula O'Reilly. Together with a handful of gifted, not to mention attractive, dancers who were willing to work for peanuts, ponydance produced its first show in 2005. The company has gone on to win the Audience Choice Award at the Pick 'n' Mix 3 Festival in Belfast and a nomination for the Spirit of the Fringe Award at last year's Dublin Fringe Festival.
As well as performing 'Where Did It All Go Right?' at The Kilkenny Arts Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ponydance have been commissioned to make a new show for this year's Dublin Fringe Festival, September 11th - 26th at varying venues across Dublin city. This latest show will also be performed in this years Belfast Festival at Queens on 29th and 30th October.
Got to Dance is Back!
Britain's biggest dance show is back for a second series.
Davina McCall will once again host the competition where you could win the life-changing sum of £250,000!
Ashley Banjo, Kimberley Wyat and Adam Garcia will return as judges.
For your chance to become 'Got to Dance' champion 2011 and win £250,000, apply now at: www.sky.com/dance (If you don’t have internet please call 0207 985 1920)
Open to ALL ages and ALL styles of dance
Auditions: July and August 2010.
Dance United NI goes to Germany
Ten young people from Dance United NI's Exile project have been invited to attend the Detmold Community Dance Festival in Germany this summer. The young people will have the opportunity to take part in a week of intensive dance and music workshops experiencing a wide range of dance styles from Urban to Ballet, Creative to Contemporary and more. They will also have the opportunity to perform a short dance piece created by choreographers Sheena Kelly and Adib Maani-Hessari and to see several dance performances by other young people.
The festival is a celebration of community dance and will include over 300 participants from five pan-european countries. It will be a great opportunity to meet and work with other young dancers and to share skills and it promises to be a lot of fun too.
Creativity Thirst
Enrol Now!
Creativity Thirst from the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) is a short programme designed for anyone considering setting up their own business in the Creative Industries.
Participants on these short courses will have the opportunity to develop a full business plan and a portfolio and receive guidance from a mentor who will prompt and guide them on issues relating to their business.
WEA are offering two Creativity Thirst programmes in September and October at Jordanstown (in association with the University of Ulster) and the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh (in partnership with Omagh District Council) are are offered free of charge.
For more information contact Carole Kane
T: 028 9032 9718
E: carole.kane@wea-ni.com
Studio 23 Space for Hire
Gallery / Workshop / Ceramic Facilities / Warehouse Performance Area (hourly and daily rate available)
Price: £85 per month, short-term and long-term contracts available
Studio 23 offers a large warehouse space that provides a supportive environment for artists, designers, performers and encourages multi-disciplinary projects in a creative community.
Free, secure parking 24/7 is available and the studio is in a convenient location, only 5 miles outside of Belfast.
More info: www.studio23art.co.uk / www.myspace.com/studio23collective
T: 028 9043 7014 / 028 9060 0413
E: askstudio23@hotmail.com / mo.mcdevitt@btinternet.com
Urban Arts Academy
5th - 23rd July 2010
For full course listings and availability go to:www.transbelfast.com
To book contact the Waterfront - T: 028 9033 4455 or www.waterfront.co.uk
This year, as well as the week-long and some longer courses, there is also a brand new selection of Weekend Courses for beginners to learn new skills or explore a new hobby, while new week-long courses include Web Design and iPhone Apps.
Urban Arts Academy (UAA) is where today's creative arts professionals - including musicians, designers, technicians, artists, street theatre performers, dancers, DJs and photographers - invest in the creative artists of tomorrow. The Academy can help turn its students' dreams of pursing careers in the creative arts into reality, with a diverse range of vocational music, design and technical courses all on offer that can represent the first rung on the ladder to an exciting new career.
All courses are available to everyone aged 15+ and are taught exclusively by today's practicing professionals - all specialists in their chosen fields.
Urban Arts Academy 2010 is offering week-long courses in: Urban Dance, Free Running, Game Design, Radio Production / Podcasting / 3D Animation, Developing iPhone Apps, Documentary Film Making, Web Design, Fashion Design, Street Art, Comicbook Illustration, Graphic Design, Street Art, DJing for Beginners, Rock Music, Laptop and Digital DJing and Music Production.
Call for Arts Organisations to join Open Weekend 2010
The Arts Council is encouraging all arts organisations and venues to register events and celebrate the countdown to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as part of Open Weekend (23-25 July 2010). Building on last year's successful event, Open Weekend 2010 is inviting arts organisations to create a challenge for the public to participate in over that weekend, from hosting a back-stage workshop to opening up a space for people to write, produce or perform their own compositions.
To register your event and for further information, contact Northern Ireland's Creative Programmer, Cian Smyth on T: 028 9038 5273; E: csmyth@artscouncil-ni.org
TRAINING, WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
DELVE - a series of training for dance professionals provided by Dance Resource Base
FUNDING CLINIC
Monday 19th July, 11am - 1pm, Belfast
(The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, MacNiece House, 77 Malone Road)
Thursday 22nd July, 11am - 1pm, Derry
(The Foyle Arts Building, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Northland Road)
DRB Members: FREE
Non-members: £5
The funding clinic will take a look at the Support for Individual Artists Programme (SIAP). Gilly Campbell, Arts Development Officer of Dance/Drama, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland will lead the session.
FIRST AID FOR DANCE PRACTITIONERS
Wednesday 18th August, 9.00am - 5.30pm, Belfast
(Dance Resource Base, 35 Donegall Street)
Thursday 19th August, 9.00am - 5.30pm, Derry
(The Foyle Arts Building, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Northland Road)
DRB Members: £10
Non-members: £20
An accredited day long course facilitated by Underwood Traininig Ltd. The course will cover the content of the HSE's Emergency First Aid at Work with additions for child casualties, soft tissue injuries and common medical problems that may occur in the Dance setting including Asthma and Diabetes. The full course outline is available on the website at www.underwood-training.co.uk - click on the link for 'First Aid for Dance'.
HOW TO THRIVE NOT JUST SURVIVE!
Weds 29th and Thurs 30th September, 9.30am - 4pm, Belfast
(Dance Resource Base, 35 Donegall Street)
DRB Members: £15 for both days / £10 per day
Non-members: £25 for both days / £15 per day
Two linked training events that will support solo artists and freelancers to develop and move forward in their work and improve performance. These days offer a great opportunity for professional development, reflection and focus on specific issues for participants, and action planning to deal with issues.
- Day One: Healthy Work/Life Balance - Discover how to have a healthy work/life balance, whilst being productive, efficient and professional as a freelance artist/manager. The day will focus on financial and time management, as well as exploring personal and professional ambitions.
- Day Two: Company/Project Development and Management - Gain knowledge and understanding of key project and company management tools and techniques. The day will also provide insights into the pitfalls to be aware of and strategies for coping with problems and the unexpected.
CONSULTATION AND SEMINAR: NATIONAL STANDARDS OF DANCE LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL CODES OF CONDUCT
Friday 8th October, 10am - 4pm, Belfast
(Dance Resource Base, 35 Donegall Street)
DRB Members: FREE
Non-members: £5
This consultation and seminar day will be ran in partnership with the Foundation for Community Dance and is vital for any dance facilitator to keep abreast of current issues surrounding best practice.
To find out more and to book your place on any of the events listed please contact Jen at Dance Resource Base
T: 028 9023 1515
E: info@danceresourcebase.org
There will be further events in the year, including a Tax session for the Self-Employed and Issues of Touch in Community Dance, so please keep your eyes peeled for more updates.
This project is funded by The Creative Industries Innovation Fund:
Dance and Movement Echo Echo Summer Scheme
for ages 5+
Monday 26th - Friday 30th July 2010
5-7 years / 10- 11am / £15
8-12 years / 11.30am- 1pm / £20
12+ years / 2pm- 5pm / £30
Discounts and bursaries available
The Echo Echo dance tutors enjoy teaching young children about movement, encouraging their imagination and building their self confidence through playful movement games and sequences.
This years' summer scheme will be held for one week starting on Monday 26th July, in the dance studio at The Waterside Theatre. The classes are divided by age group. The 5-7 year olds' class is at 10am until 11am and the 8-12 year olds begin at 11.30am- 1pm. The teenage youth dance will be more intensive from 2pm- 5pm each day.
At the end of the week, the kids will show off what they have learned in a special performance for parents.
Be advised that the summer schemes are always extremely popular and previous courses were over subscribed therefore booking early is encouraged!
If you are interested in enrolling your child, contact Echo Echo on +44(0)28 7134 2266 or e-mail info@echoechodance.com
Professional Development Events with Maiden Voyage Dance Company
Event: Prodance
Date: Wednesday's (with exception of 14 July)
Times: 6.30-8pm
Venue: DRB Dance Studio 35 Donegall St, Belfast
Cost: £5 or £4 concession if DRB member/Dance Ireland member
Prodance continues weekly through out the summer with company and guest tutors each Wednesday from 6.30-8pm at Dance Resource Base Studio. Classes range from contemporary to somatic disciplines and are suitable for professional and advanced dancers.
Please note there will be no class on Wednesday 14th July.
Photo: Joe Fox Photography
Event: DanceLab
Date: Thursday 2nd - Saturday 4th September 2010
Times: 10am -1pm
Venue: Dance Studio at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Cost: £35
Booking: The MAC 028 90235053
DanceLab 2010 returns in September with Chisato Ohno leading GAGA intensive. GAGA is the movement method of Ohad Naharin of Batsheva Dance Company. It is an evolving language of movement research designed to access an ever-expanding range of physicality through the imagery of sensation. Gaga takes an instinctive approach towards movement, emphasizing quality and texture. In a sense, how you move is more important than the dance you show. Over the past fifteen years, Chisato Ohno has danced with Netherlands Dans Theater 2 where she performed works by Jiri Kylian, Hans van Manen, Johan Inger and many others. She continued to Batsheva Dance Company where she was involved in new creations and many other works of Ohad Naharin. She joined Karas Company of Saburo Teshigawara for two premieres and tours of other repertory. Recently she has been teaching in Tel Aviv and at The Place in London.
DanceLab is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, managed by The MAC (formerly OMAC) and curated by Maiden Voyage Dance.
Somatic Movement Education Course
Wednesdays - 21st July, 28th July, 4th August & 11th August, 5.00pm - 6.15pm
Dance Resource Base, Dance Studio, 35 Donegall Street, Belfast
Somatic Movement Education is a system of neuromuscular education that allows more ease and freedom of movement in our bodies. It teaches us to recognize and release chronic pain patterns resulting from injury, stress, repetitive motion strain, or habituated postures. Somatic Exercises are simple, slow movements done comfortably on the floor. They sequentially unwind holding patterns in the body through awareness and movement.
Taught by Nicola Curry, Somatic Movement Educator in training with The International Institute for Somatic Movement Education.
To register please contact Nicola:
T: 028 9033 0925
E: info@maidenvoyagedance.com
The MAC presents The Next Level - A collaboration by The Urban Playground Team and Gravity Style
Performance and Pre-Show Workshop
Saturday 14 August 2010, Saint Anne's Square, Belfast
Pre-show workshop - 2.00 - 3.00pm (Come down early to get your place on this exclusive workshop!)
Peformance - 4.30pm (approximately 30 minutes)
Free (no ticket required)
You've seen Parkour before. You've seen the stunts; the rooftop jumps, the dizzying leaps and rapid vaults - but that's only half the story... Parkour's essence is in weaving through space - where the human body pours like water through obstacles, coalescing in new forms and new pathways, defying expectation and bending the rules of physics.
In this spectacular new show, Prodigal's award-winning performers bring their contemporary and urban dance disciplines together with the astonishing skills of Parkour's co-creators Gravity Style, to present a vision of limitless possibilities.
Commissioned by Without Walls, Brighton Festival and Dome and Juice.
Prodigal's UPG Team has been performing Parkour for over five years, the last three in collaboration with Charles Perriere & Malik Diouf of the original Parkour group - The Yamakasi - and their organisation Gravity style.
In addition to Saturday's activities, Parkour will deliver a series of community workshops on the 11, 12, and 13 August with between 12 - 15 people to create three new 5 minute performance pieces which will be presented to the public on Saturday 14th August along with their show - The Next Level.
To get involved or for more info contact Clare: clare@buildingthemac.com
Midpoint Dance Forum
6th - 12th September 2010
A week of networking and reflection on dance practice for professional dance artists in a beautiful unspoilt location organised by Legitimate Bodies Dance Company (Cristina Goletti and Nick Bryson) with Hilltown Studio Theatre, Westmeath, Ireland, www.hilltown.ie.
Expert mentors include, Ray Schwartz, Trajal Harrell, John Scott and Mary Nunan.
Scholarships available and we are especially interested in receiving applications from Northern Ireland based dance artists.
Please contact Cristina Goletti for more details and how to apply before deadline July 19th
E: cristina.goletti@gmail.com
Capoeira Classes at Dance Resource Base
Capoeira classes are now running three times a week at Dance Resource Base studio, 35 Donegall Street, Belfast
Drop in on any of the following days and times to have a go at this Brazilian martial art:
- Tuesdays, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
- Thursdays, 6.00pm - 7.30pm
- Saturdays, 12.30pm - 2.00pm
£5
"Capoeira is a fight for dancers and a dance for fighters. It is a duel between pals. It is a game, a dance, a fight, a perfect mixture of strength and rhythm, poetry and agility. Music and singing rule the movements. Force leaves its place to rhythm. Violence submits to melody. It goes beyond antagonisms."
Capoeira is a uniquely Brazilian form of cultural expression. Although it contains obvious African influences, it is a striking and unusual mixture that defies an easy explanation of its origins. Capoeira is a subtle blend of dance, martial arts, acrobatic skills and music. It is marked by deft and tricky movements.
The instructor, Maia Feijaozinho, originally from Brazil, arrived in Ireland four years ago. He has been playing capoeira for 20 years, and has a lot of experience in teaching capoeira for more than 10 years. The instructor has travelled around Europe, participating in many international capoeira festivals, did various social projects in Brazil and Ireland, where he was working with children and teenagers.
Anyone can join in regardless of previous experience. So why not come, get fit and have a go?!
Photo: Joe Fox Photography
irish Ballet Forum hosts Summer Intensive
3rd - 7th August 2010
DanceHouse, Dublin
Booking: 046 9557585/ 087 0543500
email: irishballetforum@gmail.com
IBF will host a Summer Intensive in DanceHouse with two very prestigious guest teachers;
Gillian Revie & Andrew Wilson. This is a unique opportunity for students in Ireland to
avail of some of the finest International teachers. Classes will cover ballet technique,
pointe work, pas de deux, character and male & female virtuosity class.
Free room hire available at Black Box
Looking for a free space to meet? Run a workshop? Do some brainstorming? Perform? Rehearse? But don't have enough funds?
Then the Black Box may be able to help out. The Black Box is offering two free room hire sessions a month, one in the main room during the dayand one in the cafe in the evening for local arts organisations and community groups.
If you and your group or organisation are interested then please apply by email to sarah@blackboxbelfast.com identifying why your group needs the free space, what you plan to do with the time and when you would need it.
The session in the main room will be on a Monday or Tuesday daytime and the cafe session will be on a Monday or Tuesday evening. Two places will be given each month free of charge. The main room holds up to 240 people
and the cafe holds up to 60.
Creative Bursaries Scheme
The Government has announced a two-year creative bursaries scheme to provide 40 internships with established arts companies for graduates from deprived backgrounds. The £600,000 programme will begin in September and be managed by the Jerwood Foundation. The scheme will make it easier for talented creative young people, with an arts degree, to find jobs in a market where unpaid internships are common and those from low income backgrounds are often at a disadvantage.
Resource Focus: Involving Young People with a learning disability in the arts
Mencap Arts has just published a report of its two year arts consultation with young people with a learning disability (aged 13-19).
Produced in partnership with Arts Council England, the consultation found that it is much harder for young people with a learning disability to access the arts than their peers and makes a number of recommendations for improvements.
As well as looking at young people's leisure aspirations and the barriers they face in fully participating in arts provision it contains information about arts activities available to young people with a learning disability.
For the full report visit: www.artspider.org.uk/resources/other_info
Arts Council Northern Ireland announces Older People and the Arts Programme
The Arts Council is developing a pioneering new programme, in partnership with The Atlantic Philanthropies, designed to greatly extend opportunities for older people to engage with the arts.
The programme has funding in place for an initial three-year period, starting in June 2010 and, in this time, they will, through a series of large and smaller scale arts-related projects, address a range of key issues affecting older people in our society, including health and other social issues.
If you would like to find out more about the programme or become involved, please contact Fionnuala Walsh at the Arts Council, T: 028 9038 5200; E: fwalsh@artscouncil-ni.org
The scheme is open to applicants from Northern Ireland. For more information visit http://www.jerwoodfoundation.org
Creative Careers: Funding Database
There is funding available for creative businesses and learners. If you are looking to improve your career, and would like some money for it, browse through the creative career's funding database.
Just enter a few details about where you live and what you need, and then you'll be able to see the information that's available.
Visit http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/find-funding-login/*/zzz/1/
Lloyds TSB Foundation announces increased funding for 2010
The Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland has announced its income for 2010 as £1.8m and confirmed that this higher level of funding will be sustained for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
The Foundation offers support to organisations focused on delivering social and community needs, and on education and training. Given the more secure funding situation, the Trustees have agreed to remove restrictions put in place last year. From 10th April 2010 there will be no maximum grant and no ceiling on an applicant organisation’s income level.
The next closing date, April 9th 2010, however requires that applications can only be made up to a maximum of £5,000 and only organisations with an overall income of less than £250,000 should apply.
www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk
Unltd Level 1 Funding
The UnLtd Level 1 awards programme is open for applications on a monthly basis with up to £5,000 on offer plus a tailored package of support for individual who want to get a new social impact project off the ground. Applying couldn't be easy with only 7 questions on the application form and pre-application support on offer to help refine a raw idea.
Application deadlines are always the 2nd last Friday of every month with applicants getting a decision to them in 4-6 weeks.
If you have a new idea for 2010 get in touch with the UnLtd team on 02890 244 007.
Provisional 2010/11 arts budget announced
The following is sourced from www.artscouncil-ni.org
Following the proposed budget announcement made on Monday 11th January by the Finance Minister of a £367 million budget cut across the government departments in April 2010, the Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Nelson McCausland, has indicated that the Arts Council should plan for a budget cut of approximately £1.1 million in 2010/11.*
The Arts Council had been expecting an uplift of £1.55 million in 2010/11, based on the government’s three-year budget projections announced back in 2008. Monday’s budget announcement means that the expected final year uplift will not now materialise.
Taking into account inflation and increased pressures on the arts budget in 2010/11 due to priority commitments such as the additional and unavoidable running costs of the new and recently refurbished venues (eg., Playhouse, Waterside and Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry; Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast), it will be difficult to maintain even standstill funding for the majority of the sector.
In line with all public sector bodies, the Arts Council will be expected to continue to make efficiency savings to its own operational costs.
The Chairman of the Arts Council, Rosemary Kelly, OBE., said, “We are of course disappointed at the prospect of this cut to the arts budget and very aware of the painful consequences that this will inevitably have for our artists, arts organisations and venues.
The Arts Council will continue to put the case on behalf of the arts sector during the remaining six-week consultation period. However, given the political consensus already reached on the overall budget, we recognise that we must all prepare for difficult times ahead.”
* The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL), which is the Arts Council’s parent department, is itself set to lose £25.9 million, making it in proportional terms the second hardest hit of Northern Ireland’s government departments.
Helen Lewis, pioneer of modern dance in Northern Ireland dies aged 93
It is with regret to announce the death of Choreographer and Author, Helen Lewis, who died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 93.
Helen Lewis was born in Czechoslovakia in 1916 and trained at the Milca Mayerova School of Dance in Prague. In 1942 she was deported to the Jewish Ghetto in Terezin, then to the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the liberation, she emigrated to Belfast in 1947, where she settled with her husband Harry and her sons, Michael and Robin.
She was a founder member of the Belfast Modern Dance Group and enjoyed a long association with the Lyric Theatre, and with the Arts Council, as an advisor on the Drama Committee during the late 1970s and 1980s.
In 1992 Blackstaff Press published Helen Lewis’s highly acclaimed, best-selling autobiography, ‘A Time To Speak’, recounting her experiences as a Holocaust survivor. This memoir was dramatised by Sam McCready in a Lyric Theatre Production at the 2009 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s.
Her contribution to the development of contemporary dance in Northern Ireland was recognised in 2001 with the award of an MBE. She accepted the honour as “a very rare and welcome acknowledgement of the importance of the art of dance in our lives. Through dance people can come together who wouldn’t have come together in other circumstances”.
Rosemary Kelly, Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in paying tribute, said, “Helen made a lasting impression on the development of contemporary dance in Northern Ireland as a dance teacher, and as distinguished choreographer for theatre and opera. Those of us who were fortunate enough to be taught by her will always remember her passion for dance and human movement as an art form, and for the warmth and humanity of her personality.”
Youth Arts in Focus: the 6 guideline collective
£35 + FREE P&P
Artswork is delighted to present ‘6 guideline collective’, a set of comprehensive guidelines to help you explore and set up initiatives within the wide-ranging world of youth arts. Each pack compliments a same-named course in the Artsplan training programme so that theory can be put into hands-on practice.
Artsplan is the training and publications arm of Artswork, developed to help professionals, volunteers and artists use the arts with socially excluded young people more confidently and effectively. Artswork is an independent youth arts development agency, committed to developing creative opportunities for young people aged 12-25. One way of doing so is by encouraging the participation of organisations, institutions and individuals who have little or no experience within youth arts to get involved – that’s where the guidelines will become your best friend!
Artswork has produced these guidelines in conjunction with youth arts professionals and organisations that specialise in each of the 6 respective fields, so you are guaranteed expert advice. We are offering you the chance to snap up THE WHOLE set in an exclusive deal: £35.00 plus FREE postage and packaging. (Normal retail price is £45.00 plus £4.08 for postage, therefore you make a big saving and receive 2 guidelines totally free!)
Pack titles include:
Creating Respect: using youth arts to develop an understanding of cultural diversity’
Using the Arts with Juvenile and Young Offenders’
Access all Areas: disability and youth arts’
Working Together: using the arts with young people’
Using the Arts to Work with Young Asylum Seekers and Refugees’
Using the arts with young people at risk’.
Each pack addresses specific issues within its topical area, such as focusing on the ways in which barriers to participation within the arts can be removed for disabled young people and young asylum seekers.
As Rachel Preston, Artsplan Development Manager explains: “The ‘6 guideline collective’ is a wonderful opportunity to taking the first step towards involvement with such a hugely diverse area as youth arts. Informative but not mind-boggling, each pack makes sure you have just what you need to know!”
Please also remember that ENYAN (English National Youth Arts Network) members receive 5% discount on all Artsplan publications and training!
For further details on the Artsplan 6 guideline collective or to make an order, please contact the Artsplan Team on t: 02380 682 535, e: artsplan@artswork.org.uk. w: www.artswork.org.uk/artsplan
Participatory Arts in Healthcare Good Practice Guidlines Published
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust and the Health Service Executive South (Cork) Arts + Health programme, with financial support from the Arts Council of Ireland, recently published Guidelines for Good Practice for Participatory Arts in Healthcare Contexts which were produced by the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University.
The Guidelines are designed to present clear, concise and user-friendly guidance to those working in the area of participatory arts in healthcare contexts. They are also intended as an aid to partnerships surrounding arts and health that can bring new challenges to artists, healthcare professionals, clients and those working in the health-related community and voluntary sector.
Developed through consultation with individuals and organisations working in an arts and health context, the Guidelines are now available on request from the Waterford Healing Arts Trust (WHAT) and the HSE South (Cork) Arts + Health programme and online from their websites. Feedback on the Guidelines is invited from artists and others working in the arts and health sector until 31 October 2009. The Guidelines will be reviewed accordingly in light of feedback received.
www.waterfordhealingarts.com
www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/Arts_Practice_in_Healthcare_-_New_Guidelines.htm
Co-operative Community Fund
Community Fund grants, between £100 and £2,000 are awarded to community, voluntary, or self-help groups to run projects that meet the following criteria. To be successful a group must carry out positive work in the community and their project must:
* address a community issue
* provide a good long-term benefit to the community
* support co-operative values and principles
* ideally be innovative in its approach
To read more about the Fund and fill out an application form, visit www.co-operative.coop/membership/Community-Fund
Is your Arts Group registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee (NI)?
From 1 October 2009
When the Companies Act 2006 is fully commenced in October 2009 it will provide for a single company law regime applying to the whole of the United Kingdom.
Companies will be UK companies rather than GB or Northern Ireland companies, and the same legislation will apply to all. As a consequence, Companies Registry Northern Ireland (CRNI) will integrate fully with Companies House, Cardiff on 1 October 2009. CRNI is currently part of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment NI (DETINI); but from October will transfer to Companies House, under the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).
The Northern Ireland office will remain at its current address:
Companies House
Waterfront Plaza
8 Laganbank Road
Belfast BT1 3BS
Website From 1st October, the current Companies Registry NI website be closed and all of the relevant information will be made available from the Companies House website: www.companieshouse.gov.uk
More information at www.detini.gov.uk
NICVA has a dedicated company law reform web page showing the key changes in company law and which highlights the new regulations with which you must comply and the new provisions which your organisation can avail of to help with the administration of the company. More at: http://www.nicva.org/index.cfm/section/General/key/141205Lgreform
Funding Central
Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
If completely or relatively new to fundraising, Funding Central provides a 'guided search' option, enabling you to identify the most appropriate funding and finance opportunities that best suit you and the beneficiaries that you support. Or, as an experienced fundraiser, you can drill down through thousands of opportunities to identify the most appropriate funding or finance for your organisation.
Funders will have exclusive access to the 'Funder Zone'. Here you can explore statistics on your funding programmes or contracts, including web visits and comments made and add your own helpful hints to support fund-seekers.
Infrastructure organisations (such as national umbrella and lead bodies) can use Funding Central to access a wealth of support materials to enhance your work with other groups and identify funding and finance opportunities for your own needs.
Dance takes the lead
Dance and the Cultural Olympiad
For the past few months, representatives from across the dance sector have been meeting to develop a case for Dance to be a major project within the Cultural Olympiad.
