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11/06/2010
Culture Night Belfast 2010 - open call for community arts participants
CAF is inviting community groups to participate in Culture Night Belfast. It will take place on Friday 24th September 2010.

Culture Night Belfast is a major cultural event, based on the model of highly successful Culture Nights held in Dublin, Galway, Cork, Copenhagen, Reykjavik, and many other European cities. Find out more at www.culturenightbelfast.com

In 2009 Culture Night transformed the Cathedral Quarter bringing over 15,000 people into a magical space of night time creativity involving artists’ studios, historic buildings, offices, cultural organisations, community groups, churches and many more with free performances, events, tours and talks taking place indoors and outdoors.

Last year, CAF presented a major community arts showcase at venues across Writers Square with music and dance performances, workshops and drum circles. Participating groups included ArtsEkta, Gathering Drum, Live Music Now, New Lodge Arts and Orbit Dance. Photos of our events are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/communityartsforum/sets/72157622471814534/

CAF is inviting groups to apply to exhibit, perform or display projects they have been involved in as part of Culture Night. We are open to all ideas and all artforms and can provide further information and photos of the venues as required. There will be up to 20,000 people in Cathedral Quarter on that evening, so you will have a potentially huge audience for your work.

Please submit a short application (no more than two A4 pages) to heather@caf.ie with an outline to include details of: the project, the proposed exhibition or performance and what your space requirements are by 24th July 2010. Please include the art work if possible e.g. a dvd or photographs of your art work. Applications will be assessed by a small panel and you will be informed within a week about the outcome of your application.

For further details please contact Heather Floyd at heather@caf.ie.

19/04/2010
CAF compile report on arts funding
The recent round of Annual Support for Organisations (ASOP) funding has been very difficult for community arts, with several community arts groups losing funding altogether or receiving a decrease in their funding (CAF received a cut of £5000).

This is a worrying development for the position of community arts within the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). It is especially worrying given the recent Inquiry into Funding for the Arts carried out by the Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure (CAL) at Stormont.

This report has been submitted to the CAL committee and CAF is seeking a meeting with the committee to discuss it further.

To download the report click here

28/03/2010
Professional Development Training Workshops from CAF & Visual Artists Ireland
CAF, in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland, Digital Arts Studios (DAS), & Belfast Exposed will present a series of Professional Development Training Workshops for Visual Artists.

Digital Photography & Photoshop Skills with Joanna Karolini
Date: Fri 9 Apr
Venue: DAS

Peer Support Session - for Artists Working Collabortively with Rosie Burroughs
Date: Fri 16 Apr
Venue: Belfast Exposed

Workshops are £20 / £15 and are day-long events.

For full details see: www.visualartists.ie
(click on ‘Professional Development Workshops’)

To book: kate@visualartists.ie T: +353 (0)1 8722296

28/03/2010
CAF urges community arts groups to respond to Bill of Rights
The government is holding a public consultation on a potential Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.

The Bill of Rights is intended to guarantee better protection under the law for everyone and hold the government to account.

The Community Arts Forum (CAF) encourages groups to consider submitting a response. CAF's response is available to download here

The consultation is open for responses until 31 March 2010.

For more information on the Bill of Rights see www.borini.info

Inidividuals can sign the online petition at:
www.billofrightsni.org

30/03/2010
Latest edition of the CAN out now!
The latest edition of CAF's printed publication The CAN is out now!

CAF members are sent out copies free of charge, but the publication is also available free from arts and communities centres across Northern Ireland.

Download a preview copy here.

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