I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting a post doc researcher in Belfast for Change Stories project. We investigate insights into changing the narrative of positive urban change in Belfast, Belo Horizonte and Bogota.
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📢📢 #PhD Opportunity Collaborative Doctoral Partnership National Museums NI & Queen's University Belfast 🎓 (@CDPConnect Arts and Humanities Research Council) on 'Conflict and Creativity in young people' supervised by Liam O'Hare & #LouiseRice deadline 16/5/24. qub.ac.uk/social-charter… Please share! Dr Emily MarkFitzGerald Olwen Purdue (olwenpurdue.bsky.social) Heritage&MuseumStudies@Ulster

Lecturer in Curating and Cultural Leadership at University of Southampton jobs.ac.uk/job/DGS663/lec…

'Throughout the case, the museum's supporters, including artist Kirsha Kaechele - who created the work - had used the courtroom as a space for performance art, wearing matching navy suits and engaging in synchronised movements.' Ah art how I love you!

📢📢 #PhD Opportunity Collaborative Doctoral Partnership National Museums NI & School of Museum Studies (@CDPConnect Arts and Humanities Research Council) on the establishment of Ulster Folk Museum supervised by Victoria Millar & #ProfSuzanneMacLeod deadline 20/5/24. Please share! Dr Emily MarkFitzGerald Leonie Hannan Olwen Purdue (olwenpurdue.bsky.social) Heritage&MuseumStudies@Ulster

Feeling the international warmth at the first night of Sonorities Festival Belfast new work by Pedro Rebelo, & coinciding with Portugal Week in NI. An example of how QUB AEL is building bridges & exchange all year round (& great start to the festival). Queen’s Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility British Council Northern Ireland

ICYMI: The Scottish government has issued its first-ever International Culture strategy, outlining plans to exempt creative professionals from certain visa and work permit requirements and ambitions to rejoin Creative Europe. Read more on AP...
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Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Higher education and the arts shouldn't be privileges for the few. Austerity that limits access stifles economic and cultural growth and limits personal and cultural fulfilment. Imagine a world where only white, middle-class youth can pursue higher education or create art.

If this seems like a paradox then have I got the book for you...

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When I did my first degree, I worked loading HGVs in the evening to support myself. During breaks, I read the novels and poetry to be discussed in seminars, speed reading to get through them before the next lorry pulled in. In class, I dosed up on ibruprofen for the muscle aches.…

'We don't want our young people going abroad to learn languages because they don't speak languages' is an odd approach🤡

... and remember 'Turing' which was going to replace Erasmus ? Barely met more than half its targets, we read👇with 80% universities 'reporting difficulties'

A lecture by Prof Paul Muldoon entitled Make Like a Bird will take place in Queen’s University, Belfast, on 2nd May, 2024
 
This is a free event but demand will be high, and registration is essential

Register to attend here:
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More info on our website💫

'Castlebrooke Investments, which owns the listed building, said it has 'worked proactively with all the relevant, statutory authorities' to ensure the building is protected.'

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If that's the case, why does it look like this? 👇

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There are concerns on the condition of the Assembly Rooms, especially first floor, which is in poor shape.

Castlebrooke has left the area including Assembly Rooms in limbo. The bigger parties have failed City Centre, its been the Greens who have pushed towards vesting the site.

To all of you out there saying you can't pay your freelance/lived experience trustees because of the charity commission rules... Take note!

How To Catch A Pig have announced our crowdfunder for the first edition of the newspaper! We have decided to crowdfund to avoid relying on or being accountable to government art funding which has demonstrated its reluctance to fund political work.

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Could Belfast City Council rent out the old JJB Sports on Royal Avenue to create an 'Artists & Flea Market' giving independent vendors a lower barrier to entry with a smaller, more affordable stall in a great location.

We are delighted to partner with The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon in funding and delivering the new Irish-language Theatre Production and Touring Award, which will support the creation and touring of an exceptional theatre production in the Irish language.

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

Analysis of G7 pandemic response to performing arts crisis and recommendations for the live performing arts sector in the UK are available at thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/pande….

Thanks to funder The British Academy and partners Freelancers Make Theatre Work & Something To Aim For for supporting 1 year of research!