Manager, EastSide Arts
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined June 2013
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Great to be incredible Sonic Lab at @SARC for Music Cities Afternoon
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Excited to be part of the @artsbusinessni Creative Networking event at the fantastic @U105radio offices in Belfast today - what a view!
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Wonderful experience of the power of Forum Theatre tonight - 'Shared?' by Fintan Brady & @partisanNI at Sandy Row Community Centre - well done to everyone involved!
Loving that @CCfunkandsoul is playing the incredible East Belfast musician @kazhawkinsmusic 🥰🙌
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Welcoming visitors from The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton & writers & readers from east Belfast as part of #acrossthelines programme to C.S. Lewis Square @FundforIreland @EastSideArtsBel @EastSidePship
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"Festivals are like lighthouses" @conorcomposer during panel discussion around how festivals can support artists @QUBAMCP Festival Cultures Symposium @DramaQub @QFTBelfast
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Delighted to be attending the QUB / BIAF Festival Cultures in Northern Ireland 1-day symposium @QFTBelfast @BelfastFestival @QUBelfast @EastSideArtsBel @EastSidePship
Excited to be @CrescentArts for the Arts Job Fair - loads of amazing job opportunities under one roof, and four of them in the EastSide! @ArtsCareNI @TerraNovaDrama @EastSideArtsBel @EastSidePship
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Delighted to be chatting @JCPattz @tara_mcevoy @EastSideArtsBel The whole lineup is cracking @JanCarson7280
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Reading at this tomorrow, with Bernie McGill, Sam Thompson, and @JanCarson7280
Starts at 5.30
Ends with a rendition of ‘That’s Amore’ by Dean Martin.
It doesn’t really. But I’ll be reading from my book that hasn’t been published yet, so there’s that.
accidentaltheatre.co.uk/east…
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5 Big Summer Events Happening Around Northern Ireland | @DiscoverNI @FeileBelfast @EastsideArtFest @openhousefest bamni.co.uk/2021/08/01/5-big…
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5 Big Summer Events Happening Around Northern Ireland | @DiscoverNI @FeileBelfast @EastsideArtFest @openhousefest bamni.co.uk/2021/08/01/5-big…
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Chief executive on today’s Sunday Politics Show @ArtsCouncilNI ‘£33m has wide footprint to cover, whole ecosystem of arts and culture in NI, previously so underfunded; it is needed in it’s entirety’ @BBCPolitics @PaulaBradleyMLA @CommunitiesNI
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6 months later we are the only sector still closed! The impact has been gargantuan, we need this £33m injection asap! Mounting redundancies, artists literally starving and treasured orgs going to the wall. More of this advocacy & more action please 🙏
Festival life - having the best craic watching @LadyportiaDi and Cherrie on Top reading stories to our little Zoom audience #ESAFest2020 @AccidentalT
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If this extra funding was reflected up North, per head of the population it would see an extra £6.5 million funding for the creative industries.
"This announcement will allow us to protect and sustain this brilliant community and to prepare for recovery."
Arts Council Director Maureen Kennelly welcomes today’s announcement of an add'l €20m in supports for the arts in 2020. Read her message at: artscouncil.ie/blog/director…
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The arts sector have produced an important strategy document outlining the steps & funding needed to support the ecosystem of local companies, venues & freelancers. This is crucial to save jobs, our tourism offering & wellbeing. Action now required from Econ & Communities Depts
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'I wanted to write something about loneliness and the importance of making connections between people.' - @SpallenAbbie talks to @IrishTimes about her new short film commissioned as part of Splendid Isolation with @BBCnireland. @ArtsCouncilNI bit.ly/AbbieSpallLockdown