RSS Builder by B!Soft CAF Events http://www.caf.ie en-gb Belfast Book Festival Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:57:34 GMT 24th February – 1 March 2009. Booker Prize winner John Banville set to open the first Belfast Book Festival.

The Belfast Book Festival programme is available at www.belfastbookfestival.com You can also pick one up in person from the Linen Hall Library.

Tickets can be obtained from online at www.linenhall.com for the Belfast Book Festival. Or call the festival box office on Tel: 028 9032 1707.

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]]> Practice.ie Professional Development Session - Meath Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:57:15 GMT Practice.ie is an online collaborative research project in development by Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership. This research provides both a space to report on contemporary artists’ practice working with children and young people and the first all-Ireland professional network for artists working in this area. The aim of this research is to validate, support and enhance artists’ practice working with children and young people.

Practice.ie has developed a series of Professional Development Sessions for artists of all disciplines and at all stages in their career, to gather, share and discuss contemporary practice in this area. These sessions involve artists’ presentations, artist-led activities, focus groups and networking.

The next Professional Development Session takes place on Monday, February 23rd from 10.30am to 4.30pm at the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan with the support of Meath County Council Arts Office.

To register to attend please contact Meath County Council Arts Office. There are 25 places available. A fee of €40 is required, made payable to Meath County Council by cheque or postal order.

For registration contact: Meath County Council Arts Office, Ashbourne Civic Offices, 1-2 Killegland Square Upper, Killegland Street, Ashbourne, Co. Meath, Tel:(0)18358014 or Email: artsoffice@meathcoco.ie

For more information on Practice.ie and the Professional Development Sessions contact:
Yvonne Cullivan, Programme Coordinator, Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership Tel: 071 9124945 or
Email: yvonne@kidsown.ie

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]]> Belfast-Nashville Song Writing Convention Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:57:03 GMT Between February 18th-22nd, the Belfast-Nashville Song Writing Convention offers 20 seminars and panel discussions on the music industry and the art of song writing. The convention attracts people from all over UK/Ireland and further afield, including, this year, Grammy Award artists Nanci Griffith, Raul Malo, Tia Sillers & Mark Selby.

Concert information at www.belfastnashville.com]]> Peter Surginor - Artist in Residence, SHAC Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:07:40 GMT Come and have a go with clay at Peter's Ghost night and throwing workshop from 7.30pm this thursday 12th February, watch how the wafer castles and battenberg battlements grow in the kitchen window as the fortnight goes on and pop round for a troops and tarts tea party on thursday 19th February as Peter's residency draws to a close.

Flat 4 is located in the Donegall Street SHAC Flats. It is the ground floor corner flat, facing out onto Writers' Square.

for more information contact residence@rocketmail.com visit www.residenceni.wordpress.comor find us as residence shac on facebook.

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]]> Introduction to Authentic Tango - Echo Echo Dance Theatre Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:07:13 GMT Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company is offering an exciting and rare opportunity to participate in a one-off course in Authentic Tango with guest teacher Leilani Weis from Chile.

Leilani Weis brings a special fire and sensuality to her dancing and applies the open and free improvisatory attitude of Contact Improvisation to her Tango dancing and Tango teaching.
This course will be an introduction to authentic Tango. The emphasis will be on understanding the "feel" of the dance rather than trying to learn lots of complicated steps.

The course will be held in the Echo Echo Dance Studio in The Waterside Theatre, Derry. To book a place, contact 028 7134 2266 or email info@echoechodance.com or visit www.echoechodance.com

4-week course starting Wednesday 11th February
7.30pm- 9pm
Course Cost: £20]]> Write to Be Heard poetry CD launch – New Belfast Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:01:55 GMT http://www.caf.ie/view_events.asp?ID=914 Write to Be Heard is a unique collection where published poets like Ann Zell, Dan Eggs and Paul Maddern, are featured alongside new and emerging talent. From their spoken words, we are given new views of the city through the voices and accents of this changing place.

Contributors will read a selection of their poems at the launch. The full collection will be available in limited edition on CD at the event, and will be streamed via our website www.newbelfastarts.org on the same day.

A few poems will be featured on our website a week before the event to give you a flavour of Belfast’s voices.

Write to Be Heard is a Poetry in Motion for Community project, New Belfast’s verbal arts programme encouraging engagement with creative writing and promoting local poets and writers. Primarily funded by the Arts Council Lottery, with additional monies from Belfast City Council, this pilot project will be further developed in 2009.

Friday 30 January 6.30-8.00pm
Oh Yeah! Music Centre, 15-22 Gordon Street, Belfast

RSVP to Francesca Biondi
francesca@newbelfastarts.org
90923493]]> Chinese New Year Performance – Mandarin Speakers Association Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:43:09 GMT http://www.caf.ie/view_events.asp?ID=913 Mandarin Speakers Association are hosting a special performance in celebration of Chinese new year featuring Qinghai Ethnic Song & Dance Theatre.

Date/Time: Wednesday 28th January, 7pm
Venue: Stranmillis University College Theatre, Stranmillis Road, Belfast.
Tickets: £5 / £3 concession

For more information contact arts@mandarinspeakers.org or call 028 90 687 793

Funded by the Belfast City Council Festival Fund.]]> Belfast Community Drum Circle Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:35:14 GMT http://www.caf.ie/view_events.asp?ID=910 Simon Edwards ( Belfast Drum Circle)and Joe Loughlin(The Gathering Drum) have joined forces to host a drum circle on Wed 4th February, 7.30pm - 9.30pm at the Oh Yeah Music Centre, Gordon St.

Drum experience is not necessary; it's easy and accessible for everyone. If you have the experience then you know how good this will be!

Entrance fee is just £3 and you can bring along your own drum or hire one for £5. There will also be lots of percussion stuff to play around with and explore.

If you plan to attend, please contact joe@thegatheringdrum.com

For more info, visit www.thegatheringdrum.com]]> BMC Community Art & Craft Training Course Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:09:15 GMT http://www.caf.ie/events.asp If you are looking to improve your own Art & Craft skills and knowledge, or looking for training and development for your volunteers, youth workers or staff working with children and young people in a community setting the BMC Community Art & Craft Training Course OCN Level1 may be the course for you.

This popular course is back for the third year running, starting on Tuesday 24 February, for 15 weeks at Play Resource.

Full Course Details

Entry Requirements: An interest in Art & Craft, no formal qualifications required.

Start Date: Tuesday 24th Feb. 2009
Time: 10am - 12pm
Duration: 15 weeks

Cost: £74 full fee / £48 concession (includes accreditation fee of £22)

Qualification: The Community Art & Craft Training Course will comprise of 2 OCN Level One units: Design Style & Design project.
On successful completion of this course, anyone who already holds the level one creative craft skills unit (gained through previous courses at Play Resource) will generate a full Level one Award in Art.

For more details contact Play Resource Arts Officer, Bridget Lindsay on 9035 7542.
or email Anna O'Kane at BMC aokane@belfastmet.ac.uk
]]> Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) Information Morning Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:08:29 GMT http://www.caf.ie/events.asp Moyle District Council will holding an information morning on funding available through the CIIF. Maggie Allen, the Council Economic Development Officer will provide information on the fund and will answer your questions regarding applications to the CIIF.

The CIIF is available to all creative businesses within Northern Ireland, including sole traders, partnerships and incorporated companies.

Date: Thursday 15th January 2009
Time: 10.50am
Venue: Craft Connection, 45 Ann Street, Ballycastle.

For further information contact:

Margaret Craig
Economic Development Office
Tel: 028 2076 2225
mcraig@moyle-council.org]]> Unlimited (London 2012 Cultural Olympiad) - Information Sharing and Consultation Meeting Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:29:02 GMT http://www.caf.ie/events.asp Unlimited is one of the ten major projects of London 2012’s Cultural Olympiad. It will be the UK’s largest ever celebration of arts and disability, culture and sport and will run from 2009 through to the Games in 2012.

The project is still in the planning stage and we would like your input on how to shape the way in which it develops. We want to hear about what you are doing now and what you would hope to see over the next four years.

To date £750,000 has been pledged to Unlimited for a UK-wide series of commissions for disabled artists and arts organisations over the next four years. Artists will be encouraged to create work ‘like never before’ – with new partnerships and site-specific work to challenge traditional, passive images of disabled people.

In addition, Unlimited will combine workshops, mentoring, career and training advice with performance and celebration. Beginning in 2009, it will build towards a series of showcases and festivals in 2011 through to a spectacular finale in 2012, and will be accessible to the nine regions of England as well as Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Unlimited will be fully accessible to allow all disabled people to participate in creating new work on a scale never seen before in the UK. This unique celebration will link the Olympic and Paralympic values and seek to engage artists and audiences alike. The UK leads the world in disability arts practice as shown recently with members of CandoCo appearing in the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games; the first time disabled artists have ever done so in history. The programme will harness the knowledge of every key disability organisation in the country, and engage partners in the arts, sports and disability sectors in each region.

To register Tel: 028 9025 8856 or Email: 2012ni@dcalni.gov.uk

If you have any queries contact either Pat Wilson, Cultural Coordinator for 2012 in Northern Ireland on Tel: 028 9025 8869 or Chris Ledger at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland on Tel: 028 9038 5213.

Wednesday 14 January 2009, 11am to 2.30pm, Island Arts Centre
Refreshments, including lunch will be provided. The venue is wheelchair accessible and there is ample parking.

For more information on the Cultural Olympiad please visit the website for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games on www.london2012.com/culture]]>