About Empty Spaces Beautiful Places
Greater Shantallow Community Arts
We offer and deliver a diverse programme of arts and cultural activities exploring links between community art and community development.
We also host:
- The Golden Link Festival, a two-week long summer celebration, which offers a wide variety of events focusing on visual arts, music and drama.
- 'Pathways to Employment' - an Intermediate Labour Market programme giving young adults the opportunity to gain new skills in the multimedia and television industry while working towards a recognised qualification.
- Youth Intervention Programme - 'bridging the gap' is a programme of life skills for 14-17 year olds through the medium of drama to develop essential skills required towards further education/employment.
- 'Arts in the community' - a series of courses/projects involving all forms of artistic disciplines, bringing visual and performing arts into the community.
- 'Cultural Diversity Programme' - consists of various courses such as, costume design, circus skills, musical tuition, theatre skills and creative drama.
- Volunteering/training opportunities
About the Programme
The Arts and Regeneration programme is a partnership programme funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. The Arts and Regeneration programme is aimed at building links with local authorities and local communities and is seen as an initiative from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland aimed at targeting social need. The Arts and Regeneration's primary purpose is to address issues of physical renewal within Neighbourhood Renewal Areas. Alongside Civic Regeneration it is important to have a parallel regeneration process within neighbourhoods of need. The Arts and Regeneration programme aims to complement and enhance the development of regeneration in the participating areas each year.
