Community Arts Partnership

02890923493

Connecting Creativity & Community. For all your community arts practice, advocacy & delivery needs.

Community Arts Partnership (CAP) believes that community arts practice can affect positive change within society. Our organisation is the central point of contact for the community arts sector in Northern Ireland, offering the widest possible range of assistance to get creative. We also offer information, advice, support, research & advocacy for the sector & the community. CAP offer artist-facilitated socially inclusive cross art form workshop programmes, in a range of settings across the region

Why the community needs us

We create new literature & verbal arts in schools & communities, visual & public arts, sculpture, to carnival arts, animation & film, all delivered with the highest quality of teaching & art production in our field. Recent highpoints include the inaugural Seamus Heaney poetry award, publishing our Arts & dementia research, 300 artists signing up for our online artists' database, CAPtabase, the Making it events for our Programme for Intercultural Arts Support & our new Intercultural arts reader.

Our impact on the community

In 2014/15 we have worked with 294 artists, 469 groups, 3,178 subscribers to our CAW e-bulletin & an audience of 300,000. The Arts Council of NI describes CAP as its "long term expert partner in community based arts activity". "Having worked for over 20 years in community arts, this is 1 of the most outstanding projects I have observed." R. Lowry, ACNI External Assessor. "This is absolutely brilliant, when can we have it back?" Group leader. "I want to be a photographer now" young person.

Volunteers needed

To assist artists with workshops through our arts programme and to help out at celebratory showcase events.

What your gift could provide

£5

towards arts materials

£25

goes towards paying for a child protection check for one artist

£100

3 hrs artist facilitation workshop fee for a disadvantaged community group

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Charity Information

Community Arts Partnership

Telephone: 02890923493

Address: Floors 1 & 2, 7 Donegall Street Place, Belfast, Antrim, BT1 2FN

Registered charity no.: NI105169