Welcome to ISLAND Community Arts!

Here you will find lots of information on all aspects of our community arts programme including training, project opportunities, funding, and bursaries. You can also find out about local community arts groups, look for an artist in our Creative Connections directory, or publicise your group's own arts programmes in our 'Promoting the Arts in Our City' section.

For more information on any aspect of arts in your community, please feel free to contact Lesley Wilson, Community Arts Officer, on 028 92 509 509 or lesley.wilson@island.lisburn.gov.uk

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Be Part of NI's Largest Arts Event

Land of Giants will be the largest arts event ever to take place in Northern Ireland and is happening June 2012 in Belfast's Titanic Slipway. The event is one of only four UK Community Celebrations funded by Legacy Trust UK, enabling communities to come together to stage large-scale outdoor celebrations as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Arts Council NI and NITB are also sponsoring the event. Combining acrobatics, aerial dance, carnival, circus, physical performance, music, multi-media and pyrotechnics, the event will present the region’s culture to an audience of over 20,000 people at the City’s newest open air events space. There are approximately 500 opportunities to get involved, for performance artists, arts practitioner and back stage - and both paid and voluntary. Please click here for more information.