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Quickly noted: City Arts Centre sold / O'Malley
Award / Belfast arts strategy (July 8, 2003)
City Arts Centre goes virtual?
Holiday absences have delayed the relaying of
several news items, including that Dublin's City Arts Centre (CAC)
has been sold, for 4.25 million euro. Former IMMA supremo, and
current CAC director Declan McGonagle and his team have for some
time now been considering the path the CAC might tread in the
future. Part of the soul-searching exercise takes the form of
Raising the Issues, a seminar being held in the CAC tomorrow,
June 9. Details of the seminar here.
With the sale of the building it seems increasingly
likely that the CAC will perform the role of a facilitator of
art events, rather than being a host for events within new premises
of its own. A somewhat virtual CAC, in other words, though all
could change. Certainly, over four million euro should ease matters.
Cashman gets O'Malley Award
The prestigious O'Malley Travel Award, named
after the late Tony O'Malley and sponsored by Waterford Crystal,
has gone to Clare Cashman. Cashman, from Blarney, and a graduate
of NCAD, Dublin, plans to use the 2,600 euro travel money to visit
a dormant volcano in Nicaragua.
You can read the full press release here.
New arts strategy for Belfast
Belfast's city council has been embattled of
late. It cut arts funding just at a time when the city itself
was pitching to become European City of Culture. The irony was
not lost on artists - see news item here.
The council has now launched a new arts strategy. You can read
the press release here,
or go to belfastcapitalcity.com
to look for further details (good luck).
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