Cover image: from
Slant by David Stephenson (see Project below)
Theme: Regions
and Arts Centres
Getting
what we deserve How do we think about regions and
arts centres, their role and their history? CIRCA asked
Damien Coyle to oversee a series of contributions on that
topic. Here he sets the scene.
Access
all areas At times it can be hard to remember,
but the landscape for the visual arts and the arts in
general has been transformed over the last thirty years
or so, mostly for the better. Here Colm Ó Briain
traces the winding route.
Bridge over
troubled water Troubled times may have set an
unruly background to arts funding in Northern Ireland
over the past decades, but so too have an official attitudes.
Brian Ferran sketches the history, problems and possibilities.
Round and
round Arts organisations need money,
and they rarely get what they need. Liz Donnan describes
the experience of one of Northern Ireland's better-known
arts centres in its search for the elusive lucre.
Fitting it in We all are acquainted with the
phenomenon: arts centres where the other arts are primary
and the visual arts must find a niche. Patricia McBride,
who runs such a space in Donegal, describes how things
work there.
