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CASE STUDIES Northern Ireland Visiting Arts works with arts organisations in Northern Ireland to develop their programmes on an international level. Our initiatives encourage new connections with international artists and enable intercultural arts projects that further creative development and ensure a good distribution of international arts to audiences in Northern Ireland. Visiting Arts provides information and intelligence services to cultural professionals in Northern Ireland through a range of online sources and networking events including:
Visiting Arts delivers a range of programmes to expand the knowledge, horizons and opportunities for exchange for artists and cultural professionals to champion intercultural understanding. Artist to Artist provides the opportunity for an overseas artist to spend a week with an artist based in the UK enabling an exchange of ideas and information and the strengthening of relationships and networks. In 2007 two visual artists from Northern Ireland participated in the scheme. Rita Duffy developed a dialogue with Daniel Garcia (Argentina) and Susanne Bosch with Alma Suljevic (Bosnia Herzegovina).
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Sarajevo 2000, soil marketa Susanne and Alma spent time sharing with each other their personal sources of inspiration and artistic processes as well as making a series of visits to public spaces in Belfast where past conflicts are now becoming hidden. They held a public seminar event in which invited artists spoke about their work and the decisive cultural experiences that have shaped their concepts and processes of making art.
Arts Critics’ Exchange provided the opportunity for emerging arts writers and journalists from Northern Ireland to connect with their counterparts in Washington DC. The six participants undertook an intensive course in arts criticism, immersing themselves in the arts and culture of both Northern Ireland and Washington DC as part of the Rediscover Northern Ireland Programme in May 2007. The unique opportunity was structured around an intensive series of workshops led by established critic and mentors covering a range of art forms, cultural platforms and issues.
Mural project in Anacostia, USA Participants from Northern Ireland included Matthew McCreary and Linda McKee of the Belfast Telegraph, and David Lewis of the arts and culture website www.culturenorthernireland.org who were joined by critic mentors, Carlo Gébler (author and creative writing teacher), Tom Maguire (theatre reviewer and drama teacher) and Declan McGonagle (writer and lecturer). The programme examined contemporary fiction, visual arts and theatre, and included a contextualisation tour of Belfast and visits to Derry and Enniskillen.
Mural site in Anacostia. Cheryl Foster, Sioned Hughes, Matt McCreary, Linda McKee, Alison MacAdam & Drew Bratcher
Drew Bratcher, Linda Christmas, Alison MacAdam & David Lewis on the Derry City Wall All Photos for Arts Critics and © Chris Klimek China-UK Arts Management was a three-year programme of professional development placements in the UK for senior arts managers from across China working in the visual and performing arts and museums sector. In 2005, Shen Ming from the Department of Culture in Jiangsu Province undertook a six week programme of hosted placements, and seminars in London and Paris. Shen Ming was based at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to examine cultural funding, policy and infrastructure. He met with a range of organisations across Belfast including the Grand Opera House to discuss marketing, communications, and expansion planning, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast Music Society, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, and Young at Art. Shen Ming spent two days with Belfast Festival at Queen’s undertaking a comparison of funding and cultural resources within Jiangsu and Northern Ireland. He also discussed audience development and the role of arts in regeneration with Belfast City Council and connected with the Mandarin Speakers Association in Belfast and local Chinese community groups. Shen Ming’s host at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland commented that the sustained personal contact with Shen Ming provided by the programme is an effective approach as it creates a direct link between regions that “internationally is extremely important for our arts community”.
Paula Gallagher, Director of Belfast Print Workshop with Shen Ming Since the end of his placement, Shen Ming has returned to Belfast and worked closely with the Mandarin Speakers Association on a number of projects including presenting a troupe of Kunqu Opera and a craft exhibition to celebrate the Chinese New Year. He has also started to negotiate visual arts residencies in Northern Ireland for contemporary artists and printmakers from Jiangsu and connected with Belfast Community Circus School. In February 2007, two musicians from the Jiangsu Symphony performed with the Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster Hall to mark the Chinese New Year celebrations.
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