Funding provided for arts projects

The nine artists and projects in Northern Ireland include Over the Hill Music Collective, a project that will focus on four older musicians in the rooms where they live alone.

Songs will be produced recorded, mixed and mastered by Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast. Locked Up in Lockdown will develop a piece of theatre with a number of current or former students from Hydebank Wood College, a Young Offenders’ Centre in Belfast.

The Night of the Big Wind, is an operatic musical reimagining by NI Opera of the infamous 1839 storm.

Bench Marks will see two bench seats with low backs formed from flotsam tree trunks, washed and bleached by the elements on Runkerry Strand, close to the Giant’s Causeway. Glass, ceramics and copper will be used to transform the rugged timber into a narrative of their response to COVID-19.

At the Margins, is based on poet Maria McManus’s large-scale public engagement letter-writing project ‘Filling the Void’. A site-specific literary event, it will animate the library for the public.

Caffrey/Seamus Heaney HomePlace - Based on several poems from ‘Death of a Naturalist’, this work will be filmed and there will be a video created which can be exhibited.

Covid Care Concerts will visit ten residential care homes across Londonderry, with each performance taking place in the grounds of the nursing home.

I am here: short film series is a series of new media/social media-friendly short films further exploring the relationship between two people separated by the current pandemic.

Music To Your Ears (Strabane) is a two-hour musical concert featuring members of the ‘Music To Your Ears’ Group, broadcast through Derry City and Strabane District Council’s Alley Theatre portal.