We sat down with the Cushendun Building Preservation Trust to hear about their journey in turning an old church into a community arts and heritage space on the Causeway Coastal Route.
Tags: Regeneration, Heritage, RuralA recent visit to Dundee shows a city that is investing in people-focused culture and heritage. What are the lessons for Belfast's future cultural strategy?
We recently designed and delivered research for Belfast Stories in which we took a creative approach to craft our questions.
Tags: Belfast Stories, Research, Northern IrelandAfter a few years' hiatus, the news is out in the open. Culture Night Belfast is coming back in 2025. In this blog, hear about our role in leading sectoral engagement and public consultations to understand how Culture Night could be developed alongside the sector if it were to return.
Tags: Evaluation, Audience development, Research and DataOpen House Festival is in the unusual position of having moved location from Belfast city centre to the seaside town of Bangor. We explore why they made the move, and how it has affected their audiences.
Community Asset Transfer (CAT) has been successfully utilised across the UK, yet Northern Ireland has seen only one major success story so far – the Open House Festival's ownership of the Court House, Bangor. Its triumph prompts an important question – Why aren't more Northern Irish communities trying out asset transfers to revive cherished local buildings?