We are delighted to announce online events to remember well known east Belfast actor James Ellis on his 90th birthday (15th March), and to mark the 4th anniversary of the opening of the James Ellis Bridge on the Connswater Community Greenway.
EastSide Arts Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and Féile an Phobail Festival would like to appoint a company or individual to undertake a fully-costed feasibility study to ascertain how we might work in partnership to create a Festivals Apprenticeship Scheme in 2021/22.
To mark Women’s History Month throughout March, EastSide Partnership has announced a series of free virtual talks exploring the lives of extraordinary women from and beyond east Belfast and the historical events that shaped them.
EastSide Arts, supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, is delighted to announce Christina Collins as the winner of the inaugural C.S. Lewis Writer’s Bursary.
The bursary, which celebrates the legacy of C.S. Lewis, will provide Christina with an opportunity to develop a new piece of written work. Christina, who has Irish/Armenian heritage, immigrated to NI from America in 2015. She will use the bursary as an opportunity to work on a new young-adult novel, partly inspired by her own experience of emigrating to Northern Ireland.
EastSide Partnership is set to celebrate east Belfast’s rich history with the development of the Newtownards Road Heritage Trail. The trail will celebrate the industrial, social, cultural, religious and political heritage of the Newtownards Road from Holywood Arches to Bridge End.
EastSide Learning have compiled all the information needed to help parents in East Belfast make their Nursery/Pre School choices for Sept 2021, the online admissions application process opens on 7th January.
Curated by Jan Carson, this year’s Writers’ Symposium aims to bring together leading voices in writing from Northern Ireland to discuss how our writers are approaching global issues and themes; how they are revisiting ideas associated with the history and politics of N.I. but finding new ways to tell the stories; what opportunities exist outside N.I. and how best they might promote their work internationally and finally, what makes writing from Northern Ireland so distinctive.
Just when you thought you had heard all there was to know about the Titanic story in Belfast, along comes a new twist on a local story that could fundamentally challenge our local history and poses the question: ‘Who lies in the grave of Samuel Joseph Scott (Titanic’s first victim) in Belfast City Cemetery?’ The probable answer is that it is not the remains of Samuel Joseph Scott!
Chris Armstrong, manager of EastSide Tourism and Michele Bryans, manager of EastSide Greenways were appointed as Assistant Chief Executives at EastSide Partnership earlier this year.
Chris and Michele took up their additional roles within the organisation in September and will be supporting Chief Executive, Maurice Kinkead with the future strategic development of EastSide Partnership.
