Community Arts Partnership is an independent advocate for community arts and offers the widest possible range of assistance and opportunity to get creative and engage in community-based arts activity.

Our mission is to take the lead in the promotion, development and delivery of community arts practice, to affect positive change.

Our vision is to see the emergence of a just, inclusive, peaceful and creative society, where difference is welcomed and participation is valued.

We have a two-fold approach to arts development: firstly, supporting access and participation by seeking to affect policy through advocacy and leadership and secondly, promoting authorship and ownership through the active engagement in projects and programmes.

Welcome to the new Monthly from Community Arts Partnership.

The Monthly is a place for informed opinions and analysis of news items from across the arts sector – with an emphasis on the issues affecting community arts in Northern Ireland. This new Monthly editorial bulletin offers all of us in the community arts and indeed, the wider arts sector, an opportunity to reflect on what matters to us, our communities, our organisations and our participating client groups and individuals.

The Monthly is open for your contributions. If you would like to write an article or review an event, if you have an idea for something you would like the Monthly to cover please get in touch

Email Gordon@capartscentre.com or phone 02890923493

Welcome to Belfast’s newest cradle of creativity.

It has been New Belfast Community Arts Initiative t/a Community Arts Partnership’s long-held intention to develop a dedicated multi-purpose community arts centre in heart of Belfast city centre. Since 2003, CAP and others have sought the development of a physical space, where the additional benefits of concentrating and clustering creative and socially-economic activity can multiply the capacity of the organisation and see more significant and crucially sustainable creative development emerge.

Situated on 7 Donegall Street Place (BT1 2FN, Belfast) The ARC is here to provide facilities and support for artists and organisations throughout Northern Ireland. We have 3 rooms available for hire:

Performance Cafe & Conference room

Arts & Crafts Workshop room

Geoff Harden music studios

We encourage all aspects of creativity by offering:

• Spaces for small or larger events
• HD projector and sound system
• Disability access
• Special hire rates for community groups and charities
• Hot and cold food can be supplied
• Free of charge evening car parking