It is utterly amazing and perplexing how the time flies. It seems like only yesterday that I was doing songwriting workshops in various locations in Belfast for an organisation wanting to support real change in my home city – New Belfast Community Arts Initiative.
But of course, one cursory glance in a mirror and the realisation that indeed that was almost a quarter of a century ago is all too vivid.
But, the time I believe (and indeed, the evaluations show) has indeed been well-lived.
24 years ago, on December 22nd 1999, our patron Martin Lynch established this organisation as the Belfast child of the Community Arts Forum. Of course in 2011 through the merger of CAF and New Belfast, a new organisation was born… Community Arts Partnership that now serves the whole region and indeed beyond.
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