18th Feb 2011 ⁄ Today is the last day to enter the Belfast Business Awards which will celebrate the fine achievements and success stories of the business community in the city.
Belfast City Council will host the prestigious event in the City Hall on Thursday 14 April with 21 awards up for grabs in recognition of the fine work of business enterprises, retail ou...
18th Feb 2011 ⁄ Hollywood actor Stephen Rea made a plea to the Northern Ireland Executive today to reconsider the severity of the proposed cuts to the arts as part of the Draft Budget 2011-2015.
As the public consultation drew to a close and the Executive began its talks to decide the final budget, the Irish born actor added his name to the Fair Deal for the Ar...
8th Feb 2011 ⁄ Belfast based e-learning company Aurion Learning was celebrating in the London Guildhall last week as one of their projects EalingHELP was awarded a prestigious e-Government National Award 2010.
EalingHELP was winner of the ‘Building a fairer society with e-Government services’ award. This well-deserved accolade was presented to EalingHELP i...
25th Jan 2011 ⁄ Former Liberal Arts student, Donna O’Connor, is currently starring in her one-actor show running in the Waterfront Studio Belfast, from 18 January until 5 February 2011.
Donna has always been interested in drama. She studied English within her Liberal Arts programme at St Mary's University College and graduated in 2005 with a First Class honou...
25th Jan 2011 ⁄ Almost 60,000 school pupils in the Belfast and South Eastern Education Board areas are to benefit from a new scheme, introduced to encourage them into the city centre.
Be Rewarded was launched by the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Pat Convery, at a special function in Belfast City Hall this week.
The scheme, the first of its kind in Nort...
10th Jan 2011 ⁄ A public meeting is being held in west Belfast, to discuss plans for the landmark sculpture being erected on the Broadway roundabout.
RISE will be the biggest public art work in Belfast - a globe-shaped white and silver aluminium sculpture, standing at 123 feet (37.5 metres) high by 98.4 feet (30 metres) wide and will be visible from several mi...
10th Dec 2010 ⁄ Literary critic, Professor Helen Vendler, who is renowned for her work on Irish poetry, will be honoured by Queen’s University today (Friday 10 December).
Professor Vendler, will be awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature for distinction in literature, during Queen’s Winter Graduations. Professor Ed Larrissy, Head of the School of Engli...
8th Dec 2010 ⁄ Harvard Professor, Niall Kirkwood, has launched a debate about future development in Belfast during an event at Belfast City Hall. The international expert in urban design and architecture was the main speaker at the first in a series of development debates, organised by Belfast City Council, which will run until spring 2011.
He was welcomed by ...
8th Dec 2010 ⁄ Stylish lifestyle website Caroline McGrath has added these beautiful, contemporary city map prints based on original Famille Summerbelle hand paper cuts of New York, London and Paris.
The original, intricate hand paper cuts each took over 20 hours to complete and have now been transformed into amazing art prints showing details of the cities, wi...
1st Dec 2010 ⁄ A unique opportunity for art-lovers to see if they can tell international artists from emerging local talent, and snap up a piece of original artwork at the same time, is on offer at Queen’s University’s Naughton Gallery in Belfast.
Over 100 artists have donated specially commissioned works to an anonymous exhibition – ‘Wish You Were Her...
30th Nov 2010 ⁄ One of Belfast`s best loved open spaces, Cave Hill, is the subject of the latest book by local naturalist, Dr Ben Simon, which is being launched this Thursday.
Ben has taken a number of years to capture the memories of people who know Carr`s Glen, Belfast Castle Estate and Bellevue, the areas that make up the famous hill overlooking the city.
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29th Nov 2010 ⁄ Get in the frame to win share of a £1,000 prize in Belfast City Council`s fourth annual Parks Photographic Competition.
The competition entitled ParkLife has been given a facelift for 2011 and three brand new categories have been created. The categories are: People and events; Focus on nature; Built heritage.
Prize money, sponsored by Bloomi...
22nd Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ A Birmingham design agency’s newest recruit has big plans for the company. Barques Design, based in the Jewellery Quarter, has appointed Kathryn Small as business development manager...
