What
it is
The
Infodesk is an enquiry service based in both Belfast and
Dublin. A database of constantly-updated international arts
contacts and opportunities in a huge range of categories
is at your disposal to make life easier for you and your
arts organisation in accessing funds, information or creative
relationships around the world, whether in Árainn
or Aarhus, Newry or New York.
Thanks
to the Contemporary Music Centre and the Irish Writers’ Centre,
key resource organisations serving the different artforms,
a great deal of information is already in circulation.
But
there is clearly a great demand for access information to
the international arena. For this reason the Infodesk complements,
augments and outstrips information which may be already available
from different sources.
Who
runs it
The
Infodesk is maintained jointly by An Chomhairle Ealaíon/Arts
Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
and the British Council in Belfast.
The
information is drawn from a range of international sources
but, in particular, from the renowned International Cultural
Desk in Glasgow (a collaborative project between the British
Council in Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council).
The
Irish project, Infodesk, is a customised version of the current
ICD database which is an organised compilation of data, involving
the skill and labour of ICD staff, which has been developed
to meet the needs of the Scottish arts and cultural community.
The
Infodesk is tailored now to the needs of that community in
Ireland, north and south.
It
both reflects and enhances the deepening relationships that
exist along the East-West as well as the North-South axes
in these islands, not only in terms of the joint initiatives
of the two Arts Councils in Ireland, but also of the mutually
beneficial creative commerce between artists themselves in
Ireland and elsewhere. |
