30/03/2009
Northern Ireland artists can help you boost your business
Arts & Business
Arts & Business has over 20 years experience working closely with artists and arts organisations which always bring a new and exciting dimension to corporate events. Arts & Business is available to guide and support business with their selection of suitable artists for all types of events and corporate opportunities and are available for consultations.
Contact:
Arts & Business
Bridge House
2 Paulett Avenue
Belfast
BT5 4HD
Tel: 028 9073 5150
Web: www.AandB.org.uk/NorthernIreland
Open Arts:
Open Arts, a Belfast based company, who promote the inclusion of disabled people in the arts, display an array of talent across various art forms including dance, drama, music and visual art.
Open your event with an uplifting performance from the award winning Open Arts Choir, who famously competed in BBC’s ‘Last Choir Standing’. Or alternatively unleash your team’s creativity by participating in one of the unique musical gamelan workshops, a combination of Indonesian drums, xylophones and other instruments. Workshops in drama and dance are also available.
Contact:
Kate Ingram, Chief Executive of Open Arts
Tel: 028 9031 2515
Email: openarts@aol.com
Web: www.openarts.net
Belfast Community Circus
Transform your event through the power of circus arts. Established in 1985, the Belfast Community Circus offers a dynamic mix of acrobatics, stilt walkers and street theatre shows guaranteed to make a lasting impression on any corporate event.
Get involved with the acts and learn the art of stilt walking or the basics of acrobatics. Workshops can offer an exciting team building experience or alternatively break up your programme with performances from the professionals.
Contact:
Will Chamberlain, Director of the Belfast Community Circus
Tel: 028 90 236 007
Email: will@belfastcircus.org
Web: www.belfastcircus.org
Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company
Derry based Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company boasts the finest of Ireland’s professional dancers. Training across a wide variety of dance traditions allows for an eclectic mix of shapes and movements.
As well as contemporary dance forms, Echo Echo innovatively combines martial arts, clowning, physical theatre, as well as therapeutic movement practices into workshops which create a distinctive dance experience, allowing your group to express themselves creatively and interact in a relaxed environment away from the office
Contact:
Ailbe Beirne, Manager of Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company
Tel: 028 7134 2266
Email: info@echoechodance.com
Web: www.echoechodance.com
Dance Resource Base
Dance is the perfect way to make any event truly memorable. Dance Resource Base is the premier non-profit resource organisation for dance in Northern Ireland. Visit the Dance Resource Base website and find a directory of diverse dance organisations and individual artists working across Northern Ireland. These professional organisations and artists specialise in a range of dance genres and many are able to deliver a variety of services from fun workshops and classes to entertaining performances.
Contact:
Dance Resource Base
Second Floor
35 Donegall Street
Belfast
BT1 2FG
Tel: 028 9023 1515
Email: info@danceresourcebase.org
Web: www.danceresourcebase.org
Cahoots NI
World class children’s theatre company Cahoots NI use the visual potential of theatre, and capitalise upon the age-old popularity of magic and illusion as an essential ingredient in the art of entertaining.
Cahoots NI offer specially crafted and styled performances for conferences and gala events complete with music, illusion and special effects.
Contact:
Paul McEneaney, Director and Founder of Cahoots NI
Tel: 028 9043 4349
Email: paul@cahootsni.com
Web: www.cahootsni.com
Ormeau Baths Gallery
Situated in the former Victorian swimming baths close to the city centre, OBG is one of the foremost exhibition spaces for contemporary visual arts in Northern Ireland.
Host your event around some of the most inspiring pieces of contemporary art as OBG offers clients a unique backdrop for corporate entertaining. Functions at OBG will impress guests and colleagues alike presenting a welcome substitute to a hotel conference room. Let the artwork itself inspire creativity amongst your guests.
Contact
Michael Monan
Tel: 028 9032 1402
Email: gallery@ormeaubaths.co.uk
Web: www.ormeaubaths.co.uk
Spanner in the Works Theatre Company
Spanner in the Works Theatre Company is a cross-community group established in 1998. Clients looking to reinforce the themes and key messages of their event can expect a hard hitting, high impact group who excellently address issues of social concern through the art of drama.
Spanner in the Works offer a mix of professional actors, children and young people from all backgrounds to provide you with an authentic performance, specifically crafted for your event.
Contact
Patricia Downey
Tel: 028 9061 2106
Email: patricia.downey@talk21.com
Web: www.myspace.com/spannerintheworkstheatre
Seacourt Print Workshop
As a professional print workshop in Bangor, Co. Down, Seacourt Print Workshop offers clients and staff the chance to participate in a 1 or 2 day printmaking session designed for team building, creative thinking and idea generation.
The workshop, dotted with impressive machinery including a Columbian Press built in 1825, provides facilities for Etching, Relief, Lithography, Screen-printing, Photo-intaglio and other fine art printmaking processes. This is the perfect environment for actively involving participants in the creative art of print making. To ensure a quality experience, group numbers are restricted to a maximum of ten.
Contact
Robert Peters
Tel: 028 9146 0595
Email: robertpeters@seacourt-ni.org.uk
Web: www.seacourt-ni.org.uk
The descriptions are provided by the artists and are not Arts Council descriptions
Fees are to be negotiated with individual artists and groups
