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Joanne McDowell: We are here today to launch the Culture for All programme which is a partnership
between Big Lottery Fund, the Arts Council for Northern Ireland and the Culture Company
for 2013.
Shona McCarthy: We’ve always said that we wanted the City of Culture 2013 to really
be owned by the people not only of this place but right across Northern Ireland. And I think
this fund today 1.35 million is just a great opportunity.
Meath Scott: We have received small pockets of funding and we are a Link Community Association
and with the Link community Association we have small umbrella groups; throughout the
year we would help with the St Paddys day up to Halloween Discos. We also do help with
pensioners in our area.
Joanne McDowell: We very much think that there is lots of really good ideas from volunteering
community sector groups that could support cultural and arts activities right the way
across Northern Ireland and we’re delighted to be able to support this activity.
George Murphy: We’ve done a number of projects over the years. And in those projects obviously
we get assistance from various people, and one of the main helpers would have been the
Big Lottery Fund; who gave us an opportunity to do projects that we could have never done
without it. The size and magnitude of this event that’s going to happen next year in
2013 is going to go a good bit further than the city itself.
Shona McCarthy: There is some big core themes around the whole City of Culture project.
There is a theme that’s about purposeful inquiry and that’s really about not forgetting
that we have a troubled past but looking at that and telling new stories from it, and
then there is joyous celebration, and that’s really a sense of a place emerging a place
coming into its own and telling new stories. So there are big themes there to grapple with
and our call to people is take those themes play with them; what would you do with them?
How can you make this exceptional opportunity we have as the first ever UK City of Culture
in 2013. How can you make it yours?
Joanne McDowell: We hope people will pick the phone ask us questions as they’re filling
in the application form, and that that will allow them to make a very successful application.
They have good ideas in their heads and we can help them put them on paper.
Shona McCarthy: Whether you’re a small photography club, whether you’re a dance group, whether
you just have an idea that you want to put forward that you want to see happen to really
make 2013 your own, this fund’s great news.