BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260225T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260225T170000 DTSTAMP:20260217T233309Z CREATED:20260216T212031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T233309Z UID:3024-1772035200-1772038800@culturalpolicyireland.org SUMMARY:Housing redevelopment in Derry and Belfast\, 1960-1980: placemaking in a time of crisis DESCRIPTION:Dr Adrian Grant\nLecturer in History\nINCORE / School of Arts and Humanities\, Ulster University\n\nPart of the monthly seminars for INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) that Ulster University will be hosting throughout 2026.\nLocation: MD008 and online at:  https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36371312362171?p=YzhAVpWkOiB5DX4vbx \nMeeting ID: 363 713 123 621 71 \nPasscode: WZ6JA3HU \nABSTRACT: \nIn the aftermath of the Second World War\, Northern Ireland’s cities faced a housing crisis driven not only by wartime damage\, but as a result of decades of neglect and government inaction in public house building. Major UK policy shifts forced the NI government to engage in a comprehensive public housebuilding programme from the late 1940s onwards. New build estates were constructed on greenfield sites\, dealing rapidly with the sharper edges of housing shortage. Housing in inner-city areas had also deteriorated massively\, requiring state intervention to tackle problems of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. In the early 1960s the NI government tasked local authorities and the Northern Ireland Housing Trust with the large-scale clearance and redevelopment of the inner-city housing identified as being beyond repair. Victorian terraced streets were replaced with a modernist mixture of high-rise and low-rise apartment complexes and lower density traditional housing. The permeable gridiron of terraced streets was replaced with a mixture of culs-de-sac and courtyard developments that separated pedestrians and vehicles\, but also created more closed-off and insular micro-communities. The construction of new roads and urban motorways added to the comprehensive nature of the changes to the urban fabric. \nThis seminar paper outlines the history of this process and its immediate and long-term impacts on urban communities in NI. Histories of this period have an understandable focus on the beginning of the ‘Troubles’ and the issues that acted as a catalyst for the activism and later violence of the conflict. Fair housing allocation was of course central to the demands of the civil rights movement\, and has been researched in some detail. However\, housing has the potential to be used as a prism through which to view the multi-layered issues affecting NI society in this period and after. This frame allows us to identify the common experiences of urban communities globally in the post-war period\, but also the particularities of the NI experience. The paper finishes with an outline of the ‘Home in Troubled Times’ project\, which will utilise this history to engage younger people and migrant communities with the historical debates and legacy contemporary urban issues that continue to impact neighbourhoods today. \nDr Adrian Grant is a Lecturer in History at Ulster University and a member of INCORE. He has written widely on the conflicted history of twentieth century Ireland\, and more recently with a focus on urban change in time of conflict. He was PI on the AHRC funded ‘Divided Pasts – Design Futures’ project that explored the history of urban redevelopment in Derry. He was also CAIN Transformation Project Lead\, securing design upgrades and new funding for the CAIN website. URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/housing-redevelopment-in-derry-and-belfast-1960-1980-placemaking-in-a-time-of-crisis/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:ALL EVENTS,CPOI Networks,Other Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Adrian-Grant.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260224T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260224T183000 DTSTAMP:20260217T155125Z CREATED:20260204T175910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T155125Z UID:3000-1771952400-1771957800@culturalpolicyireland.org SUMMARY:Cultural Funding and Financing: Insights\, opportunities and challenges DESCRIPTION:  \nAll are welcome to attend this special event exploring current and new thinking on funding models for arts and culture globally. \n\n\n\nAs a special event to mark the launch of a new open access collection of essays edited by Carolina Dalla Chiesa (Erasmus University\, Rotterdam) and Anders Rykkja (Queen’s University Belfast)\, Cultural Funding and Financing – A Guide to New and Traditional Models in Arts and Culture. \nThose attending will hear from the editors and about established and emerging funding and finance practices. The event will be chaired by Brona Whittaker\, Arts & Business NI. \nThis event and the publication will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners in arts\, culture and creative practices. Scholars interested in financial and funding models in both nonprofit and private finance will also find much of relevance here. \nLight refreshments will follow the talk. \nAttendance is free but booking is required due to limited capacity. Please book here. Location and accessibility details can also be found here. \nThis event is made possible with the assistance of the School of Arts English & Languages through the Arts CDRG. \nOpen Access publication (free digital access) has been made possible through a joint library grant for open access publication from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Queen’s University Belfast. URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/cultural-funding-and-financing-insights-opportunities-and-challenges/ LOCATION:McMordie Hall\, Music Building\, Queen’s University Belfast\, 1 College Green\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT7 1LN\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:ALL EVENTS,CPOI Events,CPOI Exchanges ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/book-cover.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260114T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260114T163000 DTSTAMP:20251212T163057Z CREATED:20251208T221411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T163057Z UID:2885-1768402800-1768408200@culturalpolicyireland.org SUMMARY:Report Launch - Public Media Ireland: a New PSM Organisation for a New Country DESCRIPTION:Launch of the Public Media Ireland report\, a joint project from Ulster University and Dublin City University. \nWednesday 14 January 2026\, 3pm-4.30pm\nThe Linen Hall Library\, Belfast \nBook here to reserve your ticket \nIn a new report being launched at the Linen Hall Library\, Belfast\, researchers from Ulster University and Dublin City University have considered what might happen to Public Service Media in a reunified Ireland – should this eventuality occur. \nIn this report the authors begin at that point\, and ask:\n– Would BBC Northern Ireland simply be subsumed into RTÉ\, taking on its staff and its assets?\n– Would a completely new Public Service Media organisation be created?\n– Or would Public Service Media survive in a reunified Ireland at all? \nWhether reunification takes place in the medium term\, long term\, or indeed not at all\, it is worth thinking creatively through approaches to media on an all-island basis. Work in this area is already gathering pace\, not least with the November 2025 announcement of the Shared Island Media Fund – aimed at to fostering all-island media development. \nWith this report\, the authors seek to commence a debate\, and use it as a starting point for all interested parties to have their say. This is the beginning of a conversation on the future of media across the island of Ireland – North and South – and certainly not the end. \nReport Authors: \nDr Phil Ramsey\, Ulster University\nDr Roddy Flynn\, Dublin City University\nDr Stephen Baker\, Ulster University\nDr Dawn Wheatley\, Dublin City University \nLaunch Event Chair: Susan McKay\, Press Ombudsman for Ireland\, journalist and author \nFor information on getting to the Linen Hall Library/parking etc.\, visit: https://linenhall.com/visit-us/ \nFunded by the Centre for Communication\, Media and Cultural Studies\, Ulster University and the School of Communications\, Dublin City University. \nLaunch event in partnership with Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland  \nFor more information\, please email: Dr Phil Ramsey – pt.ramsey@ulster.ac.uk URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/report-launch-public-media-ireland-a-new-psm-organisation-for-a-new-country/ LOCATION:The Linen Hall Library\, Belfast\, 17 Donegall Square N\, Belfast\, BT1 5GB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:ALL EVENTS,CPOI Events,CPOI Exchanges ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Public-Media-Ireland-Seminar.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251204T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251204T140000 DTSTAMP:20251208T225439Z CREATED:20251125T020326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T225439Z UID:2784-1764853200-1764856800@culturalpolicyireland.org SUMMARY:Towns Welcoming Creativity DESCRIPTION:UCD’s Centre for Irish Towns Talking Towns Series\, presented in partnership with Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland. \n1 – 2pm 4th December 2025 Event takes place online. Register to receive Zoom link. \n\n\n\nThis one-hour conversation explores ways that towns support everyday creativity as part of inclusive\, diverse places to live. \nAs explained by the UCD Centre for Irish Towns\, in Ireland\, Irish towns are home to a third of the population. They face significant challenges—including vacancy\, underinvestment\, and fragmented data and governance—which undermine social cohesion and long-term resilience. However\, they also present a major opportunity: towns are well-positioned to support population growth\, enable sustainable and low-carbon communities\, and drive post-pandemic transition. Growing policy initiatives and consensus highlight the need for coordinated research\, collaboration\, and evidence-based action to revitalise town centres. \nPresentations and discussion will draw from case studies and experiences within Creative Lives. Established in 1991\, Creative Lives champions community and volunteer-led creative activity\, and works to improve opportunities for everyone to be creative. They work across Ireland\, England\, Scotland\, Wales\, and Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nChair: Dr Victoria Durrer (UCD) \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nJemma Neville is a Policy Director of Creative Lives\, based in Scotland\, who writes creatively about the intersections of people in place \n\n\n\nJess Plant on Creative Lives’ Place work and partnerships with BBC local radio. She has previously worked in a range of arts development roles connected to criminal justice and lessening social exclusion. \nDan Brown is Head of Creative Development for OnFife\, a Cultural Trust in Fife\, Scotland. His background spans arts\, digital media\, and community engagement. \n\n\n\nAngi Ward runs the Monday Music group in Edenderry as part of Creative Places Edenderry\, Ireland (funded by Arts Council Ireland). Monday Music and Acoustic Hearts\, were the national Runners Up for Ireland at the Creative Lives Awards last year. Angi was also a recipient of Seed Funding from Creative Places\, Edenderry for writing her ‘Mother Bog’ original script musical play. \n\n\n\n URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/towns-welcoming-creativity/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:ALL EVENTS,CPOI Events,CPOI Exchanges ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TT_December_2025_v1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20251110T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20251110T180000 DTSTAMP:20251121T173843Z CREATED:20251121T173843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251121T173843Z UID:2751-1762790400-1762797600@culturalpolicyireland.org SUMMARY:Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the island of Ireland. DESCRIPTION:2025 marks the tenth year of Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland and what better way to celebrate than a new identity and membership refresh for the network and a new book to announce. \nOn 10 November\, an array of scholars\, policymakers\, artists and cultural organisations will gather at the TUD GrangeGorman campus in the Black Box Theatre to mark the publication of Cultural Policy: Perspectives on the island of Ireland. \nThis new collection\, draws together a wide range of academic perspectives and disciplines that relate to cultural policy in the context of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Through the study of the unique context of this intertwined two-polity island\, this collection examines the “situated” nature of cultural policy amongst people and place. It features contributions on media\, European integration\, festivals\, arts and education\, sustainable development and cultural participation\, the book opens up an interdisciplinary dialogue on cultural policy studies in shared\, local\, regional and international contexts. \nA first of its kind in gathering together the richness and disciplinary diversity of cultural policy research on and about the island\, its introductory chapter traces some of the history of this discipline on the island while also connecting it to the range of practices and scholarship that shapes cultural policy research globally. \nBooking for this event is now closed URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/cultural-policy-perspectives-on-the-island-of-ireland/ LOCATION:TU Dublin\, Grangegorman Campus\, Smithfield\, Dublin\, Ireland CATEGORIES:ALL EVENTS,CPOI Events,CPOI Exchanges,CPOI Reads ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CPOI-2025-Logo.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR