Equity’s NI Committee has delivered an open letter to Mr Colum Boyle today, responding to the budget report Communities NI; Assembly Committee for Communities. We’re asking him and all MLAs: who will stand up for the arts and reverse the cuts? #EquityNIReverseTheCuts. equity.org.uk/news/2023/save…

Politicians, Equity members and supporters have turned out tonight to demand an end to arts funding cuts in Northern Ireland. Our message to Stormont and to Whitehall is clear: Arts funding for NI communities is how we find common ground. Stop these cuts now!

BREAKING: Belfast City Council voted unanimously to support a motion to reverse proposed cuts to arts funding in Northern Ireland. The motion means Belfast Council will join as a signatory to Equity NI’s latest open letter against the cuts to the Department for Communities.