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Further funding announced for arts community affected by lockdown
Fri, 22 Jan 2021
The Isle of Man Arts Council have once again announced an emergency resilience fund for the arts community affected by the current lockdown. This funding will be made available on merit to anyone working or taking part in the creative industries, culture and arts communities on the Isle of Man and should be related to the Isle of Man Arts Council and Culture Vannin National Development Strategy for Culture and the Arts 2017-2027. The support will also to continue to provide a creative legacy from the Covid-19 crisis and follows the well-received resilience funding successfully provided in 2020.
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If your business, charity or public sector team has done something outstanding this year then you should enter the Isle of Man Newspapers’ Awards for Excellence and tell everyone about it.
But don’t just take our word for that. Here is what some of last year’s winners, all very different and representing a wide range of sectors, have to say: ’Winning the award last year has boosted our profile massively on the island.
’We have new volunteers join us as a result of the publicity we received.
’All our volunteers were very appreciative for the recognition of years of service.’ Said the Isle of Man Civil Defence Corps Michelle Sayle, winners of the Award for Supporting our Community.
the 2019 poetry slam
Printed and digital download photos available it ll be interesting to hear what people will have written after the year we ve had
Having spent part of the year cooped up at home with nothing but their poems to work on, many of the island’s performance poets are gearing themselves up for one of the highlights of the Manx literary calendar.
The 2020 Christmas Poetry Slam is set to take place tomorrow night (Friday) at the South Douglas Old Friends Club, Finch Road, Douglas, from 8pm and will feature at least 18 poets and writers, some who are seasoned veterans of past poetry slams, alongside many who are reading their work out for the first time.