Awards Hat-trick for Crescent Arts Centre

Posted on May 18, 2011
in Crescent & Community, Refurbishment

The Crescent Arts Centre has won three prestigious awards from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors at the RICS awards Northern Ireland 2011. The highly successful refurbishment and extension of this diverse community arts centre resulted in the centre winning the Community Benefit category, being “Highly Commended” in the category of Building Conservation as well [...]

CityDance 2010 ~ Free Daytime Workshops ~ Evening Showcase

Posted on October 15, 2010
in Classes & Workshops, Crescent & Community, Events

The Crescent Arts Centre hosts it’s annual festival of dance on 30th October 2010. The festival has traditionally been held in the park on Lower Crescent, but this year the workshops and evening performance will be held within our newly refurbished building. The festival begins at 1:00pm with a wide variety of free dance workshops [...]

“Percent For Arts” Public Art Commission

Posted on September 9, 2010
in Crescent & Community

Project Summary The Crescent Arts Centre has undertaken a £7.2 million redevelopment of its buildings, funded by Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Heritage Lottery Fund, Northern Ireland Environment Agency – and the numerous kind donations from individual supporters. As part of this redevelopment the Crescent Arts Centre wishes to [...]

European Heritage Open Days

Posted on September 6, 2010
in Crescent & Community, Events

Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 September 2010, 11am-5pm – FREE European Heritage Open Days are held annually in September in 49 countries highlighting not only the dazzling diversity of Europe’s heritage but also its intercultural links. During this weekend the public are given the chance to explore buildings and grounds that are not normally open, for [...]

Crescent Overture – Opening Week April 2010

Posted on March 23, 2010
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We are looking forward to welcoming you back into our refurbished home with a week-long Festival from 19 – 25 April 2010. The Festival will offer lunchtime and evening recitals, free taster workshops and guided tours of the building. Events include a reading with Pulitzer Prize winning author and new patron of the Crescent Arts Centre [...]

Helen Lewis MBE

Posted on January 7, 2010
in Crescent & Community

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of our Patron, Helen Lewis. Helen, who was awarded an MBE for her contribution to the development of contemporary dance in Northern Ireland, had a long association with the Crescent Arts Centre,  as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and friend. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1916, she was [...]

A Crescent Relay Team in the Belfast City Marathon 2009

Posted on March 19, 2009
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This year, some of the staff and friends of the Crescent have put together a team to run in the Belfast City Marathon as a fundraiser for the refurbishment project. The marathon takes place on the 4th May, 2009 and our team will be covering a combined 26 miles across the whole city, passing by [...]

Crescent Manager wins Local Award

Posted on October 22, 2008
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Liz Donnan receives award from Alex Barnett (President JCI Belfast) It is with great delight we are able to announce Liz Donnan’s recent ‘Community Contribution Award’ at the Belfast Junior Chamber of Commerce (JCI Belfast) Civic and Community Contribution Awards 2008. Liz was nominated for the Community Contribution Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution [...]

PwC Volunteering Excellence award goes to Crescent chair

Posted on September 8, 2008
in Crescent & Community

Dr. David Hill has received an award Volunteering Excellence from PriceWaterhouseCoopers for his work as the Crescent’s chair of the board. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s annual Volunteering Excellence Awards distributed over £35,000 to ten charities and voluntary organisations, recognising their work, and the extraordinary commitment of the firm’s employees to volunteering with them. The funds are the [...]

Crescent Chairperson wins Allianz A&B Award 2007

Posted on January 12, 2007
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We are proud to announce that the Crescent Chairperson, Dr. David Hill, was awarded Individual of the Year at the recent Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards, 2007 at the Tile Refinery Art Gallery. David was recognised by the panel as an inspirational business volunteer who had contributed invaluable time and expertise to the Crescent [...]

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