Intention: Michael Hanna

Millennium Court Arts Centre will host a series of screenings of work by Michael Hanna as part of the gallery’s Artist in Residency programme. These screenings will take place over a six month period and will culminate in an exhibition of the artists’ work in Autumn 2013.

Each screening will take place in a different room in the gallery and each will be based on a different area of psychology. 

APRIL 13TH – INTENTION 

On Saturday 13 April from 7pm-8pm come join us in the darkroom at Millennium Court Arts Centre for Intention.

Free event, duration 1 hour - places are limited so please RSVP to book your place to info@millenniumcourt.org.

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Creative Craigavon Project Launch at Brownlow Hub

To help celebrate the launch of this project, the Creative Craigavon project team and staff at Brownlow Community Hub are holding a free open event at The Hub on Saturday 2nd March at 1pm. There will be music, dance, ceramics and pottery, willow weaving, digital music, photography, digital media and art workshops. There will also be an opportunity to meet arts groups and artists and get information from Community Arts Partnership, Art Take Part, Test Drive the Arts, Visual Artists Ireland, Creative Edge and to get advice on grant aid. 

Creative Craigavon is a joint project between Arts Development (Craigavon Borough Council), Craigavon Arts In Motion (C-Aim) and Millennium Court Arts Centre. It is aimed at profiling and promoting the arts in Craigavon.

For more info see www.c-aim.org.uk or contact the arts service on 028 38 311680 or arts.development@craigavon.gov.uk

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Creative Writing Workshops with Belfast based poet Ben Maier

Millennium Court Arts Centre and Portadown Library (Libraries NI) have teamed up to present a creative writing workshop with Belfast based poet Ben Maier inspired by our current exhibition Trouble = Progress. The class runs for four weeks beginning 20 Feb, 6-8pm and is FREE to attend. To book a place and for more info contact hazel@ or geraldine@millenniumcourt.org

 BIO: "Ben Maier is a poet and performer. He is currently completing a PhD on 'radio poetry' at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, where he has also facilitated numerous creative writing workshops and classes. Recent poems have been published in Irish Pages and The Salt Book of Younger Poets. He regularly performs his poetry in Belfast and abroad. His one-man show An Imaginary Circus was praised as a 'magical, energetic and vital tour de force'."

Culture NI interview / Culture NI review of An Imaginary Circus

From The Fishouse Archives 

Youtube: Favourite John Hewitt Poem / Youtube: Battle of the Books

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