Under Threat

SUPPORT NORTHERN VISIONS

Supporters of Northern Visions today began campaigning to prevent the
closure of Belfast’s only open access community digital media and arts
centre. The organisation exhausted all formal channels when it learned
last week that it did not fit with the remits of the Arts Council of
Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen. Core funding for the
centre was previously received from both bodies. Effectively, it has
been told by these two bodies, that it is neither a film nor an arts
organisation. The centre was established in 1986 and is situated in
Cathedral Quarter, the city’s cultural quarter.
This is one of their programs. It is about Mill Workers.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
Write a letter or use the online form at this link

http://www.northernvisions.org/index/supportform.html

This form below will be sent automatically to the First Minister, Deputy
First Minister and the Minister for Culture, Arts & Leisure. Northern
Visions will publish comments made on its website.
If you have worked with Northern Visions it would be a great help to add
something in the comments box, explaining a little about your
organization and, what Northern Visions has meant to you.

Pass on this information to your networks if you are able to or post on
your Facebook page.

If you able to write a personalized letter from your organization, that
would be tremendous.

The address and email contacts are:

Email contacts:

First Minister & Deputy First Minister
ps.ministers@ofmdfmni.gov.uk

Minister for Culture, Arts & Leisure
private.office@dcalni.gov.uk

Northern Visions
feedback@nvtv.co.uk

Addresses:
First Minister & Deputy First Minister
OFMDFM,
GD36 Stormont Castle
Stormont Estate
Belfast
BT4 3TT

Minister for Culture, Arts & Leisure
DCAL,
Causeway Exchange

1-7 Bedford Street

Belfast

BT2 7EG

The central message is as follows:

To the First Minister, Deputy First Minister and the Minister for
Culture, Arts & Leisure,
I am calling on you to reinstate Northern Visions core funding. At a
time when the Department of Culture, Arts & Leisure is advocating
community based work in disadvantaged areas, it is a tragedy that an
organisation of nearly 30 years standing, which has pioneered community
digital media and community arts with hundreds of groups in socially
disadvantaged areas or at risk of social exclusion should find that they
too, are excluded.

I count on your leadership to preserve the only community digital media
and arts resource of its kind in Northern Ireland.

Ideas and suggestions, other groups that might come in to support –
email feedback@nvtv.co.uk or phone 028 9024 5495 ext 207.

More information on Northern Visions www.northernvisions.org

Thank you.

Northern Visions/NvTv
23 Donegall Street
Belfast
BT1 2FF

Tel: 028 9024 5495 ext 207
Fax: 028 9032 6608

NvTv
Belfast Community Television
Free-to-Air