Crescent Arts Centre

David Hill is Chair of the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast. This is a voluntary position.

The Crescent is celebrating 30 years as a community arts centre. The Crescent's permanent home at 2-4 University Road has recently undergone a £7m refurbishment, reopening with a week-long arts festival in April 2010. The project has restored and rejuvenated a Grade B+ listed building with a rich history (it is the former home of Victoria College, a pioneering school for girls) and an exciting future.

Enrolment will open on Saturday 4 September 2010 for workshops and events until December 2010. Please see the Crescent programme, available to download from the website, for full details. Please contact the Crescent to be added to the mailing list.

The Crescent website can be accessed here. On the website you can find full details of all classes and activities as well as details of special events, such as the Masquerade Ball on Saturday 4 September.

The Crescent is thought to have the largest swift colony in Northern Ireland, and protecting the birds has been an inherent element of the refurbishment project. Swifts are increasingly disappearing due to modern building techniques and the Crescent building now incorporates swift boxes - bricks with cavities specially designed to provide a summer home for these fascinating birds - to ensure that the swifts were able to return again in 2010 and will do so for many years to come.

The Crescent and its partners in the refurbishment have been awarded the UNESCO "Man and the Biosphere" award in recognition of the steps taken to secure the future of the swift colony in the building.

Mrs Margaret Byers and her staff in front of what is now the Crescent Arts Centre


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