The purpose of the Beat Initiative is to produce creative carnival based programmes through artistic excellence, community training, cultural collaboration and civic celebration. It is our ambition to provide projects that beneficially engage the imagination of a broad range of audience from all sections of the community and events that underline carnival’s place on the creative landscape.

We operate through open workshops, special interest groups, public and street performances, festivals and events. A diverse range of practice includes visual arts, construction, costume, music and percussion, dance and performance, and multi-arts collaborations.

Based in Belfast, the Beat Initiative works with people from across Northern Ireland and has performed throughout Ireland, worked with groups from England, Scotland and Wales and represented Northern Ireland in a week of performances at the London Millennium Dome.

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