CHORUS

In Belfast, participation in the CHORUS programme is co-ordinated and funded by the Arts Council. The principal purpose of the CHORUS network (Cultural heritage Operation for the Regeneration of Urban Sites) is to exchange experience on how cultural heritage has been used as a tool for urban regeneration in different city contexts. The network has met four times to date; the first time in Bastia, Corsica the home of the lead partner and in November 2004 in Toledo, Vilo do Conde in Portugal in March and in Belfast in May. There will be two further meetings of the network in Graz and Volos.

Topics covered by the network meetings include exchanges on cultural heritage survey methods, restoration and development, education in the field of cultural heritage, socio-economic impact studies of cultural heritage development on urban regeneration centres.

There is only one place available for meetings of this network whose emphasis to date has been of a scientific and technical nature.

For further information on CHORUS, please email Roisin McDonough, Arts Council at rmcdonagh@artscouncil-ni.org.