The winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, the MAC in Belfast and does the UK need more music arenas?
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The Mac Is Creating a New Narrative in Northern Ireland
I don't want my kids to grow up feeling unsafe the way so many of my contemporaries and I did. The state of arts support in Northern Ireland is shamefully low when compared with the rest of these islands. We are right beside the 380 million pound redeveloped Ulster University, extraordinarily new campus. But three miles away is New Large Road, which was the epicenter of the Troubles in Belfast. There are pockets of enormous deprivation within a stung through of the Mac. So we are in an extraordinarily exciting focal point at which we can speak to possibility but also disadvantaged and inequality of opportunity.
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