Arts & Business welcomed some of the Northern Ireland’s leading businesses and innovative arts organisations to their Commerce and Culture networking breakfast for A&B members at the award-winning Merchant Hotel in Belfast early October.
A&B champions the power of innovative partnerships that can deliver business objectives through creativity and innovation, inspired by engagement with arts and cultural organisations. Today’s event allowed A&B business members to find out more about the local arts sector, to discover what the arts could offer them over the next year and how they could potentially work together to enhance their competitive edge, creating future success and sustained economic benefit.
Commerce meets Culture.
For the arts organisations, the event allowed them intimate access to key decision makers across the commercial spectrum, from SMEs to national corporate. It also offered to ignite business partnerships and contribute to future sustainability for the arts sector, at a time when over 70% of arts organisations have seen a decline in private sector funding and there is more pressure on the public purse.
Pictured from left to right: Enda McShane, Spirit Marketing Group Mary Trainor, Director, Arts & Business NI and Petra Wolsey, Marketing Manager, The Merchant Hotel
Arts & Business Creative Advantage Breakfast is sponsored by The Merchant Hotel.