With just a few days to go before Christmas, we're bringing you all the entertainment news from Belfast and beyond this Friday.
Here's everything you need to know today:
New funding announced for creative jobs in Northern Ireland
Funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Department for Communities, the NI Creative Employment Programme (NICEP) will provide part-funding to cover wage costs for employers who create the new jobs and hire a young person aged 16-24 in the creative sector.
Run by Creative & Cultural Skills NI, the project aims to support the next generation of arts and cultural professionals and enable the growth of the sector by directly addressing skills gaps and shortages.
The programme will support new jobs from a wide range of fields including music, dance, drama, literature, visual arts, craft, festivals, arts venues, community arts, galleries, museums, circus and carnival arts. It will also accept applications from the wider creative sector including digital, film and TV.
Interested? Go to ccskills.org.uk
Award-winning Belfast record label says farewell
Home to some of Northern Ireland's most successful contemporary artists, including NI Music Prize winners Joshua Burnside , Ciaran Lavery and Ryan Vail & Elma Orkestra , Belfast-based record label Quiet Arch have announced that they will begin a period of indefinite hiatus starting next year.
In recognition of their achievements, the label will host a goodbye party on January 10, 2020, at the Empire Music Hall, with the three previous winners taking to the stage on the night and giving a massive send-up for the label.
The Rapparees perform 'Fairytale of the Pogues' at Limelight
This Friday & Saturday, The Rapparees will round off 2019 in Limelight Belfast with their annual tribute show - Fairytale of the Pogues.
The band, who hail from Belfast, have gained loads of praise for their stunning cover of 'Fairytale of New York'.
Hear what all the fuss is about:
Cats gets released in Northern Irish cinemas
It's been called "grotesque", a "disaster", and a "purr-fectly dreadful hairball of woe" - but we imagine that if you've your heart set on going to see the new film adaption of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, the reviews aren't going to stop you.
Cats is released in Northern Irish cinemas today. You can let us know whether it's a Christmas treat or Christmas nightmare...
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