Featured Highlights #BIAF21
The Border Game
A Prime Cut and Lyric Theatre Production
7.30pm / Matinee Sat & Sun 2.30pm
Theatre & Dance
Opening Event
Hunter Filmed
Oona Doherty
8:30pm
Theatre & Dance
Free
Meg Mason & Laura Jean McKay
In association with British Council and UK Australia Season of Culture
7.00pm (12 Oct) / On demand thereafter
Talks & Ideas
Digital Pass
The Grimm Hotel
Cahoots NI
Various Times - 5.00 - 8.00pm (Weekdays) / 1.00 - 8.00pm (Weekends)
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Uncle Ray
By David Bolger | CoisCéim Dance Theatre
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
IN-visible ID-entities 3
NI Premiere
Sea Sick
The Theatre Centre
Saturday 7.45pm | Doors: 7.30pm. Sunday 3.00pm | Doors: 2.45pm
Theatre & Dance
IN-visible ID-entities 3
Routine
Company Zid
2.30pm & 4.30pm
Outdoor
Free
Laoise Kelly – Harp Workshop
10:00am
Music
Embrace
Simon Armitage
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Department Story
Big Telly Theatre Company
Weds - Sat 8.30pm | Fri - Sun 6pm
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
The Great Irish Songbook
Featuring Dervish. With special guests Glen Hansard, Eddi Reader, Cara Dillon, Brian Kennedy, Karen Matheson and The Open Arts Community Choir
7:30pm | Doors open at 6:30pm
Music
IN-visible ID-entities 3
Natasha Brown & Caleb Azumah Nelson
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Dominique Barbéris & Gaëlle Josse
In association with Institut Francais
4.00pm (23 Oct) / On demand thereafter
Talks & Ideas
IN-visible ID-entities 3
Digital Pass
Electric Arcade
with Eimear Noone & Ulster Orchestra
Doors: 6.30pm | Show: 7.30pm
Music
Nikesh Shukla & Musa Okwonga
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
On Blueberry Hill
Written by Sebastian Barry | Presented by Fishamble
7:30pm
Theatre & Dance
IN-visible ID-entities 3
Digital Pass
Welcome to Belfast International Arts Festival
Our aim is a simple one; to create a genuinely civic event of contemporary arts and ideas of international appeal and stature.
Belfast International Arts Festival returns for our 59th edition, from Wednesday 6 October to Sunday 7 November 2021 (see At a Glance guide).
The team are working remotely from our respective homes for the foreseeable future and can be reached by email. Stay safe, keep well and we look forward to welcoming you to #BIAF21
