What's On
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The Playboy of the Western World
7.30pm | Sat/Sun Matinees 2.30pm
Theatre & Dance
Median & Accumulated Layout (Double Bill)
Hiroaki Umeda
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
Opening Event
UK & Ireland Premiere
Unique Instruments, Expectant Spaces
Hall McKnight
Mon - Fri, 9am to 10pm | Sat, 9am - 7pm | Sun, 9am to 5pm
Visual Arts
Embrace
UK & Ireland Premiere
Free
La Spire
Chloé Moglia – Rhizome
3:00pm
Embrace
UK & Ireland Premiere
Free
(LA)HORDE
To Da Bone
8:00pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere
Spliced
Chalk It Down Productions
8:00pm
Theatre & Dance
IN-visible ID-entities
Design and Destroy
Irish Society of Stage and Screen Designers
5.30pm - 7.30pm (Thurs & Fri) | 12.30pm - 2.30pm & 5.30pm - 7.30pm (Sat)
Visual Arts
Free
New Playwrights Showcase
Lyric Theatre
7:00pm
Theatre & Dance
Oona Doherty & Prime Cut Productions
Lady Magma: The Birth of a Cult
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
Closing Event
UK & Ireland Premiere
Michael Rosen
2:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Kristan Swain and Máire Carroll
Belfast Music Society
7:30pm
Music
Lowborn with Kerry Hudson
2:00pm
Talks & Ideas
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.
The 2019 festival will take place from Tuesday 15 October – Sunday 3 November covering theatre, dance, classical and roots music, visual, film and digital arts and literature accompanied by outreach and educational events.
Check out the full programme here.
