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
Glen Hansard
7:30pm
Music
Real Magic
Forced Entertainment
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
Lanny with Max Porter
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
The Worst Café in the World
Big Telly Theatre Company
6pm / 8.30pm / 3pm (Weekend Matinees)
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Before
Fishamble: The New Play Company
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
IN-visible ID-entities
NI Premiere
(LA)HORDE
To Da Bone
8:00pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere
Staging Schiele
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
6:00pm
Theatre & Dance
Beloved Clara
Lucy Parham
7:45pm
Music
Irish Premiere
Exquisite Cadavers with Meena Kandasamy
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Spliced
Chalk It Down Productions
8:00pm
Theatre & Dance
IN-visible ID-entities
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
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.
