2022 Festival
Established in 1962, the city’s longest-running international arts festival, reimagined and reborn as Belfast International Arts Festival (BIAF) in 2015, is celebrating 60 years with a new extended season of contemporary arts and cultural events.
For six decades the festival has ensured that the residents of Belfast alongside its international visitors have access to the best of world class artists and events from home and abroad.
Relive the Highlights at #BIAF22
Watch the trailer:
Download our 2022 Printed programme here – BIAF 22 Festival Programme
View At A Glance Guides:
Titanic Trail – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
Red-Headed Woman
Cinema Rediscovered
3:30pm
Film
Matt Andersen
7:00pm
Music
Larkin in Belfast: The Importance of Elsewhere
6:30pm
Talks & Ideas
Free
Quirky Belfast – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
A Distant Place
Queer East
9:00pm
Film
Statues, Sculptures and Architecture – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11:00am
Talks & Ideas
MELTS
7:30pm
Music
Cathedral Quarter Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
NGXX
The Naughton Gallery
11.00am - 4.00pm | Closed Mondays
Visual Arts
Free
To Make a Monument
Jan McCullough in partnership with Household
Visual Arts
Free
East Palace, West Palace
Queer East
6:15pm
Film
Middle East & North Africa Focus
Fighting and The Resilience of the Body
Shaymaa Shoukry
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
UK & Ireland Premiere
Double Bill
Beyond Skin
A Night of Musical Journeys
Musicians Artists at Risk Resettlement Scheme
7.30pm Doors| 8pm start
Music
Focus on Artists in the Middle East & North Africa
Free
141st Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition
Visual Arts
Free
The Ghost House
Cahoots
Various Times: Weekdays 5.00pm - 9.15pm | Weekends 12.00pm - 9.15pm
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
A match made in horror!
Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep Have All Jumped The Fences
Big Telly Theatre Company
7:30pm
Theatre & Dance
IMLÉ le Róisín Seoighe agus Ríona S Hartman
Event 8.30pm | Doors 8.15pm
Music
The Scorched Earth Trilogy
Dumbworld in co-production with Irish National Opera
7.00pm, 8.00pm & 9.00pm
Music
IN-visible ID-entities 4
Doctors & Diseases Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
Middle East & North Africa Focus
Ma’kan & Kabissa
Chaouki Amellal / Company Jil Z
12:00pm, 1.30pm and 3pm
Outdoor
UK & Ireland Premiere
Double Bill
Free
Middle East & North Africa Focus
The Second Copy: 2045
Youness Atbane
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
Irish Premiere
Ron’s World
Presented by Young at Art and the MAC
11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm
Theatre & Dance
GauZ’ and David Foenkinos
Premiere: 3.00pm on Sat 15 Oct | Available to view on BIAF's YouTube channel thereafter
Talks & Ideas
Free