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:
Jewel Robbery
Cinema Rediscovered
3:45pm
Film
Down with the Poor! and Eastbound
Shumona Sinha and Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Lauren Elkin and Russell Williams
Premiered: Sun 16 Oct
Talks & Ideas
Free
Sambizanga
Cinema Rediscovered
6:15pm
Film
Workshop with Riham Isaac: Performance and Multidisciplinary Approaches
3:30pm
Embrace
The Queen In Me
Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 Theatre Gargantua, Nightwood Theatre, Amplified Opera, Canadian Opera Company
7:45pm
Music
Focus on Canada
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
European Premiere
Tish Delaney and Donal Ryan
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Cathedral Quarter Music Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
Natalie Clein & Friends
BBC Radio 3 Concerts
7:30pm
Music
Free
Cultural Leadership: Now and into the Future
A Conversation hosted by Belfast International Arts Festival in association with Theatre and Dance NI
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Featured Artist
Belfast Jewish Story – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
To Kill A Mockingbird
Global Film Screening
8:15pm
Film
Featured Artist
The Kingdom of Shades – Signe Blanc and Portrait of Frédéric Tavernini
Noé Soulier | Cndc-Angers
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
Featured Artist
Irish Premiere
Double Bill
Evergreen Grieg
Ulster Orchestra
7:45pm
Music
Linen Quarter Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
Northern Ireland Tourist Guide Association
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
Middle East & North Africa Focus
Another Lover’s Discourse
Riham Isaac | ليه خلتني احبك
7.00pm (22 Oct) / 3.00pm (23 Oct)
Theatre & Dance
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
World Premiere
Fragments
Noé Soulier
Premiere: 7.20pm on 23 Oct | Available on demand thereafter
Film
Featured Artist
Free
BIND
Quotidian – Word on the Street
Premiere: 7.00pm on 23 Oct | Available on demand thereafter
Film
Free
Baby Face + Intro
Cinema Rediscovered
3:30pm
Film
Navy Blue
Oona Doherty
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
Irish Premiere
Paul Carrack
7.30pm show | Doors 6.30pm
Music
Paul Carrack – In Conversation
12:30pm Doors | Event starts promptly at 1pm
Music
Free
By Paul McVeigh
Big Man
A Lyric Theatre Production
Tues - Sat: 8.00pm | Sat - Sun: 3.00pm
Theatre & Dance
Conversations on Impermanence
Centre Culturel Irlandais & No Alibis Press
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
IN-visible ID-entities 4
Free
Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo
(The Trocks) Dance Consortium
7:30pm
Theatre & Dance