2024 Festival
Our 62nd Festival returns 16 October – 26 November 2024 with a new season of contemporary arts and culture in over 30 venues across the city and featuring the very best international and homegrown artists in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature and film.
Medusa’s Notebook – The Poetry Dome
On the hour: 1pm - 4pm (Fri, Sat, Mon - Wed) 1pm – 7pm (Thur) 2pm - 4pm (Sun)
Talks & Ideas
Free
The Gate House
7:30pm (Fri & Sat) | 5pm (Sat)
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Join The Dots – Artists’ Walk
Embrace
Free
Austin Duffy & Phil Harrison
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Impasse
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
NI Premiere
Chicken
8pm (Wed – Sat) | 3pm (Sat & Sun)
Theatre & Dance
Michael Longley
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Revolutionary Belfast 1770s – 1790s | Cultural Walking Tour
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
Fat Dog
7:30pm
Music
They Might Be Giants
7:00pm
Music
Toner Quinn – How Ireland Thinks About Music
4:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Bridging Beats – From Kansas City to Belfast
7:00pm
Music
The Persian, Kurdish, Celtic Connection
7:30pm
Music
Ingrid Persaud & Sunjeev Sahota
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Output
Various Times
Music
Free
Blue Plaque – Cultural Walking Tour
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
Ciaran Lavery – Light Entertainment
7:30pm
Music
World Premiere
Anti-Slavery – Cultural Walking Tour
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
More than Mozart
7:45pm
Music
The Crying Game (film)
6:00pm
Film
Colin Davidson – The Chancellor’s 175th Address
6:00pm
Visual Arts
Free
Talking Heads (Keep looking up) – Cultural Walking Tour
11.00am & 2.00pm
Talks & Ideas
Joseph Beuys and the Belfast School of Art
6:00pm
Visual Arts
Free
Alice Maher and the Legacy of Belfast School of Art’s MFA Fine Art
6:00pm
Visual Arts