2025 Festival
Belfast International Arts Festival’s 63rd edition took place from 14 October – 9 November 2025.
The Upside Down House
2.30pm & 7.30pm
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Poetry Jukebox
9.30am to 5.30pm (Mon-Fri)
Talks & Ideas
Free
Martin Hayes Trio
7:30pm
Music
CS Lewis Walking Tour
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
Artists, Architects, Authors & Actors | Walking Tour
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
Queer Lives and the Law
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Gerard McChrystal & Craig Ogden
7:30pm
Music
BBC Introducing Live
6:45pm (doors)
Music
Churches of Belfast | Walking Tour
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
My English Persian Kitchen
3pm (Sat only) | 8pm (Fri & Sat)
Theatre & Dance
NI Premiere
Ulster Orchestra – Distant Shores
7:45pm
Music
UK Premiere
Belfast Anti Slavery | Walking Tour
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
Camerata Ireland
7:00pm
Music
Behind the Studio Door
11.30am - 5pm
Visual Arts
Free
Rory Friers
7:30pm
Music
The Deep Blue
7pm (doors)
Music
The Sculptural Art of the Celtic Cross and those who lie beneath | Walking Tour
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
Music & Movement of Displacement and Belonging
7:30pm
Music
M’ANAM
3:00pm
Music
John Hewitt Birthday Readings 2025
8:00pm
Talks & Ideas
My Grandfather’s House
3pm & 8pm
Theatre & Dance
Cynan Jones & Anthony Shapland
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Spinning Yarns – Linen Quarter Explored | Walking Tour
11am & 2pm
Talks & Ideas
It Used to Be Witches – Under the Spell of Queer Cinema
6:00pm
Film