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Belfast International Arts Festival is a prime example of cultural innovation that is open to all. With our multi-disciplinary programme of contemporary arts and culture from around the globe, we seek to push boundaries and challenge perceptions.

We engage actively with audiences and communities around and beyond the city and make a vital contribution to ensuring the rest of the world knows about the diversity of our cultural riches. Despite this artistic and popular success, the Festival, like most of Northern Ireland’s arts and cultural organisations remains highly vulnerable in the current uncertain economic and political circumstances. More than ever, we need Government and its agencies to acknowledge the key role that culture plays in attracting economic investment to our country and enhancing community cohesion.

Increased and longer-term investment that puts us on a par with other UK regions and Ireland is essential if we are continue to play that role.
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What you missed

TONY CONRAD

Tony Conrad

Date
Saturday, 22 October 2016
6:30pm
Film
NY Season
NI Premiere
Fergus Jordan

North of Delmar

Date
20 October - 29 November 2016
Time
Launch 5.00pm | Tues - Fri: 11.00am - 3.00pm
Visual Arts
Free
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Aftershock

Date
Sunday, 23 October 2016
6:00pm
Talks
Nineteen Sixteen
Nicky Minus

Maybe She’s Born With It

Date
13 October - 29 October 2016
Time
Launch on 13 Oct at 6pm | Tues - Sun: 11.00am - 4.00pm
Visual Arts
Free
OSLO

Oslo 3

Date
Sunday, 16 October 2016
Classical
UK & Ireland Premiere
3 for 2
More Info Oslo 3
Too Late
SESTINA

Sestina

Date
Sunday, 23 October 2016
3:00pm
Classical
3 for 2
Hamlet Benedict Cumberbatch

Hamlet

Date
Thursday, 13 October 2016
7:00pm
Film
Bending The Bard
UK & Ireland Premiere
Free
More Info Hamlet
Too Late
King Lear

KING LEAR

Date
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
7:00pm
Film
Bending The Bard