2017 Festival
Welcome to the 2017 edition of the Belfast International Arts Festival. Our aim is a simple one; to create a genuinely civic event of contemporary arts and ideas of international appeal and stature.
What You Missed
136th Annual Exhibition
Tues - Sun 10am - 5pm
Visual Arts
Free
Poppies: Weeping Window
10am - 4pm
Poppies
Irish Premiere
Free
Phlox
Visual Arts
Free
Video Encounters
Visual Arts
Free
Belfast Open Studios | QSS
Various
Visual Arts
Free
Cuimhne / Memory
1pm & 3pm
Poppies
New Playwrights Showcase
8pm / 2.45pm
Theatre & Dance
Fire Below (A War of Words)
Tues - Sat 7.45pm / Sat & Sun at 2.30pm
Theatre & Dance
40³
10am - 7pm
Visual Arts
Free
Fashion & Freedom
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
Special Events
Free
The Tempest: Ireland. Memory. Identity.
Tues - Sun, 10am - 5pm
Visual Arts
Free
The Poetry Jukebox
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free
Hard to Be Soft: A Belfast Prayer
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Lives in Translation
7.30pm (Saturday Matinee 3pm)
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Dancing at the Disco at the End of The World
Various
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
The Ballad of Shirley Collins
6:20pm
Film
Gardens Speak
2pm, 3pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm
Special Events
Irish Premiere
The Four Seasons In Song
Various
Classical
Free
Celui Qui Tombe (He Who Falls)
7:30pm
Special Events
Irish Premiere
Soldier Still
Theatre & Dance
Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay Won’t Pay! Ní Dhíolaimid!
8pm (Sunday 3pm)
Theatre & Dance
TORDRE (WROUGHT)
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere
Wind Resistance
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
Irish Premiere
Signs of the Times
10:00am
Poppies
Free