
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

Something For Everyone
136th Annual Exhibition
Royal Ulster Academy
Tues - Sun 10am - 5pm
Visual Arts
Free

#PoppiesTour
Poppies: Weeping Window
Presented by 14-18 NOW, Belfast International Arts Festival and National Museums Northern Ireland
10am - 4pm
Poppies
Irish Premiere
Free

All Female Showcase
Phlox
Visual Arts
Free

Contemporary Short Films
Video Encounters
Rachel Maclean – Bedwyr Williams
Visual Arts
Free

Irish Memories
Cuimhne / Memory
Aisling Ghear
1pm & 3pm
Poppies

Belfast Open Studios | QSS
Various
Visual Arts
Free

Celebrating 40 Years of Belfast Print Workshop
40³
Presented by Belfast Print Workshop
10am - 7pm
Visual Arts
Free

The Missing Truth?
Fire Below (A War of Words)
By Owen McCafferty, Directed By Jimmy Fay
Tues - Sat 7.45pm / Sat & Sun at 2.30pm
Theatre & Dance

Exciting Irish Voices
New Playwrights Showcase
8pm / 2.45pm
Theatre & Dance

Lives in Translation
Kabosh
7.30pm (Saturday Matinee 3pm)
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere

Alternative Reality Belfast
Hard to Be Soft: A Belfast Prayer
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere

Poesiomat & The Quotidian Project
The Poetry Jukebox
Maria McManus and Deirdre Cartmill
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free

An Exhibtion of Paintings, Painted Constructions & Scuplture
The Tempest: Ireland. Memory. Identity.
Hughie O'Donoghue
Tues - Sun, 10am - 5pm
Visual Arts
Free

Fashion and Film Inspired by Women during the First World War
Fashion & Freedom
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
Special Events
Free

The Apocalypse is Viral
Dancing at the Disco at the End of The World
Replay Theatre Company
Various
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere

The Ballad of Shirley Collins
6:20pm
Film

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists
The Four Seasons In Song
Various
Classical
Free

Interactive Sound Installation
Gardens Speak
Tania El Khoury
2pm, 3pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm
Special Events
Irish Premiere

Perilous gravity defying spectacle
Celui Qui Tombe (He Who Falls)
Yoann Bourgeois
7:30pm
Special Events
Irish Premiere

A Tale of Beauty and Brutality
Soldier Still
Junk Ensemble, in association with the MAC
Theatre & Dance

Austerity v Prosperity
Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay Won’t Pay! Ní Dhíolaimid!
Aisling Gheár
8pm (Sunday 3pm)
Theatre & Dance

A haunting hypnotic duet
TORDRE (WROUGHT)
Rachid Ouramdane
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere

Poignant Paean To the Peatbogs of Scotland
Wind Resistance
Karine Polwart
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
Irish Premiere

does compassion have limits?
Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun
Schaubühne Berlin
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere