
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