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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
![Rosie McGurran - When the tide turned, pastel on Paper, 2016](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Rosie-McGurran-When-the-tide-turned-pastel-on-Paper-2016--480x270.jpg)
136th Annual Exhibition
Tues - Sun 10am - 5pm
Visual Arts
Free
!['Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' poppy installation at the Tower of London to mark the centenary of the First World War.](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/blood-swept-lands-and-seas-of-red-poppy-installation-480x270.jpg)
Poppies: Weeping Window
10am - 4pm
Poppies
Irish Premiere
Free
![Phlox](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Naughton-Gallery-Laura-Callaghan_web-480x270.jpg)
Phlox
Visual Arts
Free
![Video Encounters](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/golden-thread-exhibition-480x270.jpg)
Video Encounters
Visual Arts
Free
![](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/QSS-Gallery-Doors-480x270.jpg)
Belfast Open Studios | QSS
Various
Visual Arts
Free
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Cuimhne / Memory
1pm & 3pm
Poppies
![NEW playwrights](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/NEW-playwrights--480x270.png)
New Playwrights Showcase
8pm / 2.45pm
Theatre & Dance
![Fire Below](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Lyric-FireBelow-2400px_web-480x270.jpg)
Fire Below (A War of Words)
Tues - Sat 7.45pm / Sat & Sun at 2.30pm
Theatre & Dance
![40³](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/1a-480x270.jpg)
40³
10am - 7pm
Visual Arts
Free
![Sadie Williams](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Sadie-Williams-c.-Jez-Tozer_web-480x270.jpg)
Fashion & Freedom
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
Special Events
Free
![](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/P-4-480x270.jpg)
The Tempest: Ireland. Memory. Identity.
Tues - Sun, 10am - 5pm
Visual Arts
Free
![The Poetry Jukebox](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/poetry_jukebox_PRAGUE-480x270.jpg)
The Poetry Jukebox
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free
![Hard to be Soft](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Hard-to-be-Soft_new-480x270.jpg)
Hard to Be Soft: A Belfast Prayer
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
![Lives In Translation](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Lives-In-Translation-Landscape_web-480x270.jpg)
Lives in Translation
7.30pm (Saturday Matinee 3pm)
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
![Seeker in Flames](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Seeker-in-Flames-1_web-480x270.jpg)
Dancing at the Disco at the End of The World
Various
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
![Shirley Collins](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/ShirleyCollins-480x270.jpg)
The Ballad of Shirley Collins
6:20pm
Film
![](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/09GARDEN-master768-v2-480x270.jpg)
Gardens Speak
2pm, 3pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm
Special Events
Irish Premiere
![The Four Seasons In Song](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/pjimage-4-480x270.jpg)
The Four Seasons In Song
Various
Classical
Free
![Celui qui tombe](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/celui-qui-tombe-480x270.jpg)
Celui Qui Tombe (He Who Falls)
7:30pm
Special Events
Irish Premiere
![Soldier Still - Junk Ensemble (photo Fionn McCann) (1)](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Soldier-Still-Junk-Ensemble-photo-Fionn-McCann-1-480x270.jpg)
Soldier Still
Theatre & Dance
![](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/AG-Jamie-Hallahan-and-Eleanor-O-Brien-480x270.jpg)
Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay Won’t Pay! Ní Dhíolaimid!
8pm (Sunday 3pm)
Theatre & Dance
![TORDRE©Patrick Imbert](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/2000-Us-this-one-TORDRE©Patrick-Imbert_6-480x270.jpg)
TORDRE (WROUGHT)
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere
![wind resistance](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/wind-480x270.jpg)
Wind Resistance
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
Irish Premiere
![purple-placeholder](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/purple-placeholder-480x270.png)
Signs of the Times
10:00am
Poppies
Free