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
Visual Arts
Free
Date
Time
Tues - Sun 10am - 5pm
#PoppiesTour
Poppies: Weeping Window
Presented by 14-18 NOW, Belfast International Arts Festival and National Museums Northern Ireland
Poppies
Irish Premiere
Free
Date
Time
10am - 4pm
Celebrating 40 Years of Belfast Print Workshop
40³
Presented by Belfast Print Workshop
Visual Arts
Free
Date
Time
10am - 7pm
The Missing Truth?
Fire Below (A War of Words)
By Owen McCafferty, Directed By Jimmy Fay
Theatre & Dance
Date
Time
Tues - Sat 7.45pm / Sat & Sun at 2.30pm
Alternative Reality Belfast
Hard to Be Soft: A Belfast Prayer
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Date
7:45pm
Poesiomat & The Quotidian Project
The Poetry Jukebox
Maria McManus and Deirdre Cartmill
Talks & Ideas
Free
Date
7:00pm
An Exhibtion of Paintings, Painted Constructions & Scuplture
The Tempest: Ireland. Memory. Identity.
Hughie O'Donoghue
Visual Arts
Free
Date
Time
Tues - Sun, 10am - 5pm
Fashion and Film Inspired by Women during the First World War
Fashion & Freedom
Special Events
Free
Date
Time
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
The Apocalypse is Viral
Dancing at the Disco at the End of The World
Replay Theatre Company
Theatre & Dance
World Premiere
Date
Time
Various
Interactive Sound Installation
Gardens Speak
Tania El Khoury
Special Events
Irish Premiere
Date
Time
2pm, 3pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm
Perilous gravity defying spectacle
Celui Qui Tombe (He Who Falls)
Yoann Bourgeois
Special Events
Irish Premiere
Date
7:30pm
A Tale of Beauty and Brutality
Soldier Still
Junk Ensemble, in association with the MAC
Theatre & Dance
Date
Austerity v Prosperity
Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay Won’t Pay! Ní Dhíolaimid!
Aisling Gheár
Theatre & Dance
Date
Time
8pm (Sunday 3pm)
A haunting hypnotic duet
TORDRE (WROUGHT)
Rachid Ouramdane
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere
Date
7:45pm
Poignant Paean To the Peatbogs of Scotland
Wind Resistance
Karine Polwart
Theatre & Dance
Irish Premiere
Date
7:45pm
does compassion have limits?
Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun
Schaubühne Berlin
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere
Date
7:45pm