audience

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

David Sontag Rieff
Historical Memory and its Ironies

In Praise of Forgetting

David Rieff
Date
Thursday, 26 October 2017
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free
John Hewitt Birthday Reading
The John Hewitt Society

John Hewitt Birthday Reading

Sasha Dugdale, Vona Groarke and Stephen Sexton
Date
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
8:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Bernie McGill
Murder and Mystery on Rathlin

The Watch House

Bernie McGill in Conversation with Jan Carson
Date
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
first world war women
Panel Discussion

Women at Work

Date
Saturday, 14 October 2017
4:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Performers
Post Interval Discussion After Celui Qui Tombe

Brexit Stage Right…

Date
Thursday, 19 October 2017
9:00pm
Special Events
Free
Battleship Potemkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein: The Language of Cinema

Battleship Potemkin

Date
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
6:20pm
Film
paul carrack
Soul Sensation

Paul Carrack

With Support from Triona
Date
Saturday, 21 October 2017
8:00pm
Music
Comic Current Affairs

Matt Forde

A Show Hastily Rewritten In Light Of Recent Events- Again!
Date
Sunday, 15 October 2017
7:45pm
Special Events
Doreen Curran
Northern Lights Mini-Fest

Doreen Curran

Belfast Music Society
Date
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
7:30pm
Classical
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