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
Belfast Open Studios | Marcus Patton Artist Talk and Sketching
Visual Arts
In Praise of Forgetting
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free
Belfast Open Studios | The Art of Tea
7pm - 9pm
Visual Arts
Free
John Hewitt Birthday Reading
8:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Jane Harris and Sally Rooney
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
‘Art’ in New York an Irishman’s Sketch Diary
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free
The Watch House
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Women at Work
4:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Belfast Open Studios | LOMBARD STUDIOS
Visual Arts
Free
My Father’s Wake: How The Irish Teach Us To Live, Love & Die
1:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Belfast Open Studios | FLAX
2pm - 4pm
Visual Arts
Free
Joe Boyle’s Adventures in the Russian Revolution
1:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free
Belfast Open Studios | Embrace Studios Launch Event
5.30pm - 9pm
Visual Arts
Free
Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Brexit Stage Right…
9:00pm
Special Events
Free
Battleship Potemkin
6:20pm
Film
Paul Carrack
8:00pm
Music
Donny McCaslin Group
8:00pm
Music
NI Premiere
Matt Forde
7:45pm
Special Events
Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere
Doreen Curran
7:30pm
Classical
3 for 2
Seamus Heaney: Words and Music
7:30pm
Classical
Stravinsky’s Firebird
7:45pm
Classical
Elizabeth Cooney (violin) Ruth McGinley (piano)
3:00pm
Classical
3 for 2