
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
Belfast Print Workshop
Visual Arts

Historical Memory and its Ironies
In Praise of Forgetting
David Rieff
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free

Belfast Open Studios | The Art of Tea
7pm - 9pm
Visual Arts
Free

The John Hewitt Society
John Hewitt Birthday Reading
Sasha Dugdale, Vona Groarke and Stephen Sexton
8:00pm
Talks & Ideas

Novelists in Conversation
Jane Harris and Sally Rooney
In Conversation with John Self
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas

Irishman in New York
‘Art’ in New York an Irishman’s Sketch Diary
Dr. Art Hughes
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free

Murder and Mystery on Rathlin
The Watch House
Bernie McGill in Conversation with Jan Carson
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas

Panel Discussion
Women at Work
4:00pm
Talks & Ideas

Belfast Open Studios | LOMBARD STUDIOS
Semblance and Resemblance Portraits
Visual Arts
Free

Celebrating the Spiritual Depth of the Irish
My Father’s Wake: How The Irish Teach Us To Live, Love & Die
Kevin Toolis
1:00pm
Talks & Ideas

Belfast Open Studios | FLAX
2pm - 4pm
Visual Arts
Free

Russian Revolution Centenary
Joe Boyle’s Adventures in the Russian Revolution
Professor Geoffrey Swain, University of Glasgow
1:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Free

Belfast Open Studios | Embrace Studios Launch Event
5.30pm - 9pm
Visual Arts
Free

What is a Terrorist?
Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love
Fergal Keane
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas

Post Interval Discussion After Celui Qui Tombe
Brexit Stage Right…
9:00pm
Special Events
Free

Sergei M. Eisenstein: The Language of Cinema
Battleship Potemkin
6:20pm
Film

Soul Sensation
Paul Carrack
With Support from Triona
8:00pm
Music

David Bowie's Last Band
Donny McCaslin Group
8:00pm
Music
NI Premiere

Comic Current Affairs
Matt Forde
A Show Hastily Rewritten In Light Of Recent Events- Again!
7:45pm
Special Events

does compassion have limits?
Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun
Schaubühne Berlin
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
UK & Ireland Premiere

Northern Lights Mini-Fest
Doreen Curran
Belfast Music Society
7:30pm
Classical
3 for 2

An Evening of Words & Music
Seamus Heaney: Words and Music
Members of the Ulster Orchestra
7:30pm
Classical

Fiery Festival Friday
Stravinsky’s Firebird
Ulster Orchestra
7:45pm
Classical

Northern Lights Mini-Fest
Elizabeth Cooney (violin) Ruth McGinley (piano)
Belfast Music Society
3:00pm
Classical
3 for 2