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2022 Festival
Belfast International Arts Festival returned for our 60th edition from 5 October to 6 November with an extensive programme featuring over 320 imaginative, inspiring and intriguing events spanning across the artistic disciplines of music, theatre, dance, film, visual arts and discussion hosted throughout the city of Belfast for all to engage with and enjoy.
The autumn programme followed an earlier-than-usual festival opening in April 2022, when BIAF celebrated the beginning of its anniversary year with a major free event; the spectacular outdoor production Cristal Palace by French company Transe Express, featuring a local community cast.
The festival’s autumn season opened with the UK premiere of Dinner With Groucho, a new play by renowned Irish writer Frank McGuinness, and a special focus on Canada and the Middle East and North Africa, supported by BIAF’s leading international partner, the British Council of Northern Ireland.
Check out the Festival Programme 2022
This year’s programme was made possible thanks to our principal funder, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and to Belfast City Council, British Council, the Government of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Tourism NI and a range of project funders and sponsors, including Belfast Harbour and the Halifax Foundation. Find out more
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BIAF 2022 Trailer
The Official Launch
What you missed
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Simon Armitage
![Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and Audrey Smyth](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Untitled-design-2-480x270.png)
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and Amanda Smyth
![Emilie Pine And Audrey Magee](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Emilie-Pine-and-Audrey-Magee-480x270.png)
Emilie Pine and Audrey Magee
![Acts Of Commission](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Acts-of-Commission-480x270.png)
Acts of Commission
![Poetry Jukebox 2](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Poetry-Jukebox-2-1-480x270.png)
5 rue des Irlandais
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AMBIGUITIES
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Blue Plaque People – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Titanic Quarter](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/BIAF22-Website-Images-4-480x270.png)
Titanic Trail – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Quirky Belfast Walking Tour](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Quirky-Belfast-Walking-Tour-480x270.png)
Quirky Belfast – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Larkin 100](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Larkin-100-480x270.png)
Larkin in Belfast: The Importance of Elsewhere
![Beacon Of Hope, Belfast. Metal sculpture of female figure holding aloft a circle. Courtesy of Tourism NI](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Beacon-of-Hope-Belfast_Web-Size-480x270.jpg)
Statues, Sculptures and Architecture – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Cathedral Quarter St Annes Cathedral](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Cathedral-Quarter-St-Annes-Cathedral-480x270.jpg)
Cathedral Quarter Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Gauz And David Foenkinos](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/GauZ-and-David-Foenkinos-1-480x270.png)
GauZ’ and David Foenkinos
![Drs Diseases Walking Tour](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Drs-Diseases-Walking-Tour-480x270.png)
Doctors & Diseases Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Maylis De Kérangal, Shumona Sinha, Lauren Elkin And Russell Williams Vb](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Maylis-de-Kerangal-Shumona-Sinha-Lauren-Elkin-and-Russell-Williams_VB-480x270.png)
Down with the Poor! and Eastbound
![Tish Delaney And Donal Ryan](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Tish-Delaney-and-Donal-Ryan-480x270.png)
Tish Delaney and Donal Ryan
![Music Walking Tour](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Music-Walking-Tour-480x270.png)
Cathedral Quarter Music Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Jewish Walking Tour](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Jewish-Walking-Tour-480x270.png)
Belfast Jewish Story – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Featured Artist](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Featured-Artist-480x270.jpg)
Cultural Leadership: Now and into the Future
![Linen Quarter Tour](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Linen-Quarter-Tour-480x270.png)
Linen Quarter Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Conversations On Impermanence](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Conversations-on-Impermanence-480x270.png)
Conversations on Impermanence
![Benjamin Wood And Ross Raisin](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Benjamin-Wood-and-Ross-Raisin-480x270.png)
Benjamin Wood and Ross Raisin
![Jonathan Coe is a middle aged white man, with grey hair and a short grey beard. He wears a black shirt.](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Jonathan-Coe-480x270.png)
Jonathan Coe
![All The Screen's A Stage Vb](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/All-The-Screens-a-Stage_VB-480x270.png)