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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
![Free Soul](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Free-Soul-480x270.png)
A Free Soul
![Red Head Woman](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Red-Head-Woman-480x270.png)
Red-Headed Woman
![Matt Andersen](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Matt-Andersen-480x270.png)
Matt Andersen
![Larkin 100](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Larkin-100-480x270.png)
Larkin in Belfast: The Importance of Elsewhere
![Quirky Belfast Walking Tour](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Quirky-Belfast-Walking-Tour-480x270.png)
Quirky Belfast – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![A Distant Place](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/BIAF22-Website-Images-16-480x270.jpg)
A Distant Place
![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
![Melts](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Melts-480x270.png)
MELTS
![East Palace, West Palace](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/BIAF22-Website-Images-17-480x270.jpg)
East Palace, West Palace
![Fighting](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Fighting--480x270.png)
Fighting and The Resilience of the Body
![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
![Biaf22 Website Images (10)](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/BIAF22-Website-Images-10-480x270.png)
NGXX
!['Saddle Quern with Rubbing Stone, Photographer RJ Welch, Date Unknown (Approx 1920). Glass Plate Negative from the collection of NMNI. Installation view at Whitla Hall, Queen's University Belfast (2022).](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/tomake-480x270.jpg)
To Make a Monument
![Biaf22 Website Images (7)](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/BIAF22-Website-Images-7-480x270.jpg)
IMLÉ le Róisín Seoighe agus Ríona S Hartman
![The Ghost House. A cartoon illustration featuring a magical door leading in to a spooky house. In the foreground, the central character Lady Helena, beckons us to join](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/The-Ghost-House-480x270.png)
The Ghost House
![141st Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/141st-Royal-Ulster-Academy-Annual-Exhibition-480x270.png)
141st Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition
![Frankenstein](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Frankenstein-480x270.png)
Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep Have All Jumped The Fences
![The Scorched Earth Trilogy](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/The-Scorched-Earth-Trilogy-480x270.png)
The Scorched Earth Trilogy
![A Night Of Musical Journeys](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/A-Night-of-Musical-Journeys-480x270.png)
A Night of Musical Journeys
![Biaf22 Website Images (25)](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/BIAF22-Website-Images-25-1-480x270.jpg)
The Second Copy: 2045
![Ron's World](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Rons-World-480x270.png)
Ron’s World
![Drs Diseases Walking Tour](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/Drs-Diseases-Walking-Tour-480x270.png)
Doctors & Diseases Tour – Cultural Walking Tours of Belfast
![Biaf22 Website Images (25)](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/BIAF22-Website-Images-25-480x270.jpg)
Ma’kan & Kabissa
![Gauz And David Foenkinos](https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/assets/uploads/GauZ-and-David-Foenkinos-1-480x270.png)