Ticket Deal 2022

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

Maylis De Kérangal, Shumona Sinha, Lauren Elkin And Russell Williams Vb

Down with the Poor! and Eastbound

Shumona Sinha and Maylis de Kerangal in conversation with Lauren Elkin and Russell Williams
Date
Now available to view on demand
Time
Premiered: Sun 16 Oct
Talks & Ideas
Free
Sambizanga (1972)

Sambizanga

Cinema Rediscovered
Date
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
6:15pm
Film
The Queen In Me

The Queen In Me

Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 Theatre Gargantua, Nightwood Theatre, Amplified Opera, Canadian Opera Company
Date
18 October - 19 October 2022
7:45pm
Music
Focus on Canada
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
European Premiere
Featured Artist

Cultural Leadership: Now and into the Future

A Conversation hosted by Belfast International Arts Festival in association with Theatre and Dance NI
Date
Thursday, 20 October 2022
6:00pm
Talks & Ideas
Featured Artist
Another Lover's Discourse by Riham Isaac. A glamourous woman poses as if she were a cabaret singer in a scene of a 1950's movie.
Middle East & North Africa Focus

Another Lover’s Discourse

Riham Isaac | ليه خلتني احبك
Date
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 October 2022
Time
7.00pm (22 Oct) / 3.00pm (23 Oct)
Theatre & Dance
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
World Premiere
Fragments

Fragments

Noé Soulier
Date
23 October - 6 November 2022
Time
Premiere: 7.20pm on 23 Oct | Available on demand thereafter
Film
Featured Artist
Free
Bind_image Credit Michael McEvoy

BIND

Quotidian – Word on the Street
Date
23 October - 6 November 2022
Time
Premiere: 7.00pm on 23 Oct | Available on demand thereafter
Film
Free
More Info BIND
Too Late
Navy Blue by Oona Doherty. A line of dancers appear, wearing navy blue clothes and bathed in blue light. Their facial expressions are serious and somewhat weary.

Navy Blue

Oona Doherty
Date
25 October - 26 October 2022
7:45pm
Theatre & Dance
PREMIERE PICK N MIX
Irish Premiere
Paul Carrack Photographer Nico Wills. Paul Carrack is wearing a grey shirt, sunglasses and a beige Cuban style straw hat

Paul Carrack

Date
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Time
7.30pm show | Doors 6.30pm
Music
Big Man
By Paul McVeigh

Big Man

A Lyric Theatre Production
Date
27 October - 13 November 2022
Time
Tues - Sat: 8.00pm | Sat - Sun: 3.00pm
Theatre & Dance
Conversations On Impermanence

Conversations on Impermanence

Centre Culturel Irlandais & No Alibis Press
Date
Available to view on demand
7:00pm
Talks & Ideas
IN-visible ID-entities 4
Free