AOIBHA: Artist in Residence 2025
Various venues throughout the festival
BONDED with Joshua Burnside
Oh Yeah Music Centre
Thursday 1 May, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
John Shuttleworth: Raise the Oof!
The Black Box
Thursday 1 May, 8.00pm. Extra show Friday 2 May, 8.00pm
Camille O’Sullivan: All Souls
The Empire
Thursday 1 May, 8.00pm
Réalta
Rosemary St. Church
Thursday 1 May, 8.00pm
Meryl Streek
Ulster Sports Club
Thursday 1 May, 8.00pm
Longitude of Longing
Vault Gallery | Project Space. 28-32 Victoria St. BT1 3GG
Opens: Thurs 1st May, 6pm - 9pm
Mark McGreevy: Zona
Ulster University Art Gallery , Belfast Campus, Ground Floor, Block BC, 2-24 York Street, Belfast, BT151AP
01.05.25 – 29.05.25
Between the Lines: Capturing Liminality in Inclusive Young Masculinities – Brónagh Corr
Belfast Exposed Gallery
1 - 30 May | 11am to 5pm Tues - Sat.
John Shuttleworth: Raise the Oof!
The Black Box
Thursday 1 May, 8.00pm. Extra show Friday 2 May, 8.00pm
In association with Ulster Presents
I’m With Pulp, Are You? Mark Webber in Conversation
Ulster University Block BC (Belfast)
Friday 2 May, 7.00pm
Lisa Hannigan, Gemma Hayes & Paul Noonan + Special Guest Conchur White
Mandela Hall
Friday 2 May, 8.00pm
Katie Tupper
McHugh's Basement
Friday 2 May, 8.00pm
Steve Wynn + guests Our Man in the Field
The Deer’s Head
Friday 2 May, 8.00pm
Anika
Ulster Sports Club
Friday 2 May, 8.00pm
Yukee
The Black Box (Green Room)
Saturday 3 May, 11.00am
May Day 25: Sound Festival
Larkin’s Square (Donegal Street Place)
Saturday 3 May, 2.00pm – 8.00pm
Doc’n Roll Films presents “We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC”
The Avenue Cinema
Saturday 3 May, 2.00pm
Drunk Women Solving Crime
The Black Box
Saturday 3 May, 3.00pm. Extra Show Added, 1.00pm
Jerron Paxton
The Black Box
Saturday 3 May, 8.00pm
The Tibbs
Oh Yeah Centre
Saturday 3 May, 8.00pm
Presented by The Mac, CQAF and Moving on Music
Córas Trio- Live Audio Visual show
The Mac Upstairs
Saturday 3 May, 8.00pm
Strange Victory + CQAF Presents
Neil Brogan
McHughs Basement
Saturday 3 May, 8.00pm
Sister Ghost’s MTV Unplugged Party
Ulster Sports Club
Saturday 3 May. 8.00pm
Black Belfast: Cathedral Quarter – Horror and True Crime Walking Tour
Albert Memorial Clock
Sunday 4 May and Sunday 11 May, 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Historic Pubs of the Cathedral Quarter
Leaves Kellys Cellars
Sunday 4 and Sunday 11 May, 2.00pm
Hit the North 2025
Union St/Kent St
Sunday 4th May, 2.00pm – 6.00pm
John Higgs: Exterminate / Regenerate: The Story Of Doctor Who
The Deer’s Head
Sunday 4 May, 2.00pm
Presented by Seamus Heaney Centre and CQAF
Roisin Lanigan
Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast
Sunday 4 May, 6.00pm
Sh!t Theatre: Or What’s Left Of Us
The Black Box
Sunday 4 May, 8.00pm
CQAF and Belfast Underground present
A History of House feat Iain McCready, Dilly, Eamon Beagon + Marty McAllistair
The Deer’s Head
Sunday 4 May, 8.00pm - 2.00am
The 4 of Us: Belfast Launch of ‘Crescent Nights’
The Empire
Sunday 4 May, 8.00pm
Tinariwen: Summer Tour 2025
Mandela Hall
Sunday 4 May, 8.00pm
The Courettes
Ulster Sports Club
Sunday 4 May, 8.00pm
Farma G + Quinncidental/Belfast Groove Collective/Chunk Funk/ Miltant Vinylist/Farma’s 5 Word freestyle
The Oh Yeah Centre
Sunday 4 May, 8.00pm
Black Sunday: 8mm screening
The Black Box (Green Room)
Sunday 4 May, 8.30pm
Nelofer Pazira-Fisk: Truth to Power: The Legacy of Robert Fisk
The Black Box (Green Room)
Monday 5 May, 1.00pm
CQ Bazaar 2025
The Common Market
Monday 5 May, 12.00pm - 4.00pm
I Am Martin Parr
Queen's Film Theatre
Monday 5 May, 6.00pm
‘I Hear You’- Live Readings – Paul McVeigh
The Deer’s Head
Monday 5th May, 7.00pm
Josie Long: A Work in Progress About Giant Extinct Animals
The Black Box
Monday 5th May, 8.00pm
The Magic Numbers
The Empire
Monday 5 May, 8.00pm
Arooj Aftab
St Anne's Cathedral
Monday 5 May, 8.00pm
We Lose Sight of the Night: Aisling O’Beirn
The MAC, Belfast
17 Apr – 22 Jun 2025
Ebony and Ivory
The Avenue Cinema
Tuesday 6 May, 6.00pm
Luca Fogale + Special Guest AOIBHA
McHughs Basement
Tuesday 6 May, 8.00pm
Timber Timbre
The Black Box
Tuesday 6 May, 8.00pm
![SBT [Sarabeth Tucek] with special guest Ben de la Cour](https://cqaf.com/wp-content/uploads/Sarabeth-Tucek-th.jpg)
SBT [Sarabeth Tucek] with special guest Ben de la Cour
The Deer’s Head
Tuesday 6 May, 8.00pm
Michael Cera Palin
Ulster Sports Club
Tuesday 6 May, 8.00pm
In association with Festival of Fools
CHOP – Lords of Strut
The MAC
Wednesday 7 May, 7.00pm
VARC – Visual Audio Radical Circus
Circusful, 23 Gordon St, Belfast BT1 2LG
Wednesday 7th & Thursday 8th May, 8.00pm
Taylor Lally
The Crescent Arts Centre
Wednesday 7 May, 8.00pm
Gruff Rhys – American Interior Screening + Q&A
The Black Box
Wednesday 7 May, 8.00pm
Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble perform NESS
The Deer's Head
Wednesday 7 May, 8.00pm
VARC – Visual Audio Radical Circus
Circusful, 23 Gordon St, Belfast BT1 2LG
Wednesday 7th & Thursday 8th May, 8.00pm
Traditional Bread Baking Workshop
The Northern Whig
Thursday 8 May, 6.00pm and Friday 9 May, 1.00pm
Presented by Seamus Heaney Centre and CQAF
Caoilinn Hughes in Conversation
Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast
Thursday 8 May, 6.00pm
In association with Bán Poitín and Echlinville Distillery
Screening of Poitín with Bán Poitín Tasting & Talk
Oh Yeah Centre
Thursday 8 May, 7.30pm
Presented by the Mac and CQAF
Shame Show
The Mac Upstairs
Thursday 8 May, 7.45pm
Dressed For Space
Castle Court Rooftop
Thursday 8 – Friday 9 May, 8.00pm
Andy White: ‘The night is approaching though some would say it was morning’ – Album Launch
The Crescent Arts Centre
Thursday 8 May, 8.00pm
Niamh Bury
The Black Box
Thursday 8 May, 8.00pm
Mark Watson: Before It Overtakes Us
The Empire
Thursday 8 May, 8.00pm
Noah Gundersen
Ulster Sports Club
Thursday 8 May, 8.00pm
Samar Nezamabad
The Black Box (Green Room)
8 - 25 May
Traditional Bread Baking Workshop
The Northern Whig
Thursday 8 May, 6.00pm and Friday 9 May, 1.00pm
Dressed For Space
Castle Court Rooftop
Thursday 8 – Friday 9 May, 8.00pm
Presented in association with The Linenhall Library
Fortuna and Chips
The Linenhall Library
Friday 9 May, 1.00pm (ends 2.30pm) & 6.00pm (Extra show Added)
David Hull Promotions & CQAF proudly present
The Anthony Toner Songbook
St. George's Church
Friday 9 May, 7.30pm & Saturday 10 May 2.00pm
Personality Crisis Screening + Sabrejets remember Johansen/New York Dolls/Johnny Thunders
Ulster Sports Club
Friday 9 May, 7.30pm
UNKLE
Mandela Hall
Friday 9 May, 8.00pm
The Ennio Morricone Experience
Rosemary St. Church
Friday 9 May, 8.00pm
Moving on Music & CQAF present
Mohammad Syfkhan
The Black Box
Friday 9th May, 8.30pm
Andy Irvine
The Black Box
Saturday 10 May, 2.00pm
CQAF in association with Ulster Presents…
In Conversation with Tariq Ali: You Can’t Please All
Ulster University Block BC
Saturday 10th May, 2.00pm
Presented by Seamus Heaney Centre and CQAF
Theresa Lola – ‘Ceremony for the Nameless’
The Seamus Heaney Centre (Belfast)
Saturday 10 May, 2.00pm
Presented by CQAF and The MAC
Lisdoon Nirvana
The Mac Upstairs
Saturday 10 May, 7.45pm
Sreang Dhofheicthe: Tionscadal Taylor Swift/Invisible String: The Taylor Swift Project
Áras Mhic Reachtain
Dé Sathairn 10 Bealtaine | Saturday 10 May, 8:30pm
The Bluebells Acoustic Trio
The Black Box
Saturday 10 May, 8.00pm
CQAF and Right On Promotions present
The Spitfires
The Deer’s Head
Saturday 10 May, 8.00pm
Aoibha
The Harrison Hotel
Saturday 10 May, 8.00pm
Gabija Jocyte
Ps2, Property House. Belfast.
Saturday 10th May 2pm.Free.
Black Belfast: Cathedral Quarter – Horror and True Crime Walking Tour
Albert Memorial Clock
Sunday 4 May and Sunday 11 May, 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Historic Pubs of the Cathedral Quarter
Leaves Kellys Cellars
Sunday 4 and Sunday 11 May, 2.00pm
Bone Machine play the Music of Tom Waits
The Black Box
Sunday 11 May, 2.00pm
Owen O’Neill: Hold Yer Tongue
The Black Box (Green Room)
Sunday 11 May, 2.00pm
Rachel Sermanni
The Deer’s Head
Sunday 11 May, 2.00pm
Roll Bus Roll: A Jeffrey Lewis Documentary
The Sunflower
Sunday 11 May, 3.00pm
Strange Victory + CQAF Presents
Lael Neale
McHughs Basement
Sunday 11 May, 7.30pm
Bernard Butler
First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street
Sunday 11 May, 8.00pm
King Creosote
The Black Box
Sunday 11 May, 8.00pm
Rolling Programme
In association with Old Flat Top
Lindisfarne – Rescheduled
Mandela Hall
Sunday 1 June, 8.00pm
Superfly Funk and Soul Belfast
Beirut Groove Collective
Ulster Sports Club
Friday 20 June, 10.30 - 3.00pm
CQAF and Superfly Funk and Soul Belfast proudly present
Stone Foundation
The Oh Yeah Centre
Saturday 27 September, 7.30pm
BC Camplight – Full Band
Mandela Hall
Wednesday 19 November, 8.00pm
Keith James: The Songs of Nick Drake
The Black Box
Sunday 11 January, 8.00pm
Arts Across Belfast Bus Tour
Leaves Black Box
Sunday 18 January, 10.25am - 2.00pm
Cally Beaton: Namaste Motherf*ckers
The Black Box
Sunday 18 January, 2.00pm
Grant-Lee Phillips
The Deer’s Head
Tuesday 20 January, 8.00pm
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