Words & Ideas

New Voices – Annemarie Ní Churreáin with Wendy Erskine

The Green Room (Black Box)

Thursday 10 May, 7.30pm

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Stuart Bailie – Trouble Songs, Music and Conflict in NI

Oh Yeah Music Centre

Friday 11 May, 9.00pm

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Theatre

It’s Getting Harder and Harder for me – SOLD OUT

The MAC (Upstairs)

Thursday 3 & Friday 4 May, 8.00pm

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Mary Ann McCracken

First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary St.

Thursday 10 May, 7.30pm

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Quartered – A Belfast Love Story

Meet at The Dark Horse

Fri 11 May & Sat 12 May - Shows starting 4pm

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Women Troubles

The American Bar, Dock St.

Saturday 12 May 8.00pm & Sunday 13 May, 3.00pm & 8.00pm

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Helen Hall – Inside the Speaker – SOLD OUT

The MAC Upstairs

Sunday 13 May, 7.00pm & 8.30pm

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Comedy

Shazia Mirza – With Love from St. Tropez

The MAC (Upstairs)

Monday 7 May, 8.00pm

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Rob Newman’s Total Eclipse of Descartes – SOLD OUT

The Black Box

Tuesday 8 May, 8.00PM

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Ayesha Hazarika – State of the Nation – Politics, power and how we lost the plot

The MAC (Upstairs)

Friday 11 May, 8.00pm

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LUISA OMIELAN: Politics for Bitches (Preview) – SOLD OUT

The Black Box

Sunday May 13, 7.30PM

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Music

The London African Gospel Choir perform Graceland – SOLD OUT

Festival Marquee, Custom House Square

Thursday 3 May, 8.00pm

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Barrence Whitfield and The Savages + Sunglasses After Dark DJs

The Black Box

Thursday 3 May, 8.00PM

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Asian Dub Foundation ‘La Haine’ Live Soundtrack

The Black Box

Friday 4 May, 8.00PM

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The Go! Team + support The Correspondents

Festival Marquee, Custom House Square

Friday 4 May, 8.00pm

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The Blasters + support by The Sabrejets

Oh Yeah Music Centre

Sunday 6 May, 8.00PM

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Smoove & Turrell Sound System – SOLD OUT

The Belfast Barge, Lanyon Quay

Sunday 6 May, 7.00PM - Midnight

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!!! (Chk Chk Chk) + Support MMODE – SOLD OUT

The Black Box

Sunday 6 May, 8.00pm

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Camille O’Sullivan – The Carny Dream

Festival Marquee, Custom House Square

Monday 7 May, 8.00pm

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The Deep Dark Woods + support from Kacy and Clayton

The Black Box

Monday 7 May, 8.00pm

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Robyn Hitchcock + support Brona McVittie – SOLD OUT

McHugh's

Tuesday 8 May, 8.00PM

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An Evening with Molly Tuttle & Rachel Baiman – SOLD OUT

The Green Room (Black Box)

Tuesday 8 May, 8.00pm

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This is the Kit + support Joshua Burnside

First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street

Tuesday 8 May, 8.00PM

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Linley Hamilton: ‘Making Other Arrangements’ Album Launch – SOLD OUT

The Black Box

Wednesday 9 May, 8.00pm

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Beans on Toast – ‘Sitting on a Chair’ Tour

The Black Box

Thursday 10 May, 8.00PM

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Michael Chapman + support Joshua Burnside

The American Bar, Dock St.

Friday 11 May, 8.00pm

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The Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly + Pete Brady (Superfly DJ) – SOLD OUT

The Black Box

Friday 11 May, 8.00pm

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Ben Folds and a Piano – SOLD OUT

Festival Marquee, Custom House Square

Friday 11 May, 8.00pm

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The Barbiturates, Invaderband, Tuath & Will Carruthers (ex -Spacemen 3)

McHugh's

Friday 11 May, 8.00pm

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I’m With Her – SOLD OUT

First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary St.

Friday 11 May, 8.00pm

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‘La Donna Abbandonata’ – songs of sadness and madness

Ulster-Scots Centre, Victoria St.

Friday 11 & Saturday 12, 1.30pm

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Honor Heffernan – The Whistling Girl

The Belfast Barge, Lanyon Quay

Saturday 12 May, 8.00pm

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David Rodigan – 40th Anniversary Tour

Festival Marquee, Custom House Square

Saturday 12 May, 8.00pm

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Conor Caldwell Solo Album Launch – SOLD OUT

The Green Room (Black Box)

Sunday 13 May, 7:30pm

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Georgie Fame (Family Trio)

Festival Marquee, Custom House Square

Sunday 13 May, 8.00pm

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Sound & Vision

This Ship Argo : Live Film Soundtrack

Saint Joseph's Church, Sailortown 

Friday 6 May, 9.00pm

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Neil Young – Journey Through the Past – SOLD OUT

The Green Room (Black Box)

Sunday 6 May, 3.00pm

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Lost In Translation – SOLD OUT

Bullitt Hotel (The Good Room)

Thursday 10 May, 8.00pm

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Troubled: Films from the Archive

The Green Room (Black Box)

Sunday 13 May, 3.00pm

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Visual Arts

DAVID TURNER – MORE ORDINARY LEADERS: UNOFFICIAL PORTRAITS

The Black Box

Thursday 3 - Wednesday 30 May

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CATHEDRAL QUARTER ART TRAIL

VARIOUS

Thursday 3 – Wednesday 30 May

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Dave Sinclair Exhibition

Artcetera, Rosemary Street

Thursday 3 May – Friday 1 June

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TRANSACTIONS

VARIOUs

Thursday 3 May - Saturday 12 May

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Botany of Silence – Photography Exhibition – Samantha Brown

PLACE, 7-9 Lower Garfield Street

Thursday 5 April – Thursday 17 May

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Lisa and John

Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery 1 & 2

Friday 4 May – Saturday 16 June

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Special Events

Donegal Night – ‘Oíche Thír Chonaill’

Áras Mhic Reachtain (283-289 Antrim Road)

Satharn 5 Bealtaine | Saturday 5 May, 8.30pm

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Stewart Parker’s Northern Star – Rehearsed Reading

First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary St.

Wednesday 9 May, 6.00pm

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What Next for the Arts?

Community Arts Partnership, The ARC, 7 Donegall Street Place

Saturday 12 May, 2.00PM – 6.00pm

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Anúna Singing Workshop – SOLD OUT

Áras Mhic Reachtain (283-289 Antrim Road)

Saturday 12 May, 2.00pm - 5.00pm

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