Joel Harkin – Artist in Residence
Various + Deer's Head, Sunday 12 May, 8.00pm
CQAF 2024 Early Bird Shows
Robert Finley
The Black Box
Thursday 2 May, 8.00pm
Tom Robinson: Up Close & Personal
The Deer’s Head
Thursday 2 May, 8.00pm
Hole: Live Through This – A Celebration
Oh Yeah Centre
Thursday 2 May, 8.00pm
Chicken
Ulster Sports Club
Thursday 2 May, 8.00pm
Clifton Street Cemetery Tour
Leaves Clifton House
Friday 3 May, 2.00pm & Saturday 4 May 10.00am
Sinéad Gleeson in Conversation
Ulster Sports Club
Friday 3 May, 7.00pm
Theatre of Hate
The Deer’s Head
Friday 3 May, 8.00pm
Mick Flannery
Festival Marquee
Friday 3 May, 8.00pm
Lau (Unplugged)
Rosemary St. Church
Friday 3 May, 8.00pm
The Breeze: ‘Thin Ground’ Album Launch
Ulster Sport Club
Friday 3 May, 8.00pm
Peter Case, Sid Griffin and Dan Stuart
The Oh Yeah Music Centre
Friday 3 May, 8.00pm
Snapped Ankles
The Black Box
Friday 3 May, 8.00pm
FITE FUAITE
Áras Mhic Reachtain
Aoine 3 Bealtaine | Friday 3 May, 8:30pm
May Day Fiesta
Community Arts Partnership
Saturday 4th May, 10am-6pm
Birdsong
The Avenue Cinema
Saturday 4 May, 2.00pm
Collaborator – A work in progress by Daniel Kitson
The Black Box
Saturday 4 May / Sunday 5 May, 2.00pm
Big Telly Theatre Company Presents
The Worst Cafe in the World
49-51 Royal Avenue, BT1 1FD
Saturday 4 May - Monday 6 May, 3.00pm - 5.00pm, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
PP Arnold with Special Guest Bronagh Gallagher
Festival Marquee
Saturday 4 May, 7.00pm
The Handsome Family
The Black Box
Saturday 4 May, 8.00pm
Cass McCombs and Steve Gunn
Ulster Sports Club
Saturday 4 May, 8.00pm
Lack of Afro (DJ Set)
The Deer’s Head
Saturday 4 May, 9.00pm
Black Belfast – Horror and True Crime Walking Tour
Belfast City Centre
Sunday 5th May & Sunday 12th May, 11:00am
The Dodge Brothers
Festival Marquee
Sunday 5 May, 2.00pm
‘Teeth’ Book Launch
The Black Box (Green Room)
Sunday 5th May, 3.00pm
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens – Screening and DJ set
The American Bar
Sunday 5 May, 7.00pm
Harvest
Festival Marquee
Sunday 5 May, 8.00pm
Conchúr White
Rosemary St. Church (Venue Change)
Sunday 5 May, 8.00pm
Mr Scruff
The Black Box
Sunday 5 May, 8.00pm - 12.30am
Justin Robertson
The Deer’s Head
Sunday 5 May. 8.00pm
In association with Open House Festival
Willy Mason
Ulster Sports Club
Sunday 5 May, 8.00pm
I’VE ALWAYS LIKED THE NAME MARCUS
Upstairs Theatre at the MAC
Wednesday 1 - Sunday 5 May, 8.00pm (2.30pm Matinee on Sunday 5 May)
CRASS: The Sound of Free Speech
The Deer’s Head
Monday 6 May, 8.00pm
Nadine Shah
Festival Marquee
Monday 6 May, 8.00pm
Jack Docherty: David Bowie & Me – Parallel Lives
The Black Box
Monday 6 May, 8.00pm
C Duncan
Ulster Sports Club
Monday 6 May, 8.00pm
Victoria Geelan presents
Chasing Amy: A Celebration of the Life and Songs of Amy Winehouse
The Black Box
Tuesday 7 May, 1.00pm & 8.00pm
Oisin Leech
The Deer's Head
Tuesday 7 May, 8.00pm
Muireann Bradley
Festival Marquee
Tuesday 7 May, 8.00pm
CAttS
Ulster Sports Club
Tuesday 7 May, 8.00pm
Young Frankenstein : Special Event Screening
St Patricks Church, Donegall St.
Tuesday 7 May, 9.00pm
Zoe Conway & John Mcintyre
The Black Box
Wednesday 8 May, 1.00pm
Ben Glover: Album Launch
The Black Box
Wednesday 8 May, 8.00pm
Contra
Circusful (23 Gordon St.)
Wednesday 8 May, 8.00pm (Duration 60 minutes)
Work is the curse of the drinking classes
The Deer’s Head
Wednesday 8 May, 8.00pm
Hollie McNish: The Lobster Tour with Michael Pedersen
Festival Marquee
Wednesday 8 May, 8.00pm
TVAM
Ulster Sports Club
Wednesday 8 May, 8.00pm
The Lawerence Street Workshops presents
‘Boldie’ Premiere screening
The Avenue Cinema
Thursday 9 May, 7.00pm
Annie Macmanus in Conversation – in partnership with Ulster Presents at Ulster University
Lecture Theatre 1, Block BC, Ulster University, Belfast Campus, York Street.
Thursday 9 May, 8.00pm
Muireann Bradley
The Black Box
Thursday 9 May, 8.00pm
Belonging
Circusful (23 Gordon St.)
Thursday 9 May, 8.00pm (Duration 50 mins)
Luke Haines Freaks Out! Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll
The Deer's Head
Thursday 9 May, 8.00pm
Jerry Sadowitz: Comedian, Magician, Psychopath!
Festival Marquee
Thursday 9 May, 8.00pm
Lemoncello
Ulster Sports Club
Thursday 9th May, 8.00pm
Hero of Belfast: The Mary Ann McCracken Walking Tour
Leaves Clifton House
Friday 10 May, 2.00pm & Saturday 11 May, 10.00am
Billy Connolly : Big Banana Feet
The Avenue Cinema, Belfast
Friday 10 May, 7.00pm - Sat 11 May. 2.00pm
Baxter Dury
Festival Marquee
Friday 10 May, 8.00pm
Kimmie Rhodes
The Black Box
Friday 10 May, 8.00pm
A.N.J.A
The Sunflower
Friday 10 May, 8.00pm
CQAF and Superfly Funk and Soul Belfast present
DJ Format
Ulster Sports Club
Friday 10 May, 10.30pm-3.00am
Sara Pascoe – Weirdo
The Black Box
Saturday 11 May. 2.00pm
CQAF and Belfast City Blues present
The Bonnevilles
The Deer’s Head
Saturday 11 May, 2.00pm
Jake Xerxes Fussell
Ulster Sports Club
Saturday 11 May, 7.30pm
Ibibio Sound Machine
Festival Marquee
Saturday 11 May, 8.00pm
Katherine Priddy
The Deer's Head
Saturday 11 May, 8.00pm
Moving On Music in association with CQAF Presents
Blue Whale (‘Last Immediate Images’ Album Launch)
The Black Box
Saturday 11 May, 8.30pm
Revolucion to Roxy, Phil Manzanera In Conversation
The Black Box
Sunday 12 May, 2.00pm
Janey Godley: On Screen & On-Stage
Festival Marquee
Sunday 12 May, 2.00pm
My Darling Clementine
The Deer’s Head
Sunday 12 May, 3.00pm
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story – In conversation with Daniel Rachel
The Black Box (Green Room)
Sunday 12 May, 7.00pm
Marian Keyes In Conversation with Tara Flynn
Festival Marquee
Sunday 12 May, 7.30pm
Scott Flanagan Plays Electric
The Black Box
Sunday 12 May, 8.00pm
Niall McCabe
The Sunflower Public House
Sunday 12 May, 8.00pm
Strange Victory in association with CQAF Presents
Jane Weaver
Ulster Sports Club
Sunday 12 May, 8.00pm
Golden Ticket 2024
Recommended for hardcore festival-goers only
Common Groundwork: BBeyond at CQAF
Various Locations
1-12 May
mother tongue
The MAC
26 April – 31 July 2024
Bua an Chultúir/Victory of Culture
2 Royal Avenue
2 – 31 May
Smoke
PS2 Property House 11 Rosemary Street Belfast BT1 1QA
2-18 May
Éabha Campbell
Catalyst Arts. 6 Joys Entry, Belfast BT1 4DR
2 - 12 May, 11pm- 4pm
‘Ukraine – Searching for the Normal’ Cathal McNaughton
Belfast Exposed, Gallery I
2 - 25 May
‘He’s not right in the head’
Vault Artist Studios, Marlborough House gallery/project space. 28-32 Victoria Street Belfast BT1 3GG
Opening Thursday 02/05 6-9pm. Open daily until Wednesday 08/05
Rolling Programme
Ania Magliano : ‘Forgive Me, Father’
The Black Box
Thursday 20 February 2025, 7.30pm
Kimmie Rhodes
The Black Box
Tuesday 29 April, 8.00pm
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