'Well, Belfast’s very first Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival is drawing to a close, and its been a packed week at the heart of the city.....Three cheers for the organisers, who brought some small but spunky little shows into Belfast. Roll on festival number two.’
Grania McFadden, The Belfast Telegraph

'By taking a fresh approach to Festival programming organisers will be running the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival on a budget of less than £100,000 which represents astounding value in today’s arts world.’
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'More highlights than you can shake a stick at............congratulations to all at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival for an excellent debut programme’
Robin Greer, Newsletter

'Belfast’s newest, (and most interesting by my reckoning) arts festival kicks of for the week starting May Day bank holiday'
Editorial, The List

'Rivals smore established Festivals on this island’s arts calendar'
Roisin Ingle, The Irish Times

'.....a new arts festival which has a ‘youthful’ feel about it, and which accordingly bares its teeth’
Editorial, Artslink,

There’s a strong film content to the forthcoming Cathedral Quarter Arts festival, which, by the way, promises to be one of the best ever seen in the city’
Colin McAlpin, Belfast Telegraph

'This isn’t the Belfast Festival at Queen’s, it’s the Belfast festival at Belfast. Could you not have spread it out a bit more? - I want to go to everything’
Customer in Box Office