Category: CQAF2021 Talks/Tours

The Belfast Whiskey Experience leaves from Friend at Hand Whiskey Shop, 35-43 Hill St.

Belfast was once the home of Whiskey, producing at one stage 3 million gallons a year, 60% of the Irish market. Its heritage and home as being one of the world’s most important whiskey cities has returned once again.

Belfast Whiskey Experience is an adventure into finding out the secret history of the city’s most lucrative industry. Hear the stories behind legendary brands such as Dunville’s, Cowan’s, McConnells and Jury whiskey. We work with local historians and tradespeople to give our guests the ultimate experience.

This bespoke tour will include a stop at Irelands only 100% Irish whiskey shop, tastings of reborn Belfast whiskeys and finish with a Belfast Boilermaker (Guinness and whiskey chaser) or a classic Irish Coffee.

The walking tour element of the experience uses wireless MIC system to ensure extra safety for our guests.

Meet 15 minutes before start  |  Walking Tour

In late 2018 Hozier released a single entitled Nina Cried Power. It is a protest song – a song that honours the freedom fighters of the past and the activists of today.

The fourth verse of the song begins with the line ‘”it’s not the wall, but what’s behind it”. That lyric was written with direct reference to the importance street art has played in shaping contemporary Ireland.

This lecture will investigate the work of Joe Caslin, as well as a number of other Irish street artists, as we consider the role their art has played in shaping our society both North and South.

Doors 1.30pm | Unreserved Seating

 

Covid protocol – CQAF small venues*

CQAF is committed to facilitating the return of live entertainment and the gradual reopening of events. We are making every effort to provide a safe environment for our audiences, artists, volunteers and staff.

Current conditions of entry are:

·Temperature check on arrival at the venue.

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events and if you have to leave your seat to move around the venue. No masks necessary when seated.

·Visitors to the venues will be allocated seats as per their booking. (Please email us if there’s someone you’d like to sit with.

·1m physical distancing in line with government guideline.

·Please do not come to the event if you’re displaying any of the symptoms of Covid 19. Email us at info@cqaf.com and we’ll happily refund your tickets.

We hope you enjoy the festival. We will review these conditions of entry if COVID-19 guidelines are updated prior to the event.

* This applies to The Black Box, Oh Yeah Music Centre, The Sunflower, Deer’s Head Music Hall, The American Bar, Ulster Sports Club, 1st Presbyterian Church, The Dark Horse

There are so many questions you can ask yourself when you walk into an abandoned property.

How long has it been abandoned? Who lived here? Why did they leave? What was their life like? Often, these questions cannot be answered, but when they can, it breathes new life into the property and almost feels like going back in time.

Explore the past of Northern Ireland’s abandoned buildings in this fascinating lecture with Abandoned NI.

Doors 5.30pm | Unreserved Seating

 

Covid protocol – CQAF small venues*

CQAF is committed to facilitating the return of live entertainment and the gradual reopening of events. We are making every effort to provide a safe environment for our audiences, artists, volunteers and staff.

Current conditions of entry are:

·Temperature check on arrival at the venue.

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events and if you have to leave your seat to move around the venue. No masks necessary when seated.

·Visitors to the venues will be allocated seats as per their booking. (Please email us if there’s someone you’d like to sit with.

·1m physical distancing in line with government guideline.

·Please do not come to the event if you’re displaying any of the symptoms of Covid 19. Email us at info@cqaf.com and we’ll happily refund your tickets.

We hope you enjoy the festival. We will review these conditions of entry if COVID-19 guidelines are updated prior to the event.

* This applies to The Black Box, Oh Yeah Music Centre, The Sunflower, Deer’s Head Music Hall, The American Bar, Ulster Sports Club, 1st Presbyterian Church, The Dark Horse

This lecture starts at the beginning of the 1700’s when the penal laws are being enacted to the detriment of Presbyterians and Catholics in Ireland, they both greatly suffered.

Up to 1740’s many left Ireland for the USA (mainly Presbyterian) to be free of ‘English Tyranny’. The Ascendency had copper-fastened their iron grip on Ireland at the expense of her poor and dispossessed.

Things were about to change – the Ulster Presbyterians had had enough, they joined intellectual forces with others of the Enlightenment age of the time. Readings of Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Man became common and Belfast was called the ‘Athens of the North’

Great change was coming and it was being led by the United Irishmen who would carve out Belfast as the radical thinking city of Ireland and these islands. Modernity was being born and Ulster men and women would be its vanguard!

Join Sean Napier in this Faculty lecture which explores the years leading up to 1798 and their lasting legacy.

Doors 7.00pm | Unreserved Seating

 

Covid protocol – CQAF small venues*

CQAF is committed to facilitating the return of live entertainment and the gradual reopening of events. We are making every effort to provide a safe environment for our audiences, artists, volunteers and staff.

Current conditions of entry are:

·Temperature check on arrival at the venue.

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events and if you have to leave your seat to move around the venue. No masks necessary when seated.

·Visitors to the venues will be allocated seats as per their booking. (Please email us if there’s someone you’d like to sit with.

·1m physical distancing in line with government guideline.

·Please do not come to the event if you’re displaying any of the symptoms of Covid 19. Email us at info@cqaf.com and we’ll happily refund your tickets.

We hope you enjoy the festival. We will review these conditions of entry if COVID-19 guidelines are updated prior to the event.

* This applies to The Black Box, Oh Yeah Music Centre, The Sunflower, Deer’s Head Music Hall, The American Bar, Ulster Sports Club, 1st Presbyterian Church, The Dark Horse

Come learn how Young Buck cheese is made and taste it as it evolves.

November 26th, 2013 was the date that Mike Thomson made his first Young Buck cheese, in a room in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Newtownards, in County Down.

Young Buck is iconoclastic, for it is a raw milk blue cheese. No one in Northern Ireland had ever done this before, which is what makes the date of the start of production of the first cheese so significant.

Mike, founder of Mike’s Fancy Cheese, will talk us through the process from the milk at the farm, to production in Ards, how cheese ripens and the factors that affect it.

For those tasting, there will be samples of Young Buck at 1 month, 2 months and then 4 months when fully ripened and ready to eat.

Doors 5.30pm | Unreserved Seating

 

Covid protocol – CQAF small venues*

CQAF is committed to facilitating the return of live entertainment and the gradual reopening of events. We are making every effort to provide a safe environment for our audiences, artists, volunteers and staff.

Current conditions of entry are:

·Temperature check on arrival at the venue.

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events and if you have to leave your seat to move around the venue. No masks necessary when seated.

·Visitors to the venues will be allocated seats as per their booking. (Please email us if there’s someone you’d like to sit with.

·1m physical distancing in line with government guideline.

·Please do not come to the event if you’re displaying any of the symptoms of Covid 19. Email us at info@cqaf.com and we’ll happily refund your tickets.

We hope you enjoy the festival. We will review these conditions of entry if COVID-19 guidelines are updated prior to the event.

* This applies to The Black Box, Oh Yeah Music Centre, The Sunflower, Deer’s Head Music Hall, The American Bar, Ulster Sports Club, 1st Presbyterian Church, The Dark Horse