Cycle Circus – every pedal is a revolution!

Five of Ireland’s most talented circus performers are getting on their bikes to bring their world-famous circus divilment to you!

Cycle Circus is an accessible outdoor show for all the family. It’s all human, high energy and loads of craic, celebrating circus, the human body and the bicycle!

How would you explain it to a child: There is a circus coming to town on bikes. It’s going to be deadly.

Created by Ken Fanning, Tina Segner and the Tumble Circus ensemble, Cycle Circus is inspired by Flann O’Brien’s writing and biking adventures. A performance with acrobatics, juggling, hula hoops, slapstick, bottle walking, solo and group numbers—this show is all human and all skill!

‘This is a circus that should visit every town and village for its exuberance and its humanity’ –  IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE

Cycle Circus is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Doors 30 mins before show | Mostly Standing Outdoor Show

 

Covid protocol – Marquee

CQAF is committed to facilitating the return of live entertainment and the gradual reopening of events. However the safety of our audiences, artists, volunteers and staff remains paramount. 

As a condition of entry, ticket holders are being asked to demonstrate their Covid status on entry by providing ONE of the following; 

·Proof of full vaccination: both doses received (with the second at least 14 days prior to the event) 

 OR

 · Proof of a negative NHS Lateral Flow Test taken no more than 48 hours prior to your arrival at the event 

 OR 

· Proof of natural covid antibodies based upon a positive PCR test within 180 days of the event (including 10 days self-isolation following the result)

“The Devil is a gentleman” William Shakespeare

Northern Ireland Opera invites you to join us for an hour of devilish arias, duets, and songs in The Devil Made Me Do It.  

Our charmingly mysterious host ably assisted by some of Northern Irelands finest operatic and music theatre performers will take you on a ride through opera and music theatre’s most villainous and tempting stories but make sure you don’t follow him any further once the music stops!’

Featuring selections from Faust, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dido and Aeneas, The Rakes Progress, Alcina, The Turn of the Screw and much more.

 

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

“The Devil is a gentleman” William Shakespeare

Northern Ireland Opera invites you to join us for an hour of devilish arias, duets, and songs in The Devil Made Me Do It.  

Our charmingly mysterious host ably assisted by some of Northern Irelands finest operatic and music theatre performers will take you on a ride through opera and music theatre’s most villainous and tempting stories but make sure you don’t follow him any further once the music stops!’

Featuring selections from Faust, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dido and Aeneas, The Rakes Progress, Alcina, The Turn of the Screw and much more.

We were left with scars of shame when all we wanted to do was sparkle a little in the sunlight. 

But I am all cells and nerves and magic and energy and mine.

How can I own this body that you never let be fully mine?

Beginning in girlhood, everyone has had an opinion. They stole bits of me with each look, comment and touch.

This is the fight to reclaim ourselves; our energy, bodies, joy and power.

This is the howl of joy and anger that demands to be heard.

From the creative team behind ‘Jellyfish’ (Out to Lunch 2016) and ‘it’s getting harder and harder for me’ (CQAF 2018)

Supported by Jerwood New Work Fund grant from Jerwood Arts.

Doors 15 minutes before show | 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

Bruiser Theatre Company is proud to present the critically-acclaimed Mojo Mickybo by Belfast playwright, Owen McCafferty.

Mojo Mickybo shows the friendship between two boys growing up in Belfast – a friendship that at first is immune to the sectarian violence taking place around them, but which nonetheless is ultimately destroyed by it.

“Belfast. The summer of 1970. The heat’s meltin’ the tarmac on the street, the buses are burning bright and punters are drinking petrol outta milk bottles”.

Mojo and his mate Mickybo are two nine-year-old boys from opposing sides of the sectarian divide. They are ‘thick as two small thieves’, playing headers, being mouthy, building huts, spitting from cinema balconies and re-enacting their favourite movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

They are young cowboys in the making, with the violence of The Troubles only obliquely impacting on them – until finally their friendship is destroyed in a way that they only later come to understand.

This is pure, undiluted storytelling in Bruiser’s trademark dynamic physical style. Fast-paced, darkly funny and action-packed. Not to be missed!

‘A glorious, vivid play full of verbal swagger…creates vast emotional ripples…lethal’. THE GUARDIAN

Doors 7.30pm | 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