Category: CQAF2021 Visual

On Sunday 5 September, we’ve partnered with Seedhead Arts (supported by Hennessy) to bring the Hit the North Street Art Festival back for its 9^th edition.

Hit the North brings some of the world’s finest artists to Belfast for a socially distanced gathering on Union Street and Kent Street.

Formed in 2013, Hit the North has transformed the visual landscape across the city centre and Cathedral Quarter with over 300 murals painted to date.

This year’s event will feature 50 local, national and international artists with an array of styles and techniques on show as onlookers watch the artwork develop throughout the day and with refreshments available from nearby Sunflower Bar.

Featured artists will include Fanakapan, Aches, Lucas Antics, Nerone, Friz, Decoy, Wee Nuts, JMK, FGB, Glen Molloy, Danni Simpson and Connor McClure.

Since moving back to Belfast from Germany in 1998 Declan Hill has assembled an eclectic mixture of Art.

Some bought, some given, some won and some found includes Helen Sharp, Zoe Murdoch, Gemma Anderson, Ursula Burke, Lisa Malone, Lenka Davidikova, Gary Shaw, Dan Shipsides, Oliver Jeffers, Paddy Bloomer and Nicky Keogh.

The Exhibition with over forty pieces represents a high point in Northern Irish Art when in 2005 Northern Ireland first exhibited in the Venice Biennale.

The Exhibition also includes three architectural models and a video piece by Declan Hill.

9.00am – 5.00pm Monday – Saturday

Exhibition Launch 6.00pm, Thursday 2 September.

This is a free un-ticketed event, walk ins welcome

Covid protocol 

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:

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events.

·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.

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

Emma Brennan (She/Her) is an award winning performance artist originally from Dublin where she graduated with a B.A(Hons) in Fine Art Media from NCAD in 2016.

Now based In Belfast, Brennan is a former Co-Director and Chairperson of Catalyst Arts Gallery and is a current studio member of Flax Art Studios, Belfast.

 She has recently been chosen as one of the BBeyond performance collective’s new commissioned artists of 2021 to present a new work as part of the Cathedral Arts Festival, Belfast.

 At the core of her practice is the persistent draw of the material of dough. Her work is currently occupied with the cyclical processes of breathing/living things, formed upon the four pillars of; gestation, birth, life and death. https://www.emmabrennanartist.com/

This is a free un-ticketed event, walk ins welcome.

Covid protocol 

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:

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events.

·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.

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

 

Hattie Godfrey’s work questions how, both individually and collectively, we conceptualize and engage with illness. She is particularly interested in the role of institutions in causing, caring for and curing physical and psychological conditions.

‘Both the body and the institution are at their most unruly and unstable after sundown. The cover of night creates a hunting ground filled with stale, heavy-hanging time.’

Each act of her most recent work, Put Into Flight begins at sundown and eases at sunrise. The work casts illness as a form of supervisory staff, a single authority that oversees work, play and sleep.

Consisting of three acts over three consecutive nights, this 36-hour performance offers a window into the artist’s fluctuating relationship with illness. We see as she denies its existence, surrenders to its power and attempts to escape its confinement. Chase, Capture,  Escape.

This is a free un-ticketed event, walk ins welcome.

 

Covid protocol 

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:

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events.

·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.

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

Fergus Byrne, in ‘Coming out for air’ will make a performance incorporating psycho-geography and bodily-centered elements of explorations, within Cathedral Quarter. 

‘Coming out for air’ is an open invitation to look for the poetic and alternative ways of looking at our way of inhabiting the city.

Psychogeography is a term that has stemmed from a time when artists were seen as Flaneurs (wanderers mainly in Paris), for their attempts to ‘re-conquest’ the public space in early capitalistic societies via the subversion of its purpose-based movements.

Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord and has its historical roots in post WWII France. Guy Debord described it as

“the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.”

This is a free un-ticketed event, walk ins welcome.

Covid protocol 

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:

·Please wear a mask while queuing for indoor events.

·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.

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