SAMSON & GOLIATH

Irish singer songwriter Dani Larkin releases a new single off her first album, which celebrates Ulster, the warrior province.

LIVES REFLECTED

Belfast Cathedral launches an online Book of Remembrance for lives lost during the year 2020.

BELFAST INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2020

The 2020 Belfast International Arts Festival goes entirely online for the first time in its 58 year history.

FAITH HEALER

The Old Vic: In Camera Ah, the joy of live performance! Well, not exactly live, perhaps, but through a single camera focus the Old Vic’s In Camera series is effectively bringing culture-starved audiences as close to that much-missed experience as is humanly possible. As the Zoom technology ticks towards zero, one has a distinct sense of […]

FESTIVAL PHOTO LA GACILLY 2020

This major international festival has escaped the plague of Covid 19. Festival Photo La Gacilly is open-air, brimming with green energy, free to all and full of images that remain long in the memory and the conscience.

FONDATION MAEGHT

Fondation Marguerite and Aimé Maeght is one of the world’s great private collections of modern art, standing tall among the medieval hilltop towns and vineyards of Provence.

KEEPING IT REAL (PÉRIL SUR LA VILLE)

The residents of Marseille’s run-down Saint-Mauront neighbourhood are used to being called ‘scum’ but they eloquently tell their own story to one of their own – film maker Philippe Pujol.

SPLENDID ISOLATION: LOCKDOWN DRAMA

New times call for new ways of thinking, especially within the hard-pressed creative industries struggling to keep the thrill of live performance alive.

BLACK LIVES DO MATTER

Two guest writers – Belfast International Arts Festival director Richard Wakely and actress/university professor Josette Bushell-Mingo – reflect on the burning issue of today: Black Lives Matter.

THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT FOR FREELANCE ARTISTS

Suffering for your art is one thing but freelance artists on variable, unpredictable incomes are finding the current situation unbearably bleak.