Compagnie La Fidèle Idée, Nantes Venue: Clair Vivre, La Chapelle Neuve, Brittany Date: 3 June 2022 Evening is settling over the hills and meadows that separate the forests of Camors and Floranges from the meandering valley of the Blavet River in south Brittany. This is a world far removed from the neighbouring medieval towns of […]
Read More le bourgeois gentilhommeBelfast’s magnificent Grand Opera House provides a gorgeous setting for a spectacular new international touring production of Ebb, Kander and Fosse’s big, brassy musical Chicago. The contrast between venue and stage presentation could not be more striking. Frank Matcham’s famous Victorian pleasure dome has recently been given a complete renovation and its ornate gilded furnishings, […]
Read More CHICAGO‘Once there was a boy and the boy loved stars, very much. Every night the boy watched the stars from his window and wished he had one of his very own.’ So begins How to Catch a Star, Oliver Jeffers’ best-selling, multi-translated story of a small boy who sets out to catch a star and […]
Read More OUR PLACE IN SPACEUlysses: A European Odyssey begins in Athens on 19 September 2022 “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players”, declares Jacques in Shakespeare’s sylvan comedy As You Like It. In his still controversial masterpiece Ulysses, James Joyce chose to define his own world stage by the streets and entries and […]
Read More ulysses: AN ODYSSEY FOR EUROPEAfter a Covid-imposed absence of two years, the Belfast Children’s Festival is back and picking up on the important issue of young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Read More 2022 BELFAST CHILDREN’S FESTIVALIn finally confronting the ghosts of Franco’s disappeared, Pedro Almodóvar crafts a film of luminous beauty, which offers hope and resolution to the victims and survivors of war.
Read More PARALLEL MOTHERSBelfast’s Linen Hall Library, founded in 1788, celebrates its cultural and
historical links to the Enlightenment in an inspiring new festival.
An innovative self-guided audio walking tour meanders through Belfast’s
university quarter, viewing the world through the imagination of the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett
Green issues are the prevading themes of this impressive annual photography festival, but this year it’s all about white noise as the compass is set to Plein Nord – North Facing.
Read More FESTIVAL PHOTO LA GACILLY 2021How an encounter on a Paris street inspired a film about the experience of a child migrant.
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The Even Hand 