THE LAUGHING BOY
A remarkable film about the power of a song – written by an Irish poet, translated and set to new music in the 1960s – to become an anthem for the struggle for democracy in Greece.
Read More THE LAUGHING BOYA remarkable film about the power of a song – written by an Irish poet, translated and set to new music in the 1960s – to become an anthem for the struggle for democracy in Greece.
Read More THE LAUGHING BOYThe 70th anniversary of the Bagad du Lann-Bihoué is celebrated with an extraordinary concert at the 2022 Festival Interceltique de Lorient
Read More ODYSSÉEThis year’s international photo festival turns its gaze towards the east and the new realities threatening men, women, children – and the environment.
Read More LA GACILLY 2022Compagnie 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 SPACEIn this, the centenary year of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, a major cultural project tracks a parallel epic journey across Europe, from Athens to Derry
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.