Galicia in northern Spain is the featured Celtic nation in this year’s Festival Interceltique de Lorient. The Breton naval town is awash with fabulous sights and sounds as 800,000 Celtis converge.

The town of Amboise on the banks of the River Loire, is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci, the great artist, engineer, inventor and designer.

The premiere of A Queer Ceili at the Marty Forsythe brought together old comrades and activists. Now it returns during Belfast Pride 2019.

With Brexit looming and the significance of the border in Ireland coming into sharp focus, this trio of festivals rings out with cultural and political resonance.

Thunderous, subversive and utterly relevant, Kneehigh produces an anthem for the strange times in which we are living.

Russia and its surrounding countries feature in All Eyes East, the theme of this year’s La Gacilly Photo Festival, where threats to our planet are never far from the photographers’ lens.

In two short years, the Belfast Ensemble, under its artistic director Conor Mitchell, has produced a catalogue of small theatrical miracles. Some of them are revisited at Bash.

Many Northern Ireland women take the ferries to Fishguard and Pembroke Dock every year in search of a harrowing medical procedure. Aoife is one of them.

This epic-scale production of Ibsen’s angry play sounds a clarion call for the dangers besetting our own troubled world.

Cathy Marston’s crisply choreographed new piece for Northern Ballet is visually gorgeous but narratively challenging.