LA GACILLY 2022

This year’s international photo festival turns its gaze towards the east and the new realities threatening men, women, children – and the environment.

le bourgeois gentilhomme

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 […]

CHICAGO

Belfast’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, […]

OUR PLACE IN SPACE

‘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 […]

ulysses: AN ODYSSEY FOR EUROPE

In 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

2022 BELFAST CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL

After 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.

PARALLEL MOTHERS

In 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.

ENLIGHTENMENT FESTIVAL – linen hall library

Belfast’s Linen Hall Library, founded in 1788, celebrates its cultural and
historical links to the Enlightenment in an inspiring new festival.

WALKING WITH BECKETT

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

FESTIVAL PHOTO LA GACILLY 2021

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.