Culture Belfast

Culture Belfast A space to tell, celebrate and dream up the stories of our creative city. linktr.ee/culturebelfast



House rules apply – please read at belfastcity.gov.uk/socialmedia before posting to our page.

Submissions are now open for Culture Night Belfast 2026, with two key deadlines coming up!Anyone applying for financial ...
17/06/2026

Submissions are now open for Culture Night Belfast 2026, with two key deadlines coming up!

Anyone applying for financial support must submit by midnight this Friday, 19th June. The deadline for all other events is midnight Friday, 26th June ⏰

Taking place on Friday, 18th September, this year’s Culture Night will be an artist-led, venue-based celebration of Belfast’s creative life, inviting ideas from across the city’s artists, venues, communities and cultural organisations.

Whether you’re planning something live, visual, participatory or completely unexpected, now’s the time to put it forward.

Submit here:

www.maywe.co.uk/culturenightbelfast

Two more brilliant Teenage Kicks events land in Belfast this week.Belfast City Council’s micro-grant programme supportin...
16/06/2026

Two more brilliant Teenage Kicks events land in Belfast this week.

Belfast City Council’s micro-grant programme supporting high-quality live music experiences for under-18s continues tomorrow, Thursday 18th June, as Sugru presents Zoë Conway and John McIntyre at The Commons.

Then on Saturday 20th June, Chordblossom’s Summer Assembly takes over Crescent Arts Centre, featuring Becky McNeice, Cora Harkin, Madams Last Discovery, Pennys Band, Polar Bolero and more.

Created to open up more opportunities for younger audiences to experience live music in welcoming, accessible settings, Teenage Kicks is supporting venues, promoters and programmers to bring ambitious, affordable events to the city’s next generation of music fans.

With brilliant artists and a wide range of sounds across the week, this is a great chance to see what the initiative is all about.

Find out more and book tickets:

https://www.chordblossom.com/news/chordblossom-present-the-summer-assembly

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zoe-conway-john-mcintyre-at-the-commons-tickets-1989345425720

Know a young film fan? Pass this brilliant opportunity on!Cinemagic is recruiting Young Consultants for its 2026 summer ...
15/06/2026

Know a young film fan? Pass this brilliant opportunity on!

Cinemagic is recruiting Young Consultants for its 2026 summer programme, giving 8-17 year olds the chance to watch brand new international short films before anyone else and help shape the official lineup for the Cinemagic Festival this October.

Taking place across two action-packed days at the Ulster Museum in Belfast this July, participants will work alongside the Cinemagic team on festival planning and film selection - grouped by age across 8-11, 12-14 and 15-17 brackets. Hands-on workshops in film reviewing, digital animation and SFX make-up are also part of the mix, all led by industry professionals.

Registration is now open. Full details and tickets are here:

https://cinemagic.org.uk/young-consultants-2026-summer-scheme-now-open-for-registration/

26m

One of Ireland’s most compelling public artists has taken over one of Belfast city centre’s most striking buildings - an...
15/06/2026

One of Ireland’s most compelling public artists has taken over one of Belfast city centre’s most striking buildings - and the result is unmissable.

Joe Caslin’s Outpouring fills Riddel’s Warehouse from floor to four-storey ceiling with a large-scale immersive installation co-created with over 120 young people from across Belfast. Over six months, participants were asked a simple question - “Tell us what we need to hear” - and what emerged is honest, hopeful and at times genuinely confronting.

Identity, belonging, worry, togetherness, hope: the themes that run through the work feel both particular to young people in NI today and completely universal. An augmented reality app lets visitors go deeper into the stories behind the work, while archive film from communities across Belfast runs throughout, adding another layer to an already rich experience.

Free to visit Thursday to Sunday, 11am-4pm, until 5th July. Late Night Art openings continue on 2nd July, 5-10pm.

Get tickets here: https://nervecentre.org/whats-on/outpouring

One of Belfast’s best-loved festivals, EastSide Arts, is back - and 2026 might just be its finest hour yet ✨Running 24th...
12/06/2026

One of Belfast’s best-loved festivals, EastSide Arts, is back - and 2026 might just be its finest hour yet ✨

Running 24th July to 2nd August, East Belfast comes alive across 10 days and 100+ events spanning music, performing arts, comedy, film, visual art and a wonderfully diverse range of talks, tours and experiences - all rooted in the venues and streets that make this part of the city what it is.

Music highlights include SOAK, Gareth Dunlop, the legendary Eric Bell Trio and Scott’s Jazz Club. On the performing arts side, Scamp Theatre brings Shadowlands - drawn from the life of east Belfast’s own C.S. Lewis - to St Mark’s Dundela, while Nuala McKeever’s award-winning Truth, Love or Promise and Earth to Alice’s Free As A Word are both essential. Comedy comes from the likes of Emer Maguire and Murder She Got Wrote Off, film from a special one-off installation in George Best’s childhood home, and exhibitions from Diarmuid Delargy and Beyond Skin among others.

We’ll be sharing a whole lot more over the coming weeks. In the meantime, the full programme is live here:

https://www.eastsidearts.net/eastside-arts-festival-2026/

Submissions are now officially open for Culture Night Belfast 2026 🚨Taking place on Friday 18 September, this year’s Cul...
01/06/2026

Submissions are now officially open for Culture Night Belfast 2026 🚨

Taking place on Friday 18 September, this year’s Culture Night will be an artist-led and venue-based city-wide experience, inviting ideas from across Belfast’s creative community.

Whether you’re planning a performance, exhibition, workshop, screening, talk, walk, pop-up or something harder to define, now’s the time to put it forward.

Submission deadlines are Friday 19 June for anyone requiring financial support and Friday 26 June for all other events.

Submit here: https://www.maywe.co.uk/culturenightbelfast

Massive news from Bank of Ideas 2026 💡Following a brilliant day at Belfast City Hall, the votes have been counted and th...
23/05/2026

Massive news from Bank of Ideas 2026 💡

Following a brilliant day at Belfast City Hall, the votes have been counted and this year’s 39 funded projects have now been announced!

From Irish language theatre and q***r trad gatherings to community ceilís, wellbeing sessions, storytelling projects, creative workshops and more, these ideas show just how much imagination is alive across Belfast.

𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞

• 5th Element - Freedom of The City

• Aisling McCormick - Pulse: Wellbeing Club Nights

• Belfast Trad - Tinteán - A Q***r Trad Gathering

• Conor McKinney - In Our Nature - Dúchas

• Conradh na Gaeilge, I lár an Aonaigh - Irish Language Craft and Culture Market

• Duncairn and Belfast Castle Set Dancers - Nursing Home Ceilís and Traditional Music Sessions

• Informing Choices NI - The Birds, the Bees and the Fleadh

• Joe McKeown - Unplug and Recharge in Belfast's green spaces this summer - free tai chi wellbeing sessions!

• Leo Fagan - Belfast Cycle Coop

• Ormeau Running Club - Belfast Fleadh Cheoil Chill Fun Run

• Q***r Shed Bhéal Feirste - Skill sharing workshops for the LGBT+ Community

• The Big Ukulele Jam – A Community Play and Sing-Along

𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭

• Aoife de Bhál - Fálróid Forest School

• Arts Care and Sense – A Fleadh for All!

• Chinese Welfare Association - Our Stories in Our Hands: Precious Stories, Treasured Objects and Celebrating Communities

• Flowers of Belfast – SWEET: Sudanese Women Empowering Each Other

• Happy Women’s Group - S.T.A.R. Women

• Open Ormeau - Ballynafest 2026, coming together through art and story

• Rosetta Primary PTA - A Celebration of our Community


𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭

• Angel Eyes NI - Accessible Braille Family Crest

• Belfast Playwrights - Drámaí Gaeilge 10 mBomaite - An evening of Irish language theatre

• Bog Meadows Gardeners - Restoring Roots

• St James’ Community Farm - Barnyard Boogie at St James' Community Farm

• Still I Rise - Belfast Belongs to Us: Young Voices through Storytelling

• Whiterock Child and Family Centre - Cultural Art Workshops for Children and Families

• Youth Initiatives - Youth Colour Ceilí


𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭

• Antoinette Campbell and Pearse Campbell, Wonder Bubble Magic

Cliftonville Community Centre – Roots & Recipes
• Corrina Askin - The More The Merrier

• Eimear Maguire - Draw Out

• Full Circle Martial Arts - Safer. Seen. Stronger Together

Imagenation NI – Where Our Stories Meet
The Oh Yeah Centre – The Jig of Life


𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭

• Andrew Cooke - Art is a Trade

• Binder and Ria Tohani - The Creative Wellbeing Project

• Boom Clap Play - Make and Play Block Party

• Deepika Gupta - Dance with Deepika

• Livi Dee - This Woman's Work: A Celebration of Art and Music

• Sara Drumond - The Roots of Resilience: A Creative Storytelling Project

A huge congratulations to everyone funded this year - and thank you to everyone who came along, shared an idea or cast a vote!

Keep an eye out for these projects taking shape across the city very soon.

Belfast International Arts Festival is back 🎭Running 14 October-8 November, BIAF returns for its 64th edition, spanning ...
21/05/2026

Belfast International Arts Festival is back 🎭

Running 14 October-8 November, BIAF returns for its 64th edition, spanning 30+ venues across the city and this year the Lyric Belfast celebrates its 75th anniversary as part of the festivities.

A first wave of Lyric highlights has already been announced: Mary Dillon, Dónal O’Connor & Neil Martin in concert, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer starring Conleth Hill, Hello Charlie by Caoimhe Farren, Big Telly’s Darren Jackson’s Wedding and Prime Cut’s adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice.

The full programme drops in August and there’s loads more still to come.

20/05/2026

Just over a week ago, Belfast City Hall was completely taken over by Bank of Ideas 2026 💡

84 stalls and hundreds of voters filled a packed, buzzing City Hall with creativity and community energy.

A huge thank you to everyone who brought ideas, collaboration, excitement and generosity into the building.

Winners announced very soon ✨

🎥 Video by Adam Bradley
🎶 Zak Irvine - Haze

One of the real shining lights on a completely buzzing Ormeau Road, Ormeau Community Cinema have just unveiled a brillia...
18/05/2026

One of the real shining lights on a completely buzzing Ormeau Road, Ormeau Community Cinema have just unveiled a brilliant new programme: Many Voices, One Screen. It’s a globe-spanning series bringing international films and vital independent voices to big screens across the neighbourhood🌍🍿

Since 2019, OCC have quietly become one of Belfast’s genuine cultural treasures: a nomadic community cinema bringing films into pubs, churches, bowling greens, masonic halls and even onto the River Lagan itself.

The new programme takes in Sirât, Parasite, A Quiet Love, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Perfect Days, About Time, Train to Busan, Suspiria, Amelia’s Children, Fallen Leaves and Ida, with screenings across local spaces including The Pavilion and Seoul Food & Studio.

Absolutely legendary stuff from one of Belfast’s most vital grassroots cinema projects.

Address

Belfast City Hall
Belfast
BT15GS

Telephone

+442890320202

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Culture Belfast posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category