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Performing Arts
Leave the politics for panto as Snow White sparkles at the Millennium Forum
Former contestant on The Voice, Rachael O'Connor, on going from young audience member to lead star back home in the Forum's festive production
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Performing Arts
'Sing it!' We Will Rock You returns to Derry~Londonderry
The ever-popular dystopian musical is back with renewed relevance, while still maintaining its core of Queen classics, as star villain Jenny O’Leary explains
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Music
Game of Thrones composer Hannah Peel prepares to 'Mix the City' for Culture Night Belfast
The Craigavon born artist discusses her Emmy nominated score for HBO documentary The Last Watch and curating a rich tapestry of Belfast sounds for a new global music platform
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Literature
Top events to check out at Aspects Irish Literature Festival
Heather McGarrigle does her best to narrow down ten highlights from this year's huge programme, not just for book lovers, from September 20 - October 6 in Bangor
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Performing Arts
Immersive play at The MAC takes audiences on a journey around abortion rights
Comprised of 12 scenes and an installation, Now For The North explores the subject from a wide variety of women's perspectives, explains the Artistic Director of Three’s Theatre Company, Anna Leckey
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Performing Arts
When it hasn’t been your day, your week... Friendsical is the answer
Central Perk comes to Derry's Millennium Forum for a musical reimagining of the iconic 90s sitcom
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Young people
Future stars to shine in youth theatre production of Legally Blonde
Derry's Millennium Forum turns its attention to Hollywood with this musical adaptation of a turn of the century comedy classic
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Crafts
Be inspired by Creative Peninsula 2019
Our top six picks of arts and crafts events at Ards and North Down’s annual celebration of local artists and makers
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Heritage
Young people are reimagining Northern Ireland's museums by giving artefacts a breath of fresh air
Exciting digital programmes are engaging more 16-25 year olds with hubs of local heritage while giving them new skills in photography, 3D technology and event management
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Performing Arts
Playwright Katherina Radeva on borders, nationality, and Europe today
With Brexit looming, Katherina Redeva revisits her play on the fall of communism in Bulgaria, giving it a contemporary flavour
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FeatureVisual Arts The Methodist Modern Art Collection
Ballymena's Braid hosts the best denominational art collection outside of the Vatican after nine churches united to make it happen. 'Surprisingly, they weren't that nervous'
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FeatureMusic MTV Crash Derry Again
Broadcast giant returns this summer to stage another 'major' music event on the Banks of the Foyle
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FeatureLiterature The Postcard Story Project 2015
Author Jan Carson on 'the great exercise in concision, imagination and perserverance' that sees her writing and posting micro stories to friends
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Feature Around the World with Alleycats
Award-winning Derry production company teams up with Channel 4 to offer charismatic applicants mysterious 'journey of a lifetime'
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FeatureFilm Register for Free VlogIT Summit
Aspiring vloggers can learn how to build online followers, go professional and make money at one-day North West Regional College event on June 11
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FeatureLiterature Debut Authors to Watch in 2015
From deliciously dark fairy tales and gritty crime thrillers, to stories of love, redemption and fantastical space battles, there is plenty to get your teeth into this year
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FeatureMusic Five Northern Irish Letterman Performances
Look back on the musical guests who've flown the flag for NI as the legendary Late Show host steps down after 33 years
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FeatureVisual Arts Naughton Gallery Celebrates Spanish Poet Góngora
Watch video from prestigious Queen's University exhibition charting the Baroque lyric poet's career and influence, featuring first edition books, audio readings and more
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FeatureVisual Arts Connor Maguire, Drawings & Woodcuts
Award-winning Belfast-based artist on the ethos behind his new exhibition at the Down Arts Centre until May 30. 'I want to show the method behind each composition'
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FeatureVisual Arts Submit to Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition
Artists working in all disciplines invited to enter up to three works for consideration to be displayed in the Ulster Museum from October 2015
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Feature Belfast Does The Robot
Sci-fi exhibition returns to Titanic Belfast from June 26 to September 13, featuring R2D2, the Terminator and lots of interesting film memorabilia
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FeatureMusic Hudson Taylor Hit Belfast and Derry
Dublin-based busking brothers take their talents to the next level after signing with Polydor and raking up millions of YouTube hits. 'This is where all the hard work begins'
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FeatureFilm Girlhood
The third instalment of Céline Sciamma's coming-of-age trilogy is a poised and fascinating picture drawing towering performances from its street-cast actresses
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FeaturePerforming Arts Belfast Soup
Eat, listen to pitches, vote to make Belfast a better place – co-founder Will McConnell on the philanthropic event that will help make community dreams come true
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FeatureVisual Arts Creating Andrew's Comic
Kevin Logue of Uproar Comics on helping Belfast-born comic book fan and cancer sufferer Andrew Fitzsimmons tell his story for the benefit of future generations. 'He was a fighter'
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FeatureFilm Three-Eyed Ravens Swoop Down on Belfast
Tourism Ireland marketing campaign brings otherworldly Game of Thrones creatures to City Hall, while signposts point fans to prime Westeros locations
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FeatureHeritage Derry Commemorates U-boat Surrender
Naval veteran recounts historic period as weekend of events mark 70th anniversary
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FeatureCrafts Students Brew Up Creative Crafts
Young talents from North West Regional College design ceramics for Derry craft beer makers Walled City Brewery
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FeatureFilm The Monday Club
New feature film written and directed by Brian Mulholland is a love letter to his home city. 'The Belfast psyche is peculiar. We slag each other out of love. That's worth celebrating'
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FeatureFilm Criminally Good Classics at Strand
Strand Arts Centre and Belfast Film Festival present summer season of the best crime and gangster films ever made – watch trailers of Goodfellas and more and books tickets now
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FeaturePerforming Arts Walking to the Ark
Carlo Gébler’s new play serves up the Siege of Derry through the eyes of a family in crisis. 'What people think happened and what actually happened is always contested'
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FeatureSport Irish Rugby Takes Off
Aer Lingus goes green with new branded aircraft, Green Spirit, to support national team's World Cup bid in September 2015
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FeatureMusic SlowPlaceLikeHome Features in Google Video
Electronic artist Keith Mannion, signed to Northern Irish label Quiet Arch, provides ambient music for video supporting Yes vote in Ireland's same-sex marriage referendum
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FeatureMusic Songwriters on Songwriters
Five Northern Irish writers on the international names who shaped their tastes, including Paul Simon, Feist, Nick Cave, Björk and Celtic group Clannad
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FeatureFilm Stephen Rea Wins BAFTA
Belfast-born actor picks up the award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in BBC political drama The Honourable Woman
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FeatureLiterature Arthur Conan Doyle's Spiritualist Visit to Belfast
Oscar Ross of the Northern Ireland Sherlock Holmes Society on the Christian backlash to the famed crime author's spiritualist lecture delivered at the Ulster Hall in 1925
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FeatureMusic SOAK Set For Jools Holland
Rising Derry songstress to share the stage with global stars on flagship BBC 2 music show next week
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Feature Ireland Tops World's Sexiest Men Poll
New survey finds Irishmen north and south of the border are easiest on the eyes and ears of American women
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FeatureFilm Jon Stewart Discusses 2015 UK General Election
Outgoing host of America's most successful satirical programme, The Daily Show, comments on UK electorate's ability to accomplish 'terrible results' in record time
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FeatureFilm Relapse Pictures Release Coco Short Film
Seán Murray's hilarious story of an out of work Belfast clown ends with a timely twist on election day – watch the full film, parental guidance recommended
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FeatureLiterature Three Books To Vote Home About
With the 2015 UK general election taking place tomorrow, it's time to get in the political mood with titles from authors Jeffrey Toobin, Hunter S Thompson and Peter Geoghegan
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FeatureMusic First Acts Announced For Stendhal Festival
Folk legend Donovan among those set to play this year's Roe Valley arts weekender from August 7 - 8
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FeatureFilm Final Robin Williams Film Trailer Released
Late actor voices Dennis The Dog in Simon Pegg comedy Absolutely Anything, set for release a year after his untimely death
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FeatureMusic Top Ten Animal Disco Gigs
Promoter Paul Irwin counts down his most memorable shows, featuring headliners General Fiasco and more, as the midnight live music series returns to Belfast on May 8
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FeatureHeritage PRONI: Viennese Calling Cards
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland document of the month for May is a stunning volume of calling cards collected in Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars
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FeatureVisual Arts A Viking’s Guide to Deadly Dragons
Ulster Museum gets fired up as new family folklore exhibition opens to the public
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FeatureVisual Arts Cartoonist Martin Rowson on His Four Favourite Works
Having satirised government for decades, the award-winning journalist and illustrator appraises his own work ahead of a visit to the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
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FeatureClassical Watch Codetta Perform 'Nunc dimittis'
Derry chamber choir's stunning entry into the #SingMotets competition to have Welsh composer Karl Jenkins write the winner a new a cappela choral work
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FeatureSport The Black Ball Final – Thirty Years On
It was 1985, television audiences were snooker loopy, and Northern Ireland's journeyman hero Dennis Taylor had the World Snooker Championship in his sights
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FeatureMusic Derry Jazzes Up
Sax players and ivory tinklers from near and far get set to soundtrack the city's May Bank Holiday weekend festival
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FeaturePerforming Arts Lanciatore – The Juggling Man
Narrated by three prostitutes, and played out in a medieval Italian circus, Rawlife Theatre Company's new production is an allegory on the art sector's current plight
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FeatureMusic Arborist Records with Indie Legend Kim Deal
Mark McCambridge takes time out from mixing his forthcoming album to discuss new single 'Twisted Arrow', featuring vocals from former member of the Pixies and Breeders
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FeatureFilm Shooting for Socrates
Screenwriter Marie Jones tells the epic story of Northern Ireland's meeting with Brazil at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. 'It's about normal people fighting against the odds'
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FeatureFilm Unsung Superheroes
As DC's Suicide Squad arrive on the big screen, John Higgins makes a case for some of the lesser famed crime fighters deserving of the blockbuster treatment
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FeatureVisual Arts Art Loves Carrie Neely
Award-winning art consultant on setting up business as a single parent during the recession, the hard slog of the jet set lifestyle and rebranding for the global market
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FeatureDrama The History Boys
The Millennium Forum plays host to Alan Bennett's coming-of-age drama, named Britain's favourite play, from May 13 - 16
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FeatureFilm YouTube at Ten
Count down a selection of Culture NI's most viewed videos to mark the milestone anniversary of the platform's first upload
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FeatureMusic Meeting Jazz Singer Dana Masters
American singer on moving to Northern Ireland for love, why jazz is in her blood and teaming up with Linley Hamilton at the City of Derry Jazz & Big Band Festival
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FeaturePerforming Arts Nerve Centre Pledges to Keep Culture NI Going
Popular arts website and key sectoral marketing platform will continue 'until every avenue of appeal is exhausted' after formal appeal is lodged with the Arts Council
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FeatureFilm The Survivalist at Belfast Film Festival
Oscar-nominated writer/director Stephen Fingleton on helming the 'anti-science fiction' feature he wanted to be 'the best thing ever shot in Northern Ireland'
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FeatureVisual Arts Buzz Logan – Shankill and Beyond at Red Barn Gallery
Red Barn Gallery founder Frankie Quinn introduces new retrospective exhibition of work by photographer and photojournalist Buzz Logan – view a selection of images
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FeatureLiterature Top Ten Romantic Irish Novels
Here are ten of the best books for those in search of a little love
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FeatureVisual Arts The Prints of Things to Come
Artist Leo Boyd predicts the fate of mankind in new retro-futurist graphic exhibition at the Belfast Print Workshop
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FeatureMusic Northern Irish Albums To Get Excited About
From And So I Watch From Afar to SOAK, our pick of which local releases to start counting down the days to
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FeatureFilm Digital Film Archive Relaunched
Northern Ireland Screen's revamped collection of historical footage goes live with new online resource
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FeaturePerforming Arts Auditions, Zoe's Auditions Gets The Part
The uplifting comedy is back by popular demand after taking America by storm with shows in Strabane and Newtownabbey
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FeatureYoung people London Calling For Science Star
A Queen’s University student is London bound — in a battle to be crowned the next big name in science
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FeaturePerforming Arts Reduced Shakespeare Company Return
After the 'kerfuffle' in Newtownabbey, American theatre troupe return with The Complete History of Comedy (abridged): 'The theatre is our temple, and in our church all are welcome'
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FeatureFilm Mark Cousins: I Am Belfast
'Did we really do that? Were we that inhuman? Yes, we were.' Auteur on exploring the past, present and future of his birthplace in a special, UK-wide film programme
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FeatureVisual Arts Pop-Up Exhibition Invades Derry
Foyleside, Café Del Mondo, LegenDerry Warehouse and other venues host works by over 50 young artists and designers as part of UK-wide project ‘somewhereto_framed’