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Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition Calls for Entries
Submit now to the annual arts calendar highlight, open to artists working across all disciplines and ability levels -
Craft Beer Culture Brews Up a Storm
Hop on the national taste train as Claire McKeever speaks to the key players helping to transform a hipster hobby into a commercial phenomenon -
Walled City Music Festival Announcements
American pianist Jeremy Denk joins fellow countrymen Andy Akiho and Ian David Rosenbaum as Derry's classical concert series takes shape for an eighth year -
Graphic Novels Recall Irish War Poets
New educational resources from the Nerve Centre's Creative Centenaries project explore 1916 through the literature and lives of Alice Milligan and Francis Ledwidge -
Emma Colbert is Wild at Art
With her work starting to see international recognition, the Portrush-based painter hopes to progress even further from her signature pet portraits -
Ulster Hall Plays Host to 'Graeme of Thrones'
Belfast-bound parody show pays homage to Westeros by finding farcical humour in the drama's darkest corners -
On the Shelf: April 2016
Michael Conaghan lays Ireland's claim to Shakespeare and rounds up this month's must-read releases -
Short Strand Becomes a Stage
East Belfast area's history will come to life in a unique series of Kabosh theatre performances to mark Easter Rising centenary -
Words of Encouragement: Annemarie Neary
The 2014 Michael McLaverty Award winner outlines why writers shouldn't stop short of submitting their works of fiction to the biennial competition -
Alexandrina McCausland Stewart: A Life in Music
Nuala McAllister charts the largely unsung contribution of a musical trailblazer to Derry~Londonderry at the turn of twentieth century -
Terra Nova Take On The Tempest
Artistic director Andrea Montgomery and actor James Doran on modernising the Shakespeare epic in a colossal new Belfast adaptation -
Introducing Sylvier
The latest of the North West's recent wealth of young female solo acts, Emma Hughes brings us up to speed on her debut single and the path her studies have helped pave -
London Calling for Derry's Dawn Cruttenden
Having had her work bought by Stevie Nicks, the artist has become the first woman to be commissioned by the English capital's 'most famous hotel' -
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Comes of Age
Belfast's best-loved arts festival marks its 17th year with an eclectic as ever line-up – see what's in store now -
Belfast and Dublin Unite for Two Cities One Book
Author Lia Mills on her Easter Rising-set novel Fallen, chosen to bring the Irish capitals together with a month of reading-related events throughout April -
Sing Along with the Open House Festival Choir
Katie Richardson leads the 70-strong community ensemble with singer-songwriter Gill Landry for two nights of choral covers in Bangor and Belfast -
Michael McLaverty Short Story Award Returns
Linen Hall Library launch the biennial competition offering writers the chance to win one of Irish literature's top prizes -
Strand to Screen 'Nazi Titanic'
The once-banned 1943 film about the ill-fated liner was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels as a piece of wartime propaganda -
Them and Now: Jackie McAuley
Though not as angry nor as young as he was fifty years ago, the blues legend has at last lifted the barriers back on his days with Van Morrison and co. -
Emma Jordan: Prime Mover
With After Miss Julie premièring across Ireland, the ambitious theatre director opens up about the demands of the job, keeping things fresh and leading actors 'into the darkness'
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