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Ten Ways to Treat Your Dad this Father's Day
Make this year one he'll always remember with these fun family activities plus ideas for great gifts to experience around Northern Ireland -
Grand Opera House Family Festival
Belfast's landmark Victorian theatre hosts three days of activities guaranteed to entertain, engage, educate and inspire all ages -
Rhythm of the Bann
An exciting new event for Coleraine in the historic Market Yard -
Party on the Pitch
Showaddywaddy and Nathan Carter headline two days of live music spanning country, soul, Motown and more at Ballymoney Rugby Club -
Getting a Read on Keith Acheson, Belfast Book Festival Director
The man behind Belfast's leading literary event opens up about this year's programme, the titles he can't put down and why books are more important than ever -
Rave Reviews: Ciarán McMenamin
With its dark humour and '90s hedonism, the Fermanagh actor's first novel is like Trainspotting during the Troubles. Before opening the Belfast Book Festival, he talks about the positive reception and bringing Skintown to the big screen -
Hopdance
Against a pre-Troubles Belfast, Stewart Parker's posthumous novel shows one of the city's favourite sons discovering what would become a seminal writing voice -
Meilana Gillard's Reawakening
After years out of the spotlight, the saxophonist speaks candidly about depression, getting help and returning with new album Dream Within a Dream -
Waves
Gentle movement and vivid storytelling make more than a few ripples in this poignant and understated play about one woman's remarkable resilience -
Listen to a Reading from the Stewart Parker Novel 'Hopdance'
Biographer Marilynn Richtarik previews the late playwright's long 'lost' work depicting the events around his life-changing leg amputation -
Twenty Years of Tumbling
Boisterous, unpretentious and with a dark sense of humour – it's the circus act for Belfast. And two decades in, performers Ken and Tina may have found the perfect balance -
Belfast City Blues Festival
Belfast's widest reaching music festival brings a weekend packed with gigs and special events to draw blues-lovers from far and wide -
Blues on the Bay
Warrenpoint hosts six days of live music with leading blues and jazz artists plus quality cuisine and a host of workshops -
Watch Duke Special Perform in a Barber Shop
The singer-songwriter previewed his headline show with Ulaid at the Holywood Harmony Festival with a special, stripped back set -
Bound for Rathlin Sound
Organisers of the Maritime Festival tell us about the raft of events for all ages to enjoy between Ballycastle and Rathlin Island from May 26 -
Joe McElderry is Still Living the Dream
Seven years after his breakout success, the X Factor winner is savouring every opportunity while he can, whether in the studio or his blossoming stage career -
Belfast Book Festival
This year's programme features 100 events offering an 11-day escape into fiction, comedy, current-day issues and much more -
A Few of My Favourite Children's Books
Author and Culture NI critic Claire Savage recalls the stories which enchanted her early years ahead of the launch of her own first novel for young readers -
NI Mental Health and Arts Film Festival
Northern Ireland's only arts festival dedicated to issues around mental health returns for a fortnight of discussion, expression and creation -
Summer Jamm
Music fans are set for a feast of entertainment for all the family on June 11th when the Strabane Summer Jamm Festival concludes by bringing together some of the biggest and most exciting acts on the country music circuit. -
The Journey: 'It's a story that needed to be told'
Belfast-born director Nick Hamm on making the Northern Ireland peace process, with its polarising figureheads, into a movie the world could enjoy -
In the Swim with Alice Mary Cooper
In her all-ages performance piece Waves, the eclectic Australian artist imagines the life of a woman 'credited' with creating the butterfly stroke -
Festiv'Ards
Portico plays host to four days of classical music featuring 10 different concerts and some of the world's most renowned performers -
The Train
While some elements lack steam, Rough Magic's musical has audiences on board for its retelling of a momentous, reproductive rights-fuelled journey -
The Faerie Thorn
After a promising preview, Big Telly bring Jane Talbot's North Coast fables to the stage in a fully realised adaptation fit for the company's 30th year -
Everything's Coming Up Roses for Velvet Alibi
Sparked into life upon seeing Nile Rodgers and Chic in Derry, the rising 12-piece are now electrifying the city with their own live shows and have their sights set next on the Jazz Festival -
Tony Hill Exhibit Spans Five Decades of Artistic Diversity
Career retrospective brings highlights from the multi-talented artist's immense body of work together for the first time at Banbridge's F.E. McWilliam Gallery -
John King, the Modest Explorer from Moy
Having grown up in Co. Tyrone during the famine, he later became the sole survivor of a 2000 mile expedition across the Australian outback -
There's a Train-a-Comin'
Rough Magic's new musical is steaming towards Belfast, recreating the radical journey made by women in protest of Ireland's ban on birth control -
The Seven Last Words
Responding to Haydn's 18th century composition hasn't been easy for author Jan Carson, yet the classical collaboration has still presented its own creative rewards -
Festival Of Fools
Belfast will laugh itself silly over the May Day weekend as an array of international circus acts bring free street theatre and absurdity to the city centre and Cathedral Quarter -
Vauxhall International North West 200
The week long motor-cycling extravaganza is fast, furious and a lot of fun -
Air Waves Portrush
The two day festival returns for what is set to be another action packed weekend and performances -
Danny Boy Jazz And Blues Festival
This year will see the festival celebrate a twenty-one year history over five days -
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
From music to arts, theatre to literature, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival has a bustling programme of events -
Portrush Raft Race Weekend
The annual fundraising event will take place this May Bank Holiday with a host of family friendly events -
Holywood Harmony Festival
The festival will take place over three days this coming June for its third year of spectacular music and family friendly appeal -
The Importance of Being Earnest
Not everything works in this risky all-male revision, but ultimately the source material proves it to be still Wilde at heart -
Scouting Westeros
Game of Thrones location manager Robert Boake on the joys of searching Northern Ireland for scenery fit for television's most epic tale -
Waxing Lyrical with the Bearded Candle Makers
The Downpatrick duo are enjoying the sweet smell of success and now sharing the secrets of their craft as part of a Bushmills workshop series
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