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Out to Lunch to Serve Up Perfect January Cure
Belfast's bespoke winter festival is back this New Year with another helping of music, comedy, spoken word and literature -
Paper Dogs Score Sunflowerfest Slot
Belfast four-piece confirmed to play the Hillsborough weekender after emerging as winners of the inaugural Grass Roots band competition -
Derry Singer Goes Outside the 'Box' with New Festival
Sarah McGuinness will open the doors to her Moville home next month to host an intimate day of live performances, literature, food and more -
Open House Bangor Returns
Newly launched festival programme celebrates the seaside town as a creative destination with a month of handpicked events in imaginative places -
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 -
Spring Féile Fever
It may be the smaller sibling of the Féile an Phobail, but timing of this year's Belfast festival sees it take on a greater significance than ever before -
Applications Open for Derry Choral Festival
Derry International Choral Festival due to return from 19 – 23 October 2016 -
The Mother of All Children's Festivals
Young at Art's Ali Fitzgibbon on bringing her baby full circle and the 'short-sighted' cuts that lead to little ones losing out -
Start Making Sense with Imagine! Belfast
The Festival of Ideas and Politics returns to stimulate discussion on the big issues of today with high profile talks, theatre and more -
NI Science Festival: 10 Things Not to Miss
With over 100 brain-tingling events, we handpick the highlights of a packed programme running from February 18 to 28 -
AVA Festival Confirms Return
Belfast's Titanic Quarter will welcome back the pulsating showcase of electronic music and tech culture this June. Register free for its day conference now -
Belfast Festival Announced for 2016
The first acts and dates have been revealed for this year's edition of the city's autumn arts mainstay -
Derry Eyes the International Stage
After the heady heights of the Fleadh, Cara Dillon believes Cultúrlann's new eight-day Irish music festival will cement the city's place on the map -
Still Out to Lunch
After a year fraught with cuts, the enduring festival is back to help Belfast ring in 2016 with another hearty helping of performing arts -
Out to Lunch Sets the Menu for 2016
The bespoke Belfast arts festival is back to lift spirits in the New Year with three weeks of cultural nourishment -
Enchanting Features Come to Light at Mount Stewart Festival
Unique new art installations and bespoke soundscapes will add a new level of ambience to this year's National Trust showcase -
Atlantic Sessions Crash the North Coast
The 'one of a kind' music festival's latest edition brings a host of free performances and special events to venues along Ireland's most breathtaking backdrop -
Derry International Music Festival Announced
Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin unveil details of the inaugural folk and roots-infused programme, welcoming over 250 musicians from across the world to the city in 2016 -
Halloween Festivities to be Streamed Live from Derry
City's world famous carnival can be watched from anywhere online this weekend -
Derry Gets Vocal for Third Choral Festival
With over two thousand singers lined up across five days, the 'City of Song' will be in full voice for the international festival's third installment -
Top Ten Things Still to See at the Belfast Festival
One week into the new-look Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival we run down the best of what's left -
Belfast Festival Launches 2015 Programme
Former Ulster Bank Festival at Queen's rebrands with rich line-up of music, theatre, dance and arts from across the world set for October -
Belly Laughs Line-up is No Joke
Belfast Comedy Festival returns with more variety than ever in addition to usual programme of stellar stand-up from September 23 to October 4 -
Open House Festival Opens For Business This Weekend
The annual festival returns for a third year with a packed programme of music, food, film, literature and much more -
Corrymeela’s Arts and Culture Festival Kicks Off This Weekend
Duke Special set to attend inaugural festival of diversity, arts, debates, politics and music, marking 50 years of peacemaking -
Playwright Brian Friel Celebrated in Inaugural Cross-Border Festival
Organisers behind Enniskillen's Wilde Weekend and Happy Days Beckett Festival honour Ireland's greatest living dramatist with events across Belfast and Co. Donegal this August -
Maiden City Festival Brings History to Life
Hundreds of performers prepare for the 18th annual programme reenacting Derry's illustrious past with theatre, dance and unique special events -
Happy Days Beckett Festival Preview
Provocative productions, world premieres and even a spot of cricket are all lined up as part of the fourth annual celebration of Enniskillen's Nobel Prize-winning son -
Open House Architecture Festival
PLACE celebrate the engineering of Belfast's most iconic sites and offer a first glimpse at future landmarks with inaugural weekend of free, expert-led tours -
Sunflowerfest Unveils 2015 Line-Up
Tubby's Farm welcomes biggest bill yet to sixth annual weekend of live entertainment, interactive arts and family fun -
Seamus Heaney's Belfast Festival Memories
Following news that Queen's University has withdrawn funding for the Belfast Festival, watch a video interview from 2012 in which the late poet recalls transformative Festival experiences -
Mount Stewart Keeps the Conversation Going
The award-winning property aims to pick up from where last year's festival left off with another vibrant weekend of talks, panels, music and much more -
Charles Wood Festival Celebrates Armagh Composer Who Left Behind a Sacred Body of Works
The chorister turned Cambridge professor's legacy is preserved for another year with a week of major concerts and more in his native city -
Hand-picked Highlights for Open House Festival Bangor 2017
The arts-inspired festival returns this August with an eclectic international lineup of events to suit all ages and interests -
Eastside Arts Festival 2017
Festival director Rachel Kennedy on the purpose and importance of the festival. From comedy bus tours, to circuses and performances, there is something to suit everyone -
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 -
Fun and Games at the Museums
Not just a place for old relics – a new festival plans to exhibit the priceless potential of Northern Ireland's museums for ages 0-5 -
Of Heart and Land: Limavady Celebrates Steinbeck
The fifth annual series of events inspired by the Roe Valley-rooted Nobel Prize winner uses the human side of his work to highlight the area's natural beauty -
It's Good to Talk: Mount Stewart Festival of Conversations
The sumptuous National Trust grounds will ignite the spirit of old with two days of debate, discussion and more from a packed programme of guests -
Aspects at 25: A Quarter Century Celebrating the Written Word
Bangor's annual literary festival marks its silver anniversary with a milestone programme, from crime writing and comedy to poetry and prose -
Shuck It and See: Hillsborough Oyster Festival
The long-running celebration of seafood may be miles from the County Down coast, but it's come even further from its modest beginnings -
New Names Added to Moira Calling
Second stage will introduce the Armagh festival's audience to some of Northern Ireland's most promising musicians in addition to seasoned acts -
Past Becomes Present at Maiden City Festival
Thousands expected to descend on Derry~Londonderry for eight-day celebration of history-shaping events from August 6 - 13 -
Stendhal Set for a Course of Therapy?
They've made their mark on the world's biggest stages, but Ireland's Best Small Festival will present an all new challenge for Andy Cairns and co. -
Russian Masterpieces to Mark Clandeboye Milestone
The classical music festival's 15th edition will celebrate 30 years since director Barry Douglas's Tchaikovsky prize triumph -
EastSide Arts Launch Eleven-Day 2016 Festival
'Inspiring' programme features 100 events including anniversaries of Shakespeare, the Somme and Belfast's own Creative Exchange Artists’ Studios -
Mammoth Ambitions for Moville Mini-Fest
Derry singer Sarah McGuinness on planting the seeds of what she believes could become a Glastonbury-sized celebration of arts in her own back garden -
Stendhal Announce Full Music Line-Up
Second wave of artists unveiled to join headliners Badly Drawn Boy, Therapy? and DJ Yoda at the award-winning Roe Valley festival this August -
Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival
The spotlight returns to the minds behind the music in a programme boasting decorated international names plus educational elements -
Get to Grips with Graffiti
The Playhouse hosts a weekend of urban art workshops and demonstrations to mark the launch of the second Release the Pressure festival -
Culture Night 2015: Everything You Need to Know
Your guide to the hundreds of free arts and cultural events occupying regions across Northern Ireland today -
Things to Do at Culture Night Derry/Strabane
Handpicked highlights from the North West district's joint programme of free cultural escapades -
Explore the North West's Delights at Culture Night
Derry plays host to an array of late night cultural activities as Culture Night 2015 provides an opportunity to explore, entertain and enjoy the best of local culture -
Things to See at Stendhal Festival of Art
Over 300 artists and performers, including one Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, are set for Ireland's Best Small Festival this weekend. Here's our pick of what not to miss -
Open House Festival Launch 2015 Programme
Twice as many carefully curated events than ever before packed into Bangor's third annual August arts takeover -
Arts Sector Supports #SaveCultureNI
Arts organisations, venues and festivals respond to Arts Council's 100% funding cut – read a selection of comments and discover how Culture NI is valued as a frontline cultural marketing tool -
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival 2015
Programme for Belfast's most eclectic arts festival launches, featuring The Stranglers, poet Paul Muldoon, comedian David O'Doherty and more – book your tickets now -
Creativity Month Video Highlights
The best action from Belfast Fashion Week, 'Icons: Batman' at the Nerve Centre, Eoin McNamee crime writing workshop in Bangor Carnegie Library and David Best's 'Temple' -
Derry to Host Pan Celtic Festival
Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin and Derry City Council collaborate to bring celebration of Celtic culture back to Derry, with Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man represented -
Specialisterne NI Perspectives Conference
Employment agency working to connect employers with those on the autistic spectrum engages the creative industries with March 31 event supported by the Department of Culture, Arts & Leisure
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