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Adapting Othello the Bruiser Way

Patrick J O'Reilly talks about working on 'one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies'

Wanted: Opinions About Art

Want to win £300 for having an opinion? Maybe the Ormeau Baths Gallery Critical Writing Competition is for you

The Early Life of CS Lewis

Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover how Lewis’s early life in Belfast influenced the Narnia works

Why The Arts Matter: Behind Closed Doors

Multi-cultural Belfast explored in architectural exhibition at PLACE gallery. Watch an online exhibition

An 'In-Life Sat-Nav', Anyone?

Listen to a reading by author Amanda Brobyn and find out why she doesn't need a psychic to tell the future is bright

My Cultural Life: Sinead O'Donnell

The performance artist on working with dyslexia, collaborating with Iraqi artist Poshya Kakl and taking part in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad

American Artist Asks: Why Belfast?

Watch an online exhibition featuring photographs and testimonies from emigrants in the city, from Why Belfast?

How to Interpret a Play Like Deepa

County Down artist Deepa Mann-Kler is Martin Lynch's new artist-in-residence - what's that all about?

Shoot The Crow Finally Comes Home

Owen McCafferty's play has never been produced in Belfast. Listen to a scene from rehearsals

The Death and Life of a Football Club

Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, but for author Stephen Rea the story isn't over yet

ONLINE EXHIBITION: Make It New John

Duncan Campbell's Make it New John combines fact and fiction to tell the story of DeLorean's downfall

Maria Fusco and The Mechanical Copula

Author and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths enjoys the art of book publishing, but remains wary of the e-reader revolution

Ulster Museum Welcomes The Rivals

Theatre director Rosie Pelan wants her actors to 'romp, romp, romp' in post-Restoration comedy

Free The Irish Giant!

Poet Moyra Donaldson's new collection takes inspiration from the freaks and geeks of the 18th century

Rising Star: Patsy Hughes

Back in Belfast for Christmas, the Welsh director looks forward to directing a one-man version of Faustus

My Cultural Life: Anne Magill

Brighton and British Airways can't make this visual artist forget her roots in Northern Ireland

Drawing on Illness

Artist Beth Frazer puts her body on display in PS2

'There's Nothing Wrong With Being Commercial'

Artist Bernice Anderson is refreshingly forthright about her Ards Arts Centre exhibition

Moyra Donaldson's Miracle Fruit

Poet explores 'freakery' and loss in new collection

Paranormal Activity at Queen Street Studios?

A visual requiem by Zoë Murdoch summons a psychopomp of art in the Queen Street Studios

Colm O'Gorman

The campaigner against institutional abuse prepares for his Amnesty International lecture

Chris Binchy

Maeve Binchy's nephew claims that being a writer is a lot like being a chef

Noemi Lakmaier

The disabled artist talks about her exciting installation at the Belfast Festival

Downfall

Art has never been so tempting. Curator Liam Kelly walks Tammy Moore through Siobhan Hapaska's first Belfast exhibition

Foot-Washing for the Sole

Adrian Howell wants to get eye-to-toe with the feet of Belfast at the Belfast Festival at Queen's

My Cultural Life: Lisa May

Woman of the Year in Art, Lisa May of Bruiser Theatre Company reveals where she stands on catchy pop and much more

Colin Bateman

The crime writer turns his hand to theatre writing and releases a new novel. Watch an interview, featuring a reading from Dr Yes, below

INTERVIEW: Gary Mitchell

He's no Suicide Brunette, but intimidation won't stop this playwright writing

The Kitchen, The Bedroom and The Grave

Marx, eco-coffins, sexuality and how they all fit together

INTERVIEW: Shauna McGowan

Grief, death and Jason and the Argonauts

Budgie Butlins

Budgies kick back in their very own holiday camp at PS2

Taking Flight

Sheena Wilkinson writers Young Adult, but she doesn't do pink, soppy, girly or undead in her latest novel

Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend

Anthony Glavin remembers the author, his friend, and talks about this year's theme 'The Shortest Way Home'

Joker Tattoo Studio

Tattooing made easy, by Belfast tattooist Joe Mullan

Rising Star: Alice Burns

DIY artist who arranges her own exhibitions and does her own fundraising

The Next Level

Parkour practitioners storm St Anne's Square. Watch a video below with Alister O’Loughlin of Prodigal Theatre

RISING STAR: Jamie Guiney

E-published author Jamie Guiney says that e-books are the 'wave of the future'

Queen's University Open Learning

Read with the Blackbird Bookclub and celebrate contemporary Northern Irish work at Queen's

The French Connection

A unique exhibition of classic Irish art at the Ava Gallery in Clandeboye. Watch an online exhibition with curator David Britton below

Vincent River

'It's a play about the aftermath of a homophobic hate crime,' says director Sophie Motley, 'but it isn't an issues play'

Ulster-Scots Summer School

Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure Nelson McCausland visits the Ulster-Scots Summer School at Castle Gardens Primary School. Listen to a podcast below

Pocket Prints Postcards

They may be small, but it's what you do with them at Belfast Print Workshop

Not A Game For Boys

Welsh theatre director Patsy Hughes says the play, about Belfast taxi drivers and ping-pong, is ‘all about men being men'

2010 Féile an Phobail Launches

Belfast braces itself for eleven days and nights of fun with the Féile an Phobail. Listen to a podcast from the launch featuring Gerry Adams, Danny Morrison and others