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New Derry youth festival to celebrate the city’s heritage
A group of young people from across Derry have come together to programme and run an innovative new three-day festival
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Queen's Film Theatre takes 'drive' down memory lane to mark milestone year
Participants in over 60s project select Driving Miss Daisy for a special screening as part of the cinema's 50th anniversary celebrations
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A1 singer onto another hit with Millennium Forum-bound Flashdance the Musical
As we continue to mine the '80s to satisfy our nostalgic needs, pop star Ben Adams promises 'everything and more' from a production that epitomises the colour and energy of the period
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Belfast Arts Weekender to animate city with free performances, urban murals and more
Across two weekends there'll be a host of events inviting everyone to immerse themselves in the culture and creativity on their doorsteps
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Seamus Heaney film being shown at one of world's biggest book festivals
Tribute to the poet made in 1998 will be used to build links with India's Jaipur Literature Festival, while closer to home events are planned exploring the influence of Robert Burns
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In Defence of The Reviewer
Art critics get a bad rap – here's why bringing informed opinions to the public is a tougher gig than most would imagine
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Dementia Awareness Week at Grand Opera House
Belfast venue to host specially adapted film screenings and photography workshop in support of UK-wide campaign to further drive towards cure
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Belfast Set for First Hit of Trainspotting Live
Immersive theatre production described by Irvine Welsh as 'the best way to experience' the generation defining film comes to the MAC next month
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Complete Guide to Brilliant Corners
Andrew Moore gives a full five-day run-down of events as Belfast's only jazz festival reaches its fifth year
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Spring Féile Offers Maximum Respect to Festival-Goers
Stephen Rea calls for wider response to immigration policy as new human rights festival launches joint programme with Belfast's biannual Irish culture celebration
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Northern Ireland Artists to Watch in 2017
A round-up of some of the rising stars tipped to light up local literature, theatre, music and more in the year to come
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Hair-raising Events this Halloween
From family activities and spectacular street performances to eerie exhibitions and drive-in movies, there's plenty happening around Northern Ireland
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Colin Bateman Reports Back
The celebrated writer revisits his newsroom roots in his latest novel, and looks forward to his Paisley/McGuinness script making it to the big screen
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Things to Look Forward to in Northern Ireland
Let your cultural calendar take shape with expert picks for 2016 from our own dedicated critics
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Culture NI Christmas Gift Guide
Beat the Black Friday frenzy with our hand-picked selection of locally-sourced stocking fillers
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Foyle Film Festival 2015
Northern Ireland's only Oscar® Affiliated film festival returns to celebrate the best independent films, feature length movies, documentaries and short films
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Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People
The annual festival for young people returns with a packed line-up of film screenings, workshops, masterclasses and more
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Imagine Arts Festival 2015
Take a trip down memory lane, recapturing special experiences, memories and more from bygone eras
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Causeway Coast Surf Festival 2015
Annual surf festival featuring surf competitions, art exhibitions, film screenings, games and activities for all the family!
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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
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EastSide Arts Festival
East Belfast is getting ready for the hottest summer yet as the annual festival serves up a 12-day feast of events
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Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival
Annual international celebration of Irish novelist and playwright returns to its roots for a fourth year
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Honorary Degrees for NI Artists
Renowned cinematographer Seamus McGarvey and music producer David Holmes receive top distinctions from Ulster University
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Shooting for Socrates
We may not be Brazil, but with its see-through 'period setting' and wafer-thin plot James Erskine's chronicle of Northern Ireland's 1986 World Cup fails to even suspend disbelief
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ISLAND Children's Arts Festival 2015
ISLAND Children’s Arts Festival 2015 has something for all ages – tiny tots, kids and teenagers – plus events the whole family can enjoy together.
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Getting Started in the Creative Industries
Hollywood-grade advice on getting your foot in the door from blockbuster SFX producers Sandra Scott and Jason Lopes. Watch Honeycomb - Creative Works video interviews with both
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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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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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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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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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Rosewater
Satirist Jon Stewart's directorial debut tells the remarkable story of one journalist's interrogation at the hands of the Iranian government after appearing on The Daily Show
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The Survivalist
Stephen Fingleton’s tense, hypnotic and masterful debut, shot in and around Ballymoney, is a mesmerising dystopian tale
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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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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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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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Cobain: Montage of Heck
Brett Morgen's artful documentary uses home movie footage and Kurt Cobain's extensive journals to reveal the man behind the music
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Northern Ireland to Host World Cup Trophy
Football's top prize will be present for premiere of 1986 national side film 'Shooting For Socrates' during Belfast Film Festival
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How I Became a Voiceover Actor
Gráinne Maguire on signing to an agency, finding work and how best to keep your voice in rude health. 'Avoid alcohol, caffeine and milk'
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Artists Support #SaveCultureNI
From well-known novelists and musicians to budding actors, Culture NI has helped promote the work of artists at home and abroad for a decade – read what some of them have to say
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Robot Overlords
Carrickfergus and Donaghadee provide the backdrop for this bland sci-fi that could yet find an audience as an inadvertent cult comedy
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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'
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Cinderella
Director Kenneth Branagh's straight adaptation of the familiar fairy tale is a witty visual spectacle that will charm well beyond the stroke of midnight
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Batman: The Evolution of an Icon
David Campbell, event coordinator of the Nerve Centre's Icons: Batman programme of events, on five artists whose incarnations of the Dark Knight will go down in history
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Run All Night
Liam Neeson's latest action flick is an unexpectedly engaging take on the Irish-American mafia narrative in which he cements his position as this generation's Charles Bronson
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David Holmes Announces New Residency
DJ, producer and film composer reveals details of 'God's Waiting Room', a new Tuesday night residency in an undisclosed location 'where music has never been played'
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Boogaloo and Graham
Michael Lennox's BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated short took on the world and won the hearts and minds of millions – read our review ahead of two screenings at Queen's Film Theatre
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Liam Neeson's Five Best and Worst Movies
We appraise the Ballymena-born Hollywood heavyweight's five best and five worst films. Agree or disagree?
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Still Alice
When her mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia and Parkinson's disease, our critic's life was turned upside down – she reviews the low-budget, Oscar-winning film that reflects her real world experience
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It Follows
Fright fans, remember the name – David Robert Mitchell channels his inner John Carpenter in a gripping feature stalked by an unseen, unknown spectre
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Kenneth Branagh Premieres Cinderella in Belfast
Director to attend charity screening of Disney movie starring Cate Blanchett at Dublin Road Movie House Cinema in aid of NICVA and Into Film
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Good Luck 'Boogaloo and Graham' at the Oscars!
Star Martin McCann on being part of a 'special Belfast film' and why screenwriter and school teacher Ronan Blaney is 'one of the best writers in Ireland today'
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Birdman
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's satire on life for the 21st century artist is a complex, concentrated work that just might earn Michael Keaton a first Academy Award for Best Actor
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Selma
Northern Ireland's own Bloody Sunday is foreshadowed in Ava DuVernay’s civil rights drama featuring an Oscar-worthy central performance by British actor David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr
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Meet the Director of U2's 'Every Breaking Wave'
Aoife McArdle on being given free reign by Bono to create 'something emotional' as a vehicle for his band's newest single and choosing unknown actors from Belfast to help tell her story
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Fifty Shades of Shame
Joanne Savage on why she will be avoiding cinemas this weekend as Sam Taylor-Johnson's steamy adaptation of the EL James book starring Jamie Dornan hits theatres
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First Digital Archive of Troubles Art Launches
Arts Council of Northern Ireland compile 500 pieces of work relating to the 30 year period for new online resource
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To Kill a Mockingbird
As Harper Lee publishes her second book, we find out why Northern Irish bookworms voted her debut their favourite read in 2007
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A Most Violent Year
Passed up in every major category at the Academy Awards, JC Chandor's period drama is a powerful, complex picture
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Whiplash
JK Simmons is the drum tutor from Hell in Damien Chazelle's scorching jazz opus
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Taken 3
Liam Neeson runs out of steam in Olivier Megaton's excruciating pay off to a high-earning trilogy
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