Nov 26, 2024 · Our 62nd Festival returns 16 October – 26 November 2024 with a new season of contemporary arts and culture in over 30 venues across the city and featuring the very best international and homegrown artists in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature and film.

Nov 26, 2024 · Our 62nd Festival returns 16 October – 26 November 2024 with a new season of contemporary arts and culture in over 30 venues across the city and featuring the very best international and homegrown artists in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature and film.

The Belfast Festival Anthology allows the public to share their memories of the current and past festivals and archives images and brochures.

Dixieland jazz was enormously popular, with the local group, The Apex Jazz Band, beginning their long term relationship with the Festival with lunchtime sessions at the City Hall.

International Arts Festival (BIAF) continues to enhance its reputation as Northern Ireland’s leading annual celebration of contemporary arts and culture. We are known for showcasing world class artists and productions of a high international standard, which

Nov 26, 2024 · Our 62nd Festival returns 16 October – 26 November 2024 with a new season of contemporary arts and culture in over 30 venues across the city and featuring the very best international and homegrown artists in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature and film.

The money, the people, the tears, the advertising, all make the story of the Belfast Festival. At its heart however, this Festival is about the sheer pleasure of art, the life changing benefit of attending a gig and the symbol that art can be for a city.

Returning for our 62nd year, Belfast International Arts Festival invites applications for Volunteer Ambassadors to support the annual Festival taking place between 16 October and 26 November 2024.

As the Festival entered the 90s, the rise of modern dance in the programme increased, with the Festival moving away from the traditional big hitters of the classical ballet world. The Yes/No People brought "Stomp" to the Arts Theatre, long before the show became the international giant it …

From humble beginnings, over the years pop and rock has muscled its way into the programme of the Belfast Festival. As with any Festival that came into being in the 1960s, pop and rock and all forms of popular music were to play a surprisingly small part in the development of the profile of the Belfast Festival.