Below are events that are taking place throughout Northern Ireland while we are in residence. Most places are accessible by the extensive bus system in Northern Ireland. Website information is provided, as well.
5 July, 7.30 – 9.30 Jailbirds: Stories and songs from the hills at Crumlin Road Gaol Belfast Hills Heritage Festival 2013. Lock yourself up and throw away the key for this heritage jailhouse rock with cellmates local poet Gearoid McLoughlin and musician Alan Burke. £5 Booking required
05 July – 13 July Bangor Open Bowls Tournament – For more information click here
6 July Parade – Belfast Pride is Ireland’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans festival appealing to audiences of over 15,000 people each year. There will be a variety of events taking place throughout the week, culminating with a parade through the city centre on Saturday 6th July. For more information on this year’s Belfast Pride: www.belfastpride.com
6 July MARIE JONES IN CONVERSATION WITH DAN GORDON 5.30PM
A founder member of Charabanc Theatre Company, Marie Jones captures the everyday dialogue of Belfast men and ‘weemen’ better than any other playwright. She won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy for Stones in his Pockets that also earned three Tony nominations. The Lyric is staging a revival of Weddins, Weeins and Wakes as part of the Tales of the City season. For more information: Click here
Through 7 July at the MAC NORTHERN IRELAND: 30 Years of Photography is a major exhibition brought to you by Belfast Exposed and the MAC.The exhibition features significant works by key photographers to examine the phenomenon of new photographic practices in Northern Ireland.Since the 1980s Northern Ireland has produced a distinct body of photographic work by photographers from Northern Ireland and beyond. Many of the photographers included in this exhibition are internationally-recognised, but this is the first time they have been showcased together as part of the celebration of 30 years of Belfast Exposed. For more information: Click here
11 July – 21 July The Lady of the Lake Festival in Irvinestown For more information: Click here
15 – 20 July Dalraida Festival at Glenarm Castle. Now in its third year, the P&O Ferries Dalriada Festival of Sport, Music and Food, in partnership with UTV, follows on from the hugely successful Highland Games held annually in the shadow of Glenarm Castle and attracting 25,000 visitors. The festival will feature fine foods, garden show, arts and crafts, music, vintage/agricultural displays, children’s entertainment and much more. The main event will close each day with a large scale concert. For more information: Click here
19 July – Comedian William Caulfield, star of BBC TV series Our William and his award nominated BBC Radio Ulster series, It’s William Caulfield – So It Is’, is on tour with a totally brand new-stand up show. Without doubt it will be a night of laugh-out-loud comedy as William takes his usual look at our lives and experiences in his unique way, but this year he is being helped along the way by some of his well known comedy characters. c/o Newcastle Centre, 10 – 14 Central Promaenade, Newcastle, Co Down
19 – 28 July – Londonderry/Derry – The Walled City Music Festival is Derry’s leading promoter of classical music. Founded in 2008 by its Co-Artistic Directors, Derry-born pianist Cathal Breslin and the American flautist Sabrina Hu, it has been widely acclaimed for bringing outstanding artists of international calibre to perform in the city. Recent festivals have featured the Kronos Quartet, Sir James Galway, Jonathan Fa’afetai Lemalu, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Augustin Dumay, Jan Vogler, Li-Wei Qin, Raphael Wallfisch, Colin Currie, Tina Thing Helseth, Emma Johnson and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, amongst many others. For more information, click here
20-21 July – Derry City Council will be hosting the Flavours of the Foyle, a major 2 day Seafood Festival on Saturday 20th July and Sunday 21st July from 1-8pm, developed in partnership with the wider food tourism industry across the region. The festival will comprise a major boulevard of chefs with 15-20 restaurant-kitchens cooking high quality seafood, and a chance to try and buy at a major ‘theatre of food’ with celebrity chefs. The festival will compromise street theatre animation programme, kidscrafts, film, masterchef demos and lecture. For information click here
