In association with our friends at BeKreativ, Sara Marsden captures some of the finest street murals from this year’s Hit The North as part of Culture Night Belfast 2016. Dermot McConaghy/DMC Dan Kitchener …
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Sea Pinks at Belfast’s Voodoo as part of this year’s Culture Night. Photos by Liam Kielt.
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Just one of many artists coming together for Becks’ Hit The North as part of this year’s Culture Night Belfast today, Dan Kitchener AKA DANK is an English Street artist, illustrator, painter, animator and art director who lives by the mantra “create something new, no matter what, everyday”. We talk to him about the process, perception and politics of street art. You’re set for Hit The North on Friday. Have you created art in Northern Ireland before? What can we expect from your participation? I am very excited to be coming to Ireland for the first time! It’s somewhere I keep meaning to travel to but…
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How does one even begin to contemplate an itinerary for this most varied and enormous of occasions? Not being one to shy away from a well-rounded plan of attack and in desperate need of some form of structure, The John Hewitt beckons and who are we to abstain? After all, it seems to be an ideal location for some planning and imbibing. Planbibing, we’ll call it. Considering too that the Guinness is good, the bar is stacked tall with the official guidebooks to this evening’s proceedings, and the mellow harp-plucks are soothing our party from the stage, we’re set up…
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Ahead of Culture Night Belfast 2015 (Friday, September 18), Gavin Turtle speaks to Pan Narrans Theatre Company about their upcoming street performance of How these Desperate Men Talk, starting a theatre company in Belfast and Culture Night. Pan Narrans is a Belfast based theatre company started by actor Michael Patrick and director Oisin Kearney. Stills from How these Desperate Men Talk Hi guys. How did you start working together? Oisin: We did 4 Samuel Beckett plays in Cambridge which went well. We were surprised how easy it was. This was 2010. The next year we said “let’s put on a…
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September is tuning out to be a huge month for arts and culture in Ireland. After last week’s Dublin Gallery Weekend this week we have the massive Culture Night taking place across the country. Whether you’re in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry or Limerick, or even one of the many small towns across Ireland taking part in this momentous occasion, this is set to be a fantastic night of music, art, dance and performance that is not to be missed. If you are in Dublin check out the lineup here. As I am a local of the fair north city of Belfast,…
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Almost a year on from curating BREED in the same venue (check out our gallery from the night here) music video and fashion film director Neil Kerr will launch a new group show at Belfast’s the National on Culture Night Belfast 2015. Running from September 18 for three weeks, Us Against Us will feature the talents of sixteen artists selected by Kerr. With themes ranging from the current refugee crisis to commercialism and police brutality, it is an exhibition that promises to be thought-provoking and inspirational. Works will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Artists exhibiting include the following: Leo Boyd Stephen Millar Kev…
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Far and away Belfast’s biggest annual celebration of music, art, theatre and everything in between, Culture Night Belfast will make its most happening seventh outing on Friday, September 18. With over 250 free events planned ranging from gigs, trails and tours to talks, demonstrations and screenings, the city’s historic Cathedral Quarter and beyond will be thoroughly transformed into a kaleidoscopic festival from early in the afternoon to late into the night. Keen as we are to be involved once again this year, we’re teaming up with Oh Yeah Music Centre to put on a free, genre-spanning showcase featuring The Wood Burning Savages, Hot Cops,…
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Colm Laverty shoots Culture Night Belfast 2014 on Friday night, featuring some truly exceptional shots of the likes of Cruising, Thee Dreadfuls and the Monotonous Tone. Check out his photo set below.
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The annual cornucopia of happening that is Culture Night Belfast is upon us once more and we are positively agog – nay, foaming at the proverbial – with sheer sweaty-palmed anticipation. As with every other year, the schedule is a suitably spectacular and brilliantly eclectic proposition; a kaleidoscopic patchwork of pop-up performance, exhibition and all-embracing artistic expression. Having sifted through everything happening throughout this year’s dizzyingly impressive schedule, here’s our top must-see/attend/observe/enjoy events happening throughout the evening. Go forth! Culture Night Radio – IMPRINT Sort Design (46 Hill Street) 15.00 – 22.00 The boundlessly tasteful guys behind the ImprintThisOnYourMind podcast will be delivering a live…