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After the Rain by Compagnie XY AFTER THE RAIN is a new work by Compagnie XY inspired by the people and the city of Derry in Northern Ireland. It was first performed inside the Guildhall and outside…

In a year that marks the 175th Anniversary of the Belfast School of Art, we are pleased to announce our Autumn programme of exhibitions at the Art Gallery - featuring the work of Basil Blackshaw, Phil Collins in partnership with Outburst Arts and our annual Christmas exhibition Art Unwrapped in partnership with the Ulster Museum. - https://mailchi.mp/ulster/ulster-presents-autumn-2024-exhibitions-announced

Excited to be presenting this at our gallery on Belfast Campus. Opening 31st October to 5th December. More activity to be announced as part of Outburst Arts festival this November.

Great to have had Annie Mac visit Ulster University Belfast Campus last night, speaking to a full house with The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival about her career as broadcaster, DJ and author and the heady days of being a student in Belfast and going to SHINE club nights.

CQAF in partnership with Ulster Presents at Ulster University welcomes Annie Macmanus to the Belfast campus to talk about her writing and her career in music and broadcasting. Hosted by Shauna McLaughlin.

A dynamic and enthusiastic speaker, Annie will discuss the journey she’s undertaken from discussing other people’s stories to telling her own.

Annie Macmanus is an internationally renowned broadcaster, author, DJ, events curator and more.Her debut Sunday Times Bestseller novel Mother Mother was released in paperback this March to critical acclaim and her writing has featured in the Guardian, Irish Times and the Independent and regularly publishes articles via her own blog. She produces her own podcast, ‘Changes with Annie Macmanus’, where she chats to writers, artists and fascinating people from all walks of life about changes they’ve faced. Annie is a key music industry figure championing female and LGBTQ+ artists and advocating for positive, inclusive change.

Tickets available at https://cqaf.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873657929

Mustangs, or The Ballad of Gideon Light opens this Thursday, 14th March at 6pm at Ulster Presents Art Gallery, Ulster University Belfast Campus. At the entrance to Block BC on York Street. All Welcome.

Mustangs, or The Ballad of Gideon Light is a photography/ poetry collaboration between Northern Irish filmmaker and photographer John T. Davis and Belfast-based Canadian poet Kathleen McCracken.

This exhibition brings together black and white stills of the American West selected from Davis' archive and excerpts of text from McCracken's long poem sequence about a shapeshifting wanderer named Gideon Light, also known as Mustang.

In the small gallery you can read Kathleen's complete poem as a slideshow including additional still images (dur. 26') and watch a new film poem directed by John T. Davis (dur. 25'38").

The photographs in the exhibition were taken in 1984, during the recce for Route 66, Davis’ creative documentary film about America's iconic highway. Together, photographs and poems challenge the fallout colonisation and racism, industrialization and environmental depredation have wreaked on the West.

Available to see in our Biden Atrium, Level 3, Block BC for the next week.

The Belfast International Festival of Performance Art is thrilled to announce the lineup of the 11th annual festival at the Belfast School of Art from 19th - 22nd March.

BIPFA 24 proudly invites the work of artists representing Italy/Canada, Japan, Syria, Poland, Lithuania, Portugal, UK and Ireland exploring a range of themes including work by artists at all levels at the Belfast School of Art.

This year’s festival presents our international performers Myriam Laplante and Martin O’Brien, Hiroki Doi + Haru alongside; Aisling O’Beirn, Dougal Mckenzie, Laura O’Connor, Alex Conway and Day Magee with BSOA MFA Bbeyond Graduate Award recipient Zara Lyness and Bbeyond Call Out Awardee, Rebecca Strain. We also welcome artists from The Belfast School of Art, Phd candidates; Chloe Austin, Hollie Miller performing with Craig Scott, Marina Iodice performing with Mousa AlNana. From the Masters of Fine Art Elaine McGinn and representing BA Fine Art; Sara Montiero, Anna Vidamour, Aoife Hamil, Cahal O Connell, Christina Lynn, Christine Donaghy, Gabija Jocyte, Mark Cousins, Sorcha Keeve, Rachael Wood, Charlotte Dixon, Madison Agnew, Siofra Minnis, Moira Roulston and Dearbhail McNulty. We also welcome contributions from The Belfast School of Art Foundation students. We are also delighted to include “DOME” by Anann’s Arch in this year’s festival.

The BIFPA 2024 committee; Sandra Johnson, Siobhan Mullen, Brian Patterson, Zara Lyness, Thomas Wells, Sinead O’Donnell and Brian Connolly would like to thank all the artists that have taken part in this year’s festival. Special thanks to the festival’s supporters The Belfast School of Art, Ulster Presents, Bbeyond, University of Atypical and Anann’s Arch.



BIFPA poster image 📸 Myriam Laplante - Fly Me To The Moon (2018) credit Adelaide Cioni

EARLY BIRD EVENTS NOW ON SALE!

We're delighted to announce the box office is now open on the first events of the TENTH edition of NI Science Festival featuring talks, experiences, workshops, theatre and much more! Featuring Alice Roberts, Blindboy, wildlife presenter Gordon Buchanan, The Science of Jurassic World with Jon Chase, CBeebies presenters Chantelle and Rory, Marcus du Sautoy, BBC Radio 4's Claudia Hammond, writer Jules Howard, Back to The Cheese Board with Indie Füde, a celebration of John Stewart Bell & CERN and much much more!

Discover a world of ideas @ https://nisciencefestival.com/events

Festival returns 15-25 February 2024! Full programme featuring over 250 more events announced next month!

Department for the Economy NI Belfast City Council Discover Northern Ireland Visit Belfast Queen's University Belfast Ulster University British Council Northern Ireland MCS Group

Coming to Belfast Campus, January 25th.

PRESENTED BY OUT TO LUNCH IN ASSOCIATION WITH ULSTER PRESENTS...

JEREMY DELLER IN CONVERSATION

Ulster University. Belfast Campus, Lecture Theatre 1, BC-LG-211 York Street.
Thursday 25 January, 7.30pm
Doors 7.00pm | Unreserved Seating
Tickets £11.00

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/ulsterpresents/whats-on/2023-24/jeremy-deller-talk

Some tickets will be made available to students via faculty invitations through BSOA.

Jeremy Deller talks about his new publication ‘Art is Magic’

A holistic and revealing account of the inspirations, passions and practices of one of the country’s foremost contemporary artists.

In work that is playful, political and provocative, borrowing from many forms and produced over many mediums, Jeremy Deller enjoys critical acclaim in the UK and across the world.

Art is Magic is the first book in which the artist reflects on the entirety of his career, his life and his art. Published by Cheerio

About the author

Jeremy Deller studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute and at Sussex University. He won the Turner Prize in 2004 for his work Memory Bucket and represented Britain in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

His projects over the past two decades, such as Battle of Orgreave (2001), We’re Here Because We’re Here (2016) as well as the documentary Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2019) have influenced the conventional map of contemporary art.

📣📣Opening Today:

COMMUNITY OF ELSEWHERES by Alice O’Malley.

At Ulster University Art Gallery, In partnership with Outburst Arts and John Marchant Gallery

Alice O’Malley is a photographer known for her portraits of New York’s most notorious downtown personalities. Community of Elsewheres is a q***r intersectional space; a circle of celestial elders and underground angels that speak across generations. O’Malley’s subjects are the artists, poets, eccentrics and visionaries that inhabit the vibrant 21st Century demi-monde of lower Manhattan. Featuring 26 portraits and a slideshow of club images, including Little Annie, Eileen Myles, Anohni, Genesis P Orridge, Jaguar Mary, Sharon Niesp, Storme DeLarverie, kimmy hatelove, Tabboo! And many more.

Open daily, Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm.

Alice O’Malley will be present in the gallery for an artist’s talk during the opening weekend of Outburst Q***r Arts Festival, on Friday 10th November at 6pm.

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AGREEMENT by Amanda Dunsmore is now open to visitors in Glengormley

See it at The Barron Hall, on the Antrim Road, until 9pm this evening (Thursday 5th October) and again tomorrow from 10am to 2pm (Friday 6th October).

Made possible by National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Ulster University and delivered by in association with Community Relations Forum

Join Nicholas McCarthy at Ulster University Befast Campus as part of Belfast International Arts Festival this October.

Featured Artist - Belfast International Arts Festival In this our 61st edition, we are building upon our Featured Artist initiative where we look at the practice of an artist or ensemble in greater depth. This year we're delighted to have one of the UK'

In Your Space Circus and Circusful are the best, a treat to colaborate with.

And that was that.

THANK YOU, DERRY!

Images: Helen Sloan. AFTER THE RAIN by Compagnie XY. Guildhall Square, Derry. 27-28 August 2023.

An Imperial War Museum London 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund Commission in partnership with Ulster University, co-produced by In Your Space Circus in association with Circusful and supported by .

AFTER THE RAIN perfomance inside Guildhall yesterday had an incredible reaction. We are excited to say that its final performance will take place outdoors today, in Guildhall Square, where it was intended. 3pm. See you there!

Thank you to everyone who came along to After the Rain in the Guildhall today. It was incredible, the cast and the audience blew us away! ❤️

The show will be performed outdoors tomorrow at 3pm in Guildhall Square. This will be the final performance of the show. Please join us, it will be an absolute treat! 🎪🤸🤸🤸

Imperial War Museum London Ulster University Ulster Presents Compagnie XY Circusful INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Derry City & Strabane District Council Irish Street Arts, Circus & Spectacle Network What's on Derry Strabane Arts Council of Northern Ireland

We are so excited to present Compagnie XY AFTER THE RAIN to all of you in this weekend.

Our show is called AFTER THE RAIN for a reason. It is not intended for wet weather or stormy times! 😉

But the show WILL still happen in ALL weather conditions so, do come join us at 3pm on Sunday 27th or Monday 28th.

If the weather is wet, the performance will move inside the Guildhall. This will limit audience capacity so, do arrive early to guarantee entry. It will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Keep following our posts on social media. We will make announcements on the morning of each day as to whether the show will be indoors or outdoors.

Please share and make sure everyone gets to see our show in the best way possible!

Compagnie XY’s AFTER THE RAIN is an Imperial War Museum London 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund commission in partnership with Ulster Presents at Ulster University co-produced by In Your Space Circus in association with Circusful and supported by

We were in The Irish Times at the weekend with a big feature.

After The Rain, this weekend, 27 - 28 August, 3pm, Guildhall Square, Derry.

Should it actually rain, show will move inside the Guildhall where capacity is limited and access provided on a first come, first served basis.

Imperial War Museum London and Ulster University presents AFTER THE RAIN, a co-production with In Your Space Circus in association with Circusful and supported by INSTITUT FRANÇAIS

Rare opportunity for Irish audiences to see one of the world’s best contemporary-circus companies Now Compagnie XY are about to be at the centre of After the Rain in a spectacular open-air public event

Today in The Irish Times. A great feature about the world premier of our new production AFTER THE RAIN.

Come see it next weekend, 27-28 August, 3pm each day, Guildhall Square, Derry.

𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡
- 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱

Trust us when we say, you are not going to want to miss this...

We have been working with world-renowned acrobats Compagnie XY over the past year and they have gotten to know Derry; it's people, spaces and history.

We are now working with them and a group of local artists to present: 'After the Rain'

A beautifully moving and physically astounding performance taking place next weekend in Guildhall Square, celebrating the resilience of the human spirit in NI over the past 25 years.

A surprising performance with acrobatics, parkour, spoken word, live music & visual art.

𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 & 𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁
𝟯𝗽𝗺 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆
𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲
𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲, 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁.

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦 Guildhall 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 (𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 24𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵)

An Imperial War Museum (IWM) 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund commission in partnership with Ulster Presents at Ulster University it is co-produced by In Your Space Circus in Derry City and delivered in association with Circusful and Institut Francais.

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Lovely piece about our Compagnie XY project with In Your Space Circus in association with Circusful thanks to Imperial War Museum London - world premiere shows taking place 27th and 28th August, 3pm, Guildhall Sq. Free and unticketed.

If weather is wet, performance will move indoors to Guildhall and will be subject to admittance on a first come first served basis.

Watch: Sneak peek at French circus show set to premiere in NI next month It is inspired by the people and communities of Derry in sustaining 25 years of peace-building since the Good Friday Agreement