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Bank of Ideas - City Centre
Find out about the Bank of Ideas creative projects that successfully received funding in Belfast city centre.
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Our projects
Our ambitious programme gives people the opportunity to celebrate our city in new and exciting ways. Together we want to imagine, dream and invent; to speculate and investigate; to learn and experiment; to imagine a new future, new spaces, a new balance with nature, new stories and new experiences.
This programme is a celebration of our people and our place as we look towards our city’s future.
We’re working on a wide range of opportunities with key programme partners such as Eden Project, BBC NI, Oliver Jeffers and Nerve Centre. This will add to our Belfast 2024 portfolio of exciting projects, initiatives and spectacle events.
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Bank of Ideas - East Belfast
Find out about the Bank of Ideas creative projects that successfully received funding in East Belfast
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Bank of Ideas - North Belfast
Find out about the Bank of Ideas creative projects that successfully received funding in North Belfast.
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Bank of Ideas - South Belfast
Find out about the Bank of Ideas creative projects that successfully received funding in South Belfast.
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Bank of Ideas - West Belfast
Find out about the Bank of Ideas creative projects that successfully received funding in West Belfast.
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Creative Me
by Belfast City Council
Belfast 2024 is a call out to the people of the city, to take part in gatherings, events, initiatives, ideas, fun and games. It’s time to bring this programme to life with your creative contribution. We will have many different ways to get involved and loads of types of creativity to celebrate.
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Safari in the City
by Wild Belfast
Come along to Safari in the City and explore the urban jungle right on your doorstep! This citizen science project will give the opportunity for people to explore and learn about the wildlife we share in the city through creative events which will animate and bring life to urban spaces.
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9ft in Common: A Manifesto for the Alleys
by Studio idir and Starling Start Consortium
9ft in Common: A Manifesto for the Alleys is a large-scale, city-wide collaborative celebration of the creative potential of Belfast’s alleyways: for growing, making, occupying and connecting. We’ll meet you at the back gate!
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Water Works
by PS2
Come join Belfast’s biggest Boat Building experiment! This mass participation project will reimagine our maritime traditions for the future with citywide events, workshops, and an ambition to build 10,000 boats for Belfast. From life-size skiffs, to milk-bottle rafts, Coke can dinghies and shoebox yachts.
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Show Some Love Greenhouse
by Another World Belfast, CIC
Welcome to the Show Some Love Greenhouse —a new city centre space for learning, connection, and resource-sharing. Powered by Becky Bellamy and Connor Kerr from Another World Belfast CIC, opening in April 2024, Show Some Love Green House is to be a collaborative artist studio, sustainable fashion hub, creative shared space, inclusive community workshops and events venue.
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Little Amal
by The Walk Productions
A big Belfast welcome will be ready for Little Amal in May 2024. Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child, will take a journey across our city to see the place we call home and make it her home for a weekend as she explores our places and enjoys experiences with our people. Produced by ArtsEkta in collaboration with Des Kennedy and Amir Nizar Zuabi. Image credit - David Levene and The Walk Productions.
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Seen
An outdoor exhibition shining a light on the stories of society’s most vulnerable from Oliver Jeffers Studio, Anaka’s Women’s Collective, Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) and South Belfast MLA Kate Nicholl.
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DRIFT
by OGU Architects and MMAS with Matilde Meireles
Visit DRIFT this August and September, and connect with the River Lagan. DRIFT, a new floating structure with a majestic sound installation is designed by leading architects OGU and MMAS with sound artist Matilde Meireles. The project invites the people of Belfast to explore these spaces between city and water, and seeks to amplify the multi-sensory experience of being on the Lagan.
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ROOTS
by Eileen McClory, Off The Rails Dance Company and Black Mountain Shared Space
ROOTS created by choreographer Eileen McClory with a dynamic collective of artists and expert gardeners will transform an interactive community garden, creating space to grow, dance, and dream. – Join us on the mountain in this new shared space -Culminating in live performances amid the flourishing Garden in August, and an immersive audio trail installation at Black Mountain Shared Space.
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Conflicting Narratives
by Féile an Phobail, in partnership with Belfast International Arts Festival and EastSide Arts
A four day conference exchanging international experiences of arts practice in conflict settings. Conflicting Narratives is a specialist training opportunity for practitioners working in the arts and conflict sphere to meet, collaborate, and learn from each other through workshops, performances, and discussions.
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Midsummer at the Lyric
by Lyric Theatre
Come experience the Lyric Theatre like you’ve never seen before! Set to illuminate the banks of the River Lagan with an extraordinary festival in July 2024. Midsummer at the Lyric will be a collaborative spectacle igniting the Lyric’s outdoor space along the River Lagan; creating a magical and mythical space for play, theatre and music.
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Nobodaddy
An Droichead and Michael Keegan Dolan
Mar chuid den chlár Béal Feirste 2024, cruthóidh An Droichead agus Teaċ Daṁsa píosa amharclannaíochta ildisciplíneach úr faoi stiúir Michael Keegan Dolan.
An Droichead will create a new multi-disciplinary piece of dance theatre along with Teaċ Daṁsa, led by Michael Keegan Dolan.
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Nothing
‘Nothing’ is an invitation to rest, to think and dream. Free from any agenda. It reminds us of the human need for time spent ‘being’ as opposed to ‘doing’. It challenges the status quo of busyness and burnout. It is a celebration of the power and possibilities of pause. Delivered by creative consultancy Daisy Chain Inc.
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Our Stories Festival
Our Stories will feature special events with renowned naturalist & environmental campaigner Chris Packham and popular children’s storyteller Oliver Jeffers, as well as a range of events that will delve into the themes of Our People, Our Place, Our Planet.
With engaging talks, hands on work-shops, and exciting exhibitions, hosted by artists, thinkers, designers, musicians, activists and storytellers, Our Stories will make you think about how we live together in this city, and what our future will look like. This is more than a festival—it's a movement!
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The Wiggle Room
by Boom Clap Play
Step into The Wiggle Room - a new immersive experience made by Belfast’s explorers of all ages! The Wiggle Room will bridge the gap between the conventional playground and the realm of immersive, intellectually stimulating experiences. Where play is interwoven with the contemporary digital world.
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Sound Links
by Ulster Orchestra
Townsend Street will be transformed for a one-day festival of dance, song and fun for all ages! This collaboration with Ulster Orchestra and Townsend Enterprise Park aims to continue the revival of a fascinating but overlooked street in west Belfast with a rich history and exciting future.
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Shadowdock
by Studio Sykes and Three's Theatre Company
This September you are invited to journey 40 feet below sea level at sunset to the iconic dock where Titanic was built, to see and feel the world around you from a new perspective in a breathtaking spectacle of light, colour and sound.
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North Star
by So Lab Collective
On Thursday 24 and Friday 25 October, come join us for ambitious spectacle live show of music, visual art and literature, all deeply rooted in Black music and cultures. Inspired by Frederick Douglass’ time in Belfast in 1845, North Star will explore belonging through the lens of contemporary black culture asking people, what makes them feel at home in Belfast?
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Touch, Hear, Feel
by Helen Hall and Belfast International Arts Festival
Touch, Hear, Feel is an immersive and multisensory installation created with visually impaired communities led by artist Helen Hall, that explores touch through original choreography, fabrics, audio and video narratives.
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Red Sky at Night
by Household
In partnership with British Council, Belfast 2024 have commissioned artist organisation Household to co-ordinate and curate new works by five international artists responding to the public realm in neighbourhoods across Belfast. The artists will complete residencies in Belfast, exploring public space and the people connected to it.
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The Hearth
by Belfast Film Festival
Belfast Film Festival is making a film about you, with you, the people of Belfast! This co-created filmmaking project between the people of Belfast, Belfast Film Festival and filmmakers will engage communities to watch, learn and create a new perspective of our city.
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Are You On The Bus?
by Outburst Arts and Kabosh Theatre Company
Outburst Arts and Kabosh present Are You On the Bus? - a ground-breaking collaboration that looks at Belfast’s queer past to collectively imagine the future, featuring stunning works by Stacey Gregg, Raphaël Khouri and Dominic Montague that draw inspiration from city transport, time travel and cross-generational queer kinship.
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Eco Arcade
by Robin Price
Artist Robin Price is teaming up with young minds and local ecologists from the National Trust to create an interactive experience that merges gaming, technology, and environmental consciousness. Eco Arcade will take over the outside of two of Belfast's prominent cultural spaces, the MAC and Ulster Museum, during the dark winter evenings of '24. The arcade games will become fully playable by the general public so everyone can have a go!
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Belfast City Hall Augmented Reality Experience
by Belfast City Council and BT with Jam Creative Studios
Set within Belfast City Hall’s visitor exhibition, this experimental, augmented reality installation conjures up interactive stories and experiences inspired by the city’s rich language, the changing landscape across the centuries and the vibrant life that has filled its streets. A collaborative R&D project between Belfast City Council and BT.
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