Comic performer Teresa Livingstone, Hobgoblin Comedy Award Finalist, will join six other popular local acts for SOS NI’s Comedy night on Sunday 18 October (8pm until late) at the Black Box, in the heart of Cathedral Quarter.

The annual event sold out in 2014, raising £1,661 towards the work of the SOS Bus and it is expected that this year will be even bigger and better than ever. The audience will enjoy a night of first-class entertainment, including a raffle with all proceeds going towards the core SOS NI Bus services, helping the vulnerable and disadvantaged on the streets of Belfast.

Joining headliner Theresa Livingstone, award-winning magician George Firehorse, impressionist Adam Laughlin, Amused Moose Irish Finalist Lorcan McGrane, performance poet Séamus Fox, BBC NI ‘Sketchy’ regular Ruaidhri Ward will have the audience in stiches whilst raising much-needed funds for SOS Bus NI. Marcus Keeley MC of VoiceBox Comedy, will compere.

Joe Hyland, CEO of SOS NI said: “The annual SOS Comedy Night is an evening of entertainment, but it has a very serious mission.
“SOS services are needed more than ever and all the money raised during the event will help cover the costs of our services on the streets of Belfast.”

Séamus Fox, Performance poet and dedicated SOS volunteer added: “We attracted a full house last year and have another great line up for this event.
“Please try to look beyond this as just being a comedy gig, it isn’t. The money raised will pay for sleeping bags for the homeless and hot drinks for freezing cold revellers on nights out. It will pay for vulnerable people to have somewhere safe to come to. It will pay for injured people to get to hospital or to get young people who have yet to learn the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption home.
“I see so much good being done every single weekend by the SOS volunteers and the feeling I get when someone smiles and gushes with appreciation when they realise they are safe is one of deep gratitude.”