{"id":17633,"date":"2019-07-31T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T10:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17633"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T10:09:50","slug":"and-theres-more-at-esafest19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/07\/and-theres-more-at-esafest19\/","title":{"rendered":"And there’s more at ESAFest19!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The countdown is on for this year\u2019s fantastic EastSide Arts Festival (1-11 August), supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland.<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year\u2019s exciting programme is filled with fun and inspiring activities for everyone to enjoy. With so much to do across the 11 days it can be difficult to decide what to do. With this in mind, we have taken the opportunity to round up some of the amazing experiences and activities that are running across this \u00a0year\u2019s programme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walks,\nTalks and Tours:
\n<\/strong>East Belfast is rapidly\nbecoming known for the huge selection of street art appearing on the walls,\noften replacing some of the more traditional murals in the area.  Lesser\nKnown Murals Tour of East Belfast <\/strong> is\na 90-minute tour, led by tour guide and historian Peter McCabe, which will call\nat a selection of these, focussing on Titanic, C.S. Lewis and many of the less\nwell-known murals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join photographer Carrie Davenport for a crash course to help you Photograph Your Greenway<\/strong>. Following the course enjoy a tour of the beautiful Connswater Community Greenway.

The Big Top @ C.S. Lewis Square:
<\/strong>There\u2019s a wide range of music and cabaret to suit all taste in the Big Top, C.S. Lewis Square; check out Kitt Philippa, Beauty Sleep, Sonja Sleator and Gemma Bradley <\/strong>for a taste of some of the best new music coming out of Northern Ireland, all on one night, then let XSLF<\/strong> take you back to the heyday of the Pound Music Club during its punk years. Join Tumble Circus<\/strong> as they present Rampage \u2013 a show that will blow your mind with an hour of hammer- smashing, Belfast-inspired circus! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unique\nDance Event:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out NI\u2019s first-of-its-kind weekend of all\nthings dance with Project Dance NI<\/strong>. Two days, 40 workshops and seminars with some of the dance\nindustry\u2019s top professionals, teaching all styles of dance from\nBallet to Breaking, for every age and ability. On Friday 2nd August drop\ninto C.S. Lewis Square for JAMZ\nNI<\/a>: a fun day of street dance battles and\nthe UDO World Championships!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children and Families<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cool stuff for families, also in the Big Top, includes The Irish Video Game Orchestra<\/strong> who create music for video games, TV and film. For kids learning instruments, why not join the professional musicians in their rehearsal before the gig and learn some of the music? Through clowning and fun, Pink & Blue<\/strong> explores what it\u2019s like to be a boy or a girl and what it means to be who you really want to be. \u00a0Join Bollywood Baba<\/strong> for a family rave, Bollywood style with lots of colour, props and amazing music, led by a team of brilliant Bollywood dancers. \u00a0For really little ones, check out Baby Daddy<\/strong>, a show for babies aged 6-18 months, featuring an all-male cast.\u00a0 Three actor-musicians perform to a maximum of 8 babies (and their grown-ups) in a specially designed sensory theatre space. \u00a0Spaces limited so book now! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music
\nQueer C\u00e9il\u00ed at the Marty Forsythe<\/strong>\nis an exciting production from Kabosh that explores the turbulent events of the\n1983 National Union of Students Lesbian and Gay Conference, held at Queens\nUniversity Belfast. The play is set against the soundscape of 1983, the\nescalating Troubles, vocal and violent opposition to homosexuality and a\nthriving punk scene.
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\nSongs of the Shipyard<\/strong> by Peacock Angell draws the audience into the\nworld of working-class Northern Irish shipyard poet and dramatist Thomas\nCarnduff, performing original musical settings of his poems interwoven with\nfascinating biographical excerpts from early-20th century Belfast. This event\nis dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Sam McCready<\/strong> who was a\nlifelong supporter of east Belfast and friend to the festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stronger in Numbers<\/strong> by HEX HUE marks a\nclean break for Belfast vocalist, composer and musician Katie Richardson. Bearing\nthe imprint of Scando-pop and percussive electronica every bit as much as 60\u2019s\ngirl bands and introspective indie, it offers up harmony-driven, bold, technicolour\nalt-pop that locks its gaze on the horizon to see better, brighter days.
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\nJoin Belfast Blues guitar legend Ronnie Greer <\/strong>with his Almost Big\nBand<\/strong>. Expect distinctive guitar playing, incorporating Chicago blues with\nsophisticated jazz, featuring Ken Haddock and with support from award-winning\nperformance poet Alice McCullough.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something\na little bit different<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

East Belfast Yoga and artists from Vault Artist\nStudios collaborate to bring you a very special festival yoga practice at Yoga\nin the Park.<\/strong> The practice will be supported by a musician and visual\nartist from east Belfast’s largest arts collective and will take place in the\nnew covered Pavilion in Victoria Park. Completely unrehearsed, the artists\nwill respond to the yoga and the yoga flow will respond in return.\nAccessible to yogis of all levels, the teachers come from Yoga Quarter, a\nyoga studio based in Ballyhackamore. Mats provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join local\u00a0Crime Fiction Ulster Noir\u00a0writers Simon Maltman\u00a0&\u00a0Gerard Brennan\u00a0for an evening of readings, chat and music.\u00a0They will discuss crime writing from east Belfast and beyond, amid the boom in Irish Crime Fiction.<\/strong> Expect some readings, a bit of banter and a few crime related songs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elly Omondi will explore The Legacy of Dr Armattoe<\/strong>, his pioneering contribution as a West African immigrant in Ireland in the 1940\u2019s; his work as a locum doctor in Belfast, as a GP in Derry-Londonderry, and his lasting work on anthropology as a science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nthe full festival programme visit www.eastsidearts.net<\/a> and follow the Festival on Facebook, Twitter\nand Instagram #ESAFest19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The countdown is on for this year\u2019s fantastic EastSide Arts Festival (1-11 August), supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland. \u00a0 This year\u2019s exciting programme is filled with fun and inspiring activities for everyone to enjoy. With so much to do across the 11 days it can be difficult to decide what to do. With … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}