{"id":6406,"date":"2013-09-25T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:36:06","slug":"east-meets-west-at-belfast-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/09\/east-meets-west-at-belfast-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"EAST MEETS WEST AT BELFAST FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s will work alongside\u00a0East Belfast Arts Festival<\/strong> and\u00a0F<\/strong>\u00e9<\/strong>ile an Phobail<\/strong> to\u00a0 co-present one of Festival\u2019s key outdoor events representing the first time the three festivals have worked together.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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Pictured from left to right: Tina and Ken from Tumble Circus Kevin Gamble Director F\u00e9ile an Phobail Susan McCleary, Marketing Manager Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's Mimi Turtle, Chair East Belfast Arts Festival .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

International, award winning\u00a0Tumble Circus<\/strong>will challenge our perceptions of what a circus is all about in their new performance\u00a0Damn the Circus<\/strong> which runs on\u00a0Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Belmont Park<\/strong> in the East of the city and on\u00a0Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 October in the Falls Park <\/strong>in West Belfast.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tumble Circus reinvents the circus art form as a theatrically stylized and lively entertaining platform of storytelling. Described by the Irish Times as \u201cTurning the circus tradition upside down\u201d this new show Damn the Circus is their story about how hard it is to make the dream of circus a reality.\u00a0 It is a show about circus poetry and annoying reality with all the usual circus delights such as trapeze,\u00a0 juggling and clowns\u00a0 – just not as you might expect and definitely targeting an older family market.<\/p>\n

Representing the first time three Festivals have come together Richard Wakely, Director for Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s is excited about the collaboration.\u201d We are extremely lucky in Belfast to have a number of fantastic festivals all offering unique experiences for audiences throughout the city. This collaboration is recognition that as an arts community we all share the city and captures the opportunity to jointly provide arts for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin Gamble, Director of F\u00e9ile an Phobail is looking forward to working alongside both Festivals, \u201c Audiences in West Belfast have enjoyed the expanding programme that we have been delivering year on year and this partnership is another chance to provide something exciting for West Belfast audiences. To work alongside both these Festivals shows the unity that exists within the arts community and demonstrates how the city can work together to provide new and exciting experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mimi Turtle, Chair of the East Belfast Arts Festival also recognises the importance of partnership within the arts, \u201cAs an arts festival we are at the early stages of development having just completed our second year. The artistic passion and appetite in the East of the city is growing rapidly and we relish the opportunity to work with these two festivals to bring another new experience to the East for our local audiences. \u201c<\/p>\n

The scale and diversity of this annual Festival programme would not be possible without the continuing and generous support of various public and private sponsors, including the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ulster Bank, Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland Tourist Board, the EU and the British Council. Plus, the many venues, performers and partner organisations whose commitment and passion bring the arts to life for all to enjoy.<\/p>\n

The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s runs from 17th – 27th October at venues all over the city. To find out more and book tickets visitwww.belfastfestival.com\u00a0 or call\u00a0 box office on 02890 971197.\u00a0\u29e3BelFest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s will work alongside\u00a0East Belfast Arts Festival and\u00a0F\u00e9ile an Phobail to\u00a0 co-present one of Festival\u2019s key outdoor events representing the first time the three festivals have worked together. International, award winning\u00a0Tumble Circuswill challenge our perceptions of what a circus is all about in their new performance\u00a0Damn the … 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\/6406"}],"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=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}