{"id":8068,"date":"2014-09-30T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2014-09-30T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T11:01:36","slug":"the-ulster-bank-belfast-festival-at-queen%e2%80%99s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/09\/the-ulster-bank-belfast-festival-at-queen%e2%80%99s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>16 October \u2013 1 November 2014<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Various venues, Belfast<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfastfestival.com\">www.belfastfestival.com<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8069\" title=\"festival\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s, Ireland\u2019s leading contemporary international arts festival, 16 October \u2013 1 November, features an array of never seen before shows and must see events from music, film and dance to theatre, including 26 Premieres, 18 Countries, 110 Events.<\/p>\n<p>2014 highlights include, celebrated NY dancer Camille A Brown, in the funny yet moving show, &#8216;Mr. TOL. 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RancE\u2019, the world\u2019s most celebrated flamenco dancer, Israel Galvan, in his Bessie award-winning show of high-energy, passion and drama.\u00a0 Berlin\u2019s Schaub\u00fchne\u00a0Theatre Company\u2019s, \u2018An Enemy of the People\u2019, is a dark satire of greed and corruption featuring contemporary political and musical references with the explosive final act. \u2018The Suit\u2019 from Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Des Bouffes Du Nord, Paris, is a heart-breaking tale of a woman\u2019s infidelity to her husband during apartheid South-Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival\u2019s Music Club returns with unmissable live music from soul legend Bettye Lavette, four time Grammy award winner Dianne Reeves and \u2018Mysticssippi\u2019 blues man, Harry Manx, with singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Gareth Davies Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The African Savannah comes to Belfast with a FREE, family-friendly weekend. \u2018Hannavas\u2019, on Saturday 25<sup>th<\/sup> (12-3pm, Botanic Gardens) and Sunday 26<sup>th<\/sup> October (2pm at City Hall).\u00a0 Come see large-scale, mechanical, African mammals, make puppet and masks, have your face painted safari-style and join the promenade style performance of animals at 2pm each day.<\/p>\n<p>EMBRACE is the Festival\u2019s new programme of participatory and creative learning activities and includes free workshops, performance opportunities, artist talks and hosted visits to Festival events.\u00a0 For the full programme of events, including festival discounts, check in to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfastfestival.com\/\">www.belfastfestival.com<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 October \u2013 1 November 2014 Various venues, Belfast www.belfastfestival.com The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s, Ireland\u2019s leading contemporary international arts festival, 16 October \u2013 1 November, features an array of never seen before shows and must see events from music, film and dance to theatre, including 26 Premieres, 18 Countries, 110 Events. 2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/09\/the-ulster-bank-belfast-festival-at-queen%e2%80%99s\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/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\/8068"}],"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=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8073,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}