East Belfast Arts Festival

The East Belfast Arts Festival will be an annual high quality festival of music, visual art, comedy, theatre, film, literature and heritage. Its purpose will be to celebrate the positive side of East Belfast and to share creativity, energy and passion through arts and entertainment. It will be spread across East Belfast and will attract high quality acts & artists into East but will also promote home grown artistic talent from/in East Belfast. It will also provide a diverse range of opportunities for participation and some events and workshops will be targeted specifically at disadvantaged members of the community. The Arts Festival will be the first of its kind in East Belfast and will build on and create new audiences interested in arts amongst the population, helping connect art to the community thus increasing character and civic pride in the area. In addition it will showcase venues which are not usually used for arts events and venues that are not yet familiar to everyone.