6 events at #CQAF25 - glorious weather, big audiences, good times - thanks to all @cqaf.bsky.social for a great festival (again).

Yesterday at The 25th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival! #CQAF25 #DaySix #HumpDay

Neve and the Garden Gang had the most wonderful time performing as part of @cqaf.bsky.social on Saturday🤩 A huge thank you to everyone who came to Yukee’s Garden Party, as well as to @cqaf.bsky.social and The Black Box. See you next time, and keep practising your extraordinary air solos!🎸🥁

Last night in St Anne's Cathedral... #AroojAftab #CQAF25

Found this poor song writing waif sitting outside the shuttered BBC, took pity on him and invited him in to co-present my radio show. 😂 Ahead of his big birthday bash gigs at @cqaf.bsky.social this w’end the great #AnthonyToner is with me from 8..hope you can join us!

It was a bank holiday Monday in Belfast. The sun was shining, and so - we hope - were we! Take a look... #DayFive #CQAF25

Yesterday at #CQAF25!

It was an absolute treat to have @johnhiggs.bsky.social over to chat about his frankly wonderful new Dr Who book. A welcome respite from the marathon - as the full house in the Deer's Head testified to! #CQAF25

Next stop #Belfast May 4th

One stop shop! #CQAF25

Great to catch up with @johnhiggs.bsky.social at another fantastic @cqaf.bsky.social event this afternoon.

Enjoyed watching the @cqaf.bsky.social screening of We Are Fugazi from Washington DC in the plush environment of the Avenue Cinema. I spent it all... on two Italian lagers and a gourmet hotdog

It's really hard to have to be selective about what to go to at @cqaf.bsky.social! But I couldn't miss this one: cqaf.com/gruff-rhys-a...

Beautiful show, beautiful venue... Camille O'Sullivan in the Empire. Perfect opening festival night... #CQAF25 #Belfast #DayOne

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The 25th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival kicks off today, running from 1st-11th May. Check out the programme of events here: cqaf.com @cqaf.bsky.social

We are thrilled to let you all know that Yukee’s Garden Party: The Live Show will be joining the amazing lineup at @cqaf.bsky.social this year🥳 Join us at the Green Room in the Black Box on Saturday 3rd May at 11:00 am for a super rockin’ live performance of original Yukee songs.

The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival presents MERYL STREEK, Ulster Sports Club, Thurs 1 May, 8pm cqaf.com/meryl-streek/

Lads! Our 25th Printed Programme hit the shelves today. We highly recommend a good oul sniff of that freshly printed goodness before checking out the equally delicious contents! #CQAF25 #Festival #Programme

Had fun this evening filming in The Harrison with AOIBHE, our #CQAF25 Artist in Residence! @aoibhamusic.bsky.social

Theatre doesn’t just happen in theatres. Patrick J O’Reilly’s Dressed for Space gets its NI premiere on the rooftop of Belfast’s CastleCourt shopping mall in May for @cqaf.bsky.social. My @britishtheatreguide.info news story: www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/norther...

Belfast!! Do not adjust your sets!! Storm #SHAMESHOW returns for one night only @cqaf.bsky.social ⛈️🌈 📅 Thurs 08 May 📍 Upstairs at The MAC ⏰ 8pm 🎟️ £12 You like sketches? Barra Best? Wigs? Will you wear wigs? When will you wear wigs? Tickets below xx cqaf.com/shame-show/

The full Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival programme 2025 is now live on cqaf.com. We think it's not too shabby at all. Shout out to Keith Connolly for lovely new artwork. Come join us in May. x #CQAF25 #Belfast #Festival

A few new shows today for The 25TH CATHEDRAL QUARTER ARTS FESTIVAL (Belfast!) including our old friend JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH & one of the greatest live bands in the world, TINARIWEN! #CQAF25 As usual, cqaf.com for all your ticketing needs... x

#UNKLE #Rōnin Live #MandelaHall #Belfast as part of the @cqaf.bsky.social Friday 9th May A unique and immersive experience featuring recent recordings, remixes, reinterpretations + classic hits. Tickets ⬇️ cqaf.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

BELFAST CALLING for GEMMA HAYES, PAUL NOONAN + LISA HANNIGAN .. May 2 Tickets from cqaf.com - more details will be posted on GemmaHayes.com

Another one for the nordie heads on here: UNKLE Mandela Hall Friday 9 May, 8.00pm cqaf.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... @cqaf.bsky.social

Much excitement at CQAF HQ today to announce these 3 new CQAF25 shows: AROOJ AFTAB, UNKLE and LISA HANNIGAN, GEMMA HAYES and PAUL NOONAN. Plus new shows by MOHAMMAD SYFKHAN, OWEN o’neill, THE TIBBS and FUGAZI! (Documentary) Tickets at cqaf.com x

😍TIONSCADAL TAYLOR SWIFT😍 📅10.05.25 | Doirse 8:00in 🔥Faigh do chuid ticéad go luath! 💯 🔥BOOK EARLY! 👇👇👇👇 👉 rebrand.ly/dvdjsbc @imramfeile.bsky.social @cqaf.bsky.social @raidiofailte.bsky.social @rternag.bsky.social @robertmcmillen.bsky.social @nosmag.bsky.social @tg4.bsky.social @irishnews.com

THE CATHEDRAL QUARTER ARTS FESTIVAL (Belfast), May 1 - 11, 2025. The story so far; The Magic Numbers, King Creosote, Bernard Butler, The Courettes, Mark Watson, Josie Long, Drunk Women Solving Crime, Noah Gundersen, Timber Timbre, Jerron Paxton, The Bluebells & more... All tickets from cqaf.com x

Belfast! I'm doing a Curepedia (@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social) talk at Black Box on Saturday night with writer Joe Nawaz as part of Out To Lunch festival (from @cqaf.bsky.social) followed by book signing and @spellboundclub.bsky.social (Alt 80s) DJ set. 8.00pm-11.30pm. Tickets cqaf.com/curepedia-an...

Signed copies of my books are now available at No Alibis bookstore! Thanks for having me, @cqaf.bsky.social 🎤✨ (Extra thanks to Lexi the lovely bookseller!)

G'day Out to Lunchers. Double helping of cabaret classics from the fabulous NI Opera at The Black Box today. Opera for Lunch and Opera for Tea - does exactly what it says on the tin! #OTL25 #festival

Happy Friday from Out to Lunch... Today we've got local jazz sensation KATHARINE TIMONEY with two shows in the Black Box and Mancunian electronic legends 808 STATE at Mandela Hall. It's gonna be a good 'un! #OTL25 #Festival #Belfast cqaf.com

🎤 Tour Update! 🎤 My latest gigs for 2025 have been added to my website, which you can find here: nataliehaynes.com/tour/ I’m with CANI tomorrow, @cqaf.bsky.social on Sunday (sold out!), then Words by the Water (Keswick) in March and @hayfestival.bsky.social in May. (1/2)

Today at Out to Lunch in the Black Box... Writer MARTINA DEVLIN is in conversation this lunchtime with Paul McVeigh, about her incredible new Brontë-themed novel "Charlotte". This evening welcome back the storytellers of TENX9. Tonight's theme - "Moving". #OTL25 cqaf.com

Our fully-booked events at the brilliant 'Out To Lunch' festival @cqaf.bsky.social in Belfast's Black Box take place next week - an hour of glamour and sparkle with songs and arias from cabaret, music theatre and opera at lunch and teatime. Find out more here: niopera.com/performances...

Easing into the new week at Out to Lunch: ULSTER ORCHESTRA at lunchtime in The Black Box and the Irish Premiere screening of NEIL MARTIN: BOTHAR AN CHEOIL at the QFT this evening, featuring a Q&A with the man himself! cqaf.com

CQAF 25 presents THE MAGIC NUMBERS The Empire Monday 5 May, 8pm (Doors 7.30pm | Mostly standing) Tickets: £22.50 Booking & info: cqaf.com

Wonderful evening in Belfast at the 'Women In Revolt! Talk with the Exhibitions Curator, Linsey Young' @cqaf.bsky.social. Such an important exhibition and an inspirational curator. Looking forward to collecting my copy of the 'Women in Revolt!' book 📚 #womeninrevolt #lawandart #feminism

OTL Sunday Service at the Black Box commences with songs of praise from LANDLESS at 2pm and concludes with the very reverend (and very funny) LUCY PORTER at 8pm. All denominations welcome... cqaf.com

We'd be remiss not to share a bit of this... Gorgeous stuff from The Ennio Morricone Experience. #TheGodfather #otl25

My event with @cqaf.bsky.social in Belfast is now sold out! But you can still catch me with @classassocni.bsky.social on Saturday, tickets on the door: www.facebook.com/share/1WuMUH...

Pauline Black: A Two Tone Legend! #IrishPremiere #OTL25 #FESTIVAL

Lads, we're having a lunchtime Ceilí! #OTL25 #Festival

Start the weekend early with CEILÍ FOR LUNCH at 1pm at the Black Box (we'll throw in a soup & a sandwich!) Plus we're thrilled to present the Irish premiere tonight of PAULINE BLACK: A 2-TONE STORY & a celebration of 40 years of TOM WAIT'S RAIN DOGS. Happy Friday! cqaf.com

Very excited to be attending the 'Women In Revolt! Talk with the Exhibitions Curator, Linsey Young' this evening @cqaf.bsky.social. I attended the exhibition in 2024 and published my thoughts (open access) in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #lawandart #feminism

LATE NIGHT ART-ISTS! Pop into University of Ulster tonight at 6pm to hear curator LINSEY YOUNG in discussion with Ciara Hickey about the trailblazing, award winning exhibition WOMEN IN REVOLT: ART, ACTIVISM AND THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT 1970 – 1990... #OutToLunch #LateNightArt #Festival

Tune into UTV Life tonight at 8.30pm to catch festival artist DANI LARKIN and our own Sean Kelly on the famous couch chatting about lunch, life and a quarter century of Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival! #OTL25 #CQAF25 #Festival #Belfast #Outtolunch