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The full lineup of this year’s bumper Imagine! festival. Book early and book often!
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The Eyes of the Storm
24TH – 30TH MARCH
Ireland’s Border Culture
24TH-30TH MARCH
Knitting Horn Covers for a Muskox & The Blind Humans and the Elephant
24TH – 30TH MARCH
Brave Belfast Cailíní: Being A Girl’s Girl Through Art
24TH-30TH MARCH (LAUNCH EVENT: 24th @ 4:00PM)
Belfast Food As A System
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Cory Doctorow: Disenshittifying Big Tech
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Cage Eleven: Prison Writings from Long Kesh
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Something Great! Finding Myself in the Belfast Circus
24TH & 25TH MARCH
Education And Hope In A World On Fire
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Power Chords: The Synergy between Music and Politics
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
The Irish Boundary Commission: “The Root of All Evil”
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Strike: An Uncivil War
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Matt Forde: A Fireside Chat with William Crawley
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Brighid ‘Biddy’ McLaughlin: Tales of a Patchwork Life
MONDAY 24TH MARCH
Talking Integration: Belfast Parents’ Views on Education
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
Towards a Culture of Peace: A Civic Conversation
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
The Lost Writings of James Connolly
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
The Dan Eggs Dialogue
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
John MacNeice and The Lundy Leash
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
James Connolly Walking Tour
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
(de)fragment: Gallery Tour & Conversation
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
Ali Marie Watkins: The Next One Is for You
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Futures
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
The Sound of Marching, Charging Feet: Music, Agitation and Civil Rights
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
Christopher Ward: Model Strangers
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
David Baddiel: in conversation with William Crawley
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
Cabaret for Change: Addressing the Political through the Poetical
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH
Jo Caulfield: The Funny Thing About Death
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
Women’s Leadership and Privilege: Who Gets a Seat at the Table?
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
Nothing
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
Restorative Storytelling for Change: Amplifying Voices, Inspiring Change
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
The Enthusiasts Choir: Reverberation
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
What Kind of World is Possible?
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
Whose Integration is it Anyway?
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
Palestine 101 Live Webinar
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
Jo Caulfield: Here Comes Trouble
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
We Will Remain & Dancing Palestine
WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH
The Importance of Ethical and Shared Remembering
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
Making NI a Living Wage Region
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
Art Is Collective: Improv Group drawing
THIURSDAY 27TH MARCH
The Small Democracy of Rathlin Island
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
Reflection
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
Stages of Change: Theatre and Politics in Northern Ireland
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
OCC Presents: UNION
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
That’s You: the wonder, humour and trauma of chemotherapy
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
Change the World in Song
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
Erin Fornoff: Hymn to the Reckless – A Poetry Performance
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
Roman Krznaric: History for Tomorrow
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH
How Can We Make Belfast A More Democratic City?
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Play-ground
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Hard To Reach or Hard To Hear?
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Creating a Democracy for the End of the World
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Five Films for Freedom
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Words as Weapons, Words as Medicine
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Activism in Focus: Creating Meaningful Change
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Live Art In Action
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
No economy on a dead planet: but does the magic money tree really exist?
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Glimmers: A Writing Workshop To Capture the Moments of Resonance
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Inside the Mind of the Voter
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Lessons from the Nordics: Imagining a New Ireland
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
The Lyra McKee Symposium
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Film as Social Activism
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Salt House
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Inua Ellams: Search Party
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Sinéad Morrissey: in conversation with Damian Smyth on politics and culture
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Jo Jarvie: Crazy Stupid Funny
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
A Girl Can Touch The Sky
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Jinx Lennon: Border schizo fffolk songs for the shook
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH
Finding Foundries: Interactive Walking Tour
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Printmaking as Activism: Zine Workshop
29TH & 30TH MARCH (TWO WORKSHOPS)
Carnegie Oldpark Library: hard hat tour and discussion
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Trailblazing Women of Belfast
SATURDAY 29TH & SUNDAY 30TH
West East Church Glider tour
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Blackout Poetry
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Art In Conflict Zones
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Activating the right to food in Belfast
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
How to lose a Referendum!
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
The Poetry, Politics and Pubs Tour
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
The Seamus Heaney Centre presents: LAND
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Story of Self, Story of Us, Story of Now: Personal Narrative for Movement Building
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Coven: Witch Trials
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Politics of the Imagination
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Lemn Sissay: Let the Light Pour In
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH
Follow the Farset
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
‘Well Dressed Hooligans’: The Story of the Belfast Suffragettes
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
Making Meaning through the Miscellaneous
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
Songs of Freedom: featuring The Vibes
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
Writing for Nature
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
Atomic People
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
The Imagine! Festival Politics Quiz
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
Alison Spittle: Fat Bitch (Work in Progress)
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH
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