The Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics 2023 returns with a feast of events
The Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics has launched its full programme of events for 2023.
Short-Termism Isn’t Working
Ahead of their Imagine! event on 24th March, Northern Slant talk about the need for longer-term thinking for NI.
Zines, baggage, othering words and lots more from Second Collective
Alan Meban talks to Cathy Scullion and Sinead O’Neill Nicholl about Second Collective and their events at this year’s Imagine!
On ‘Moral and Imaginative Quickening’
Denis Stewart suggest we apply Seamus Heaney’s ‘moral and imaginative quickening’ to the 21st Century.
a post about election posters
Imagine! 2019’s mock election posters… what was that all about?
a duty to be beautiful?
Prof. Heather Widdows of Birmingham University discusses the pressure to measure up to the beauty ideal.
artivism and populism
As we settle in to a new year, the twin challenges of Trump and Brexit continue to dominate our political and cultural discourse.
writing for theatre in turbulent times
Tinderbox Theatre Company’s Hanna Slättne discusses the challenges of writing for theatre in turbulent times.
why I write for theatre
John McCann, writer of Famla, talks about why he writes for the theatre.