Looking for ideas to kickstart your brain?
Check out some of the events from previous Imagine! festivals.
If we are in a planetary crisis), why do we not witness academia and academics acting as if it is a crisis?
2025 festival | 31 mins
A panel discussion looking at the threats of Artificial Intelligence to journalism and the media in general.
2025 festival | 110 mins
Mark Devenport is joined by Aaron Callan, Emma DeSouza and Quintin Oliver to discuss referendums.
2025 festival | 60 mins
Jo Caulfield talks about her laugh-out-loud memoir The Funny Thing About Death.
2025 festival | 41 mins
The award-winning poet in conversation with ACNI’s Damian Smyth on politics and culture.
2025 festival | 52 mins
The creator of the Instagram phenomenon ‘Model Strangers’ in conversation with Amanda Ferguson.
2025 festival | 64 mins
An in-person panel discussion with Mo’min Swaitat, founder of the Majazz project – a Palestinian-led record label and research platform.
2025 festival | 72 mins
The New York Times best-selling author, journalist and tech activist in conversation with Alan Meban.
2025 festival | 60 mins
A panel discussion marking the 50th anniversary the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike of 1974.
2024 festival | 59 mins
Journalist and author Eamonn Mallie talks about his career and recently published memoir, Eyewitness to War and Peace with BBC journalist, Mark Simpson.
2024 festival | 45 mins
Manchán explores Ireland’s traditional lore and language, revealing insights about our connection to spirit, water, and the goddess of the land.
2024 festival | 51 mins
Listen to stories as ancient as the forests of northern Wisconsin as the Sullivan Squad share music from the Ojibwe and Ho-Chunk tribes.
2024 festival | 50 mins
Henry Normal, a BAFTA-honoured TV writer and poet, joins actor Nigel Planer for poetry, stories, jokes, Q&A, fun, knitwear, and surprises.
2024 festival | 35 mins
Slugger O’Toole convened a panel at our 2024 festival to discuss the year of elections that await us.
2024 festival | 80 mins
How do you move forward in a divided city? An event presented by The Huntington / Imagine! Belfast / Democracy.Community.
September 2023 | 70 mins
Councillors Brian Heading and John Kyle talk to David McCann of Slugger O’Toole about their careers in local government.
2023 festival | 47 mins
The celebrated American linguist, philosopher and social critic in conversation with Alan Meban.
2023 festival | 60 mins
The author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist in conversation with Alan Meban.
2023 festival | 65 mins
The American political scientist, political economist and writer in conversation with Alan Meban.
2023 festival | 40 mins
Rob Hopkins, author and co-founder of Transition Network, in conversation with Alan Meban.
2023 festival | 60 mins
The internationally renowned historian of ideas in conversation with BBC presenter and journalist William Crawley.
2022 festival | 60 mins
Lesley Riddoch and her podcast pal, Pat Joyce examine the prospects of Scottish independence.
2023 festival | 67 mins
Political economist Professor Helen Thompson explains the political shocks of the last decade.
2022 festival | 56 mins
Nandi Jola reflects on the history of Black Atlantic, as she looks at the relationship between British Colonial rule and South Africa.
2022 festival | 49 mins
Exploring and debunking myths about free speech, cancel culture, hate speech and campus censorship.
2022 festival | 60 mins
We scratch the surface of this unfortunately topical problem, with which many of us are all too familiar.
2022 festival | 68 mins
Author and playwright Bonnie Greer talks to Peter O’Neill about the ‘Red Summer’ of race riots in Chicago just after the end of WW1.
2021 festival | 65 mins
The Irish writer and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with Jan Carson.
2021 festival | 60 mins
The broadcaster talking about his book How Britain Ends and what, if anything, it means to be ‘British’ in the 21st Century.
2021 festival | 60 mins
Journalist Paul Mason discusses the far right and state failure in the USA.
2021 festival | 45 mins
The celebrated American linguist, philosopher and social critic talsk to William Crawley.
2021 festival | 55 mins
Murray Lachlan Young is a poet, stand-up performer, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter, and children’s author.
2021 festival | 55 mins
In this autobiographical stand-up, comedian Tom Mayhew shares stories about his working class childhoodand his time on benefits.
2021 festival | 47 mins
A talk about the difficulties trans creatives face today, in both the writing and creative industries, and more widely.
2021 festival | 65 mins
