to the wire – Belfast Exposed / Beanbag Cinema (NIMHAF 2024)

to the wire

2nd May 2024 – 31st May 2024

The second of a three-part, three-year series of NIMHAF residencies this year has travelled to meet the artists and organisations of Beirut, Lebanon.

A conflict journalist retraces old steps through the cities of Belfast and Beirut. They haunt former hotels, invoke old rituals and begin to piece together missing memories. As those landscapes open up we watch the colours of two histories bleed together. Buried traumas peer through surfaces and the reporter rediscovers a strange machine that threatens to unearth them completely.

to the wire mixes footage from NI Screen’s Digital Film Archive with original material captured in Northern Ireland and Lebanon in August / September 2023. It is the second part of the All Flesh is Grass trilogy.

Dawn Richardson-Jonathan Brennan-Chad Alexander-Emily DeDakis-Barry Cullen-Paul Doran

to the wire is a co-production of Hosta Projects and NIMHAF. Supported by the Baring Foundation, NI Digital Film Archive, Belfast Film Festival, Belfast Exposed and Film Hub NI allocating funds on behalf of BFI.

Blue Whale & ARC support Black Box, Belfast 110524

Blue Whale ‘Last Immediate Images’ Album Launch

Important Update

We are very sad to announce that, due to illness, we will have to postpone our album launch which was due to take place tomorrow. This decision has been thrust upon us, but we apologise for any inconvenience.

Thankfully, with the help of our friends (and certifiable good eggs) at Moving On Music and Middle Aisle we have been able to reschedule the event to take place in the same venue on Saturday the 11th of May. On a plus note, we are exited that the event will now also be part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival. For this reason all future purchases will need to be made via the festival website https://cqaf.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873658164 Any tickets purchased before this postponement will remain valid.

ARC will support

DIY EMI Workshop (O’SCAMP) Accidental Theatre, Belfast 30 Mar 24

Moving on Music invites you to a morning and afternoon of practical handmade music with musician, improviser, teacher and instrument maker, Barry Cullen.

You will have the chance to build and take home your very own O’Scamp! Created by Barry in 2019, the O’Scamp is a 9 volt audio oscillator and amplifier that can be controlled by light.

The workshop is open to all abilities – a working knowledge of electronics is not necessary. An introduction to components is included and no soldering is required. Materials to build the O’Scamp will be provided.

Saturday, 30 March 2024

11:00am ‐ 3:00pm

Accidental Theatre
12-13 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB

Organised by Moving on Music – Tickets £15