The Crescent Arts Centre hosts its annual life drawing exhibition featuring framed work from the Crescent’s own life drawing classes and other visual art classes. Opening Night Monday 28 June at 7.00pm, and the exhibition runs daily from 10.00am until Saturday 3rd July in the Crescent. Framed works available for purchase.
12th June 8.00pm – Melody: the award winning play by Deirdre Kinahan
The award winning Lurig Drama Group will be performing Deirdre Kinahan’s ‘Melody’ right here at The Crescent Arts Centre! Melody is a short story of lunch breaks and the possibility of romance and adventure at so simple a location as a bench in a city park. Mr Kane is a bachelor in his mid-forties. Kathleen [...]
Crescent Overture – Opening Week April 2010
We are looking forward to welcoming you back into our refurbished home with a week-long Festival from 19 – 25 April 2010. The Festival will offer lunchtime and evening recitals, free taster workshops and guided tours of the building. Events include a reading with Pulitzer Prize winning author and new patron of the Crescent Arts Centre [...]
Life Drawing Exhibition Opening Tuesday 30 June, 7pm
The Crescent Arts Centre’s annual Life Drawing Exhibition opens on Tuesday 30th June at 7pm. Please come along and view all of the work on display – refreshments provided. The exhibition continues between 10am and 4pm until Saturday 4th July and admission is free. 15% of all sales will be donated to the Crescent’s Refurbishment [...]
CityDance09
Saturday 20th June Dance Workshops from 1pm to 6pm The Grand Marquee in Lower Crescent Park, (off Botanic Avenue) Belfast Admission Free Come along and bring the whole family to the Crescent Arts Centre’s Annual Midsummer Festival of Dance. Take part in some of the many and varied dance forms available at the Crescent including [...]
Open & Enrolment Night, April 2009 term
The Open Night/Enrolment Night for classes next term takes place on Monday 20th April, 6pm – 9pm at 165 Ormeau Road. So come along, meet the tutors and enrol for one of the many classes on offer at the Crescent Arts Centre. If you would like further info on our courses, you can browse all [...]
A Crescent Relay Team in the Belfast City Marathon 2009
This year, some of the staff and friends of the Crescent have put together a team to run in the Belfast City Marathon as a fundraiser for the refurbishment project. The marathon takes place on the 4th May, 2009 and our team will be covering a combined 26 miles across the whole city, passing by [...]
BTL Workshops and Readings
Part of Between The Lines 2009 During the festival ten readings and workshops will be undertaken by the writers Paul Grattan, Anita Robinson and Liz Weir in prisons and schools. In the week of Between the Lines Festival the writer Paul Grattan will visit two of Northern Ireland’s prisons to read and perform workshops. The writers, [...]
Ballycastle Writers Group. Sunday 29 March, 9.15pm
The Point Bar, Magilligan Part of Between The Lines 2009 Ballycastle Writers was formed in 1990 by poet and publisher Joan Newman who taught the group until 1996 before moving from Ballycastle with her daughter Kate to live in Donegal. Subsequent course tutors kept the creative flame alive; the group currently has 20 active members who [...]
Hugo Hamilton & Dennis O’Driscoll. Saturday 28 March, 7.00pm
Queen’s University, Lecture Theatre G9 Part of Between The Lines 2009 Hugo Hamilton Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1953 after his mother came to Ireland from Germany. His first three novels – Surrogate City (1990), The Last Shot (1991) and The Love Test (1995) – were set in central Europe.Headbanger (1996), a darkly comic [...]
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