Outburst Arts Festival will run from 15 – 23 November 2024. Northern Ireland’s annual queer arts festival celebrates LGBTQI+ community activists, artists and writers. With years of love, passion, wonderful allies and pure creative boldness, Outburst has grown into one of the leading festivals in Belfast for cutting edge writing, performance and art.
Outburst Festival
Launch: Catflap #4 + Homemade Undercuts
You're invited you to join as Outburst celebrate the launch of catflap #4, their annual publication of smart…
Red Umbrella Presents
Red Umbrella Film Festival is organised by current and former sex workers in Dublin, creating conversation and community…
It’s Turned Out Nice Again
Belfast based artist Thomas Wells creates a love letter to his working class Mancuian roots,
Film: Stress Positions
A sharp, borderline offensive satire with an imperfect pseudo-documentary flare.
Éirí Amach Sa GPO 1983 (Teenage Rebel in the GPO 1983)
Acclaimed storyteller and homoseanchaí Richard O’Leary returns to Outburst with a brilliant new 30-minute Irish language storytelling performance.
Phil Collins: Mixtape #1
Outburst Queer Arts Festival and Ulster Presents at Ulster University mark the 175th Anniversary of the Belfast School…
Gemma Rolls-Bentley in Conversation with Kim McAleese
Kim McAleese is a curator originally from Belfast, now based in Scotland.
Film: Ponyboi
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, an intersex sex worker runs from the mob…
The Reading Troupe #15 : De-production First Trimester – Abolish the Family
Household present a workshop designed and facilitated by artist Lyónn Wolf as part of their project De-production
Brewing Showcase
The Brewing Showcase has five piping-hot artists showcasing short extracts from new works-in-progress across theatre, performance, sound and…
Film: Reas
Directed by acclaimed Argentinian artist, writer and theatre maker Lola Arias, REAS is one of the most inventive…
Lyónn Wolf in conversation with Sophie Lewis
Household and Outburst present a special In Conversation event betwen artist Lyónn Wolf and writer Sophie Lewis.
It Was Paradise, Unfortunately
Using his training as a journalist, Raphaël Amahl Khouri makes an extraordinary, ground-breaking discovery, offering a bold &…
Queer Art Market
The 4th annual Outburst Queer Art Market is back in town for one day and one day only!
Find Another City Better Than This One
Raphaël Amahl Khouri reflects on his time living in San Fransciso, Amman, Beirut and Berlin and asks if…
Big Talk: Queer Art, Permission & Censorship Now
Join Outburst and special guest artists, writers and curators for a Big Talk on the final day of…
Homemade Undercuts: Hair, Identity and Community
Homemade Undercuts is a candid, tender and intimate new body of photographic work from Ellen Blair.
Little Did I Know
Little Did I Know is a visual dialogue where many bridges are burned between time & intuition, land…
mOTHER
From the gloriously tired and tested mind of comedian and cabaret artist Gemma Hutton, mOTHER is a show…
Taking it to the Fringe
Outburst are delighted to welcome Chris Snow to the festival for an informal talk offering advice and discussion…
Film: Bye Bye Love
Isao Fujisawa’s Bye Bye Love was considered to be lost until 2018, when a film negative was discovered…
Kiss & Tell
Showing affection to each other openly in the city as queer people hasn’t always been easy.
Queer Art in Lithuania: From Veronika Šleivytė to Agnė Jokšė
Over the past two years, Outburst has been connecting with queer artists from Lithuania, a Baltic country with…
Your Sexts are Shit: Older Better Letters
Award-winning theatre-maker Rachel Mars is welcomed to Outburst for the first time with her gloriously rude show.
Shame Show
For your safety, please follow this pair of prancing poofs to SHAME SHOW, a sketchy comedy of catastrophic…
Film: Lesvia
Since the 1970s, lesbians from all over the world have been drawn to the Greek island of Lesvos.
Are You On The Bus?
Are You on The Bus? is a ground-breaking collaboration between some of Belfast’s most inventive arts companies and…
Phil Collins: they shoot horses
Outburst invites you to join us for a special twentieth anniversary presentation of the newly restored and remastered…
