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

Queer Art in Lithuania: From Veronika Šleivytė to Agnė Jokšė
Queer Art in Lithuania: From Veronika Šleivytė to Agnė Jokšė
Outburst Festival

Queer Art in Lithuania: From Veronika Šleivytė to Agnė Jokšė

Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 12:00pm

Over the past two years, Outburst has been connecting with queer artists from Lithuania, a Baltic country with…

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Shame Show
Shame Show
Outburst Festival

Shame Show

0.82 KM
22 - 23 Nov 2024

For your safety, please follow this pair of prancing poofs to SHAME SHOW, a sketchy comedy of catastrophic…

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Big Talk: Queer Art, Permission & Censorship Now
Big Talk: Queer Art, Permission & Censorship Now
Outburst Festival

Big Talk: Queer Art, Permission & Censorship Now

0.82 KM
Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 3:00pm

Join Outburst and special guest artists, writers and curators for a Big Talk on the final day of…

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Are You On The Bus?
Are You On The Bus?
Belfast 2024

Are You On The Bus?

21 Nov - 01 Dec 2024

Are You on The Bus? is a ground-breaking collaboration between some of Belfast’s most inventive arts companies and…

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Find Another City Better Than This One
Find Another City Better Than This One
Outburst Festival

Find Another City Better Than This One

Fri, 22 Nov 2024, 6:00pm

Raphaël Amahl Khouri reflects on his time living in San Fransciso, Amman, Beirut and Berlin and asks if…

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It’s Turned Out Nice Again
It’s Turned Out Nice Again
Outburst Festival

It’s Turned Out Nice Again

22 - 23 Nov 2024

Belfast based artist Thomas Wells creates a love letter to his working class Mancuian roots,

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Phil Collins: Mixtape #1
Phil Collins: Mixtape #1
Outburst Festival

Phil Collins: Mixtape #1

22 Nov - 05 Dec 2024

Outburst Queer Arts Festival and Ulster Presents at Ulster University mark the 175th Anniversary of the Belfast School…

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Little Did I Know
Little Did I Know
Outburst Festival

Little Did I Know

21 - 30 Nov 2024

Little Did I Know is a visual dialogue where many bridges are burned between time & intuition, land…

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Homemade Undercuts: Hair, Identity and Community
Homemade Undercuts: Hair, Identity and Community
Outburst Festival

Homemade Undercuts: Hair, Identity and Community

22 Nov - 07 Dec 2024

Homemade Undercuts is a candid, tender and intimate new body of photographic work from Ellen Blair.

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Queer Art Market
Queer Art Market
Outburst Festival

Queer Art Market

Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 11:00am

The 4th annual Outburst Queer Art Market is back in town for one day and one day only!

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Phil Collins: they shoot horses
Phil Collins: they shoot horses
Outburst Festival

Phil Collins: they shoot horses

Fri, 22 Nov 2024, 3:30pm

Outburst invites you to join us for a special twentieth anniversary presentation of the newly restored and remastered…

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It Was Paradise, Unfortunately
It Was Paradise, Unfortunately
Outburst Festival

It Was Paradise, Unfortunately

1.31 KM
Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 6:30pm

Using his training as a journalist, Raphaël Amahl Khouri makes an extraordinary, ground-breaking discovery, offering a bold &…

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