The MAC Opens in Belfast
The newly built Metropolitan Arts Centre in Belfast is finally open for business and pleasure. Culture Northern Ireland attends the launch event and finds out what members of the public think of Belfast's newest arts venue.
Belfast reflects on 20 years since first IRA ceasefire
Northern Ireland will reflect on a long spell of relative peace this weekend, marking 20 years since the IRA announced it would cease all military operations.
Shortly after 11am on Wednesday 31 August 1994, the Irish Republican Army called a ceasefire that paved the way for the Northern Irish peace process.
Two decades have passed since the IRA ceasefire of 1994 (August 31, 1994) and the peace dividend has revitalised Belfast's city centre.
The Titanic museum and Titanic film studios are some of the must-see sights on any trip to the capital of Northern Ireland.
But not far from the city centre, so-called peace lines - walls of brick, steel and barbed wire - divide Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods.
The largest barrier dates back to 1970, after the British territory's sectarian conflict began with major Catholic-Protestant street battles.
Despite relative peace, the walls have kept growing in number and size during the past two decades.
The Falls Road is a Catholic heartland, a thriving community rich with heritage and culture.
Running almost parallel, only a few hundred meters away, is the Shankill Road.
It's a Protestant area� rich in heritage and also proud of its culture.
Brian McFaul, reflects on how life has changed since the start of the peace process.
Waking up every morning and hearing news reports of who has been killed and wondering who was next. Getting stopped by the army everywhere you went and the police everywhere you went. Things seem a lot calmer now but we are still a long way off getting Peace, but it's a lot better now than what it was twenty years ago, he says.
Stephen Morrow lives in nearby Lisburn, a suburb of Belfast.
I grew up in the trouble's and I remember the barricades and the soldiers on the streets, people not being able to go into town and being restricted to their own areas, and just staying within their own areas, he recalls.
These abandoned homes of formerly protestant residents face Catholic homes with reinforced protected glass face just feet away. The communities are kept apart by a fence, which is part of the peace line.
Claire Harris is youth worker with the Belfast Interface Project, which aims to improve cross-commuity relations in districts close to the peace lines.
She says: Really, what we find is that the young people are there because it's a bit of craic (fun) and something to do, it's the adrenalin of being in a riot is something that's unparalleled in terms of the excitement that that brings.
Tourism in Northern Ireland has grown significantly in the past decade and dozens of new hotels have opened to cater from the growing number of visitors.
Sporadic intercommunal clashes have occurred in recent years, but this July's annual parades by Protestant hard-liners, passed off relatively peacefully.
Aiden McCormick, Director of Belfast City Sight Seeing buses, says that his industry relies on peace and stability.
A business like ours relies on political stability and peace and more importantly the perception of peace and stability. If you look at other regions in the world that have conflict or instability, visitor numbers drop immediately. Thankfully this year we have had a peaceful summer and visitor numbers are growing every single year.
in 2013, there 1.8 million visitors and the local unity government hopes to increase that to over 2 million annually by 2016.
The main faction of the Irish Republican Army, the Provisional IRA, killed nearly 1,800 people during a failed 1970-1994 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom.
However the ceasefire resumed in 1997.
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Attacks & aggression at our pro life protest outside the MAC Belfast!
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Second night at the MAC, Belfast where a show called 'Now for the North' is being put on to 'celebrate' the forthcoming abortion legislation being forced upon Northern Ireland.
Abortion is murder.
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Invest in Belfast
Belfast has become one of the most attractive cities in the UK for foreign direct investment. Thanks to our highly skilled workforce, our extremely competitive prime office rates and property costs and a range of other low operating costs, Belfast’s attractiveness continues to increase each year. This short video captures some of the city’s key selling points.
The MAC Belfast access better costs, better service, better quality
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Back at the MAC! Leafletting the people of Belfast on the horrors of abortion
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Second night at the MAC, Belfast where a show called 'Now for the North' is being put on to 'celebrate' the forthcoming abortion legislation being forced upon Northern Ireland.
Abortion is murder.
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Wrong Direction @ Wave's Got Talent in the MAC Belfast
Ludo at the Mac Promotional Video
Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company present
Ludo Lusi Lusum
BABY DAY BELFAST | 27th SEPT 2015 | THE MAC, BELFAST | BUY TICKETS:
Ludo Lusi Lusum
A dance theatre performance for all the family directed by Ayesha Mailey
Ludo Lusi Lusum is an original new work for young audiences directed by Ayesha Mailey and performed by an ensemble of five dancers. In a wacky world of a runaway bride owl, a supermodel leopard and posse of preying mantis, the performers' fascination with the animal kingdom is brought to life through dance, theatre, music and song.
Created and performed by the Echo Echo Ensemble and directed by Ayesha Mailey this physical theatre piece is suitable for children 4 years and up.
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Recordings made at Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement 2014.
Video and editing by Living Witness Productions and Barry Davis.
Artwork design by zoocreative.
Animation by Barry Davis.
CREDITS
Directed by Ayesha Mailey
Created and performed by Esther Alleyne, Janie Doherty, Kelly Quigley, Zoe Ramsey, Antonina Sheina
Lighting Design by Barry Davis
Costume Design by Helen Quigley
Produced by Ayesha Mailey and Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company
Ludo Lusi Lusum was first commissioned by Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement 2014 funded by City of Culture Legacy Fund and the Foyle Foundation. Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company receives principal funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
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Hockney | The MAC | Belfast | niexplorer.com
Checking out the David Hockney and Keith Wilson exhibitions, on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Belfast BabyDay
Replay Theatre Company will bring the world’s first Babyday to Belfast on Sunday, 27 September 2015. With art in the streets, music in the air and families everywhere, there’ll be a real festival feel and Belfast will be one big bundle of joy! To keep up-to-date with BabyDay news, competitions and special offers, sign up to the BabyDay e-newsletter at belfastbabyday.com
Belfast BabyDay is one of seven Creative Belfast projects funded by Belfast City Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland through the Creative and Cultural Belfast Fund. For more information go to belfastcity.gov.uk/creativebelfast
The Unusual, 2013 MADE Festival, The MAC Belfast
The Seven Signatories: Seán Mac Diarmada
Dr Fearghal McGarry from Queen's University Belfast explains how Seán Mac Diarmada became involved with the 1916 Easter Rising.
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Police Scotland Fife Pipe Band: 2016 UK Championships in Belfast
Police Scotland Fife Pipe Band under Pipe Major Douglas Murray play the following MSR set at the 2016 UK PIpe Band Championships held in Belfast on 11 June 2016:
March: The Links of Forth [traditional]
Strathspey: Atholl Cummers [traditional]
Reel: Mrs MacPherson of Inveran [George S McLennan (1883 - 1929)]
The band was competing in the Grade One competition.
Why I live in Northern Ireland
Eva Grosman and Brian John Spencer speak at the MAC in Belfast about why they live in the capital of Northern Ireland. April 27 2016.
QUIRE Belfast LGBT Singers perform 'True Colours' acapella - June 2013 in The MAC Belfast
QUIRE Belfast LGBT Singers perform Cyndi Lauper's classic hit 'True Colors' acapella at their concert on Saturday 29 June 2013 in The MAC Belfast.
'Quire presents Songs with Love & Pride' was a highlight of the 2013 Belfast Pride Festival.
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Prince Harry in first official visit to Northern Ireland
(7 Sep 2017) Prince Harry began his first official visit to Northern Ireland
He met young people from nationalist and unionist backgrounds at the MAC centre event in Belfast.
After meeting guests he planted a tree at a garden party at Hillsborough Castle.
Politicians from Northern Ireland were in attendance including Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster and Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire
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Crazy Lady wont let us into apartment complex for my daughters play date
About 60 seconds before I started recording this video, i had arrived to drop my 7y.o. daughter at a play-date. As I stood in the driveway of the apartment block trying to find the entrance, this lovely lady greeted me.
Get off my property! she said to my 7y.o, myself and our 6 month old maltese/poodle puppy that i was carrying. While a little surprised at this warm welcome to block of apartments, i said sure! and took about 5 steps back on to the public footpath where i was about to call my daughters friends mother to let her know that i was here. While I stood on the public footpath taking my phone out of my pocket, my new friend said you can't stand there, you need to move. I told my new friend that it was a public footpath and that i was dropping my daughter off for a play date. Her logical reply ? Well I'll run you over. when i asked her to clarify that she intended to run us over if I remained there, she again said that if we continued to stand there she would run me down like a worm.
This was a *lady* I had never seen 60 seconds before! And she now wanted to kill my daughter , me and our puppy!!! Hello Sunday morning in crazy land!
I then started to record this little gem of a human from a public footpath.....
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