Deaf Arts Festival NI

08/11/2024

Eyes peeled for creative artists bursaries coming soon!!!!! Cre8 Theatre

31/10/2024

Signed events Belfast International Arts Festival. Limited capacity so tickets held aside for D/deaf community. Please contact our Box Office to arrange booking. [email protected], 028 9024 6609

Touch, Hear, Feel | 39 Corporation Street | Fri 1 Nov | 6.30pm
Touch, Hear, Feel is both an interactive installation and an immersive dance performance by choreographer and visual artist Helen Hall. It reconsiders the way we experience art, pushing the boundaries beyond the visual by engaging our other senses.

The Vanishing Elephant | The Grand Opera House | Sat 2 Nov | 2.30pm
Cahoots’ moving story of friendship, belonging and adventure was named a ‘Critic’s Pick’ in the New York Times, which hailed it as ‘an alluring spectacle’.

Jon Savage: The Secret Public | 2 Royal Avenue | Fri 8 Nov | 6pm
In The Secret Public, the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage takes an electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and changed the face of pop forever.

03/10/2024

Accessible performances!! The Grand Opera House, Belfast

25/09/2024

25/09/2024

Freelance Access Advisor at University of Atypical (4-5 hours per week)

University of Atypical for Arts and Disability

Applications to be submitted by Thursday 24 October 2024 4:00pm

Job Role: Information, Advice & Advocacy

Salary: £15 per hour on a freelance contract. Estimated hours per week will fluctuate, but the estimated commitment is between 16 and 21 hours per month.

Hours per week: 5.00

Web link: https://www.communityni.org/job/freelance-access-advisor-university-atypical-4-5-hours-week

We are excited to recruit six regional Access Advisors to support arts, cultural, community and heritage organisations across Northern Ireland. Advisors will support organisations as they develop and implement an accessibility improvement plan.

We are excited to be recruiting six freelance Access Advisors to be based across Northern Ireland as part of our major new programme, the Arts and Disability Access Awards (ADAA). This programme is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

The regional Access Advisors will support arts, cultural, community and heritage organisations across Northern Ireland, by training staff in all aspects of accessibility, helping them to evaluate their current venue accessibility, and supporting them as they develop and implement an accessibility improvement plan.

We are seeking 6 exceptional people to work with us in a sustained freelance capacity for at least one year. The roles may continue beyond that time subject to funding and contract renewal. We particularly seek to identify advisors who identify as d/Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent.

The six regional Access Advisors will be matched with 2-3 venues in their area. They will meet regularly with venues they are paired with. The venues will be guided through training, consultation and planning to improve the organisation’s engagement with d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people.

This role involves such tasks as providing guidance and recommendations about accessibility; putting together and delivering Improvement Implementation Plans with partner organisations; keeping accurate records of progress and reporting to the Access and Inclusion Manager within a specified timeframe.

The regional Access Advisors will receive training in accessibility best practice and regular support as part of this role.

This is a freelance position that is home based. There is some requirement to travel. Agreed travel expenses will be paid.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

25/09/2024

BSL interpreted and integrated theatre coming up in Belfast. 🙌

27/9/24 - Shadowdock
Prepare to be mesmerised by the story of where Belfast began
📍Belfast Docks
https://www.shadowdock.co.uk/tickets

3/10/2024 - Callings
As the 70’s rage on, the telephone rings…
Callings follows five q***r people who found sanctuary and community on the other end of the phone by seeking solace in Cara Friend.
📍Lyric Theatre
https://lyrictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/callings

8/11/2024 - The Tragedy of Richard |||
Deaf actor Paula Clarke joins this amazing production where the story reflects the true-life story of the lead, Michael Patrick, The Tragedy of Richard III is a tale of a man battling against time, disability, and the chains of society.
📍 Lyric Theatre
https://lyrictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-tragedy-of-richard-iii

2-5th October - Sleeping Beauty
Cre8’s modern musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale places deaf and hearing artists together in central roles.
📍 Grand Opera House
https://www.goh.co.uk/whats-on/sleeping-beauty

Lyric Belfast
The Grand Opera House, Belfast
Belfast City Council
Kabosh Theatre Company

19/09/2024

Tomorrow night 7pm
https://theatreatthemill.com/book/?show=82401

15/09/2024

Remount of the brilliant Sleeping Beauty by Cre8 Theatre. Integrated sign language, sign songs, creative caption. Perfect family theatre! Learning sign language with the actors!

Book now
Theatre at The Mill & The Courtyard Theatre Fri 20th Sept 7pm
https://theatreatthemill.com/book/?show=82401

And The Grand Opera House, Belfast 2-5 Oct
https://www.goh.co.uk/whats-on/sleeping-beauty




Belfast City Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough

04/09/2024

Deaf Arts Workshops going out across primary schools NI

Get your school booked in if in Belfast, Ards, Newtownabbey area.

We head out on tour NEXT WEEK across primary schools in NI, delivering our free deaf arts workshops!

Thanks to facilitators
Tasha Zoe Henderson Charis McRoberts this is going to be a fabulous creative roadshow placing deaf artists at the front of creative outreach work, connecting with deaf and hearing children and and educating about deaf culture.

If you're a primary school in any of these areas get in touch asap we have some workshop slots still available!

Oh yeah and book Sleeping Beauty for your school in T@The Grand Opera House, Belfast studio 2-4 Oct 10am!

Supported by Belfast City Council Halifax Foundation for Northern Irelandni Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Ards and North Down Borough Council

03/09/2024

Boom boom book now! So brilliant to see this gorgeous show coming back. First played in Deaf Arts Festival NI 2023 The MAC. Now hitting The Grand Opera House, Belfast studio. 2-5 Oct!

Schools 10am 2nd-4th Oct
Public 4-5 Oct

Book here https://www.goh.co.uk/whats-on/sleeping-beauty

30/08/2024

BBC Tiny Happy People are looking to speak to Belfast based parents of 2-5 year olds with a hearing impairment to take part in filming a new series of films for their website & social media. You can apply here: https://bit.ly/3MqKbjK or contact [email protected] for information.

29/08/2024

23/08/2024

Deaf Arts Festival NI is back 21st-23rd March 2025!

To celebrate here's the promo video for the Deaf Arts Festival NI 2024!

Signed, captioned, voice interpreted! We threw full access at the video so everyone who needs to can enjoy it!

Send us your thoughts on the festival this year and what you would like to see in the festival 2025 here [email protected]

Special thanks to all who make it possible:
Our partner venue
The MAC

Our partners
Sign Source learning
Kristina Lav Sinclair
Paula Clarke
Charis McRoberts
Rinkoo Barpaga
Zoë McWhinney
Gillian O'Hagan
Sarah Lyle
Martin Glover
Rob Crawford
SignVideo by Sorenson
Emma Copland
Sunflower Bar
Jenny Thornton
Emma Gibson

Our funders
Belfast City Council
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Cre8 Theatre
Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland

Queen's University Belfast

And everyone else who couldn't be tagged!

22/08/2024

Today!!!!!

Get your little ones down to the The Grand Opera House, Belfast with us 2.30-4pm today for our drama workshop with children from the d/Deaf community!

The Grand Opera House and Phoenix Energy present the Grand Family Festival, running 19 - 24 August 2024.

14/08/2024

The Grand Opera House, Belfast also running a signed accessible theatre tour. See info in video!

Thu 22 Aug 2024
12:30pm
£5.00

Paula Clarke

14/08/2024

Please book your place quickly for drama workshop for 8-12 years Thursday 22nd Aug, 2.30pm The Grand Opera House, Belfast facilitated by Cre8 Theatre Paula Clarke and Sarah Lyle.

Book here https://www.goh.co.uk/whats-on/drama-workshop-for-d-deaf-children

11/08/2024

If you’re in Edinburgh go support theEdinburgh Deaf Festival! Some wonderful events on!!! Get booking!

13/07/2024

Sharing this casting call for a documentary! Details in the post 👍🏻