Crescent Arts Centre

Crescent Arts Centre Providing a home for the arts in Belfast since 1873.
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Join our courses in dance, art, literature and more! 🎨💃🏻🎸 We run the annual Belfast Book Festival - join us 4-11 Jun 26 📚

Alongside the final day of Belfast Book Festival, our courses are running as scheduled, No Alibis Pop-Up Bookshop is in ...
11/06/2026

Alongside the final day of Belfast Book Festival, our courses are running as scheduled, No Alibis Pop-Up Bookshop is in the building, and Café Husk is open for hot coffee and tasty treats.

For Belfast Book Festival, it's the last day of Festival 2026, with events exploring fiction, poetry, music and more.

Whether you're joining us for a class, an event, a coffee or a chat, we look forward to seeing you!

A number of Belfast Book Festival events scheduled for today will now take place online.If you’ve booked for any of our ...
10/06/2026

A number of Belfast Book Festival events scheduled for today will now take place online.

If you’ve booked for any of our events today you will receive further information by email.

Thank you for your understanding. 📚

⭐️ Good morning from day six of Belfast Book Festival ⭐️Today we bring you workshops on bringing fictional world's to li...
09/06/2026

⭐️ Good morning from day six of Belfast Book Festival ⭐️

Today we bring you workshops on bringing fictional world's to life, readings with a different perspective on the world, conversations around amazing novels, and a look at different literary forms.

We hope you have a great day of reading with us!

10am - Workshop: Reflecting the Real with Laura Barnett

2pm - The Neuroverse: Autistic Insights & Expressions

6pm - Silent Book Club with Lit(erature) to the Tit

6pm - The Irish Midwives Series with Seána Tinley

6pm - Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance with Joe Mulhall

6pm - Writing Across Literary Forms with Tim MacGabhann, Sinead Morrissey & Rosamund Taylor

8pm - Family Novels with Susannah Dickey & Kathleen MacMahon

8pm - Patrick Radden Keefe: London Falling

Follow the link 🔗 for full festival details: https://bit.ly/BBF26Programme 📚

From events exploring belonging and identity to discussions about family, friendship and contemporary life, with some mu...
08/06/2026

From events exploring belonging and identity to discussions about family, friendship and contemporary life, with some music, danger and intrigue all mixed in! It was great to see so many people enjoying everything day five of Belfast Book Festival had to offer!

Looking for a summer read or book club selection? 📚⭐️Get inspired at Belfast Book Festival 2026 📚 with some event recomm...
08/06/2026

Looking for a summer read or book club selection? 📚⭐️

Get inspired at Belfast Book Festival 2026 📚 with some event recommendations featuring novels exploring relationships, friendship and the messy realities of family life 😍

📚Monday 8 June, 6pm > Entangled Lives
Laura Barnett's new novel, Births, Deaths & Marriages, follows a group of university friends brought together by an engagement party, where old passions are reignited and past resentments resurface, and Sarah Gilmartin's latest novel, Little Vanities, explores the distance between the lives we imagine and the ones we live.

📚Tuesday 9 June, 6pm > The Irish Midwives Series
Set before and during World War II, including the Belfast Blitz, The Irish Midwives is the new historical romance series from Northern Irish author Seána Tinley. Join Seána, chair of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, in conversation with social historian Robyn Atcheson

📚Wednesday 10 June, 6pm > Unravelling Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Set between 1930s London and the windswept Cornwall coast, gothic thriller The Woman in the Water dares to answer one of literature's abiding questions: in Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, who is the woman in the water? Join author Henrietta McKervey in conversation with Jan Carson to discuss her twisty, atmospheric novel

Follow the link 🔗 for full festival details: https://bit.ly/BBF26Programme 📚

Day 5 starts here! 📚Join us today for a packed programme of fiction, poetry, music, memoir and conversation, featuring a...
08/06/2026

Day 5 starts here! 📚

Join us today for a packed programme of fiction, poetry, music, memoir and conversation, featuring acclaimed authors, fresh perspectives and stories from near and far.

10.30am - Rhythm & Rhyme with Libraries NI

2pm - Workshop: Reading & Writing Gothic with Heather Parry

3pm - Workshop: Your Story, Your Superpower: Leon Diop

6pm - Journeys to Belong: Leon Diop & Sue Divin

6pm - Entangled Lives: Laura Barnett & Sarah Gilmartin in conversation with Áine Toner

6pm - Take Five with Andy White. Hosted by Lucy Caldwell

7pm - From Prague to Belfast: A True Story from World War II with Michael Lewis. Chaired by Seamus McKee

8pm - Steve Cavanagh: Two Kinds of Stranger

8pm - Jan Carson: Few and Far Between. In conversation
with Heather Parry

Follow the link 🔗 for full festival details: https://bit.ly/BBF26Programme 📚

07/06/2026

Day 4, done! ✨

We’ve visited imagined worlds, explored real ones, celebrated great writing and filled our rooms with great conversation. From child friendly events, poetry and language to conversations with literary heavyweights, it’s been another day to remember at Belfast Book Festival.

Thanks for spending your Sunday with us. Onwards to Day 5! 📚

"Welcome to Day 4 of Belfast Book Festival! 📚Today brings a fantastic mix of fiction, nature writing, language, local st...
07/06/2026

"Welcome to Day 4 of Belfast Book Festival! 📚

Today brings a fantastic mix of fiction, nature writing, language, local stories, child-friendly events and thought-provoking conversations with authors. Come on in!

10am - Workshop: Comic Creators with Kieron Black

10.30am - Picture Books Come to Life! With Mel Carroll, Ella Rankin & Jonathan Sung

10.30am - Silent Book Club with Lit(erature) to the Tit

12pm - Swifts & the Story of Life on Earth with Mark Cocker

12pm - Supertato Silliness with Paul Linnet

12.30pm - The Crescent’s Writers Read

2pm - The Lives of Ordinary Saints. Micheál McCann & Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin with Wendy Erskine

2pm - An Cheardlann - Irish Language Workshop with Molly
Guidera

3pm - Showcase-Time! Fiction for Young Adults

4pm - Anne Enright in Conversation with Lucy Caldwell

5.30pm - Making Sense of our Modern World with Will Storr

6pm - An Evening with Bernard MacLaverty. In conversation with Anne Tannahill

7.30pm - Nussaibah Younis: Fundamentally. In conversation with Lucy Caldwell

8pm - Capturing Contemporary Belfast; Wendy Erskine, Phil Harrison & Tolu Ogunware. With Glenn Patterson

Follow the link 🔗 for full festival details: https://bit.ly/BBF26Programme 📚"

Now that’s what we call a good Saturday! Day three of Belfast Book Festival has been a delight. 📖 From our morning Zine ...
06/06/2026

Now that’s what we call a good Saturday! Day three of Belfast Book Festival has been a delight. 📖

From our morning Zine Fair, and readings from young writers, to our evening conversations with Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Miriam O’Callaghan, we’ve had it all. Thanks to all of the authors and speakers who filled our day with anecdotes, advice and inspiration.

See you all tomorrow! 📚👋

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2-4 University Road
Belfast
BT71NH

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 9pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 11pm
Thursday 9:30am - 9pm
Friday 9:30am - 12am
Saturday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday 9:30am - 5:30pm

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