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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

Crescent Arts Centre

Providing a home for the arts in Belfast since 1873. Join our courses in dance, art, literature and more! 🎨💃🏻🎸 We run the annual June Belfast Book Festival 📚
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31/07/2026

As Belfast gear's up to host Fleadh 2026 (2 - 9 August), here's some useful details about The Crescent 🌙 during the Fleadh 👇

⭐️ Fringe Events in The Cube ⭐️
🎤 Monday 3 > Off The Scéal: Multilingual Open Mic Night
🎸 Friday 7 > Dean Friedman: In concert
🪉 Saturday 8 > Ursula Burns: Belfast Rebel Harp

⭐️ In the Café ⭐️
☕️ Café Husk will be open throughout the Fleadh serving refreshments and light bites.
🎶 Musicians are welcome to find a spot in the cafe to play a tune or two.
📚 The Crescent's Little Library: Take a book; Share a Book

More details, including the buildings opening hours, can be found here crescentarts.org/about/news/belfast-fleadh-at-the-crescent

24/07/2026

Our Autumn programme of courses and workshops are now online and available to book 🥳🤩

Courses can be found here 👉 https://crescentarts.org/courses
Workshops can be found here https://crescentarts.org/workshops

Term runs between September and December 2026: join us to make, do and create this Autumn 🧘‍♀️🎸🎨🩰🎭✏️

21/07/2026

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Job Opportunity: Customer Service Team Members ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

As the first point of welcome to The Crescent, we'd love to hear from folks who thrive on engaging with people, enjoy working in a team and are happy to be flexible in their working hours. Every day in our beautiful Heritage building is different, and this role will give you the chance to use your planning and organisational skills to manage daily building operations.

📆 Closing Date: 12pm (noon) on Monday 3 August 2026

For more details about the post 👉https://crescentarts.org/about/our-people/join-us

07/07/2026

⭐️ We are taking a little break ⭐️

The Crescent 🌙 will be closed from 5pm on Wednesday 8 July, reopening at 10am on Wednesday 15 July 🗓️

Cafe Husk is also having a little rest. They are reopening on Wednesday 15 July serving drinks and tasty sweet treats (full menu of food returns on Monday 20 July) ☕️🥗🍰🍳🍦🫖🍵🍪

Whilst the building is closed, The Crescent’s activity (courses, workshops and events), can be booked online 👉 CrescentArts.org

06/07/2026

✨Join our Team: We are recruiting for a Coordinator 💻🌙

As a Coordinator at The Crescent, you will provide solid administration to underpin The Crescent’s longstanding Courses & Workshops programme. The role is largely about timetabling, so you will work well with processes and procedures, and have an eye for detail. ✨ We're a small team so collaboration and communication are important, and you will likely work across other areas of the organisation. This is an ideal first job in the arts sector, or a career change opportunity 🌙

Click the following link for more details about the post 👉 https://bit.ly/TheCrescentVacancies

🗓️ Closing date: 12pm (noon) on Monday 27 July 2026.

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!

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. 📚

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 📚

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!

Address

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

Telephone

+442890242338

Website

http://www.crescentarts.org/, http://www.belfastbookfestival.com/

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