The MAC

The MAC We're the MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre), a cultural hub in Belfast for visual art, theatre & more. Currently closed - reopening Wednesday 5 January at 9am.
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World Environment Day ♻️ Visiting us soon? Make it a lower-waste visit with a few easy switches.Even small changes, like...
06/06/2026

World Environment Day ♻️

Visiting us soon? Make it a lower-waste visit with a few easy switches.
Even small changes, like bringing your own keep cup, can make a big difference over time.

Lunch that fits around your day 🤤Desk lunch, on-the-go lunch or a proper sit-down lunch. However it’s happening for you ...
05/06/2026

Lunch that fits around your day 🤤

Desk lunch, on-the-go lunch or a proper sit-down lunch. However it’s happening for you today, we’ve got it covered, including this week’s grab-and-go classic: the Belfast bap.

No Room at the Flat: A DLA Christmas Story 🎁 Our Upstairs Christmas show is on sale nai! DLA returns with this fast-pace...
03/06/2026

No Room at the Flat: A DLA Christmas Story 🎁

Our Upstairs Christmas show is on sale nai! DLA returns with this fast-paced local Christmas comedy set over one increasingly unhinged night in a crumbling Belfast flat.

Horse and Susie are preparing for a bleak Christmas Eve when a baby in a Moses basket appears outside their door with no explanation. Reluctantly bringing it inside 'just until someone comes to claim it’, they quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the situation.

3 - 31 December | 16+ | Tickets: https://themaclive.com/event/a-dla-christmas-special-no-room-at-the-flat

Celebrating 10 years of Patrick J O'Reilly 🎉 As our associate theatre company, we want to mark 10 years of Patrick and T...
02/06/2026

Celebrating 10 years of Patrick J O'Reilly 🎉

As our associate theatre company, we want to mark 10 years of Patrick and Tinderbox's work for theatre audiences and the wider theatre community.

You never quite know what you’re walking into with a Tinderbox show, but you know it’ll be something worth seeing. Funny, energetic, moving, unexpected - sometimes all at once.

Alongside their productions, they’ve also created space for artists through workshops focused on health and wellbeing, while supporting emerging theatre talent on and off stage.

All of this under Patrick’s direction, with a strong artistic vision guiding the work.

Congratulations Patrick, and thanks for everything you’ve brought to the theatre community over the last 10 years.

📷️ Lost Lens Caps

02/06/2026

Strange Evidence: Michelle William Gamaker

Upper Gallery | Tuesday–Sunday | 11am–5pm

01/06/2026

Volunteer’s Week 💫

This week, we’re celebrating the amazing volunteers who play a vital role in making the MAC what it is. From supporting events to welcoming visitors, their time, energy and passion are at the heart of what we do.

Hear from a few of our volunteers as they share their experiences.

01/06/2026

What’s on this June at the MAC ☀️

Details of all events via the link in our bio 

31/05/2026

Meet the Artist: Kwok Tsui

Kwok Tsui's Many Moons Ago presents quiet, process-led paintings that explore themes of belonging and the in-between through materiality rather than direct narrative. His subtractive method - removing rather than adding paint - becomes a metaphor for diaspora identity, where absence, erasure, and memory coexist.

https://themaclive.com/exhibition/kwok-tsui-many-moons-ago

Tall Gallery | Tuesday – Sunday | 11am – 5pm

Global Rhythms 🥁 Travel the world through music on Refugee Day with Joe Loughlin from The Gathering Drum! In this worksh...
30/05/2026

Global Rhythms 🥁

Travel the world through music on Refugee Day with Joe Loughlin from The Gathering Drum!

In this workshop for ages 7–11, little drummers will discover rhythms from around the world and get hands-on with a range of percussion instruments, including hand drums, steel drums, and more.

20 June | 7-11 yrs | Tickets: https://themaclive.com/event/global-rhythms

Lubaina Himid Predicting History: Testing Translation We want to extend a huge congratulations to Lubaina Himid on the ...
29/05/2026

Lubaina Himid Predicting History: Testing Translation

We want to extend a huge congratulations to Lubaina Himid on the hugely successful opening of her exhibition Predicting History: Testing Translation at the 61st La Biennale di Venezia.

We're excited to be presenting the exhibition here at the MAC in 2027 with the generous support of British Council & Art Fund. Lubaina’s practice explores themes of race, identity, belonging and colonial histories which will resonance strongly here in Belfast.

📷️ Eva Herzog

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10 Exchange Street West
Belfast
BT12NJ

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 7pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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