I’ll have my painting ‘Midnight Flower’ displayed on Friday 8/12/23 in the Crescent Arts Centre “Take the Stage” event. An evening of readings, dance performance, drama, music and art by all who enjoyed courses & workshops recently in The Crescent. Feel free to drop-in between 5pm & 8pm if you’re in Belfast and the cafe art exhibition will run into the New Year..🎨🍷
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BELFAST! Tonight’s the night!
DRAG TO MAKE YOU GAG
Featuring local queens of colour, AFAB queens, trans and non-binary kings, we truly are f*cking the cis-tem up tonight.
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This is a very important event to me in terms of literal (I am hosting and organising and responsible for bringing people in) and on a spiritual level (I will finally be able to show my art and my friends’ art unfiltered). Please if you are in the Belfast/Antrim area take a bus to town and support local queer art and performance. All these people work so hard making, organising, and designing costumes and they rarely get the compensation they deserve for it.
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EXAMPLES OF URBAN EXPRESSION
Belfast is famous for its murals but in general I do not photograph them as every visitor to the city photographs them and they usually ignore other forms of urban expression around the city.
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Sinn Fein's victory puts the future of Northern Ireland into question.
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I know in some very personal, very literal ways about how horrific the treatment of the Irish was very recently. But in some ways it feels very nebulous until you remember how brutal, violent and cruel the British government was to Irish people and Irish prisoners especially.
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#OTD in 1848 – ‘Starvation Fever of 1847’ article by Dr. Daniel Donovan of Skibbereen, Co Cork was published in the Dublin Medical Press.
Skibbereen was synonymous with the Genocide of 1845-52 with reports of pestilence, starvation and death from that area on an almost biblical scale. However, there are also stories of extraordinary courage and heroic deeds about those who ministered to the afflicted and who did so much to alleviate their great distress.
Canon John O’Rourke, who visited Skibbereen when carrying out research for his…
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B E L F A S T - february 2023
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A SHAPE SHIFTING FLOCK OF STARLINGS KNOWN AS A MURMURATION
Ireland hosts hundreds of thousands of Starlings from numerous countries all over northern Europe each winter, and every evening they group together and perform mesmerising murmurations before settling down to roost together for the night.
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