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Outburst Festival events in Belfast

The Outburst Queer Arts Festival programme, 12 to 21 November: films, talks, performance, exhibitions and a closing Queereoke, wherever each one is on.

46 approved listings across 7 kinds of event over the next two weeks.

Saturday 14 November 5 listings

Afternoon 1

Tonight 1

19:30

Gulliver in Love

The MAC · The Studio · City centre · Theatre & dance · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details In a world of horses, men and questionable life choices, one adventurer is searching for love. Skydiving from the 300th anniversary of Belfast-inspired classic, Gulliver's Travels, Galway-based theatre artist Raphaël Adams drops Gulliver into the world of modern-day queer dating, in a daring new interactive theatre show where you, the audience, take meet-cutes to a whole new level. Jonathan Swift meets Grindr as we join Gulliver on a surreal journey through queer parties, where only the best can make it to the top. A satirical performance that places audiences at the centre of a dating odyssey, Gulliver in Love reveals just how sexy 18th century literature can be. During his night out, our intrepid explorer asks us: "what does connection look like in a culture shaped by prescribed social scripts, digital loneliness and sanitised queerness?". Can you help Gulliver find real love? Age Guidance: 18+
£7–1518+Tickets & info

Ongoing 3

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Sunday 15 November 4 listings

Afternoon 1

12:00

Anecdote as Evidence Sold out

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Talks & books · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details A gossipy tour through DARKROOMS the work and archives of Emma Wolf-Haugh, led by Lyónn Wolf. Lyónn engages the exhibited materials; photographs, archive objects, zines and textile works, in an anecdotal storytelling of the life and works of Emma Wolf-Haugh, touching on histories of Irish queer club culture, the horrors of the institutional art world and queer working class poetics. Age Guidance: 18+
Free18+Venue listing

Tonight 1

Ongoing 2

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Monday 16 November 3 listings

Tonight 1

18:30

Sex in Public

The MAC · The Sunken Gallery · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details A performance by Emma Wolf-Haugh re-staged by Lyónn Wolf, followed by a conversation with Matty Kennedy. Lives at the intersections of systems of oppression are threatened on the streets, by lovers, in the bedroom and in the bushes. How do we maintain spaces for shared sensual/sexual pleasure and care when personal safety is at risk? Sex in Public is a hissing ephemeral moment of queer abundance and potentiality, a horizon in the midst of deprivation, denial, trauma and violence. Through this generative exercise, Sex in Public seeks to activate a colloquialism of queer reclamation, staking ownership to spaces and networks under queer economies of care. Matty Kennedy is an interdisciplinary empiricist specialising in trans studies. An educator, writer and senior research fellow at Queen's University Belfast, he's an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin and co-chair for Trans* Research Association of Ireland. Age Guidance: 18+
£5–818+Tickets & info

Ongoing 2

Tuesday 17 November 3 listings

Ongoing 3

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Wednesday 18 November 5 listings

Afternoon 1

15:15

Outburst: Edhi Alice: Take

Queen's Film Theatre · South Belfast · Film · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Offering an important East Asian perspective on queerness, Edhi Alice: Take is a visually stunning, thoughtful and uncompromising documentary, exploring the trans experience and allyship in South Korea. Director Ilrhan Kim interrogates how documentaries about trans communities are made: the creative decisions, relationships, and ethical questions involved. The subject of the documentary is Edhi, who works as a counsellor for LGBTQ+ teens in Seoul, and has decided to undertake gender reassignment surgery. Edhi’s story intertwines with that of Alice, the lighting technician on the film crew and an older trans woman, who is preoccupied with challenging popular stereotypes about female and male bodies. The film explores queer and trans existence not as an abstract question of identity but as something continually negotiated through everyday life, performance, work, relationships, visibility, and self-representation. This screening includes a recorded introduction by director Il-rhan Kim. Kim is a member of PINKS, a queer feminist media group based in South Korea that has been highlighting the voices of marginalised communities on topics of gender diversity, social movements, and labour rights since 2004.
Not Rated; English subtitlesTickets & info

Tonight 1

Ongoing 3

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Thursday 19 November 5 listings

Afternoon 1

14:30

Outburst: Dry Ground Burning

Queen's Film Theatre · South Belfast · Film · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Dry Ground Burning by directors Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós ( Once There Was Brasilia ) is a brilliantly provocative portrait of Brazil’s dystopian moment under Bolsonaro. Blending documentary with narrative fiction and gangster genre elements, it offers a unique vision of the country’s possible future and of cinema itself as a radical means of resistance. Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and militarised government, Chitara’s women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of radical political resistance.
Not Rated; English subtitlesTickets & info

Tonight 1

19:00

Why Am I Like This?

The Black Box · City centre · Theatre & dance · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
The gays are absolutely everywhere. Through millenia of evolution, homosexuality has prevailed and gay babies continue to be born. But why? And even more importantly: how? Hester Ectomy is NOT a scientist. He’s a comedian with a Wikipedia account. And he wants answers. Developed through Outburst’s Brewing programme in 2025, this new full version of Why am I like this? unpacks the abundance of niche and outlandish theories around the science of what makes us queer. Born of boredom, self-indulgent curiosity and questionable research methodologies, Hester invites you on a journey of gay twins, gender identity clinics and horny elephants, in an interactive TED Talk that will probably leave you with far more questions than you came in with. Make sure your phone is charged and log on to the Black Box wifi to join in Hester’s audience opinion polls, as we ask: does your biology decide who you are, or do you? 18+ 18+
£12–15Tickets & info

Ongoing 3

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Friday 20 November 6 listings

Afternoon 1

14:00

The problem with counting: LGBTQ lives, data and the film and TV industry

The Seamus Heaney Centre · Talks & books · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh) shares ideas from his book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion, which explores how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the categories and classifications we encounter every day. Covering everything from quotas in the film and television industry to the design of diversity monitoring forms, Guyan argues that the promise of inclusion requires LGBTQ people to locate themselves in an ever-growing list of classifications, categories and labels. This requirement to be classified catches LGBTQ communities in a rainbow trap. Because when we look beyond the welcoming veneer of inclusive interventions, we uncover sorting processes that determine what LGBTQ lives are valued and what queer futures are possible.
£5Tickets & info

Tonight 2

18:30

Exhibition Tour: David Hoyle on Queer Art Sold out

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details For over four decades, David Hoyle has queered the boundaries between live art, performance, theatre and cabaret - conquering nightlife around the world and working extensively in film and TV. The original performance avalanche, his infamous alter-ego The Divine David transported him from radical alternative settings in the '80s to Channel 4 in the '90s, with a recent online collab with Parisian fashion house Mugler once again catapulting him into the headlines. A passionate art lover and prolific visual artist, David has exhibited his paintings at Goswell Road gallery in Paris. In 2024 the Aviva Studios in Manchester held a retrospective of his career to date, Please Feel Free to Ignore My Work , focusing on key themes that run through his work: gender, mental health, AIDS, revolution, decadence and the effects of capitalism. Who better, then, to take us on a tour of our Outburst exhibition at the MAC?
£7–1516+Venue listing
20:00

No Apologies

The Black Box · City centre · Music · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
No Apologies is a radical, queer mis-remembering of Nirvana’s iconic 1993 MTV Unplugged concert, written and performed by multi award-winning theatre and TV writer Emma Frankland. Urgent and politically sharp, this spectacular collision between theatre and grunge, autobiography and alternate history, weaves threads of pop culture with mythology and ritual, fuelled by the experience of coming-of-age in the nineties. 18+
£15–18Tickets & info

Ongoing 3

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Saturday 21 November 10 listings

Morning 1

Afternoon 4

12:00

Amazônia EcoQueer: Cuir ecologies and artists’ moving image in the Brazilian Amazon

The Ledger Studio (University of Atypical) · Talks & books · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
How have LGBTQIAPN+* moving image artists from the Brazilian Amazon been imagining queer ecological futures for the region? In this timely and vital talk, queer researcher and curator Danilo Baraúna presents the key ideas of the Amazônia EcoQueer project and contextualises Amazonian queer and trans artists' moving image within Latin American cuir** ecologies. He examines how Amazonian cuir artists highlight local knowledge and history through a decolonial reimagining of spiritual beings and the development of a queer intimacy with Amazonian cities. 16+
£5Tickets & info
13:45

Nat Reeve

Paperxclips · Talks & books · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
One of the most beloved new queer fiction writers of recent years, Nat Reeve has been called “a breath of fresh air in historical fiction” for his subversive and playful queer ride through the Victorian era in Nettleblack (Cipher Press 2022), and again in the wonderful follow-up Earlyfate (Cipher Press 2024), which threw us us back into the same madcap Neo-Victorian world where queerness is a given and chaos is mandatory. We’re excited to welcome Nat to Outburst and to Paperxclips, to read from his work and talk about what’s possible when we brush the dust off history and see the past for the lively, exciting, queer place that it was. 16+
£5–10Tickets & info
15:30

The Big Talk - Panel

The Ledger Studio (University of Atypical) · Talks & books · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
The Outburst Queer Arts Festival BIG TALK is our final-day discussion event each year that centres some of the big ideas and issues that queer artists, writers and activists have brought to the programme. The panel includes experts and artists, with you, the audience, a vital part of the conversation too. This year we’re going in the deep end to ask “What are the possibilities for our queer futures when we centre queer ideas, queer culture and queer methods, beyond the institution? 16+
£5–10Tickets & info

Tonight 2

18:00

Parful Powerpoint Party: Queer magic, Myth and Monsters Sold out

PS2 · Comedy · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
It’s the one you’ve been waiting for… on queer magic, myth and monsters. For the PPPP uninitiated, each presenter has up to ten minutes to share a power point presentation on their topic, be it a hot take, personal ranking, unhinged thesis, love letter to their niche interest, or burning arcane knowledge that they simply must share with the room. Facilitated by PPPPros Siobhán Barbour and Helen Gomez, PPPP is frequently enlightening, delightfully unhinged and often hilarious DIY queer entertainment at its best. As this one is informed by themes of otherness, queer power and possibility, please note that PPPPP - especially, deliciously, this one - may have adult themes. PPPP is open to all, so if you'd like to submit a topic to present on, complete the form on our website once you've booked your ticket. The deadline for submissions is 24 October and we’ll confirm selected topics by 30 October. Bring your own refreshments / BYOB. Following the event, we’ll be sticking around for pre-Queereoke Get Ready With Us dress up/ make up / costume put-together and you’re welcome to get ready for the party with us! 18+
Tickets & info
20:30

Artistic Interference: Array Collective & David Hoyle Queereoke

The Black Box · City centre · Music · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Your favourite radical karaoke is back to close out the festival and this time we’re coming for the algorithm! Join Array Collective and Absolutely Incandescent guest hosts David Hoyle and Céardha Morgan for an Agreeably Irreverent night of Artistic Interference in the tech-bro frat-boy billionaire surveillance world of Articfical Intelligence. Come gather in song to poison their data before they poison our air and water! Dance at the Altar of Inscrutable organic chemistry, as our human voices unite to sonically decimate the deep fake! Have your sting-ray signal jammer make-up done by our expert anti-AI beauticians and construct Artistic Interference as we take to the mic to remain unwieldy, uncategorical and ungovernable. 18+
£15–18Tickets & info

Ongoing 3

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Sunday 22 November 1 listing

Ongoing 1

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Tuesday 24 November 1 listing

Ongoing 1

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Wednesday 25 November 1 listing

Ongoing 1

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Thursday 26 November 1 listing

Ongoing 1

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info

Friday 27 November 1 listing

Ongoing 1

Open

Unruly Ordinances

The MAC · The MAC Galleries · City centre · Exhibitions · LGBTQ+ · Outburst Festival
Details Outburst Arts and the MAC proudly present Unruly Ordinances, a major group exhibition of queer artists from the last two decades. Collectively curated through conversations on queer practice between Outburst collaborators Dayna Ash, Eoin Dara, Haven for Artists, Laima Kreivytė, Kim McAleese, Ruth McCarthy, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Monica Pearl and Lyónn Wolf, this selection of installation, sculptural, drawing, photographic and video works opens up expansive and radical conversations on queerness, embracing all of its dissident and tender potential. From newly commissioned works that playfully disrupt thinking on archiving and remembering; to reflections on land, language and material conditions, Unruly Ordinances recentres queer as a generative, slippery, critical and unfixed thing, inciting imagination and catalysing daring possibility. Launching as part of the 20th annual Outburst Queer Arts Festival on November 12, the exhibition will be accompanied by a dynamic three-month public programme, bringing together artists, activists, academics and audiences through talks, screenings, publishing, performances and workshops Artists Array Collective Kian Benson Bailes A.Mac Giolla Bhríde Reuben Brown Batool Desouky Sarah Joy Ford Caoimhín Gaffney Agnė Jokšė Breda Lynch Ebun Sodipo Eimear Walshe Lyónn Wolf Supported by The Ampersand Foundation w ith additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund and Lithuanian Cultural Institute.
FreeTickets & info