Live Events At The Crescent

The Crescent is a hub for Festivals and a platform for showcasing talent, ideas and conversations. Events are held in our beautiful space ‘The Cube’ and Ground Floor Studio. Lots of events are BYO. Our annual June Belfast Book Festival celebrates local and international talent.

Be sure to check out programme of creative courses and workshops too!

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Music

Tarang: Wave of Melodies

Friday 16 May 2025
BYO

Gig

Stripped Down: Reevah & Vera

Saturday 24 May 2025

Exhibition

Art of Translation: Exhibition Curated by Anna Morrison

Thursday 01 May 2025
until Monday 30 June 2025

Workshops

Andy McKee: Guitar Clinic

Friday 30 May 2025

Gig

Andy McKee

Friday 30 May 2025

Moving on Music

Tengger

Monday 02 June 2025
1:1

Belfast Book Festival

1:1 Portfolio Review: Illustration with Anna Morrison

Thursday 05 June 2025
1:1

Belfast Book Festival

1:1 Headshots with Neil Hainsworth

Thursday 05 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Managing Your Creative Collaborations: Society of Authors

Thursday 05 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Pathways to Publication: Panel Discussions for Writers

Thursday 05 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Late Night Art: Drink & Draw

Thursday 05 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Mairtín Crawford Awards - Winners Announcement!

Thursday 05 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Kristian Nairn: Beyond the Throne

Thursday 05 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Short Stories from the North: Martin Doyle, Declan Meade & Tara McEvoy

Thursday 05 June 2025
1:1

Belfast Book Festival

1:1 Portfolio Review: Illustration with Anna Morrison

Friday 06 June 2025
1:1

Belfast Book Festival

1:1 Quick Pitch with Agent Christabel McKinley

Friday 06 June 2025
1:1

Belfast Book Festival

1:1 Headshots with Neil Hainsworth

Friday 06 June 2025
Book Festival Workshop

Belfast Book Festival

Write So! with The Stinging Fly

Friday 06 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

The Stories We Tell: Kathryn Scanlan & Wendy Erskine

Friday 06 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Writing & Animation: Books & Screen

Friday 06 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Luke Harding: Ukraine & the New World Order

Friday 06 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Poetry Slam!

Friday 06 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Sam McAlister & Lucia Osborne-Crowley: Speaking Truth to Power

Friday 06 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

When Circus Came to Belfast! A Storytelling & Circus Skills Workshop

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Peachicks & Elephants! With Clive McFarland & Ellan Rankin

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Fighting Words NI: Showcase

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Supertato Silliness with Paul Linnet

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Hidden Depths: Writing Male Characters with Garrett Carr & Michael Ped

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

A Special Event with Oliver Jeffers

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Mind Your Language! Jan Carson & Clara Ministral in conversation

Saturday 07 June 2025
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Belfast Book Festival

Celebrating the work of Michael Longley: Hosted by Paul Muldoon

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

An Evening with Tessa Hadley: Hosted by Lucy Caldwell

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

How to Raise a Viking with Helen Russell

Saturday 07 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Belfast Zine Fair In partnership with Paperxclips

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Wild Stories: Why Nature Needs you - Ruby Free & Guests

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Irish Writers Centre: Information Session

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Rethinking the Swinging Sixties with Peter Doggett

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Page to Screen: Kathryn Ferguson, Wendy Erskine & Stacey Gregg

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Irish Writers Centre Showcase: Young Writer Delegates & New Voices: N

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

In the good seats: Michael Magee, Susannah Dickey & Darran Anderson

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

In the good seats: Michael Magee, Susannah Dickey & Darran Anderson

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

An Evening with Joseph O’Connor

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

A Flat Place: Noreen Masud in conversation with Suad Aldarra

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

The Literary Legacy of Edna O’Brien

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Beatlemania: The best books about The Beatles

Sunday 08 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Rhythm & Rhyme With Libraries NI

Monday 09 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Life on the Fringes: Eoin McNamee & Darran Anderson

Monday 09 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

An evening with Eimear McBride

Monday 09 June 2025
1:1

Belfast Book Festival

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Mark Aldridge with Jan Carson

Monday 09 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Roddy Doyle: In conversation with Glenn Patterson

Monday 09 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Priya Mistry & the Lost Treasure with Babita Sharma

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Writing for our Times: Hannah Lavery, Wayne Miller & Róisín Lanigan

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Family Matters: Claire Lynch & Roisín O'Donnell

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Robert Fisk: Reporting from the Frontline - Nelofer Pazira-Fisk

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Page-turning Thrillers: Andrea Carter & Brian McGilloway

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Writing Belfast: Stories of a Changing City - Paul McVeigh

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Rhythm & Rhyme With Libraries NI

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Fane Street Primary School Performance inspired by Ashwin Chacko Wild

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Craving Connection: John Patrick McHugh & Thomas Morris

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Harbour Doubts: Hands-On! Bebe Ashley & Anthony Sinclair

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

The Brighton Bomb: Narrative Approaches

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Macha Press: Experimental Poetry - Sam Furlong & Susanna Galbraith

Wednesday 11 June 2025
until Thursday 05 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

The Crescent Writers Read

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Wendy Erskine: The Benefactors

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Priya Mistry & the Lost Treasure with Babita Sharma

Thursday 12 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Poet in Residence, Niamh Twomey, Presents

Thursday 12 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Celebrating ‘Art of Translation’

Thursday 12 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Over the Top Under the Radar: Gary Younge & Carys Afoko

Thursday 12 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

An evening with the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows

Thursday 12 June 2025

Belfast Book Festival

Gráinne O’Hare: Thirst Trap

Thursday 12 June 2025
BYO

Belfast Guitar Festival

Belfast Guitar Festival 2025 Songs in the key of Fleetwood Mac

Saturday 23 August 2025

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