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Live Events At The Crescent

The Crescent is a hub for Festivals and a platform for showcasing talent, ideas and conversations. We have a range of in-person events and online events which are listed below.

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Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Patron’s Picks: Lucy Caldwell: Wendy Erskine & Yan Ge

Tuesday 13 June 2023
Professional Development

Belfast Book Festival

Headshots @ The FunFair

Wednesday 14 June 2023
Professional Development

Belfast Book Festival

The Belfast Book Festival FunFair

Wednesday 14 June 2023
Drop-in

Belfast Book Festival

The Big Top: Readings with the Stinging Fly

Wednesday 14 June 2023
Celebration

Belfast Book Festival

Mairtín Crawford Awards – Announcing the Winners!

Wednesday 14 June 2023
Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Deirdre Madden in conversation with Wendy Erskine

Wednesday 14 June 2023
Non-Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Cracking the Menopause

Wednesday 14 June 2023
Professional Development

Belfast Book Festival

The Society of Authors Information Session

Thursday 15 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Greens, Tolls, Weeds: Zaffar Kunial, Jess McKinney & Emma Must

Thursday 15 June 2023
Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Translink’s Novel Journeys: Richard Ford & Michael Magee

Thursday 15 June 2023
Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Memory, Regrets & Disputed Facts: Sarah Gilmartin & Kathleen McMahon

Thursday 15 June 2023
In Conversation

Belfast Book Festival

Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows: Roddy Doyle Conor Mitchell & Kae Tempest

Thursday 15 June 2023
Non-Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

The Voice of Carers & The Power of Writing

Friday 16 June 2023

Belfast Book Festival

Incanting Leland Bardwell: Exhibition Launch

Friday 16 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Crossed Paths: Translation Communities (Anthologies)

Friday 16 June 2023
Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Translations & New Worlds

Friday 16 June 2023
until Friday 09 June 2023
Non-Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Writing Home: Jane Clarke, Eoghan Daltun & Sally Huband

Friday 16 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Seas, Margins, Dreams

Friday 16 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Poetry Slam

Friday 16 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Salon: ‘his [sic] art’: Tara Bergin & Leontia Flynn

Friday 16 June 2023
Readings

Belfast Book Festival

Taking the Stage

Saturday 17 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Queer Connections: Toby Buckley, Mary Montague & Leeanne Quinn

Saturday 17 June 2023
Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Writing Girlhood: Maureen Boyle, Parwana Fayyaz & Rachel Long

Saturday 17 June 2023
Non-Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Artists: Estates, Legacy, Money, Control: Eamonn Forde & Conor Mitchel

Saturday 17 June 2023
Non-Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Worlds of Motherhood: Doreen Cunningham & Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Saturday 17 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Formal Promiscuities

Saturday 17 June 2023
Music & Words

Belfast Book Festival

If the River Is Hidden

Saturday 17 June 2023
Non-Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

Feelgood Feminist Fiction: Anne Booth & Sheena Wilkinson

Saturday 17 June 2023
Music & Words

Belfast Book Festival

RTÉ Sunday Miscellany: Live at Belfast Book Festival

Sunday 18 June 2023
Non-Fiction

Belfast Book Festival

The Big Italian Quiz

Sunday 18 June 2023
until Thursday 18 May 2023
Professional Development

Belfast Book Festival

Society of Young Publishers Ireland: Book Club & Book Swap

Sunday 18 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

Love Poetry Today: Bebe Ashley, Leeanne Quinn & Stephen Sexton

Sunday 18 June 2023
Poetry

Belfast Book Festival

The Lifeboat Press William Keohane & Dane Holt Pamphlet Launch

Sunday 18 June 2023

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