EastSide Visitor Centre

Creative Beans are a Belfast-based drawing collective who encourage fun, easy-going and explorative drawing! They’ll be guiding you on a ‘Green Beans’ drawing walk along the Connswater Greenway where you'll draw 'plein air' the plants and wildlife around you. Some materials will be provided but you are encouraged to bring your own drawing materials too. IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION Meet outside the EastSide Visitors Centre at 10am. Please bring appropriate clothing for the weather. VENUE INFORMATION AccessibilityThis is an accessible route. If you have any specific accessibility queries please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com ParkingParking is available at Connswater Shopping Centre or Arches Health Centre. Please be mindful when parking in residential areas. Public Transport Travel with our sponsor and active travel partner, Translink. Enjoy a range of great value tickets at www.translink.co.uk Train: The nearest NIR stop, Titanic Quarter, is a 10 minute walk away. Glider: G1 service to Holywood Arches Halt Metro: 3A/3F/3G to Ribble Street Stop Ulsterbus: 502a to Connswater Stop Thank you for booking a ticket to this year’s Eastside Arts Festival. We look forward to welcoming you.

Create your very own Pitch Pot from terracotta clay. Learn new skills in a calming creative process and sculpt something new. Use sculptural tools and pieces of nature to create, patterns shapes and detailing.Beginner friendly. IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION Refunds: Tickets cannot be refunded other than in the case of event cancellationThis is an advance ticketed event. There will be no tickets sold at the event. Doors open at 6.00pm VENUE INFORMATION Accessibility: This is an accessible venue. If you have any specific accessibility queries please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Parking: Parking is available onsite Public Transport: Travel with our sponsor and active travel partner, Translink. Enjoy a range of great value tickets at www.translink.co.uk Train: The nearest NIR stop, Titanic Quarter, is a 10 minute walk away. Glider: G1 service to Holywood Arches Halt Metro: 3A/3F/3G to Ribble Street Stop Ulsterbus: 502a to Connswater Stop Dogs are not allowed at ticketed events in this venue. If you have any queries about assistance animals please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Thank you for booking a ticket to this year’s Eastside Arts Festival. We look forward to welcoming you.

Mark Johnston has spent a lifetime connecting people with trees. Through his work he has pioneered new ideas and approaches to urban forestry and urban greening that have received international recognition. Mark will discuss some of his city-wide projects and recent examples of urban forestry and the arts, including some with an international perspective. Mark Johnston has a PhD in urban forestry and is a fellow of the professional bodies for arboriculture, forestry and horticulture. He has over fifty years’ experience in the ‘tree world’, including working as a tree surgery contractor, tree officer in local government, consultant in private practice, government adviser and university academic. As a result of his work, Mark is recognised as a pioneer in the development of urban forestry and urban greening not only in Britain and Ireland but internationally. His recently published autobiography Planting Ideas in the Urban Forest is available as a free e-book from www.markjohnstontrees.com and features his work in developing several city-wide projects and national programmes. IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION Doors open at 7.00pm VENUE INFORMATION Accessibility: This is an accessible venue. If you have any specific accessibility queries please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Parking:Parking is available at Connswater Shopping Centre. Public Transport: Travel with our sponsor and active travel partner, Translink. Enjoy a range of great value tickets at www.translink.co.uk Train: The nearest NIR stop, Titanic Quarter, is a 10 minute walk away. Glider: G1 service to Holywood Arches Halt Metro: 3A/3F/3G to Ribble Street Stop Ulsterbus: 502a to Connswater Stop Dogs are not allowed at ticketed events in this venue. If you have any queries about assistance animals please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Thank you for booking a ticket to this year’s EastSide Arts Festival. We look forward to welcoming you.

Join Femina Culpla for a poetry reading and panel discussion on 19th century working class women’s voice. Femina Culpa is a poetry collective, featuring Milena Williamson, Linda McKenna, Emma McKervey and Kelly Creighton. All of our work revolves around historical research and archival materials, and in the gaps in the records we find poetry. The main focus of our collections has been on working class women caught up in the criminal justice system of the 19th century, the cultural and media attitudes towards these women, with the uncovered narratives taking us from Tipperary to Staten Island, London to the Outer Hebrides. IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION Doors open at 7.00pm VENUE INFORMATION Accessibility: This is an accessible venue. If you have any specific accessibility queries please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Parking: Parking is available onsite Public Transport: Travel with our sponsor and active travel partner, Translink. Enjoy a range of great value tickets at www.translink.co.uk Train: The nearest NIR stop, Titanic Quarter, is a 10 minute walk away. Glider: G1 service to Holywood Arches Halt Metro: 3A/3F/3G to Ribble Street Stop Ulsterbus: 502a to Connswater Stop Thank you for booking a ticket to this year’s Eastside Arts Festival. We look forward to welcoming you.

This is a free event, open 10am - 5pm. No booking is required. With restrictions on creative expression and gender apartheid by the regime, women and girls in Afghanistan have no rights and are being erased for society. Belfast has become a safe harbour for art exported from Afghanistan, painted in secret by women and girls. Paintings are sold through Belfast locally and internationally supporting the women and their families. This exhibition features some of the exported art and some art by Afghan women in the diaspora. VENUE INFORMATION Accessibility: This is an accessible venue. If you have any specific accessibility queries please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Parking: Parking is available onsite. Public Transport: Travel with our sponsor and active travel partner,T ranslink. Enjoy a range of great value tickets at www.translink.co.uk Train: The nearest NIR stop, Titanic Quarter, isa10 minute walk away. Glider: G1 service to Holywood Arches Halt Metro: 3A/3F/3G to Ribble Street Stop Ulsterbus: 502a to Connswater Stop

Painting workshop facilitated by an Afghan artist for any age and ability. IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION This is an advance ticketed event. There will be no tickets sold at the event. Doors open at 12:00pm VENUE INFORMATION Accessibility: This is an accessible venue. If you have any specific accessibility queries please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Parking: Parking is available onsite Public Transport: Travel with our sponsor and active travel partner, Translink. Enjoy a range of great value tickets at www.translink.co.uk Train: The nearest NIR stop, Titanic Quarter, is a 10 minute walk away. Glider: G1 service to Holywood Arches Halt Metro: 3A/3F/3G to Ribble Street Stop Ulsterbus: 502a to Connswater Stop Dogs are not allowed at ticketed events in this venue. If you have any queries about assistance animals please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Thank you for booking a ticket to this year’s Eastside Arts Festival. We look forward to welcoming you.

Van Morrison is undoubtedly Belfast’s best-known musician and among the most-distinguished musicians of our times. Come on this gentle two-hour walking tour, with Creative Tours Belfast, to explore Van Morrison’s East Belfast. Van released a new album in January this year, Somebody Tried to Sell Me A Bridge, and continues to tour extensively. This walking tour explores the area Van Morrison grew up in. You will see the street he lived on as a young boy, the parks he played in, the primary school he attended, The Hollow, and more, as we walk streets and see spots that you’ll recognise the names of from his lyrics. The tour will also reference the area’s industrial heritage. Music clips will be played along the way. Guests will each receive a copy of the ‘Mystic of the East’ booklet. Please meet outside Café Nero at the EastSide Visitor Centre on Newtownards Road ten minutes before the start time. The tour will conclude back there too. Tickets cannot be refunded other than in the case of event cancellation IMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION This is an advance ticketed event. There will be no tickets sold at the event. VENUE INFORMATION Accessibility: The tour includes areas of uneven terrain if you have any access needs please contact eastsidearts@eastsidepartnership.com Parking: Parking is available nearby a Connswater Shopping Centre. Please park considerately on residential streets. Public Transport: Travel with our sponsor and active travel partner, Translink. Enjoy a range of great value tickets at www.translink.co.uk Train: The nearest NIR stop, Titanic Quarter, is a 10 minute walk away. Glider: G1 service to Holywood Arches Halt Metro: 3A/3F/3G to Ribble Street Stop Ulsterbus: 502a to Connswater Stop

THIS EVENT IS TICKETED BY THE STRAND Follow this link for Tickets and More Info Discover the science behind early cinema, and have a go at making ‘moving pictures’ using zoetropes. Then learn about the design of early cinemas and make your own paper cinema to take home. Delivered by the Strand’s Heritage Officer, Rosie Hickey. Recommended for ages 6 - 11