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Visual Art 6/11/09

I’ve finally returned to the new gallery on the Lisburn Road, the Salamander, which I mentioned a few weeks ago. Owned by Peter Wheatly-Smith, it is at 4A Maryville Avenue, a bright, modernised Victorian church hall.
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Inside Theatre & Arts

Seatbelts fastened for a colourful flight

Friday, 6 November 2009

Ever wondered what it’s like to turn left when you enter an aeroplane, and settle down with the beautiful people?
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Transsexual Jesus play sparks outrage

Thursday, 5 November 2009

The creator of a controversial play which depicts Christ returned to earth as a female transsexual has accused critics of misinterpreting her work. Nearly 300 people picketed the opening night of Jesus, Queen of Heaven at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow this week, part of the city’s publicly funded annual Glasgay! arts festival.
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Deepa’s art comes to Opera House

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Award-winning Ulster artist Deepa Mann-Kler is bringing her new exhibition “A Touch of the Red Blues” to Belfast’s Grand Opera House later this week.
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Michael McIntyre’s hyper energy won the audience over

Monday, 2 November 2009

Michael McIntyre has had a meteoric rise in popularity over the last few years. It’s not every stand-up comedian who can sell out the Odyssey Arena in Belfast for two nights, but McIntyre succeeded in style at the weekend.
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Gemma Atkinson

Soap stars set to bare all in Calendar Girls

Saturday, 31 October 2009

Former EastEnders star Letitia Dean and ex-Hollyoaks actress Gemma Atkinson are to strip off in the stage production of Calendar Girls.
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A spooky tale for Halloween chills

Friday, 30 October 2009

Are you one of the 24 hour party people? Those who answer ‘Yes’ are probably still drawing breath after the end of the Belfast Festival.
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JB Valley's Four musicians V is at the Tom Caldwell Gallery

Visual Art 30/10/09

Friday, 30 October 2009

It’s anniversary time on the Lisburn Road as two of Northern Ireland’s longest-running galleries, the Eakin and the Tom Caldwell, celebrate, respectively, twenty and forty years in the business.
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The artwork at Abercorn Residential Complex in Titanic Quarter

Titanic artwork unveiled in Belfast

Friday, 30 October 2009

A giant toy modelling kit of the Titanic was unveiled yesterday on the site where the doomed liner was built almost a century ago.
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Sean Scully: Artist who added the wow factor to museum opening

Saturday, 24 October 2009

Having just spent £17m on a facelift, the Ulster Museum needed its first major exhibition to be big on the ‘wow’ factor. Fortunately it is.
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Collage - Brennand- Wood's stars underfoot

Visual Art 23/10/09

Friday, 23 October 2009

There have been a number of exhibition openings since the launch of the Belfast Festival last week, including Pretty Deadly in The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s and Exquisite Corpse in the Ormeau Baths Gallery.
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Pied Piper -  Swedish singer Stefan Holmstrom in the Musician

Festival treats await hungry theatre fans

Friday, 23 October 2009

Here in Belfast, theatre-goers are picking their way through the box of dramatic treats on offer at the festival, like greedy nephews trawling through the different chocolates at Christmas — spoilt for choice!
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An artist's 'cutaway' impression of the new £18m Lyric Theatre complex which is due for completion in Spring of 2011

Revealed: How Belfast’s new Lyric Theatre will look

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

The Lyric Theatre is to give a sneaky peek into designs for its new building this Friday.
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Patton?s silkscreen, Mr Braddell?s Fish

Visual Art 16/10/09

Friday, 16 October 2009

This year’s Royal Ulster Academy exhibition is being held in the Cathedral Quarter and apparently an unprecedented 1,454 entries were received, resulting in around one in eight entries being accepted.
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To Be Straight With You is a hard-hitting play about homophobic violence

Find courage, horror and cheer at Festival

Friday, 16 October 2009

It’s eyes down for the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s, which kicks off tonight.
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Jim Jeffries: No angel

Friday, 16 October 2009

Every job has its occupational hazards, it seems, and life is no different for stand-up comedians, be it courtesy of double-bookings, shoddy venues, or even the occasional heckler.
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Belfast Telegraph offices, 15/16th April 1941
To purchase this photograph as large format canvas or acrylic visit Belfast Telegraph page on www.niphotocanvas.co.uk

Belfast Telegraph's canvases of historical Ulster : Belfast blitz

Friday, 16 October 2009

Belfast Telegraph which dates back to 1870 is offering a unique opportunity to buy selected images taken from the Belfast Telegraph historic archives mounted on canvas and acrylic.
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Hirst tumbles in 'art power' list

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Damien Hirst has tumbled almost 50 places in the space of a year from the top of a list of the contemporary art world's most powerful movers and shakers.
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Straight for the jugular

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Like many gay people, Lloyd Newson has seen the venom of anti-gay bigotry at close quarters.
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‘Macbeth: Who is that Bloodied Man?’

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Macbeth is a story which has been told many times before. How is this production different?
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Art experts find 'new Da Vinci worth £100m'

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci which a London art dealer says is worth nearly £100 million.
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