What's on

Come and enjoy an Irish Hallowe’en with games, storytelling and fancy dress

Poets Paddy Bushe and Caitriona O’Reilly read from their collections and discuss their current projects

Singer, guitarist and pianist Rosena Horan will focus on songs with an environmental theme

Three exceptional pipers and two visual artists pay homage to the magic of the Irish uilleann pipes in this ‘tour de force’ of music and live art performance devised by Donal Dineen. Different workshops led by the pipers are open to the public in the morning

A gripping film that follows a small island fisherman who embarked on a European campaign to try and regain his ancestors’ right to fish the seas around Donegal

The acoustics and intimate atmosphere in CCI’s chapel lend themselves perfectly to our ‘unplugged’ Chapel Sessions launched tonight by Liam O Maonlaí, best known as lead singer of the Hothouse Flowers, and Paris-based Sam Tshabalala

An evening of music and film with Lioba Petrie performing her new score for short sci-fi film La Jetée and Fiona Hallinan launching Heterodyne/Paris, a site-specific musical score created for the ‘Périphérique’ ring road

This season is launched by a native of Inishowen, Co. Donegal, who is a passionate supporter of the rich singing tradition of the peninsula and an organiser of the singing festival there

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of Ireland’s most esteemed authors read and discuss her rich and sensuous prose in the elegant courtyard of CCI

Basket-maker Joe Hogan invites you to come and see the work he is creating during his residency at the CCI

This group show of some sixteen artists engaged in issues of climate change takes its title from a poem by Lemn Sissay ‘What If We Got It Wrong?’. Has progress as we know it led us down the wrong path, “weakened us as we got strong”?

A chance to try out a few words of Irish on 23 September and even sign up for a year-long certificate course

Guided tours of the Old Library, a basket-making demonstration and short cello recital

A 1980s punk party with one of the key groups who features in ‘Good Vibrations’ and put Belfast on the subversive musical map!

Through his Good Vibrations record label, subversive punk legend Terri Hooley galvanized a compelling voice of resistance in 1970s and 80s Belfast

Barnabas Kane returns home to Donegal in 1945… to be treated as a local stranger