4 CORNERS FESTIVAL 2025 - TICKETS ARE LIVE

TICKETS ARE LIVE!

We are very excited about our 2025 4 Corners Festival - HOME? This is our 13th Festival and perhaps our strongest and most eclectic programme yet.

Unapologetically Belfast centric this year’s programme asks us all about HOME? The question mark is important. What is home? Where do we find it? How do we care for it? Who do we welcome in? 

As always there is a wide array of events. There will be music, including Iain Archer; theatre including Nuala McKeaver and literature, including Glenn Patterson. 

I always getting excited about my evening In Conversation and this year I am beyond myself to get Anthony Toner in a chair and talk about so many of his songs of home in Harpur's Hill, Coleraine and east Belfast. Even better I am adding to the bill, my first ever double interview, Anthony’s partner Andrea Montgomery, writer and theatre producer who, as a Canadian in Belfast, might have lost to say about home.

There will be a photographic exhibition on the common home of our environment. Another artistic event hopes to capture the walk by public. From Glasgow we welcome The Peace Loom where the entire city, as it walks past 2A Royal Avenue, can walk in off the street and do a wee bit of French knitting on a huge loom. You know you want to.

We will be reaching children and young people in our annual events. Play It Be Ear are already at work with Primary Schools to produce a play and Peace Players will help young teens play soccer, rugby and Gaelic all on the one evening. Ivor Novello winning songwriter Iain Archer will be doing a songwriting morning with 6th Formers.

This year’s keynote speakers include Lorna Gold who has written Climate Generation: Awakening to Our Children's Future and was a key player in the film we showed at the 2023 festival The Letter when Pope Francis invited people whose homes were under environmental threat to tell their stories. 

We have talked about having Siobhan Garrigan Professor at Trinity College, Dublin to speak at the Festival for years and when we heard her new book was to be called A Theology of Home in a Time of Homelessness it seemed utterly perfect for this year’s theme. 

Presbyterian minister in Minneapolis USA, Neil Craigan has been coming back to his native Belfast for the festival for years and we are delighted that he has agreed to close this years Festival, summing up the theme of the week and sending us away from the Festival with challenge and inspiration, with the help of Dana and Andrew Masters. 

This year’s Panel discussion event will see an array of voices - Monica McWilliams, David Adams, Nicola Brady and Spike Murray under the control of journalist Will Leitch - talk about opportunities and missed opportunities for reconciliation in our Belfast home.

There is so much more. Too much to mention though I need to say that Fr Martin Magill’s spending on Belfast Street names helped out by the amazing songwriter Brian Houston will be a fascinating night of learning what we take for granted every day.

And the very popular Wander… the radio service… a clean up… a networking event… a Round The Table… a seminar on public transport and more… 

 

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