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Belfast 2024

The Bank of Ideas is now open!

Do you have an idea for something creative you’d like to make happen in your local area?

This could be an interest you’d like to share, something you’d like to change with the help of your neighbours, or any fun activity that brings people together.

By submiting and sharing your idea, you can be in with a chance to get up to £2,000 to make it happen, or get other benefits like new volunteers, collaborators and connections.

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The Programme

Our ambitious programme will give people the opportunity to celebrate our city in new and exciting ways. Together we want to imagine, dream and invent; to speculate and investigate; to learn and experiment; to imagine a new future, new spaces, a new balance with nature, new stories and new experiences.

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Creative Me

by Belfast City Council

Belfast 2024 is a call out to the people of the city, to take part in gatherings, events, initiatives, ideas, fun and games. It’s time to bring this programme to life with your creative contribution. We will have many different ways to get involved and loads of types of creativity to celebrate.

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Bank of Ideas

Do you have an idea for something creative you would like to make happen in your local area, or even the initial spark of an idea?

If you submit an idea, you can be in with the chance to get up to £2,000 to make it happen, as well as other benefits like new volunteers, collaborators and connections.

More info
Outstretched hands holding a self-built miniature boat made with small sticks and blue tack

Water Works

by PS2

Come join Belfast’s biggest Boat Building experiment! This mass participation project will reimagine our maritime traditions for the future with citywide events, workshops, and an ambition to build 10,000 boats for Belfast. From life-size skiffs, to milk-bottle rafts, Coke can dinghies and shoebox yachts.

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Touch, Hear, Feel

by Helen Hall and Belfast International Arts Festival

Touch, Hear, Feel is an immersive and multisensory installation created with visually impaired communities led by artist Helen Hall, that explores touch through original choreography, fabrics, audio and video narratives.

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10 April 2024

Belfast to welcome Little Amal with free family events this May

Free tickets are now available for a series of free family events in Belfast from 16-19 May to welcome world-renowned creative project ‘Little Amal’ – a signature event in Belfast City Council's Belfast 2024 programme.

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