Belfast Waterfront and The Ulster Hall’s successful trans festival, incorporating the Urban Arts Academy, is taking a break in 2011. Focusing on the creative arts, trans has, over the last 7 years, grown to offer a wide range of gigs, seminars and workshops during the summer months. In considering the current economic climate, we have...
Trans Urban Arts are back with the BASE street art and music festival this 19 and 20 February with another superb musical and artistic line-up… Brooklyn’s finest SLEIGH BELLS will be headlining Saturday night with support from Gilles Peterson’s protégée Ghostpoet and noise-pop trio Girls Names. Not to mention a cacophony of Ireland’s top local...
We are delighted to announce the launch of this year’s U:Mag, taking place in the Belfast Waterfront’s Arc Brasserie at 3pm on Sunday 12 December. The U:Mag is the main output from the Urban Arts Academy. It’s created entirely by students from the Journalism, Photography and Graphic Design courses. We’ve seen a sneak preview and...
Hosted by Blick Studios and Trans Urban Arts, Creative Camp is a free un-conference event for people passionate about creativity, e.g. Film and Television, Digital media, Music, Design, Fashion, Photography, who want to make things happen. Participants are invited to give talks, do demonstrations, and show their work and it is these participants who then...
Trans Urban Arts present Secret Wars Glasgow Vs Belfast! Secret Wars has travelled across the globe, from New York to Tokyo, and now the world’s premier art battle returns to Belfast. Secret Wars is like a Fight Club for artists, where teams go head-to-head to fill up a white wall with nothing but skill and...
Big folks and little folks alike are invited to a particuluarly ghoulish edition of the Goblin Market on Saturday 30 October, while on Sunday 31 October, the younger generation (and their accompanying adults) are invited to rock out to a live music show designed especially for them. Goblin Market Black Box Belfast (Hill Street, Cathedral...
The Black Market takes to the Festival Marquee in September as part of the Open House Festival’s CHILLI FEST. Black Market is, as ever, a celebration of creativity and the DIY spirit, a marketplace showcasing the work of independent artists, designers, illustrators and crafters alongside bountiful stalls from collectors of records, books and vintage clothing....
Trans is teaming up with some of their most innovative workshop facilitators and artists to create fully interactive pieces of poetry, film and art in collaboration with you, the public. Come check us out just outside the Deer’s Head on Garfield Street. Illustrator and cartoonist, David McClelland, whose comic strips are regularly included in the...
Due to unforeseen circumstances Cashier No. 9 are unable to play Volume Control on 16 July. We plan to reschedule this act to perform at a later date. We are pleased to announce that we will now have an exclusive set from Mojo Fury. Mojo Fury are four young Irishmen who’ve been honing their musical...
Throughout this year’s festival, an artist, a designer and an architect are designing three large-scale paint-by-numbers pieces at out of PLACE. Next up, Ryan O’Reilly: In an ongoing project called ‘Day or Night’, Ryan has been documenting and creating work inspired by remnants of signage and typography found amongst the redevelopment of the city. For ‘Paint by...
Two Academy courses, Ableton Live and Electronic Music Production, have changed dates. Ableton Live will now take place on 17-18 July while Electronic Music Production will now take place from 19-23 July. Because of the date change there are now some places available on these two previously sold out courses. For details or to book...
We’re very excited to announce that two of the brighest bands on the Dublin scene are playing Belfast on Thursday 15 July. This one-off show is FREE of charge and promises to be full of Mexican revelry… Enemies Enemies started in April of 2007. In April of 2009 enemies set out on there first UK...
Yes, you heard it right. DJ Shadow will be playing the Mulholland Grand Organ in the Ulster Hall, one of the oldest examples of a functioning classic English pipe organ, at his show on Sunday evening. The idea was first suggested to DJ Shadow when Rigsy was interviewing him for BBC Across the Line. If...
From 5 – 25 July 2010, the trans festival will bring together an artist, a designer and an architect to design three large-scale paint-by-numbers pieces at out of PLACE. The lines will be blurred between artist and voyeur as the public watch the artists at work before being invited to take over and complete the...
We are delighted to announce the addition of Canadian stand-up comedian, Tony Law, to the already fantastic local line-up. Tony is known for his highly surreal material and delivery, and 1950′s americana style of dress – favouring boots with turned up jeans & an impressive quiff. A lot of Tony’s material features tales of his...
This year trans has got together with the QFT and transformed the Ulster Hall Group Space into a bespoke microcinema, showing a range of cult classics alongside new avant-garde productions and adaptations. There will be regular lunchtime and evening screenings and each screening costs just £3, or £10 for a WeeFT pass. Check out the...
Creating Enterprise is an innovative collaboration between Work West & Trans Urban Arts providing class based learning, 1:1 support, best practice exchange and a bursary competition for new and existing creative businesses. Delivered by enterprise specialists and experienced creative entrepreneurs the programme offers you the chance to develop the business skills to complement your technical...
The burgeoning (and brilliantly-named) electronic star, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, shared the stage with Erol Alkan at Koko (London) last weekend. You can expect big things from this guy and you can see him for free on the BASE stage on Saturday 17 July. Check out the Events page for full details of what’s happening...
We have two new exciting additions to this year’s trans line-up – Sasha and DJ Format. Grammy nominated DJ / Producer / Remixer Sasha makes his long awaited Belfast debut in the idyllic surroundings of the city’s newly refurbished Ulster Hall as part of a special SHINE event on Saturday 3 July. He is recognised...
Air and DJ Shadow are to headline this year’s trans festival, organised by Belfast Waterfront and taking place in Belfast city centre venues from 3 to 23 July. In an announcement made today, Adam Turkington, Arts and Community Coordinator at Belfast Waterfront / The Ulster Hall, confirmed that legendary French electronic duo, Air, would be...
Urban Arts Academy 2010 courses have been selling steadily since they went on sale two weeks ago. The Street Art and Photography courses are proving especially popular so we would recommend booking your tickets soon before they sell out. Don’t forget that if you book before Monday 12 April, you can avail of our early...
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