Big Drawing Day with Julie Douglas at the Drawing Offices
23 August 11am
Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices
Designed to improve your core observation drawing skills, this fully tutored drawing day will teach you how to really draw what you see.
Belfast Ultimate Strongman Giant Weekend
21 – 25 August
Writers’ Square and Crumlin Road Gaol
This August bank holiday weekend will see 34 of the World’s Strongest Giants from around the planet compete at the Belfast Ultimate Strongman Giant Weekend. The competitors will battle it out in a series of awe-inspiring rounds which include the ‘Farmers Walk’, ‘Man Verses Machine Optimus Truck Event’, ‘Car Lifting’, ‘Axel Press’ and for the first time in over 20 years, the return of the spectacular ‘bar bend’.
Eastside Arts Festival
21 – 25 August
Various Venues in East Belfast
The festival will celebrate the incredible creative talent; writers, artists, musicians and film- makers both of the past and present, that have come from East Belfast. This year’s event includes special concerts by Van Morrison.
Tennent’s Vital
24 August 4pm
Boucher Road Playing Fields
Tennent’s Vital is one of the biggest events of the year. David Guetta & Steve Angello headline the final day of the festival.
Family and Children’s Workshops with Jonathan Barry
23 August 10am
Titanic Belfast
Bring your family and children to a very special series of workshops with artist and illustrator Jonathan Barry, at the Andrews Gallery, Titanic Belfast and enjoy a day of art, literature, and storytelling.
